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Preloader : the Wiltshire and Swindon short film festival

Preloader celebrates and supports young and emerging media talent.  Screenings take place in local venues and the audience selection from each venue is shown again at a gala final screening. Creative practitioners make their selection and give feedback at the final. This cycle enables new work to be seen across the county and provides an entry level festival experience for young and emerging media talent. The Preloader 2010 final will be in Chippenham on Thursday 4 March. Deadline for submissions is Friday 15 January 2010.

Entry forms: preloader_entry_form.pdf

preloader_entry_formworddoc.doc

DOT.biz

DOT.Biz is about media products and business in recession and starts with a day of workshops and discussions at the Interactive Media Centre, Wiltshire College. The workshop day offers a taste of a new interactive media technology (Pervasive Media), input from the Swindon Media Group and contributions from key media professionals. In previous recessions the creative industries have been the last to be affected and the first to recover, is the same happening this time round?
DOT.biz explores the idea that emergence from recession is
often on the basis of innovation in content, technology and
business practice.

Skillset Media Academy workstreams

The North by South West Skillset Media Academy brings together industry and education professionals from Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The aim of the Academy is to support high quality training, talent development and retention in order to further build the creative economy in the area.
A series of workstreams have been set up developing collaborative projects working on a range of themes from industry led partnerships and knowledge transfer to developing talent pathways from school to work.

Rural Film

A UK Film Council Rural Film pilot is in development for Wiltshire, led by South West Screen. The aim of the pilot is to increase cinema audiences and to attract those who would not normally watch cinema outside the multiplex and to enable rural cinema to receive high quality content sooner than is currently the case.
A consortium is developing the pilot including Wiltshire College, Salisbury Arts Centre, The Arc Theatre, Moviola, BFFS, the Pound Arts Trust, Rural Arts Wiltshire and Salisbury International Festival.

Future World of Work

Wiltshire College is participating in a major action research exercise about the Future World of Work with the Real Ideas Organisation
Future World of Work is an initiative funded by the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, at Wiltshire College media students are exploring IP issues in the context of social enterprise. The group of students have been working with creative practitioners developing an internal production unit. The research feeds into a wider programme developing work based learning in the
creative industries and prototyping the RIO Social Enterprise Award.