Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK’s premier event for international documentary professionals, and Sheffield based Showcomotion, the Young People’s Film Festival, have joined forces with Crossover Labs to stage the first Crossover Kids pitching event. The inaugural event was held at the Princess Anne Theatre, BAFTA, London on Thursday 11 December.The Crossover Kids event was developed to help filmmakers and commissioners embrace new technologies relevant to young people. Six teams of professionals ...

Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival (Doc/Fest) is to host The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Cross Media Challenge at its festival in November. The Challenge will award one producer a £5,000 co-production development deal with the award-winning NFB. The Cross Media Challenge is a co-production competition for innovative, interactive, socially engaged content with applications for mobile and broadband. The 2008 challenge is based around an environmental theme.Producers are i...

Showcomotion is partnering with Crossover UK to create Crossover Kids, a week-long residential workshop for experienced practitioners in kids’ media and entertainment. Crossover Kids will be held between December 1st and 5th 2008 in the UK. Greg Childs, Executive Producer of Showcomotion said: ‘We want TV and film producers, game developers, web designers, animators, theatre practitioners and toy creators to join us for five days in exploring and developing original ideas for cross-platform...