Hart wins STV short film commission prize
Hart wins STV short film commission prizeMichael Hart, creative director of The Union has been commissioned by STV create a short film having won STV’s new creative competition.
Hart was awarded the prize, known as The Stevies, for his short film ‘Close your Eyes’ and will see him commissioned with a £5,000 production budget to make the move alongside STV’s production team.
He was shortlisted against Pete Martin, creative director at The Gate and Chris Watson, senior creative at Newhaven, who had two nominations.
The competition, which is open to all staff of Scottish creative agencies, was launched in March and asked entrants to submit storyboards for a five minute film.
Mark Waites, creative director of Mother presented the award.
David Connolly, STV’s commercial director, said: “Most creative people love a fresh challenge and a break from the norm. As we continue to increase our commitment to this sector of our client base, we thought a competition that could unleash some of their creative potential would be appropriate and a lot of fun.”
STV will run The Stevies as a regular event, and a second competition has now been launched and will follow the same format, but this time entries should address the theme “Football Stories.”
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Well played, Michael. I think that now entitles you to use Don as a footstool for a bit.
Hope it's Cranky free. Well done. Bishop
It better be good & funny.
Where are the details for entering the next competition? There's nothing on this site, nor on the STV one.
Nice one Michael. Is there a part for a REALLY funny Geordie bloke?
Hey anon. The rules are DEAD simple. You just write a 5 minute script but you can submit it in whatever form you like. Some of the previous entries were really good but written on the back of a fag packet which is absolutely fine as its the ideas, not the full blown scripts that we'll be judging. The theme is football stories. The budget is £5k which STV will put up and you can direct with the support of STV's production team.
All we'd say is bear in mind your audience. It goes out on STV and will most likely run during STV's football documentary stransd next year which will be in peak and watched with a male bias.
We're trying to keep the whole thing pretty relaxed rather than bound up in red tape.
It will have to be legal, decent etc
Cheers Mark. What's the deadline and who do I send my scripts to?
Cheers Mark. What's the deadline and who do I send my scripts to?
14th October. Aileen.rushton@stv.tv or me mark.gorman@stv.tv
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