Artists' Awards

One of London's most prestigious film initiatives, the London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA), is inviting new applications.

LAFVA, now in its fifth year, aims to provide practical and financial assistance to experienced and emergent artist film-makers and has supported 49 artists to date, including influential international artists such as the 2004 Turner Prize nominee artist Kutlug Ataman, and emergent talent like Emily Richardson, whose film Aspect screens in this year's London Film Festival, and Matthew Noel Todd (Nausea, work in progress) one of London's rising moving image stars.
 
LAFVA 2005, funded by Arts Council England, London and managed by Film London, offers £165,000 worth of production and completion awards ranging from £2,000 to £20,000 to film and video practitioners in London. The deadline for the receipt of applications is Monday 6th December 2004.

LAFVA is one of the largest publicly funded artists’ film award schemes in the UK and has assisted works including Jane and Louise Wilson’s 13 screen installation, A Free and Anonymous Monument, which exhibited at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle and toured internationally. Zarina Bhimji’s Out of Blue received support from the LAFVA scheme and went on to be exhibited at Tate Britain and at Documenta XI, in Kassel, Germany.

 
Notes to editors:

The deadline for applications for LAFVA 2005 is 5pm Monday 6th December 2004.

Emily Richardson’s film Aspect will screen in the Experimenta strand of The Times bfi 48th London Film Festival on Sunday 31st October, 21.00 at National Film Theatre 3.

For further press information contact:

Ngaio Bowthorpe
T: 020 7387 3572
F: 020 7387 8788
E: ngaio.bowthorpe@filmlondon.org.uk

Notes to editors:

Film London is the strategic agency for film and media in the UK’s capital.

Film London will sustain, promote and develop London as a major international film-making and film cultural capital.  This includes all the screen industries based in London – film, television, video, commercials and new interactive media.

Film London is supported by the UK Film Council and the London Development Agency through Creative London. Film London also receives significant support from Arts Council England, the European Regional Development Fund, the Mayor of London and Skillset.

Film London’s activities include:

 Investment in new and established film-makers through a range of low budget production schemes
 Supporting training and business development activities
 Developing audiences and access provision across the film and media sector
 Showcasing of London films and talent 
 Domestic and international tourism initiatives
 Promoting London on an international stage as an attractive base for film and media production
 Providing comprehensive information on London locations and production services, as well as practical advice and support to film-makers shooting in London