Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, call for entries

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, now celebrating its eighth year, has announced its first call for entries in 2006.

The deadline for entries is May 5th and films must be no longer than 12 minutes in any of the five following categories: Short Film, Newcomer, Titles & Idents, Music Video and Animation. The festival will be held from July 29th until August 4th. Awards for the best director in each category will be presented on Thursday August 3rd at the Festival Awards night held at The CC Club in Piccadilly.

This year's spokesperson is actor Bill Nighy, and fellow Brit actor David Morrissey will be judging alongside Time Out's film critic Dave Calhoun and the Observer's Jason Solomons, Dave Waters, creative director and founder of DFGW and Maggie Ellis from the UK Film Council.

For more details and an application form go to: http://www.rushes.co.uk/