The competition is free and open for all, with the chance to have your design work used throughout the promotional period of our 2013 Norwich Film Festival.

To enter the competition, click here.

(Left, the cover of our 2012 Festival Programme, by Helen Mak)

These rules apply to all prize competitions, including free draws and instant win offers (“Competitions”) run by Norwich Film Festival (“NFF”)  unless otherwise stated.

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Fancy yourself as a budding graphic designer or illustrator? Think you’re the next Saul Bass or Olly Moss?  Then this competition is for you!

We will shortly be launching a brand new competition that will be open for all and free to enter. We’re looking for a brand new design for our main 2013 Norwich Film Festival poster which will end up being displayed prominently online and in locations all over Norfolk next year.

The top three designs will be turned into commemorative postcards while the best will be unveiled as our official 2013 poster.

The rules and guidelines will be on the website soon, and the competition will launch soon after.

You should soon receive a confirmation email, so please check your junk folders, just in case!

Your purchase will be posted to you shortly.

Continue shopping, or go home.

Having started her career as an actress, Jane Gull’s springboard into filmmaking came in 2005 when she made her first film Together Alone funded by the UK Film Council. Jane has since gone on to write and direct numerous short films including Sunny Boy, which was the winning short at the 2nd Norwich Film Festival. The film has picked up several awards and was selected by Candella UK as one of  ’Best British Short Films 2011′.

Jane runs production company ‘Shoreline Pictures’ with fellow filmmaker and friend for over twenty-five years James Fox. They are currently shooting a feature-length documentary and have several feature length fiction projects in development.

She facilitates and runs filmmaking and acting workshops for young people and vulnerable adults, and works freelance for companies including Signals Media Arts and BBC Blast.

Jane was selected and attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2012. After her film Sunny Boy picked up the two top awards at our festival last year we were eager to get Jane on board as a judge this year. Having gone through this experience many times herself, her insight and advice will be invaluable to filmmakers.

We will continue to add patrons and judges to the festival throughout the year, but to read more about our current line up, read our Patrons page.

2012 One Minute Movie

The film is a 60 second parody of the M. Night Shyamalan film “The Happening” (2008). The film flippantly sends up the bizarre script and plot of the unsuccessful film. We shot the film in Lincoln, with friends. It took us two days. There are a few special effects shots in the film. The reverse shot of the classroom comprises of three people duplicated a number of times, and the “Filbert” train station sign was created and super-imposed into the shot (as the town they arrive in the actual film is called Filbert).

About the director

My name is Joseph Fallon, I have been making short films since I was 14. I graduated from the University of Lincoln in Media Production in 2010. Afterwards myself and a fellow graduate (Jonathan Sankey) started making a range of projects including 60 shorts. I now live and work in london as an Editor, but still make short films when I find the time. All our work can be seen on our website www.inXplicable.co.uk

2012 Overall Winner

2012 Winners

Best Short

Sunny Boy – Jane Gull (12m, UK) - WINNER

The Decree – Mel Melcer (11m, UK)

Dual – The Brothers Lynch (14m, UK)

Lucky – Anthony Lee (6m, UK)

To Rest In Peace – Fawaz Al-Matrouk (19m, USA)

Best Animated Film

This Is Not Real – Gergely Wootsch (8m, UK) - WINNER

Don Justino de Neve – Daisy Jacobs (2m, UK)

Grub – Annalise Wimmer (8m, UK/Norway)

Best Student Film

Love After Sunrise – Hadi Ghandour (16m, UK) - WINNER

The Raining Afternoon – Minsoo Lee (12m, Australia/South Korea)

Remembering Formby – Sue Elliott (6m, UK)

Best Documentary Film

Dilli – Sushmit Ghosh (25m, India) - WINNER

Acting My Age – Robin Toyne (35m, UK)

Ship of Life – Rob West (16m, UK/Bangladesh)

A full list of all the films in this year’s festival can be found here.

Ben Jacobson, and his short, Candy Crime.

Candy Crime will now have the honour of being the first film screened at this year’s Norwich Film Festival. This will be screened on Friday night, 30th March at Hollywood Cinema, Norwich.

Congratulations once again to Ben and his team.

Thank you very much for your contribution. It will go a long way to helping us improve and expand on the festival, this year and the future.

Yours sincerely,

Norwich Film Festival

It costs more than just money to run something like this, meaning time is valuable too. So, we are always on the look out for enthusiastic and energetic volunteers to help us organise and run our events. We are after all levels of help, from the production of the festival itself through to leaflet distributors across the country.

If you think you have what it takes, please email us.

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