Young Guns calls on aspirant filmmakers

6 Jul 2007

Levi's sponsorship of Young Guns is this year giving SA's filmmakers the chance to put themselves on the celluloid map and make the same sort of impact as their loud brothers and sisters in the music world in Levi's Original Music talent showcase.

So all you talented up-and-coming directors listen up - here's the chance to work with the equally gifted Levi's Young Guns artists or bands. You could get work with two of these musicians and turn one track of each into a music video. Send through your showreel and a short resume of the most exciting work that you've done so far, and if your movie-making skills are impressive enough, Levi's® Original Music will fund the production of these videos.

The whole idea is that these young directors attend one of the five Levi's Young Guns events around the country. Here they'll shoot the two acts performing on the night and use this footage in the final cut of the two different music videos. The remainder of the content for each music video can be created at the director's discretion – think animation, stop-motion, studio shoot, exotic locations or even entirely from footage shot onstage.

These Levi' Young Guns filmmakers will get to work closely with their musical counterparts to develop the storyboards for the music videos.

So if you're an aspirant filmmaker and you've got an eye – a unique way of seeing the world – and you have a shared passion for the rebellious nature that underscored the whole Levi's Young Guns philosophy, then send in some clips and you may soon have your work being seen by fellow young upstarts all over Africa.