Tight Jeans was officially selected by the 2008 times BFI 52md London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film by the Observer

AND here is another great film that she directed for Channel 4 THE FUTURE WAGs OF GREAT BRITIAN – i highly recommend it!

As part of Channel 4’s Coming Up scheme to showcase up and coming writing and directing talent Destiny Ekaragha has directed THE FUTURE WAGs OF GREAT BRITAIN. The film was written by the brilliant Abby Ajayi and it goes out on Channel 4 on Thursday 19th August 2010 at 23.40pm. It will also be available online on 4 OD.

http://www.channel4.com/tv-listings/daily/2010/08/19

They have a great cast including Bunmi Mojekwu (Eastenders, Misfits (TV) and Gone Too Far at the Royal Court), Ellen Thomas(Eastenders, Rev, Teachers, Doctor Who and Moses Jones) and Naana Agyei-Ampadu (nominated as Outstanding Newcomer by the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her role in Been So Long at the Young Vic).

The Hospital Club is hosting an industry screening for Destiny Ekaragha, one of our current Creatives in Residence. Many of you may already know Destiny from the London Film Festival where her work was programmed in both 2008 and 2009. We’ll be screening the two shorts featured at the LFF for those who haven’t had the opportunity to see them in the past. We’ll also be screening Destiny’s new project ’The Future WAGS of Great Britain’. This new short was commissioned by Channel 4 and will be broadcast later in the year.

Burrill’s multi-screen installation envisages the city as a living, breathing entity being fed by people’s experiences, using video content accumulated from Londoners via the web campaign…

Below are some stills of the shoot he did last week in The Hospital Club TV studio. Simon projected visuals onto four women bodies reflecting the influence of the city’s flux on our movements.

Scottish filmmaker Nigel R. Smith has written a superb guide to distributing short films

You can download it here

Panel of Judges
Emily Man, Producer/ Maggie Ellis, Head of Production, Film London
Michael Hayden, Festival Programmer, BFI London Film Festival

Sebastian Goodwin
Sebastian Goodwin studied studied History of Art at Cambridge University. After graduating he then studied at the Polish National Film School in Lodz as a Leverhulme Scholar. He has since made short films funded by the UK Film Council and BBC Films as well as short documentaries for Channel 4. ‘The Girls’, made in 2007, was BIFA nominated for Best UK Short Film. Sebastian is now writing a feature film script.

THE GIRLS – wrote/adapted and directed by Sebastian Godwin
Based on a short story by Joyce Cary
Duration: 10 minutes.

A father comes back home to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. As dusk falls, the mood begins to darken. Funded by the UK Film Council.

Film

Destiny Ekaragha – CIR RESIDENT 2010-2011
Destiny Ekaragha studied Film and Communications at London Metropolitan University, graduating in 2003. After working as a Runner on various TV and film projects Destiny wrote and directed her first short film called ‘Tight Jeans’. The film went on to be officially selected by the 2008 Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film shown at the London Film Festival by The Observer

THE PARK – Written and Directed by Destiny ekaragha
Duration: 16 minutes

The Park is a coming of age tale about three teenage boys that are best friends. They talk about everything besides the problems that are truly troubling them. The stories they tell are nothing compared to the secrets that they keep.

Lilah Vandenburgh
Lilah Vandenburgh is a US born filmmaker and performer living in London. In addition to working in feature films, she’s a music video and promo director with Blackdog UK and one half of the comedy duo Vandenburgh & Shakinvosky. Her 35mm debut short, BITCH, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally.

BITCH – Directed by Lilah Vandenburgh
Duration: 15 minutes

Bitch is a pop-culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many
deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes,
your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will
find you and she will make you pay.Love is for losers, and PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. That is until she meets a guy as antisocial as she is. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first.

Oscar Sharp
Oscar Sharp dreamed of becoming a magician until he realised that creating films was where the real magic happened. Many of his films have been shortlisted for awards including at the prestigious Raindance Festival. Oscar would now like to try his hand at music videos and Television.

Forna, written and directed by Oscar Sharp
Duration: 11 minutes
A middle-aged couple with a crumbling marriage discover an unsettling growth at the bottom of their garden

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