DVious Shorts invite London’s future filmmakers and groundbreakers to get the digital trail blazing. With a judging panel that celebrates the best of British and international film talent and guaranteed media coverage through high profile media partners, DVious looks set for widespread exposure. Digital film offers creative scope to the filmmaker of tomorrow. Cheap and easy to use, this new and exciting format opens the field to a young and diverse urban audience. The runaway success of The Blair Witch Project is just a taster of what is to come. DVious Shorts will differ from other film competitions by nature of it’s progressive brief and it’s cutting edge identity and placement. A real representation of the buzz of London today, DVious Shorts will provide a forum for new media film creativity. DVious Shorts are looking for proposals from London based writer/director or writer/director/producer teams. Successful shortlisters will receive support in the latest digital production and editing technologies and the winning productions will be showcased nationally and internationally. The deadline for shortlisted proposals is January 2000 and a press party in March 2000 will celebrate the beginning of production.On the judging panel are film industry heavyweights Antonia Bird (Face, Priest), Robert Jones (The Usual Suspects), Allan Niblo (Human Traffic), Oscar nominated Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies) and Hollywood director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Internal Affairs) tbc. Winners will be announced in March 2000 and their shorts will be screened at film festivals around the globe, from Sundance to Raindance and from Cannes to Berlin.Time Out magazine will be covering the build-up of the DVious Shorts profile as will other Protein powered projects, proteinTV and Ninfomania. DVious projects look to the past, scream at the present or welcome the future - the key criteria is that they are fresh, innovative and above all, DVious. Go ninfo: www.proteinTV.com/DVious