Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative
The Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative is a joint venture between Screen Development Australia (SDA) and Screen Australia (formerly the Australian Film Commission (AFC)) that awards Australian filmmakers sponsorship to encourage film production.
The program funds the creation of short films on a low budget by emerging filmmakers and then tours the films throughout Australia at the end of a years work. It was created to address the sponsoring organisations' objective of showcasing new talent via organizations in each state.
The scheme is run in New South Wales through Metro Screen, in Victoria through Open Channel, in Queensland through QPIX, in South Australia Media Resource Centre, in Western Australia through Film and Television Institute, in Tasmania through Wide Angle Tasmania.
During 2002 there were 29 short films produced using approximately seven-hundred cast and crew. The successful filmmakers in 2003 were given a small amount of money, two days equipment hire and two days post-production facilities. In 2003 $150,000 came from the AFC and $75,000 was contributed by SDA organizations.
Read more about Raw Nerve Short Film Initiative: List of Selected Filmmakers, See Also, Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the words raw, nerve, short, film and/or initiative:
“One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man’s mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–120)