• LAFVA 2008 – Call for Applications *
• Final LAFVA Information Session – Book Your Place Now *
• Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund – Open For Applications *
• London's Screen Archives – Finding a Collection
• New Work UK - Call for Curatorial Proposals
• The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards - Call for Submissions
• Jerwood Moving Image Awards – Call for Submissions
• Film and Video Umbrella – Call for Submissions
• Reminder: Deadline at Maureen Paley
• Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
• Reminder: Mark Lewis at BFI Southbank
• Reminder: British Animation Awards 2008 – Call for Entries
• Iddu on show in Luxembourg
  
  

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• 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.
  
  The LAFVA 2008 Application Pack is now available online.
• Final LAFVA Information Session – 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.
  
  Monday 12 November, 5pm - 7pm: Places available
  
  There is no charge for these sessions. Please see the LAFVA page for booking details.
• 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 16 November.
  
  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.
• London's Screen Archives – Finding a Collection
  
  London's Screen Archives is a new regional network supported by Film London which supports organisations in London that hold collections of moving image material, as well as helping researchers and the public find these collections.
  
  Visit the Film London website for more information on London's Screen Archives.
• New Work UK - Call for Curatorial Proposals
  
  For the screening series New Work UK, LUX and Whitechapel have been inviting individual curators to present programmes of the best of new British work as part of Whitechapel's film programme. Now they are extending this invitation into an open call for curatorial proposals, one of which will be selected for presentation at Whitechapel on 28 February 2008.
  
  Proposals are invited from anyone based in the UK – curators, artists, filmgoers – to develop a programme that will showcase new British artists' moving image work in distinctive and revealing ways.
  
  The deadline for proposals is Friday 30 November.
  
  For more information visit the LUX Calendar.
• The Wellcome Trust Arts Awards - Call for Submissions
  
  The Wellcome Trust supports the arts as an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. All art forms are covered by the programme, including: visual arts, film, photography and digital media.
  
  The Trust invites applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people. Projects should involve the creation of new artistic work and should have some biomedical scientific input either through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to investigate new methods of interdisciplinary working as well as new models of engagement in biomedical science. The next deadline for submissions is Friday 11 January 2008.
  
  For further details, and smaller awards, visit the Wellcome Trust website.
• Jerwood Moving Image Awards – Call for Submissions
  
  The Jerwood Moving Image Awards is a major new prize for emerging artists working in digital moving art, organised by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Awards of £10,000 will be made in March to three artists.
  
  Encompassing a wide range of artistic practice, from film, documentary, video and music to dance, installation and drawing, the Jerwood Moving Image Awards welcome work from across many disciplines. The awards will celebrate and support artists in the early stages of their careers, and bring some of today's most exciting talent in digital art to new audiences, via both the website and next year's Jerwood Space exhibition. The deadline for submissions is Monday 3 December.
  
  For more information visit the Jerwood Moving Image Awards website.
• Film and Video Umbrella – Call for Submissions
  
  Film and Video Umbrella curates and produces film, video and new media projects by artists which are commissioned and presented in collaboration with galleries and venues across England.
  
  Artists can submit two types of applications: firstly, Exhibition Proposals from artists who wish to be commissioned to make a new work in film, video or digital media, and secondly Development Proposals from artists wishing to develop ideas or proposals for film, video or digital media works. For this deadline they will consider proposals for the commissioning year 2009 (to be staged from winter 2008 onwards). The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 11 December.
  
  For more information visit the Film and Video Umbrella website.
• Deadline at Maureen Paley
  
  Saskia Olde Wolbers' 2007 LAFVA-funded work, Deadline, will be showing at Maureen Paley until 11 November in what will be the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery.
  
  The Maureen Paley gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday (11am – 6pm) and by appointment. For further information visit the Maureen Paley website.
• Reminder: Look What They've Done to My Song
  
  Michael Curran's 2007 LAFVA-funded Look What They've Done to My Song will be showing at Matt's Gallery until 18 November in what will be Curran's first solo exhibition in London.
  
  For more information visit the Matt's Gallery 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.
  
  The exhibition runs until 11 November.
  
  For more information visit the BFI Southbank website.
• Reminder: British Animation Awards 2008 – Call for Entries
  
  Held every two years, The British Animation Awards (BAA) covers all aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children's entertainment, short and experimental art films, music videos, new technologies, script-writing and craftsmanship.
  
  Deadline for entries is 30 November.
  
  For more information visit the BAA website.
• 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…
  
  Iddu on show in Luxembourg
  
  James Graham's Iddu is on show at Musee d'Art Moderne Luxembourg until 26 November.
  
  Iddu was shot on the Italian island of Stromboli, a small conical land mass formed by 2.5 millennia of constant volcanic activity. Made over four years, the film consists of a combination of 360-degree and 180-degree panoramic multi-camera views captured on Super-8 film.
  
  For more information visit the artist's website.

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


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