Cinema Extreme

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Cinema Extreme was a major UK short film funding awards scheme, created in 2002. The scheme was funded by the UK Film Council’s and Film4 and managed by with the aim "to seek out and develop filmmakers with a distinctive directorial voice and cinematic flair". The fund was awarded on an annual basis, offering funding to a slate of around four short films.

Nineteen films were commissioned. They have been shown at festivals around the world and won numerous awards including Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for Duane Hopkins’ and the Oscar for Best Short Film for Andrea Arnold’s Wasp.

The scheme has catapulted many of the commissioned filmmakers to their first feature:

• Wasp director Andrea Arnold went on to direct Red Road which won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2006;
• A Changed Man director went on to direct ;
• director Duane Hopkins and producer are in post-production on Better Things;
• The Bypass producer is producing feature documentary The Meerkats;
• director Rupert Wyatt and producer Adrian Sturges are in post-production on ;
• director Simon Ellis and producer are in post production on ;
• Dog's Mercury director and producer are in production on .

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