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News > ID360 Short Film Competition Announces Judges
ID360 Short Film Competition Announces Judges
14 February 2008
The Ministry of Youth Development is pleased to announce Jess Feast and Zoe McIntosh as judges for ID360 short film competition.
Open to all young New Zealanders aged 12-24, ID360 short film
competition gives young people the opportunity to tell their stories
and let New Zealand know what identity and diversity means to them.
“We are very pleased to have talented young film makers of such high
calibre involved in judging ID360. Jess and Zoe are both award winning
independent filmmakers who are no strangers to the rigours of
competition and have demonstrated a commitment to exploring identity
and diversity in their work” says David Rea, General Manger of the
Ministry of Youth Development, who will be the third member to make up
the judging panel.
Jess Feast’s first feature documentary ‘Cowboys & Communists’, has
screened at several international festivals and won the 2007 Golden Key
for best documentary at the Kassel Documentary Festival in Germany.
She has also directed; a segment for award winning arts programme, ‘The
Living Room’, ‘Gather Round’, a one-hour documentary about one of New
Zealand’s biggest music events and ‘Flight of the Conchords – A Texan
Odyssey’ for TV3. Jess has recently returned from China where she was
documenting the journey of the Royal New Zealand Ballet for
‘Artsville’.
Zoe McIntosh won Best Pitch at the 2007 DOCNZ pitch forum with
producer, Costa Botes and has been selected to participate in the
prestigious DOCUMART section of the Australian International
Documentary Conference.
Zoe is a graduate of Canterbury University School of Fine Arts. Her
documentary ‘Mail Order’ was selected for the Chicago International
Film Festival, NZ Media Peace Awards and DOCNZ 06, where she was
awarded special mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker.
Entries for ID360 Short film competition close on 29 February 2008.
With great prizes up for grabs, young people may enter in teams or
individually, in the three age categories; 12-15 years, 16-18 years and
19-24 years. Entry is free.
The winners will be announced by the Minister of Youth Affairs at an
awards ceremony at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington on 21
April 2008.
For more information about ID360, including competition rules, a
toolkit, tips and ideas on how to make a short film, go to the ID360
website: www.ID360.govt.nz
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