Film agency Just So have teamed up with Sheffield Doc/Fest to launch Postcards, a new online platform dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging short-form documentary filmmakers. The site launches with six shorts, covering a diverse range of real-life topics, from a 100 year old rocket-launching tradition on a Greek island to the next gen of Japanese martial artists.
Just So have also announced 12 grants of up to £5000 will be awarded throughout 2016, with the first three being announced at Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2016, and the others commissioned from online entries throught the year.
“There has never been a better time to be a documentary filmmaker. Short documentaries are on the rise and we started Postcards to stoke the fires of the genre,” Jono Stevens, Co-Founder of Just So says. “In 1925 Grierson defined documentary as ‘creative treatment of actuality’ and we want to give filmmakers the opportunity to explore the limits of documentary and make films with as much focus on form as on content,” he adds.
Liz McIntyre, CEO & Director of Sheffield Doc/Fest says, “Sheffield Doc/Fest is thrilled to support Postcards, celebrating boundary-pushing experimentation in the distinct and increasingly significant genre of short form storytelling. Postcards is a thrilling new platform that emboldens emerging and established filmmakers to experiment with new techniques in this thump-to-the-heart genre of documentary making”.
For more infomation about the platform, the prize and how to submit, head to postcards.justsolondon.com.