2013 Leeds Young Filmmaker Golden Owl Awards
ArtForms, Leeds Young Film Festival and Logistik are delighted to present the 2013 Golden Owl Awards, celebrating the work of Leeds schools, community groups and individual filmmakers. This ‘Oscars’ style red carpet, black tie extravaganza will showcase the best new films from the emerging talent across the city in the splendour of Leeds Town Hall with [...]Click to read more »
An Introduction to Filmmaking with Child Friendly Leeds
We want to help make Leeds a child friendly city – a place where children are valued, supported, enjoy growing up, and look forward to a bright future. This workshop gives you an opportunity to say why you think Leeds is child friendly or how you think it could become more child friendly. Working with Jamie [...]Click to read more »
Animate!
Places can be booked through the City Centre Box Office on 0113 224 3801 or in person at The Carriageworks. After a year away, the Film Festival’s most popular workshop returns once again to give you the chance to let your imagination run free in this introduction to stop motion animation. Plan your story, make your [...]Click to read more »
BFI Film Academy Showcase with Beta Filmworks
This is a private event, however if you are interested in attending, please contact the Leeds Young Film Office on 0113 247 8489 The BFI Film Academy offer opportunities for talented and committed young people aged 16-19 from all backgrounds to undertake an intensive programme of film activities led by industryprofessionals. The programme is being supported [...]Click to read more »
Film: Doc Filmmaking Project
Earlier this year MediaFish began to discuss the impact of digital technology on film; how it’s affected how films are made and watched and whether it’s made filmmaking more accessible to people in general. They were so excited by their findings that they want you to help them make a short documentary on the subject. Over [...]Click to read more »
Golden Owl Winners + Film Festival Showcase
This event is FREE but you must still reserve tickets through the City Centre Box Office on 0113 224 3801 or in person at The Carriageworks. Want to see what the talented young filmmakers of Leeds have been up to in the last year? Then make sure you come along to the special Film Festival Showcase. [...]Click to read more »
Great Big Family Film Day
Come along and be part of the Great Big Family Film Day, featuring Scooby Doo and Alice in Wonderland! It’s a chance for our younger audience to get involved with the Film Festival. Individual events are just £2 per child (£5 / £4 per adult) or you can buy a pass for the whole family [...]Click to read more »
Homemade: DIY Special Effects
Whether you’re a young filmmaker and want to make your films look more realistic, or just want to impress your friends with some glow-in-the-dark slime, you should check out our DIY special effects masterclass. Science teacher Caroline Maston shows you how to make some of the most useful effects using everyday household objects including fake [...]Click to read more »
Learn to Blog with Logistik
Blogging is more popular than ever, with new platforms and new ways to write emerging every day. But what makes an excellent project blog, and how can you start one? In this half day workshop you’ll learn what blogs are, who writes them, and where you can find them. Discover the history of blogging, inspiration [...]Click to read more »
Leeds Young Music Video Awards
East Leeds FM and Leeds Young Film Festival present the very first Leeds Young Music Video Awards aimed at celebrating the use of music videos as a creative tool, particularly by young musicians and filmmakers aged under 21 in Leeds. Taking place at The Brudenell Social Club, one of the city’s premiere music venues, it will [...]Click to read more »
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party + Alice in Wonderland
Continuing the Great Big Family Film Day we are inviting you to a very special tea party. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy with us in the cinema while watching Tim Burton’s magical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, where 19 year old Alice finds herself back down the rabbit hole after years of being away. [...]Click to read more »
Make Your Own Film Festival
Ever wanted to put on your very own Film Festival? Join Sarah Crowther, Director of the 11th Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum, to learn all the skills you need to make your own film festival! In this first workshop ‘A How-To Guide’ you will learn everything you need to create a festival. [...]Click to read more »
March of the Robots Animate! with Playful Leeds
This special Animate! workshop launches The March of the Robots, a year long programme of events, films, workshops, talks and playfulness culminating in a city wide Robot take over in 2014. Like the normal Animate! this is a great introduction to stop motion filmmaking where you’ll get the chance to plan your story, make your characters [...]Click to read more »
Micro Short Film Challenge with Pocket Projects
Fancy yourself as a young filmmaker but don’t know where to start? Join Rad Miller and Pocket Projects as he teaches you to make your very first film using professional techniques. Learn about props, genre and storyboarding and then shoot and edit your very own 90 second film. Finally get to see your mini-masterpiece on [...]Click to read more »
Minecraft Mystery Workshop
At first, everything is dark. Slowly you regain your senses and begin to realise what has just happened. You look out of the aeroplane window to see, not white fluffy clouds, but plumes of thick black smoke towering up from the aircraft’s engine. Miraculously, you and your fellow passengers have survived the crash landing on [...]Click to read more »
Neverwhere
When Richard Mayhew, a young office worker in London, helps a mysterious young woman called Door who is being pursued by two assassins, he cannot imagine the adventures that lie ahead of him in the fantastical ‘London Below’ where magic and monsters are real. Created by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline) and Lenny Henry (Comic Relief) for [...]Click to read more »
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! + Mystery Machine
Kicking off our 2013 Great Big Family Film Day we have an extra-special Scooby Doo event aimed at getting our younger audience involved with the Film Festival. Recommended 3+ (and for bigger kids as well) ther will be a Scooby Doo treasure hunt, lots of Scooby Doo related activities and a screening of the 2006 [...]Click to read more »
Tall Tales & Local Legends: Storytelling in Leeds
Leeds is full of spooky stories – from ghostly dogs and fortune-telling poisoners to pterodactyl sightings and books covered in human skin. Local storyteller Matthew Bellwood will be on hand to share some of these weird and unnerving tales and offer some tips on telling your own. You’ll also get a chance to make your [...]Click to read more »
The Sparticle Mystery Event
This event is FREE but you must still reserve tickets through the City Centre Box Office on 0113 224 3801 or in person at The Carriageworks. When a science experiment at The Sparticle Project goes wrong everyone over the age of 15 disappears into a parallel dimension. Left to fend for themselves the kids form two [...]Click to read more »
Young Filmmakers’ Day
This event is FREE but tickets must still be reserved through the City Centre Box Office on 0113 224 3801. Leeds Young Film Festival celebrates films made BY young people as well as FOR them, and the Young Filmmakers’ Day is a showcase of some of the best up and coming talent in the UK and [...]Click to read more »
