Bokeh: The Emerging Creative Talent Award

The Emerging Creative Talent Award which forms part of the annual Bokeh Fashion Film Festival has been announced, with a R50 000 prize being confirmed for SA’s top young creatives. The sparkling festival, now entering its 5th highly successful year, has always embraced and fostered local talent in the super-creative world of Fashion Films and this award is another clear indication of the commitment to stimulate and celebrate the massive local talent pool we have in SA. Bokeh Fashion Film hosted the Emerging Creative Talent launch at the Labia Theatre beginning of September and here are a few familiar faces we know within the creative industry who attended.
The festival will issue a brief on the Bokeh website and social media pages on the 15th of October 2017, presenting the category guidelines and the film requirements. The teams then have two weeks to create treatments that accurately describe the films they wish to make, keeping in mind the original brief. Five films from the Cape and five from Gauteng will be selected, and the teams will receive guidance and assistance to create their stated films. All films will be 90 seconds excluding credits, and have to be filmed over one day, in one location. Bokeh will supply cameras, lighting, locations (within reason), mentorship, editing facilities, and professional make-up artists to assist on set, as well as years of experience in film making. The final ten films will be complete works that each team member will be very proud of, and they will also be encouraged and assisted to enter these films into other international and local festivals. The 2017 Emerging Creative Talent award was previously won by a team from AFDA Film School, also receiving the R50 000 prize. (View the winning film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBr0ZWrUJhI) The exciting part of this category is that the team can be led by anyone from a copy writer, to a jewellery designer, make-up artist or film maker. Everyone has a great idea for a film, but without a creative team it will always remain just that – an idea. The creatives are all encouraged to team up, explore ideas and take advice and input from every team member. Unlike features and commercials, the Fashion Film world is still in its infancy - comparable to where music videos were in the 80’s. They are a safe space for directors and brands to experiment and test out style, format and content with audiences. Here are a few speakers who spoke that day.

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