2013 Submissions Open

If you wish to submit a documentary for screening at the 4th Docfilm Festival between Friday 8th - Sunday 10th November 2013 please contact - editor@citizenseye.org with your details. These should include: Full contact details: Film Title: Length: Description: Director: Any credits you wish noted on the program: Please confirm you hold the rights to the film and are therefore able to screen it. We act in good faith when it comes to the screening of submitted short documentaries. All submissions will be screened in venues across Leicester city centre. Please submit on a DVD and provide a SAE if you wish it to be returned in the post to: John Coster, Festival Director, 4th Docfilm Festival, Apex House, 74-76 Charles Street, Leicester LE1 1FB, United Kingdom. Thanks John Coster Festival Director

Inner Light

Film Title: Inner Light

Length: 2.40 documentary by thisissomethingcreative, 3.12 the somewhereto documentary and the concept film itself is 3.40 

Description: A video to stimulate the senses, looking beneath the surface, exploring views on inner light.

Director: Nick Lee-Shield and Emma Fay

Credits:

Helen Claire

Alex Storm

Jonathan Macauley

Kelly O'dell

Josh Ward

April Huckle

Platforma Moving Image Showcase

ArtReach Nanoplex

Platforma Moving Image Showcase

Free screenings in the world’s smallest moving image gallery

The ArtReach Nanoplex is a state of the art moving image gallery housed within a converted family caravan. Coming to the Leicester DocFilm Festival on 7^th November 2012, the Nanoplex will be screening a special programme of moving image works by artists and organisations from the Platforma Arts and Refugee Network, showcasing exciting works which relate closely to the experiences of refugees that have arrived in the UK from across the globe.

Don’t miss this exciting programme, screening from 12pm – 4pm outside the Ramada Encore Hotel, Charles Street, LE1 1GE

This project has been funded by Arts Council England

About the Platforma Arts and Refugees Network

Platforma (www.platforma.org.uk) is a national network of artists and organisations whose work touches on the varied experiences of refugees both before and after they arrived in the UK. Developed in partnership between Refugee Week UK and Oval House Theatre, and supported by The Baring Foundation and Arts Council England, the network seeks to support and mainstream refugee related arts, bringing together a rich mix of diverse artists that have settled in the UK from across the world.

As Regional Coordinators of the Platforma Arts and Refugee Network in the East Midlands, ArtReach (www.artreach.biz) is organising a programme of vibrant live music and spoken word events, visual arts exhibitions and moving image screenings which will provide a platform for emerging refugee artists and organisations to showcase their work across the region.

Contact: Hannah Stretton, ArtReach Project and Event Manager 

Email: hannah@artreach.biz

Phone: 0116 261 6882

The Last Dogs of Winter

5.15pm Venue - Phoenix Square Screen 2 (118 seater) Tickets £5 / conc £4

The majority of Canadian may recognize a Canadian Eskimo Dog, or qimmiq, from either of the commemorative coins or stamps on which they have been depicted. It is no small irony, however, that the latest documentary from New Zealand filmmaker Costa Botes (Forgotten Silver) explores a Canadian tale, the little known struggle of one man to preserve this animal, the rarest registered breed of dog in the world, from extinction.

Our introduction to the story is through Caleb Ross, a young New Zealander who came to Canada for love; when that love went south, Caleb, not knowing what to do but always ready for adventure, travelled north. He read about a dog sanctuary in Churchill, Manitoba on the bulletin board of a Toronto hostel. What was intended as a month long adventure has become an inspiring three year commitment to the dogs and the sanctuary founder, Brian Ladoon.

In 1976, Ladoon took on the self-imposed task of preserving and breeding Canadian Eskimo dogs. Thousands of these dogs once flourished in the pitiless northern climate as crucial partners to the Inuit people, but the introduction of the skiddoo, along with disease and organized culling, saw their numbers reduced to mere hundreds by the late 1970's. Ladoon, an idiosyncratic raconteur and often combative man, has sustained a fair share of criticism from a faction of Churchill residents who decry the animals being kept on a barren point of land that intersects with migrating polar bears, and some would refute his knowledge of the breed and his lifetime dedicated to their survival. Interaction between the two wild species is shown in the film, and while a draw for tourists, the safety of both the dogs and bears is often cited by Ladoon's critics.

Costa Botes has captured the remorseless northern landscape and the political, financial and meteorological struggles that Ladoon and Ross face to preserve the qimmiq with a raw energy and relentless honesty. Captivating and compelling, The Last Dogs Of Winter is a film about wildlife - and one wild life.

Joining us with a very unusual exhibit is Racheal Bailey who lives here in the heart of Leicester. 

She not only went to Canada to visit the dogs of Churchill but herself has a team of the rare Canadian Eskimo Dogs which she races all over the UK. Racheal was born and bred in leicester and always had an interest in animals in particular dogs. After studying hard at college to gain her animal care and training qualifications she not only runs a successful animal care and training business, Akna K9 Academy in Leicester but shows and races her dogs winning already the first three races this season. 

She has also already qualified all her dogs for Crufts in 2013 and has plans to take her teams to Europe to race in 2014. Racheal will be at the venue with her dog teams and equipment. 

You will be able to meet and greet the dogs, talk to Racheal about her experiences and get to know more about the world of Sled dog racing, the rare Canadian Eskimo Dog and more.

This screening is supported by Animal Nutritionist, Hope Turner of Healthful

www.healthful.uk.com