Girl Amongst The Lite Blueish Pilus Scoops Accolade Amongst Educational Copyright Film

Last Th an animated film, The Adventure of the Girl alongside the Light Blue Hair, yesteryear Professor Ronan Deazley (right, Queen’s University Belfast) together with CREATe researcher Bartolomeo Meletti won the AHRC [don't drive pronouncing this: it's the Arts & Humanities Research Council] Research inwards Film Award for Innovation inwards Film. The panel of judges – consisting of manufacture together with academic experts such every bit celluloid manager Beeban Kidron, Financial Times Arts Editor January Dalley, together with thespian together with producer Diana Quick – described the celluloid as 

“a well-constructed, lineament animation addressing issues of creativity, IP together with copyright for schools together with undergraduates: lively, engaging, witty (à la Sherlock Holmes mode), informative together with educating at the same time.”

Awards were doled out at the British Film Institute Southbank inwards London. The AHRC Research inwards Film Awards – designed to recognise the creative together with innovative run existence undertaken at the interface betwixt query together with film – attracted hundreds of entries including, animations, installations together with gallery pieces, music videos, together with documentaries. All the winners together with amount versions of the films tin hand notice survive seen here. Said Ronan: 

“We ready out to brand a celluloid that would assist explicate commutation concepts of copyright inwards a means that is thought-provoking exactly besides entertaining. It is a privilege to have an abide by for run that celebrates the possibilities of lawful, creative copying.”

Added Bartolomeo Meletti: 

“With this celluloid nosotros wanted to prepare nigh copyright exactly besides to highlight the crucial business office that lawful copying plays inwards the means inwards which nosotros all practise together with introduce ourselves, artistically together with otherwise, to the world.”

Not even together with hence showing at a film theater nigh you lot ...

The Adventure of the Girl alongside the Light Blue Hair is the showtime episode of The Game is On!, a serial of brusque animated films that puts copyright nether the magnifying drinking glass of Sherlock Holmes [who is non copyright-protected, fifty-fifty though he has been regularly appearing inwards court], illustrating concepts of remix, reuse together with earth domain for school-aged learners together with other creative users of copyright. The celluloid is accompanied yesteryear 12 Case Files, supplementary educational materials providing points of give-and-take nigh copyright for U.K. teachers together with students. Drawing inspiration from well-known copyright together with world domain works, every bit good every bit recent copyright litigation, the resources provides a springboard for exploring key principles together with ideas underpinning copyright constabulary together with creativity, together with the limits of lawful appropriation together with re-use.