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				<title>Aardman's Dave Sproxton takes over as Chair at ENCOUNTERS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ David Sproxton, co-founder and Executive Chairman of the BAFTA and Oscar-winning Aardman Animations, has taken over at the helm of Britain's biggest and longest running short film festival, ENCOUNTERS, replacing outgoing Chairman Simon Cooper as the festival's third Chairman. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Bristol Filmmakers Pick Up 2 Short Film Prizes </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Britain’s biggest and longest running short film festival, ENCOUNTERS, the 15th Bristol International Short Film Festival, celebrated the very best in short film making on Saturday evening (21st November) with the presentation of their 19 prestigious awards – and prize money totalling ?12,500 - at a packed ceremony at Bristol’s Watershed. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Special Preview: Ponyo on the Cliff</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The special preview screening of Studio Ghibli’s latest film, Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff, 2009), directed by anime master Hayao Miyazaki, was brought to the festival this year as part of Fresh Flix, Encounters’ first Young People’s Film Festival.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Shorts 2 Features: Panel Discussion</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ As part of the new Shorts 2 Features strand of the Festival, Creative Director Mark Cosgrove was joined on stage by a number of guests including writer/directors Andrea Arnold,  & Eran Creevy, producers Chris Moll & Kate Swan, Dubbing Editor Paul Cowgill and cinematographer Terry Flaxton, in order to discuss the issues and implications of moving from short films to making feature-length productions. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Jeremy Brock: a screenwriter's journey in 3 Acts</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Do patterns emerge in an artist’s choices? The themes that fascinate them: where do they come from? When you examine the projects that award-winning screenwriter, Jeremy Brock has been attracted to, you could say his journey so far has been one in the three-act structure... ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Richard Williams: no secrets, no pretty drawings!</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Animation guru, Richard Williams, doesn’t believe in keeping things to himself. In fact, his signature sideline is in passing down the trade secrets he’s learned from the Hollywood greats of  animation’s golden age, as well as his own lifelong study of movement. The tips in his new survival kit put today’s animators through their paces. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Jack Stevenson Presents: Carnal Desire From the Underground</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Jack Stevenson is a man of many talents; published writer, film exhibitor and archivist. But perhaps his greatest talent yet is as cinematic curator of what the Cube call “curious time capsules”. A more impressive programme of contemporary underground shorts you simply cannot find.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Jem Cohen,  Music Works 1: Portraits and Documents / Music Works 2: Instrument  </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Introducing his own programme of shorts for Music Works 1: Portraits and Documents, Jem Cohen explained that his films ranged in time from 1 minute to several hours, because “Films should just be the length they are”.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Andrei Khrzhanovsky: a creative force at 70</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ When Soviet State Film School animator, Andrei Khrzhanovsky, made his surrealist The Glass Harmonica, in 1968, it was deemed by the Film Ministry to be anti-State. The film was banned for 20 years and Khrzhanovsky was sent off on a Naval expedition bound for the Northern Sea for his efforts.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>John Coates presents his Desert Island Flicks</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ How do you choose your top 8 films of all time? Animation legend, John Coates, has a simple technique that has also led him to some dazzling and amazing places. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Jack Stevenson Presents: The Weird World of Tomorrow – Warped Visions of the Future</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Which is more terrifying; predicted advancements in technology and societal change that have come true, or those which have not?  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Mini Masterpieces 2009</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Failed to get your film into the festival? Didn’t get short-listed for Depict?  Well, here’s your last chance to get a film shown at Encounters…but you’ll have to make it first! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:59:19 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Call For Submissions 2009</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Now in its 15th year, Encounters Short Film Festival (17 - 22 November 2009) has become known world-wide for the extraordinary community of filmmakers it attracts, and for the quality and scope of its programming.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:26:38 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Ray Harryhausen returns to Bristol...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ For the last leg of his mini tour to promote his new book A Century of Model Animation and special screening of Jason and the Argonauts. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Bafta Success in South West </title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ A huge congratulations goes out to... ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Best of British: Made in the South West</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ One of the most popular events of Encounters Short Film Festival ‘Best of British: Made in the South West’   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Awards Ceremony Highlights</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Find out who won and who was commended out of the 320 films that were screened. Read on... ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Considine considers ...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ While the Watershed has been Considering Considine with a festival of the actor's films, Encounters delegates were treated to an evening with the man himself for BAFTA's Short Film Paradise. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Kodak Cinematography Masterclass</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Cinematographer, Balazs Bolygo, (Lark Rise to Candleford, Mistresses, It's All gone Pete Tong) spoke to Encounters about his early influences and how he prepares for projects such as Life on Mars. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Award Winners 2008</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The Encounters Short Film Festival tonight announced the winners of its 14th annual international competition to find the world’s best new live action or animated films of under 30 minutes length.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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