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Short Sharp Shots

mobile filmmaking celebrated

About Me

if you are 18-24 and living in the north west of england, enter our mobile filmmaking competition .if you're not 18-24 or you're not in the North West, why not show us what you can do with your mobile phone anyway - either here or via our YouTube channel .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people using their mobile phones creatively

Heroes:

Peter Jackson - not just for Lord of the Rings but for his early work, e.g. "Meet the Feebles", "Brain Dead" & "Bad Taste".Johnny Depp - no explanation necessary...Tim Burton - animation, live action, fantasy; you name it...Joel and Ethan Coen - "Raising Arizona", "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Fargo", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" ...Danny Boyle - early work "Trainspotting" etc and more recently "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine".Nick Park and all at Aardman Animation.and to show you don't have to be young to be good... Jack Cardiff - legendary cinematographer, still shooting at the age of 91.Ray Harryhausen - the man who inspired a generation of animators.

My Blog

Vote for your favourite Short Sharp Shots film & enter a prize draw for an iPod Shuffle

Short Sharp Shots films are now finished after a month of production.You can vote for your favourite mobile film from 12th-19th November at www.shortsharpshots.co.uk to help support budding North West...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:58:00 PST

And the winners are...

A huge thanks to everyone who entered the competition, your films were funny, sad, intriguing, unexpected and sometimes bewildering, but we loved them all and would have preferred to select you all, b...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:36:00 PST

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

Thanks to all who entered, we will be in touch with entrants next Monday 1st October and the names of the ten winners will be published on our website, www.shortsharpshots.co.uk, shortly afterwards.
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:35:00 PST

4 days left to enter your mobile videos

** 4 days left - Deadline 21st September **Do you have a cameraphone? Do you use it to video your mates? Record your own pop videos? Take photographs that you make into slideshows?If you're 18-24 and ...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:30:00 PST

NEW DEADLINE 21st September 2007.

Show us what you can do with your mobile phone...If you're 18-24 and in the North West of England, just upload your mobile clips to www.shortsharpshots.co.uk by 21st Sept 2007.You could win a producti...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:04:00 PST

Deadline extended on mobile filmmaking competition

Thanks to everyone who has sent in their work so far. We're finding the most recent entries have been the most interesting. In fact, we're so excited about them that we have decided to extend the dead...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:51:00 PST

Dates for basic training bootcamps on mobile filmmaking

To encourage budding filmmakers and offer some sneaky tips for making great mobile movies, we are providing three free basic training boot camp sessions. You must be 18-24 and live in the North West o...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST

Competition Open!

The Short Sharp Shots Competition is now open for entries!You have until July 4th to enter samples of your handy work to the competition website, shortsharpshots.co.uk, in order to win one of ten plac...
Posted by Short Sharp Shots on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:37:00 PST