Film Poster Competition for Illustrators and Graphic Designers

Fancy yourself as the new Drew Struzan?

As part of their annual film festival in April, Birds Eye View Film Festival (BEV) will be running a film poster exhibition at the BFI Southbank, showcasing the outstanding and diverse contribution of women directors to cinema.

BEV has selected a series of iconic films by women directors, and is inviting IdeasTap’s designers and illustrators to re-create a film poster for one of the following titles:

• American Psycho, Mary Harron, 2000
• Beau Travail, Claire Denis, 1999
• Bhaji on the Beach, Gurinder Chadha, 1993
• Big, Penny Marshall, 1988
• Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda, 1962
• Frozen, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013
• Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, 2003
• Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair, 2001
• Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay, 2002
• Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
• Orlando, Sally Potter, 1993
• Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 2007
• Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow, 1991
• The Piano, Jane Campion, 1993
• Tiny furniture, Lena Dunham, 2011
• Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, 2008
• Wadjda, Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012
• Winter's Bone, Debra Granik, 2010
• Zero Dark Thirty, Katheryn Bigelow, 2012

Ten selected posters will go on display at the BFI during the festival (Tuesday 8 to Sunday 13 April). The ten posters selected for the exhibition will also be displayed on an online gallery on the Birds Eye View website.

Designs can be a graphic re-interpretation of a film still, an illustration, or a montage.

Please note you can only apply as an individual designer/artists. Group, or partnership, entries will not be considered.

The 10 winning poster designers will also be invited to join a session called Looking After Your Assets, as part of the exclusive Creative Skillset-funded Filmonomics programme.  The session will take place on Sunday 13 April 2014 at the BFI and will look at the art of poster design, and how to create the right leading image for the effective marketing of a film. The session will host filmmaking teams on the Filmonomics programme, and will be a great opportunity to meet and network with industry experts and practitioners.

Apply by Friday 7 March.