• Reminder: Drum Room – London Premiere *
• LAFVA 2008 – Call for Applications *
• LAFVA Information Sessions – Book Your Place Now *
• Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
• Reminder: The A to Z of Clearing Rights – Book Your Place Now *
• CAPTURE Bursary
• Arts on Film Archive: A Series of Talks & Screenings
• Reminder: Mark Lewis at BFI Southbank
• Reminder: The Face of Another – Georgina Starr in New York
• Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open For Applications
• Open Screenings at the Whitechapel

• Reminder: Drum Room – London Premiere *
  
  On Wednesday 3 October (8.30pm) the latest in an ongoing series of Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) supported artist screenings at BFI Southbank will present Miranda Pennell's 2006 LAFVA-funded Drum Room.
  
  The programme will also include Pennell's You Made Me Love You (2005) and Tattoo (2001), as well as a short performance by master drummer and legendary improviser, Steve Noble.
  
  The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artist and Helen de Witt, Festivals Producer at the BFI.
  
  To book tickets contact the BFI Box Office on 020 7928 3232.
  
  Further information can be found on the BFI Southbank website.
• LAFVA 2008 – Call for Applications *
  
  FLAMIN is pleased to announce the return of London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA).
  
  The LAFVA scheme, now in its eighth year, is one of the largest publicly funded award programmes for artists in the UK. Awards are available to London-based artists working in the context of contemporary moving image practice.
  
  Film London is offering awards up to a maximum of £20,000. This year the total fund will be £160,000.
  
  Last year's fund of £160,000 financed twelve innovative projects from a wide range of artists including Marine Hugonnier, Ben Rivers, Anna Lucas and Anja Kirschner. The full list of last year's awardees can be found on the History of LAFVA pages.
  
  The deadline for applications is 5pm on Thursday 22 November 2007.
  
  The LAFVA 2008 Application Pack is now available online.
• LAFVA Information Sessions – Book Your Place Now *
  
  A series of LAFVA information sessions will be taking place at the Film London offices during October and November. These events will provide information on the LAFVA fund and application process, general advice on funding opportunities for artist film-makers', tips on putting together applications and will screen previous LAFVA funded work.
  
  The sessions will include a presentation from CAPTURE, the national agency for dance and the moving image, on its current commissioning fund and resources that it provides for moving image artists.
  
  Thursday 4 October, 9.30am – 11.30am
  Thursday 11 October, 4pm – 6pm
  Wednesday 17 October, 4pm – 6pm
  Saturday 3 November, 10am – 12noon
  
  There is no charge for these sessions. Please see the LAFVA page for booking details.
• Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
  
  Michael Curran's 2007 LAFVA-funded Look What They've Done to My Song is showing at Matt's Gallery from 19 September until 18 November in what will be Curran's first solo exhibition in London.
  
  Look What They've Done to My Song is a site-specific installation exploring filmed spectacle, performance and the dynamic that is created between a sculptural composition and video projection.
  
  Three songs; 'The Devil is Afraid of Music'; 'Look What They Done to My Song' and 'How does it Feel to Feel?' were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt's Gallery making it into an open recording session and film set for a three-day period.
  
  For more information visit the Matt's Gallery website.
• Reminder: The A to Z of Clearing Rights – Book Your Place Now *
  
  On Wednesday 14 November (6pm – 9pm) FLAMIN and Own It will present a free seminar outlining issues surrounding rights clearance for artists working within the moving image.
  
  What are the implications if you don't clear pieces of archive or music? Can you still submit to film festivals? What happens if you get cinema distribution or a broadcaster wants to buy your film? Or can you protect your film content from other people stealing your ideas?
  
  This event for artist film-makers will explain the process of clearing rights such as: archive, music, individuals, licences as well as the organisations you will have to approach. We'll cut through the jargon and have case studies who've been through the process to answer your questions.
  
  For more information and book visit the Own It website.
• CAPTURE Bursary
  
  CAPTURE is the national strategic agency for dance and the moving image. As part of CAPTURE's sector support programme, it is offering a bursary of up to £500 to an artist, producer or curator working in dance and the moving image, toward the costs of attending one of the following three upcoming events:
  
  ~ dance screen The Hague 2007, the 11th international festival and competition for dance films and videos (15–18 November 2007)
  
  ~ The second international Opensource: {Videodance} symposium, Findhorn, Scotland (20-24 November 2007)
  
  ~ South East Dance's Dance for Camera Festival 2007, (30 November - 2 December 2007)
  
  The deadline for applications is 19 October. For details of how to apply email: admin@capturenet.org.uk
  
  
• Arts on Film Archive: A Series of Talks & Screenings
  
  To celebrate the newly established online Arts on Film Archive and the publication of the new book, Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain (Wallflower Press), Tate Modern will be hosting a series of events looking at the history of art documentaries in Britain.
  
  The programme of screenings presents a showcase of works from the new archive, which contains more than 465 documentary films produced by Arts Council England between 1953 and 1999.
  
  Highlights of the October programme include Steve Dwoskin's cinematographic journey, Bill Brandt: Shadow From Light (1983), and James Scott's rarely seen work, The Great Ice Cream Robbery (1971).
  
  Each screening will be followed by on-stage conversations with artists and film-makers, led by John Wyver, author of Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain. Speakers will include Richard Hamilton, James Scott, Steve Dwoskin, John Smith and Jocelyne Pook.
  
  For more information on these screenings or to book tickets visit the Tate website.
• Reminder: Mark Lewis at BFI Southbank
  
  Mark Lewis' first solo show in London opened at BFI Southbank's new gallery space on 14 September and includes Lewis' 2005 LAFVA-funded work Rear Projection (Molly Parker).
  
  The exhibition includes three recent films shot on 35mm and transferred to High Definition. Other works on show will include Downtown: Tilt, Zoom, Pan (2005) and Isosceles (2007), a work recently shot in Smithfield, London and premiering at BFI Southbank.
  
  Rear Projection (Molly Parker) investigates the idea of portraiture in film in relation to landscape images. Shot in Lewis' lush, pictorial style, the footage of a desolate Canadian landscape is combined with a filmed 'portrait' of the actress Molly Parker by using the traditional method of rear projection, a technique commonly used in films up to the 70s to shoot live action against a backdrop of seemingly moving images.
  
  The exhibition runs until 11 November.
  
  For more information visit the BFI Southbank website.
• Reminder: The Face of Another – Georgina Starr in New York
  
  Georgina Starr's 2006 LAFVA-funded Theda will be showing at Tracy Williams Ltd. in New York as part of Starr's new solo exhibition, The Face of Another (14 September - 27 October).
  
  In this exhibition, Starr focuses on the nature of performing and performance in the public and private arena. After spending a year revisiting the lost film performances of silent screen actress Theda Bara, Starr began to reflect on her own performances in her work, in her 'real' life, and also those of her mother which absorbed her as a child growing up.
  
  Using Kobo Abe's 1960's novel 'The Face of Another' as a guide, her exhibition like Abe's book is divided into chapters, The Grey Room, The White Room and The Black Room.
  
  For further information on The Face of Another visit the Tracy Williams Ltd. website.
• Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open for Applications
  
  The Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund (FFF) is now open for 2007 / 2008 applications. The fund aims to support the development of moving image artists' and film-makers' careers, by providing travel grants for attendance at a number of overseas festivals where films have been selected and are in competition.
  
  Deadlines for the fund will take place on a monthly basis, the next is 19 October.
  
  For more information and the full list of up-coming deadlines please visit the FFF section of the Film London website or call 020 7613 7696.
• Visit the Calls for Submissions page on the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network website for listings of forthcoming deadlines for a range of festivals, funds, residencies and other opportunities open to artists working in the moving image.
  
   
• And Finally…
  
  Open Screenings at the Whitechapel
  
  The Whitechapel gallery's Open Screening event is a film-makers forum which invites independent film-makers to screen new work or work in progress. The sessions are held on a monthly basis at the Whitechapel gallery.
  
  The next Open Screening event will be held on Thursday 11 October at 7.30pm.
  
  There is no charge to attend these events but booking is essential. For more information and to book visit the Whitechapel website.

* Event supported or directly run by the Film London Artists' Moving Image Network.