Exposures - New Talent in Moving Image
The UK’s leading student film and moving image festival
- Call for entries
- 31 July 2008
- Festival
- 23–27 Nov 2008
About Exposures
Here you will find most information you need to come and visit us during the festival. Do you think something is missing? Just email us and we’ll try to answer your question and add to this section.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
DATES
Festival: 23 – 27 November 2008
call for entries for 2008 are now closed. entries for the 2009 edition will open early 2009
LOCATION
- Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH
- Urbis, Cathedral Garden, Manchester M4 3BG
PRICES
Most events are £3 full / £2 concessions unless otherwise indicated. Browse our brochure to find the price of the event you want to attend or just give us a ring on 0161 200 1500.
HOW TO GET HERE…
- Cornerhouse is situated in Manchester City Centre adjacent to Oxford Road Railway Station.
Detailed Map to Cornerhouse - Urbis is located in Cathedral Gardens, the first public park created in Manchester in over 200 years, near Victoria Station.
Detailed Map to Urbis
- By Car
Manchester is easily accessible from motorway networks including the M60 ring road and Cornerhouse is located in the city centre, please see above for map.- From the North: M66 Bury; M62 Rochdale, Leeds
- From the South: M56 Manchester Airport, Chester; M6 Birmingham
- From the West: M602 & M63; M62 Liverpool; M61 Bolton, Wigan; M6 Preston
- Where do I park?
You can find information on price and locations of nearby car parks onthe following websites
- By Rail
Nearest Station
Cornerhouse: Manchester Oxford Road
Urbis: Manchester Victoria
National Rail Enquiries or 08457 484950
- By Metrolink
Nearest Stop to Cornerhouse: St Peter’s Square
Nearest Stop to Urbis: Victoria Station
Metrolink 0161 205 2000
- By bus
There are too many buses going past our venues for us to list, but ou can find information through the following channels
but please refer to the useful contact section below to find the best bus for you.
Greater Manchester Bus Routes or 0161 228 7811
WHERE TO STAY
There are hundreds of places to stay in Manchester.
Find a room with Visit Manchester’s accommodation search
Contact Information
If you have any questions about exposures, do not hesitate to email
the exposures team or the underexposed team or phone 0161 228 7621 and ask to speak to a member of the exposures team.
WHO ARE WE?
Many people work together to make the festival a success, so many thanks for their contributions.
Many thanks especially:
- To our competition judges and special guests
- To Corona Extra, exposures’ main sponsor who have supported the festival for four years.
- To our generous supporters, The University of Salford, Manchester City Council, BBC North, Mackinnon and Saunders, Electric Sheep, Channel m, Urban Life and Sumners.
Festival Creative Team: Rachel Hayward, Beth Hewitt, Sarah Perks
Assistants: Lisa Burke, Felicity Drinkwater, Grant Louche, Laura Moffitt, Rachael Salt, Branka Vidovic-Butler, Magda Ockzkowska
Press and Marketing: Rosie Farrell, Charlotte Pedley, Isabelle Croissant, Debrah Smith
- Sponsorship: Sarah Shelley, Jo Williams, Amy Owen
Programme Selection Panelists: Rachel Hayward, Beth Hewitt, Sarah Perks,
Branka Vidovic-Butler, Lisa Burke, Anna Searle, The LiveWire Management Team
With much valued support from the teams at both Cornerhouse and Urbis, especially Ivan McDougall and Urbis Learning Team, Cornerhouse Box Office, Front of House, and the projection and technical staff.
BACKGROUND
This year will be our 15th festival. In the spirit of adolescent discovery we’ve thrown open our doors to any moving image work on any platform, with only two simple rules – under 30 minutes, made whilst a student at a UK educational institution.
exposures is a truly unique festival: its administrative home is at Cornerhouse; its creative heart at Cornerhouse and Urbis; and its body is a collaboration across creative, cultural, commercial and academic organs. Long standing supporters include Corona Extra, University of Salford, BBC, Northwest Vision & Media, Mackinnon & Saunders, and Manchester City Council.
Still the only regular UK-wide competitive festival for student film and moving image, exposures is a crucial showcase for new talent and a vital celebration of UK talent development.
Originally titled ‘Northern Exposures’, the first installment of the festival was a modest affair: two two-hour screening slots in Cornerhouse’s Screen 3, on a Wednesday afternoon in December 1994. The event was called into being at the request of student filmmakers themselves and put together to reflect the nascent filmmaking courses appearing in the city and beyond: the Workers Film Association, Salford University’s new Media BA and other isolated courses around the region.
Over the year, the festival has grown in size and in calibre. In 1998 the festival dropped the ‘Northern’ in its title to become simply ‘exposures’. Due to the growing demand both from filmmakers, professionals and the public, the festival expanded in length (it is now 4 days) and remit. In 2003 exposures introduced ‘underexposed’ – the strand aimed specifically at young filmmakers (19 and under) in the North West – and in 2005 it opened its doors to entries from all over the country, making it the UK’s only student film festival of its kind.
For the last three years we’ve even produced the popular Best of Fest DVD link to the DVD page, and screened exposures work across the country, and even the world, from FACT (Liverpool) to Toronto (Canada).
The festival has always prided itself on keeping up with new demands and changes in the industry: from the early days it held masterclasses on digital technology, internet distribution and computer generated imagery. Its roll call of guests over the years has included feature directors Michael Winterbottom, Jamie Thraves, Danny Boyle (twice), Marc Evans, Richard Kwietniowski and Richard Jobson; scriptwriters Frank Cottrell-Boyce (twice), Russell T Davies and Paul Abbott; and documentary makers Brian Hill, Carol Morley, Paul Watson and Marc Isaacs – to name but a few.
There are also many people who work on exposures including our much valued student assistants. We’re not overly interested in titles and hierarchies but you could say the main people behind exposures are Sarah Perks and Rachel Hayward at Cornerhouse and Beth Hewitt at Urbis. See CONTACTS.
Make sure you join us to blow out 15 candles in 2008!