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FUJIFILMLAUNCHES2011 SHORTFILMCOMPETITION
EVERYWHERE ANDNOWHERE
IN POST-PRODUCTION
ujifilm Motion Picture has Funveiled details of its 2011
Fujifilm Shorts competition. As in the previous two years, short filmmakers have the
chance to win a host of great prizes including two prizes of £2,000 worth of Fujifilm Motion Picture film stock.
‘Fujifilm Shorts’ is open to all UK and Ireland based short filmmakers, entry is free
and entrants
can submit as
many short
films as they like. There is one category with an open brief with two prizes being awarded - ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Cinematography’.
In addition to the overall £4,000 worth of Fujifilm film stock up for grabs there is a whole range of other prizes on offer from the competition’s sponsors. Full details of the competition are available from: www.fujifilmshorts.com
All submissions must be shot, in their entirety, on Fujifilm Motion Picture film stock and must have been completed after 1 January 2009. All submissions must be less than 30 minutes long. The closing date for entries is 25 February 2011.
Submission must be made on DVD and sent with a completed entry form to Jerry Deeney at
Fujifilm Motion Picture. Entry forms can be downloaded
from www.fujifilmshorts.com
The winners of the 2010 Fujifilm
Shorts competition were The Business Trip and Native Son. The Business Trip, lit by Angus Hudson, scooped the Best Film award, while DP Yoliswa Gärtig’s work on Native Son won the Best Cinematography prize.
Full details on Fujifilm Shorts 2011 are available from: www.fujifilmshorts.com
escribed as a “British 8 Mile Dmeets Monsoon Wedding”, Everywhere And Nowhere
continues the fertile collaboration between writer- director Menhaj Huda and veteran cinematographer Brian Tufano BSC first forged on the award-winning urban drama Kidulthood.
Now in post-production, it was filmed at Pinewood Studios and around London. Everywhere And Nowhere focuses on the identity struggles of Ash, a young British
Asian who is torn between the traditions of suburban family life and his passion for DJing.
The cast includes James Floyd, Adam Deacon, Alyy Khan, Simon Webbe, Katia Winter, Art Malik and Saeed Jaffrey, with acclaimed composer Nitin Sawhney also on board to produce the soundtrack.
Everywhere And Nowhere, likely to be released in Spring 201I, was originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA Vivid 500T 8547 and ETERNA 250T 8553.
Photo left: Director Menhaj Huda and
Brian Tufano BSC with crew on location shooting Everywhere And Nowhere
OVERYOURCITIESGRASSWILLGROW
went in completely naive, Ithinking how do I make a film about a visual artist? It was a
challenge.” That’s documentarist
Sophie Fiennes talking about her latest feature, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, about the German artist Anselm Kiefer.
Fiennes, sister of writer-director Martha Fiennes and actors Ralph and Joseph, told the Daily Telegraph: “There was an in-built problem: Kiefer’s work is so material and yet my medium is so virtual – light on
a surface.
“That’s why it was important to shoot on film, because film responds to light differently to video, and film was the closest I could bring the viewer to the sensual, textural life of his materials. The cinema is the space in which I feel most at home; that’s why my response is to make films for the cinema, to insist on cinema.”
“We mainly shot in an Anamorphic format on the 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 400T,” explains DP Remko Schnorr. “But it started off like an experiment. Sophie wanted these very long tracking shots from the beginning, and I said it would be very difficult because as soon as daylight hit it, it would be too bright and the darker pieces would be too dark. Lighting would be a stupid thing to do because then it wouldn’t look like how it is when you feel it, when you were there.”
With Fiennes operating a camera alongside Schnorr, the film – title of which is a quotation from the Book of Isaiah – is now on release in the UK after being well received at festivals in Toronto and Cannes.
The project came about after Kiefer called Fiennes out of the blue in 2008. He invited her to create a cinematic portrait of his 35-hectare
property La Ribaute, a derelict former silk factory, surrounded by warehouses and open space, near Barjac in southern France.
Seven years after he moved there in 1993, Kiefer began to construct elaborate follies around the estate: bridges, squat buildings and an amphitheatre, as well as a labyrinth of tunnels and several crumbling, tottering towers, like the ruins of
some long-lost civilisation. Many of the structures house his paintings and sculptures.
Says Schnorr: “A special quality of the stock is the very precise rendering of colour and depth in colour. It feels very soft, of course, but somehow that really works best with these combined light situations.
Photos above l-r: the German artist Anselm Kiefer with documentarist Sophie Fiennes (photo courtesy Anton Corbijn) and his property La Ribaute in Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE • THE MAGAZINE • EXPOSURE • 39