The Crick Centre (crickcentre.org) and Art in the Park (www.artinthepark.org.uk) have recently received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its broader Cultural Value Programme for the research project: ‘Participatory Arts and Active Citizenship’. The project will be examining the potential of participatory arts in the promotion of political engagement amongst young people.
As part of this project Art in the Park will be commissioning a documentary filmmaker to record and artistically respond to the research. The documentary will be a key output of this research and the filmmaker(s) will play an active role in project from beginning to end.
We are seeking a professional filmmaker or filmmaking collective with a track record of ambitious and inspirational projects rooted in a documentary style. A background in working with diverse partners (eg. artists, academics and young people) is preferable.
The film to be produced will be under 30 minutes in length (to adhere to the ‘short film submissions’ requirements of the Sheffield DocFest). The deadline for the first edit will be September 2014, when feedback and discussion will be given from the research team and Art in the Park. The final deadline for the final edit will be November/December 2014.
Deadline for submissions is 12pm (noon) on Monday the 10th March, interviews to be held in the week beginning 17th March in Sheffield.
For more information and details for submission please download the Filmmaker Brief