Northern Production Fund in association with the Film Council New Cinema Fund invite applications for the digital short scheme STINGERS. Over the next year we will produce eight short digital films. The aim of the scheme is to identify new and emerging talent who want to tell stories through the unique opportunities of digital filmmaking.

NPF will be looking for filmmakers who demonstrate the ability to create original, innovative, personal short films. Each production will have a budget of £6K (excluding production fees) and we are looking to commission shorts of 3-5 minutes in length for proposed television and website broadcast.

Scriptwriters

NPF welcomes scripts (maximum 5 pages) or treatments in the areas of drama, animation and creative documentaries. Applicants should also include a one-page statement on their visual approach to making the short. Each commissioned scriptwriter/filmmaker will work with an experienced script editor through one to one surgeries.

Deadline for applications is 28th January 2002.

Please mark your envelope STINGERS — STORY in the left hand side of the envelope.

Production Companies

NPF invites applications from companies interested in producing the STINGERS shorts. Northern Production Fund

& New Cinema Fund will choose two companies to deliver the eight short films. Production fee for the production of four shorts is £10K. Applicants should include a statement on how they will manage the production of four digital shorts within the prescribed budget. Application deadline is 14th January 2002.

Please mark envelope STINGERS — PRODUCER in the left hand side of the envelope.

Applicants from scriptwriters/filmmakers and producers will not be accepted by email.

Please submit your script or proposal to the Northern Production Fund, Northern Film & Media, Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ.