The Festival Lecture
Opportunity to Host a Guest Lecture with Eileen Elsey
What can you expect from a film festival?
How can you get the most out of the festival?
What makes a good short film?
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival are providing an exciting new opportunity for your University to host ‘The Festival’, a guest lecture with academic and Encounters Board Member Eileen Elsey.
This is an opportunity for your students to learn more about the value of submitting and attending a film festival; exploring how the short form is a means to develop and progress the next generation of filmmakers and animators; what makes a good short film; and what students can expect from a film festival.
Eileen Elsey is a writer, lecturer and script consultant, and a long-standing member of the Encounters Board of Directors. Her experience in media education includes heading up the M.A. Media programme at the University of the West of England, leading the M.A. Screenwriting, and acting as external examiner at both B.A. and M.A. level. She has also lectured in video production and screenwriting at Bristol University and The London Institute, London College of Printing. She is co-author of In Short: A Guide to Short Film-making in the Digital Age (BFI), and author of articles on film and filmmakers for Vertigo magazine and the Journal of Media Practice.
For more information download the Guest Lecture Flyer, or contact jude.lister@encounters-festival.org.uk
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