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COFILMIC Comedy Short Films at Comedy Festival
COFILMIC ‘Best of the Festival’ on Tour!
Phoenix square, 18th February 7pm
The UK’s first Comedy Short Film Festival and Talent Development programme had its inaugural event at The Comedy Store, Manchester on 30th Oct and 1st Nov 2011. The top ten winners, runners up and audience voted films start their tour around the country in Leicester, as part of the Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
Details of the event and ticket information can be found here: http://www.phoenix.org.uk/index.php?cms_id=524
COFILMIC would like to welcome anyone with an intrest in writing, performing or making comedy TV or film to come along, meet some of the film makers behind the winning films, sketches and sitcom pilots and make connections with the organisers.
Leicester base
We plan to have a more permanent network, based at Phoenix Square in Leicester, to help discover and nurture new comedy and film making talent. Our aim is for writers, film makers and performers to collaborate with each other on new and exciting projects – all benefitting from the fantastic expertise of the COFILMIC judging panel and list of associates including:
Charlie Hanson: producer working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on Extras, Lifes Too Short and Cemetry Junction and with a 20+ year history in comedy
Henry Normal, CEO Baby Cow
Steve North, commissioning editor, Dave
Kristian Smith commissioning editor, BBC Comedy
Pete Thornton, commissioning editor Comedy Central
Leslee Udwin, producer, West is West and East is East
Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley, writers on Little Britain, Black Books and The Great Outdoors
Interested to hear more?
Contact: info@cofilmic.co.uk
@cofilmic
OR JUST COME ALONG ON 18TH FEBRUARY!
