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Happy New Year! and a first draft

Posted on Sun, 10 Jan 2010

 

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while but I have been writing the first draft of my script, CONCRETE CAT.

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Northern Stars December 16th deadline fast approaching

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009

 

NORTHERN STARS RECRUITING NOW!

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look into the light

Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009

 

NEW STUFF

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Northern Lights Men who Stare at Goats Nov 09

Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2010

 

NORTHERN LIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL TELLING TALES

We kicked off in style with a preview screening of Men Who Stare at Goats on November 3rd 2009.

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what a warm up act

Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2009

 

what a hoot!

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Big Pitch update from Ipso Facto

Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2009

 

“Following the whirlwind ride that was The Big Pitch competition, the winning writer-director trio of Different Shades of Graham mutually agreed that whilst the concept which so excited the voting public was sound, the script required further development.

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NLFF 2008 Awards

Posted on Fri, 9 Jan 2009

 

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Northern Lights Film Festival 08 Awards!

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South Shields born brothers win UK's biggest award for film

Posted on Sun, 7 Dec 2008

 

David and Keith Lynch, two film-making brothers born in South Shields, were amongst the team who won £250,000 this week-end at 'The Big Pitch' dubbed "the X-Factor of Film" - an innovative Skillset supported competitive training programme - that attracted over 200 applications from the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers when it was launched as part of Northern Lights Film Festival 2007.

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Cook County

Posted on Sat, 6 Dec 2008

 

Cook County director, David Polmes will not be able to attend todays screening due to unforeseen circumstances.

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French Film Update

Posted on Fri, 5 Dec 2008

 

Todays screening of French Film is going ahead albeit without the Q&A session with Director Jackie Oudney.

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Año Uña Short Film Winners Announced

Posted on Thu, 4 Dec 2008

 

NLFF is delighted to announce that the winner of the Año Uña New Short Film Competition launched earlier in the year by Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón to celebrate the release of Jonás’s debut feature Año Uña – is A Moment, Twice by Donal Coonan and will be screening this Friday 5 Dec prior to Año Uña at 7.

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Blog Launched

Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2008

 

We've just launched the blog for the festival.

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Podcast Launched

Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2008

 

The NLFF podcast is now online.

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Surprise Screening Announced

Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2008

 

Our surprise screening has just been announced online...

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Meet the Team - Podcasts and Blog coming soon

Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2008

 

We've added some profiles to the website so that if you are in town or floating around the festival, you can come and say hello.

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Programme Launch

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2008

 

We're delighted to announce that tickets for this year's Northern Lights Film Festival are now on sale and our festival programme is available from the Tyneside Cinema and various other outlets across the North East.

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NLFF Script Development Package

Posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2008

 

Deadline extended

We are extending the deadline for applications from Friday 24th until lunchtime on Wed 29th of October.

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We have a new image (and website)...

Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008

 

As you can see the Festival has a new image!

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The Search for the hottest new screenwriting talent of the future has begun!

Posted on Tue, 23 Sep 2008

 

The 6th Northern Lights Film Festival, which runs 30 November – 06 December 2008, is now open for entries for feature film treatments by early career professional screenwriters to compete for this year’s Script Development Award.

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The Search for the hottest new screen talent of the future has begun!

Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008

 

The festival is now open for entries for short films by early career filmmakers to screen as part of NLFF 2008.

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The Festival is getting bigger, and so is the Festival Team!

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008

 

For details on the opportunity to work as Festival Assistant on NLFF 2008, please click here.

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Thank you for making NLFF 2007 a huge success

Posted on Fri, 1 Feb 2008

 

Thank you to everyone who took part in making NLFF 2007 a huge success; the volunteers, partners, funders, sponsors, supporters, and of course everyone who came!

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