Avenues and foci
Professional and feature film development
We have two feature projects at various stages of development. We are close to having the funding for a micro-budget first feature, which we aim to shoot late in 2011. We are also confident we can get support for our second feature, ‘Threads’, which is on a third draft script, which the both UK Film Council and Raindance festival have said is strong enough to ‘attract major UK talent’
Shorts and festivals
We are making around two shorts a year, each written and directed by one of the two senior filmmakers in RDF. The last year’s, ‘Fairytale’, will be shown at 12 festivals (5 international). This year, we have pooled resources to make a large-scale super hero short. We strongly feel that training and sign posting is not enough. It can leave people with no vision for turning hopes into reality. We have, and will continue, to build a local professional landscape where quality media professionals can train and stay in Lincoln and earn for their efforts.
Outreach
WWe deliver a number of grassroots projects direct to communities. We have so far obtained funding, from Help the Aged, and the Arts Council to run inclusion and reminiscence projects with the elderly in care homes across Lincoln. We also work closely with the Lincolnshire Community Foundation on local third sector development. The next phase of this kind of community theatre will take place in October.
Third sector support
RDF CIC has used support from the Lincolnshire County Council to put together a comprehensive year-long programme of training, support and filmmaking for charitable groups in Lincolnshire, especially for those that are not able to access expensive skills because they are small or struggling. In addition, we have been supported through the Media Trust and the Lincolnshire community Foundation to provide a similar service with a more hands on and training angle. By the end of both projects, we hope there will be a culture of filmmaking in the county, a resource of skills and technology freely available to those small third sector groups that need it.
We have two feature projects at various stages of development. We are close to having the funding for a micro-budget first feature, which we aim to shoot late in 2011. We are also confident we can get support for our second feature, ‘Threads’, which is on a third draft script, which the both UK Film Council and Raindance festival have said is strong enough to ‘attract major UK talent’
Shorts and festivals
We are making around two shorts a year, each written and directed by one of the two senior filmmakers in RDF. The last year’s, ‘Fairytale’, will be shown at 12 festivals (5 international). This year, we have pooled resources to make a large-scale super hero short. We strongly feel that training and sign posting is not enough. It can leave people with no vision for turning hopes into reality. We have, and will continue, to build a local professional landscape where quality media professionals can train and stay in Lincoln and earn for their efforts.
Outreach
WWe deliver a number of grassroots projects direct to communities. We have so far obtained funding, from Help the Aged, and the Arts Council to run inclusion and reminiscence projects with the elderly in care homes across Lincoln. We also work closely with the Lincolnshire Community Foundation on local third sector development. The next phase of this kind of community theatre will take place in October.
Third sector supportRDF CIC has used support from the Lincolnshire County Council to put together a comprehensive year-long programme of training, support and filmmaking for charitable groups in Lincolnshire, especially for those that are not able to access expensive skills because they are small or struggling. In addition, we have been supported through the Media Trust and the Lincolnshire community Foundation to provide a similar service with a more hands on and training angle. By the end of both projects, we hope there will be a culture of filmmaking in the county, a resource of skills and technology freely available to those small third sector groups that need it.