Pocket Shorts Scotland

Pocket Shorts is a funding scheme which has just launched in Scotland for people who want to experiment with making video for mobile handsets. I sat on the panel for the launch at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August, and again for 3 of the 4 workshops which ran in Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow in September.

You can apply for up to £3,000 in funding, to create up to 60 seconds of whatever kind of video footage you want (animation or live action), although there is a judging process and only 8 projects will be funded. The closing date is November 1, with the successful applicants known by the end of the year. The video must be ready in May, and they will be launched at the Film Festival next August.

You have to be based in Scotland for this, obviously, but if you are even vaguely interested, do check it out. I’m not sure what my future involvement will be on this, but feel free to try and bribe me anyway ;-)