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Prizes: UK

Up to three prizes will be awarded to successful student filmmakers from the UK. Prizes will be awarded to those filmmakers whose mini-documentaries best meet the criteria set out below. Filmmakers of winning documentaries will receive:

  • A mentored session with established professionals at FACT, Liverpool, with travel expenses and accommodation paid by the project.
  • Hands-on experience, with mentoring, in the editing suite at FACT
  • The opportunity, with travel expenses and accommodation paid by the project, to introduce their films at a public film screening at FACT.

The winning documentaries will be screened at a special film-festival associated with the project in Bengaluru and at FACT, Liverpool. The documentaries will be used, with full credit given to the filmmakers, in training materials and for public engagement activities associated with the project. Documentaries of outstanding quality may be entered into a BAFTA-sponsored film festival such as Aesthetica where they will receive further exposure.