PORTLAND GREEN™makes, commissions, curates, exhibits and distributes artists’ film and contemporary arts projects that are central to our thinking about the world at the present time. Our focus includes artists’ film, creative documentary, cinematic essay, docu-drama, dance and performance film and related hybrid forms. These projects are timely and make a tangible contribution to contemporary culture, discourse, ideas and thinking. Our programmes are designed to reach large audiences and often emerge from collaborations with artists, thinkers, designers and institutions. The organization is particularly known for its work with dance, performance and film.
PORTLAND GREEN™ has delivered strategic programmes of work for public cultural institutions in the UK for over a decade, including a programme of work in dance for Arts Council England through Portland Green Cultural Projects.
In the last two years over 1 million people around the world saw projects/works/films that were commissioned, produced or exhibited by PORTLAND GREEN™ and the artists, collaborators and partners that it works with.
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COMMISSIONS
ALFF, a major new production opportunity for artists working in the moving image is now open for applications. Portland Green Cultural Projects, London’s Hayward Gallery and Film London’s FLAMIN, have announced their support for a major new development and production opportunity.
ALFF, an abbreviation of Artists’ Long Format Film, invites exciting, ambitious, long format films that can be made with a development and production budget of between £120K and £400K.
This call for applications invites strong, original ideas for films of any genre, including creative documentary, drama, artists’ film, cinematic essay or animation, which uses dance/performance as a driver. The partners are committed to facilitating a major new moving image work that explores this area of practice. This is not a production award, rather, it is a vehicle from which to finance, produce and distribute a long form film.
Applications are now open for this unique commission, which is inspired by the critical and crossover success of films such as Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, Gillian Wearing’s Self Made and Wim Wenders’ Pina, which clearly demonstrate the range of contemporary performance styles that can be used effectively in long format films and still attract a mainstream audience.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 1 February 2012. More information on the commission and details of the application process can be found here: http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/alff
DANCE FILM
Since 2006, we have also managed a programme of work in dance on behalf of Art Council England. This strategic programme commissions, exhibits and distributes dance work that exists outside of dance performance in the theatre and its associated economic models. Artists’ work on this site which has been supported through this Arts Council England funded programme is attributed accordingly.
We will shortly be concluding this work and have not applied to be a part of Art Council England’s National Portfolio. We will however continue to work in dance and performance within contemporary arts practice alongside our other work in art and film.
We are currently in the process of de-accessioning screening copies of films sent to us as part of the strategic programme. Some veiwing copies are being de-accesioned to a national archive. If you have submitted a viewing copy of a film to us as part of the above programme and wish it returned, please
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BFI TRANSITION FUND
We are delighted to be selected for one of the first bfi Transition Fund Awards. The Transition Fund for Audience Development, funded through Lottery Funding, was set up by the BFI in order to support audience development projects facing budget cuts in funding as a result of the changes in the national and regional film funding landscape which have taken place before a new film strategy and funding priorities come into effect from April 2012. Peter Buckingham, Head of Distribution and Exhibition, BFI, said, “We have moved as swiftly as possible to ensure that film organisations are able to survive in this period of transition, and that audiences can continue to benefit from the important work that they do. Collectively these organisations contribute hugely to the access and promotion of film in the UK. They are incredibly valuable which is why it has been important for the BFI to help them.”
