August 2008

HighTide Festival, a 4-day arts event, premiered in Halesworth Suffolk last Spring. Planned as a forum to develop and showcase original new work from emerging theatre writers and directors, the festival premiered eight new plays and hosted talks and masterclasses from Richard Eyre, Max Stafford Clark and Joe Penhall, amongst others. longside this ran a small programme of comedy, film and music events. he festival welcomed almost 3,000 visitors and won excellent national press coverage.

This year HighTide is launching a film festival and they are looking for the best of the country's short films to programme across the weekend. As with theatre, the long-term aim of the film festival is to support and develop the best of the UK's emerging writers and directors, to encourage artistic collaborations and original new work, and at the same time bring new films to Suffolk and Norfolk audiences. To run alongside the film screenings we are planning talks, events and filmmaker-only workshops with leading industry figures.

HighTide Festival runs from the 2nd to the 5th of May 2008 and we are inviting filmmakers from Britain and the Republic of Ireland to submit their short films for participation in the festival. The deadline for submissions is Monday 4th February. Films may be any genre and of any length up to a maximum length of 20 minutes. Further information regarding the festival and film submission details, including an application form can be found on our website:
www.hightidefestival.org

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Jono Stevens

(Story To Screen In Eight Weeks) is co-founder and managing director of independent distributor Diffusion Pictures. This year they have released three features, the most recent being Lars vonTrier's latest film The Boss Of It All. Jono has also founded production company Just So, who have already built an excellent reputation in corporates, commercials and pop promos.