Brian Cox to address film student festival in Dundee

Brian Cox, the renowned Scottish actor, will be the guest of honour at Scottish Students on Screen at Dundee Contemporary Arts on Friday, where he will meet the award nominees and address the students before the ceremony begins.
Over six hundred students from all over Scotland will gather in Dundee for this annual festival of the best student film work, now in its fifth year. The festival aims to bridge the gap between the screen industry and education by providing a platform for students’ work and by bringing industry practitioners together with students and lecturers.
There are seven competition categories, including the new Interactive Tayside Award for Interactivity, which recognises the huge strides in the area of new media being made by universities and colleges. This award will gain the winner £500 for specialist training courses.
All the categories are hotly contested with three special additional prizes being awarded: the BAFTA Scotland endorsed Award for Special Achievement which goes to the ‘Best in the Fest’, the Audience Award voted for at all screenings and the Lee Lighting/Panavision Award for Cinematography which gives its winner the use of a full camera and lighting kit to shoot their next film plus £1,000 of Kodak film stock.
The festival starts on Thursday evening with a screening at DCA of all the nominated films, but the main event starts at 10.00 am on Friday with registration followed by a full day of sessions, workshops, careers surgeries and screenings.
Some top people from the film and television industry will be leading sessions including Nik Powell (producer The Crying Game, Little Voice) now Director of the National Film and Television School at Beaconsfield. He will screen a selection of the very best student work from across Europe.
Larry Sider, Director of the world famous School of Sound in London, will lead a session on the importance of sound design and music in production.
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