Village Screen competition at Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is offering new filmmakers, VJs, digital artists, and motion-graphics artists from around the South West region the chance for their work to be screened at this year's Festival on the Village Screen.

The Village Screen is a unique collaboration between the UK's creative agencies and the BBC. The screen, a new addition to the Festival this year, will be used to showcase the work of some of the best new film making talent, digital artists and developers from the South West and the UK to over 177,000 people. We hope it will also entertain and add another exciting dimension to the Festival programme.

The screens will be used to showcase the work of some of the best new filmmaking talent, digital artists, VJs and games developers from the region and the UK.

Located beside the Meeting Point in the new William's Green Area near the Queen's Head, the 25m2 screens (there will be two of them, back-to-back) will broadcast a mix of short films, archive footage, gaming sessions, classic pop, highlights of the BBC's coverage of the Festival, and performances from the Queen's Head, from 10.00am until 3.00am each day.

With a total of 85 hours worth of programming time to fill South West Screen are inviting organisations from around the region to submit a selection of material that they would like to showcase.

South West Screen is inviting: short films and animations up to eight minutes long; documentaries (themes might include sport, sustainability, music, evolution, the natural world and landscape); digital artworks and installations; and archive footage.

For submission guidelines, and more information visit the South West Screen website.

The screens will also be used to launch an open call to young and emerging filmmakers and artists to submit short films and projects for the 2010 Village Screen and potential distribution to the UK network of Live Sites (big screens in city centres).

The only officially confirmed acts are Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band as Saturday night headliner, with Blur and Neil Young as the other headliners, plus Kasabian, Doves, White Lies, Echo and the Bunnymen, Fleet Foxes, The Wombats, Jason Mraz, Maximo Park, Emiliana Torrini, Florence & The Machine, Lily Allen, The Ting Tings, and Franz Ferdinand.

This year's full Glastonbury line-up won't be announced until late Monday night, and eFestivals will be publishing it then. To see who has been confirmed, and who might be playing, take a look at the eFestivals' Glastonbury 2009 rumours >>.

This year's Glastonbury Festival runs throughout the five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2009 at Worthy Farm, Somerset.

A full weekend ticket is priced at £175 (plus a booking fee of £5), and you must have a registration number to be able to purchase them.

To buy Glastonbury Festival tickets, there are a few still available, click here.

Each purchase must be matched with valid registration numbers.

Online registration is also available and can be carried out by clicking here.

The ticket price includes includes a FREE programme, a useful cloth bag, and small around the neck guide. Car parking tickets can be bought at the same time and are priced at £10 per vehicle, and campervan tickets are priced at £65 per van.

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.

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