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.
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.
For more information and to discuss a possible application please email david.white@city-eye.co.uk
OPEN LENS AWARD APPLICATION DOWNLOADS
Application /Equal Ops Form
Equipment Available with AwardPlease note that the Open Lens Award Scheme will be revised in the new year.
Shooting Tango in the Aisles
Photography: David Prime
(Please be aware that Five Card Stud
contains some strong language)
CURRENT OPEN LENS AWARDS
THE REVENANT AND THE VISIONARY
is a short drama written and directed by Leif Phelps and it is being made for his Duke of Edinburgh Award. "The Revenant and the Visionary" follows a frustrated filmmaker as he turns to "Ghost Dust", a futuristic narcotic in search of inspiration, while an ambitious actor seeks to undermine his efforts.UPDATE:
This film is currently in production.
CLEAR
City Eye is supporting a five minute documentary made by Zoha Zoakei and David Alamouti about the CLEAR project, their members of staff and volunteers with coverage of their creative and artistic workshops.UPDATE:
This film is currently in post production.
THE VISITOR
by Jim Glaister a Winchester based screenwriter and director. The film is being made on a micro-budget/no-budget and will be shot in Littleton, just North of Winchester over several weekends and is being supported by City Eye through our Open Lens Award.The synopsis of The Visitor is: "Robert is good with computers. Always has been. He knows this and anyone who knows him knows this. And Robert likes a challenge. This is what drives him to create ever more complex programs to hack his way into systems he supposedly should never be able to access. To Robert, it's a game; to his friend William, it's an opportunity to wreak havoc. Robert is working on his best hacking program yet, and William is eagerly anticipating using it. But then Robert has a visitor. A man. A mysterious, powerful and somewhat scary man. He predicts that William will inadvertently wipe out a third of the population of the Earth as a direct consequence of using Robert's program, so he is here to make sure that doesn't happen. To do this, Robert's program must never exist. Which means Robert may have to die. Right now."
UPDATE:
This film is currently in post production.
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.
UPDATE:
The film is currently in post production.
Previous Open Lens Awards:
Nisha Chand - Reformation (Music Video)
Stephen Cooper - Accidental Death (Drama)
Jim Willis - Run (Drama)
Emma Golby-Kirk - Up the Sprial Staircase (Drama)
Emily Bridges - Tango in the Aisles (Dance)
Robin King - Five Card Stud (Drama)
