ROBBIE WILLIAMS INVITES EMERGING FILMMAKERS TO PRODUCE SHORT FILMS FOR NEW ALBUM RUDEBOX

Up to �15,000 prize money available in competition launched with independent filmmakers' community Shooting People

Robbie Williams is seeking emerging filmmakers to create a short film for a track from new album 'Rudebox' in a competition launched with independent filmmakers' community Shooting People.

Budding directors are invited to download track The 80's and use it to produce a short film inspired by or using all or part of the song.  A prize of �7,500 will be awarded to the winning entrant as chosen by a panel including Williams himself and a leading music commissioner, with a further �7,500 'audience award' available for the film which attracts the most votes at www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts.
The winning films will also be considered for broadcast and potential inclusion on a full-length DVD.

Robbie Williams has always enjoyed encouraging new talent. With his new album Rudebox he recognised that there was an opportunity to do just that.

So he asked a selection of new, young, guerilla film-makers to make seven short films, to compliment the album - his most experimental and innovative to date. Using a wide and unusually open brief, film-makers were all told they could use as much or as little from the different album tracks as they wanted.
 
Based on the writer's/director's originality and vision, seven treatments were selected and green-lit by Robbie Williams, including those by Ken Wardrop (Venom), Jim Field Smith  & George Kay (Idiotlamp) and Joel Wilson & Jamie Campbell (11 Film).

The eighth film is yet to be made and budding directors from around the world are invited to enter a competition to create their own short music film for The 80s, one of the album's pivotal tracks.
 
Entrants will have their work judged by Williams himself, Lord Puttnam, Jonathan Ross, and a prominent film commissioner. The panel will select a winner who will scoop a grand prize of �7,500 and have their film considered for broadcast and possible inclusion on a full-length DVD. 

A �7,500 'audience award' will also be awarded for the video which attracts the most votes on www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts, where the competition is being hosted in conjunction with the influential independent film community site, Shooting People.
 
"This is the record I've always wanted to make. It's reignited how I think about what I can do with music myself. 'Rudebox' was done in a guerrilla way, no plan of action, it just evolved into what it is naturally. That's what I like about film today and why I wanted to do this project and competition. Just like in music, today you can create a masterpiece out of an i-book and some digital footage, as much as you can in a fancy studio. That's how 'The 80s' began life itself, in my bedroom in LA with my friend Jerry messing around on my Mac. I'm very excited to see what the film-makers can come up with,"  Robbie Williams.

"Shooting People is all about supporting the creative community and enabling emerging British talent to collaborate and produce great work," comments Jess Search, co-founder, Shooting People. 

"It is so encouraging that a world-class artist like Robbie Williams is offering up-and-coming filmmakers the chance to use his music in order to create something new and get their work in front of some of the biggest and most influential names in the music and film world.  We are very much looking forward to seeing different approaches and interpretations of the song."

RobbieWilliams.com is proud to be a part of the competition that is championing the potential future big names in the film industry. Fans can visit the site to get the latest exclusives on Robbie Williams, and now we look forward to giving some of the world's up-and-coming writers and directors a platform on which they can shine.

The winning films and runners up chosen by the judges and audience will be screened at an exclusive evening at the end of November � further details of which to be announced shortly.
 
Filmmakers can upload their entries to the website www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts with the competition closing date on Monday 13th November.

'Rudebox' the album is released on October 23rd 2006 on Chrysalis /EMI Records.