What is The Open Lens Awards?
The Open Lens Award is a digital video scheme run by City Eye to assist emerging filmmaking talent in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Region. The award is an equipment and resource based that supports filmmakers with the cost associated with the hire of digital video equipment and nonlinear edit facilities such as Adobe Premiere and AVID.

We do not award money.

This scheme can not and does not support projects run purely for profit.

You must prove you have a basic understanding of film production and the time it takes to make a film or agree to undertake training.

Latest Open Lens Award:
LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL
City Eye is pleased through our Open lens Award to be supporting Winchester based filmmaker James Rose with the production of his latest film Like A Bat Out Of Hell.

Like A Bat Out Of Hell follows James, a filmmaker who has a physical disability, on a quest to gain consent to do a skydive to raise money for Comic Relief and Canine Partners. The second section of the film was made whilst James was completing his degree in BA (Hons) Broadcasting. Now having graduated and completed a number of extreme tasks to prove that he is able to do the jump safely, the second section of the film follows the build up to the actual dive itself.

PRODUCTION LOOKING FOR A CREW
James is now looking for the following committed, small but vital crew to help him with the production of the film:

Lighting camera person (experience with Sony Z1E HDV camera)
Sound/boom Op
Production Assistant
Avid Editor

The film is being made on a tight budget, so therefore this will be done on an expenses only basis.

The shooting dates are as follows:

23rd May 2009
28th May 2009
15th June 2009
16th June 2009
17th June 2009
10th July 2009
11th July 2009
22nd July 2009
25th July 2009

If you are interested in working with James on this production please send a short Production CV and your contact details to David White (Creative Director, City Eye): david.white@city-eye.co.uk or directly to James Rose: james.rose@jamesrose.tv

For more details about James' project please go to:
http://www.jamesrose.tv/likeabatoutofhell

For details on how to sponsor James' skydive, please go to:
http://www.likeabatoutofhell.co.uk/index.html

OPEN LENS AWARD APPLICATION - DOWNLOADS (all word doc files)
Application /Equal Ops Form / Equipment Available with Award