SWIF digest 📬 1 April 2025
Meet ups, screenings, film funds and more for the south west independent film community.
🎥 Hello filmmakers. Incredibly, we're almost at 400 SWIF subscribers, in just 18 months! Keep spreading the word to your collaborators and get in touch with your latest news. Would love to celebrate small and big wins.
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Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:
🥳 Shout out to the Cinema Rediscovered team as they prepare for 2025's festival in Jul. - Watershed
🗣️ Live pitching lab taking place tonight (1 Apr) in Bristol. - Headfirst
🎭 BAFTA Guru Live takes place in Cardiff 2-3 Apr, including a session on how to make a debut feature and networking. - BAFTA
🧑🏽🎓 Short films from University of South Wales' performance & media students are screening on 4 Apr in Cardiff. - Eventbrite
☕️ BFI South West's next virtual coffee morning is 8 Apr. - Watershed
👀 City Eye's meetup in Southampton takes place 8 Apr. - Eventbrite
🤝 Pink Productions' networking takes place in Portsmouth on 10 Apr. - Eventbrite
🎫 I'll be at the free networking, workshops & shorts screenings on 12 Apr at Bath Archeo-Heritage film festival. Come and say hi! - BAHFF
🐢 A screening of short wildlife & environmental films made by Wildlife Camerawomen Community takes place in Bristol on 17 Apr. - Headfirst
👍🏿 Black Bristol on Film screens on 21 Apr with Q&As with the filmmakers. - Headfirst
🥂 The next Filmmakers Plymouth Social takes place 24 Apr. - Eventbrite
🧑🎨 A night of shorts from Cardiff Animation Nights takes place 24 Apr. - Eventbrite
🎤 Lots of interviews with local filmmakers have been added to Devon & Cornwall Film recently. - D&C Film
🔥 Exeter Phoenix are hosting a one day workshop on Adobe After Effects on 25 Apr. - EP
☎️ Crew & casting call for a short in Cheltenham. - Mandy
🛠️ Wales based Props/ Set Dec Trainee and Electrical Trainee needed with no experience necessary. Deadlines 13 Apr. - Screen Alliance Wales
👨🏽🏫 Cardiff Met Uni are hiring an Associate Tutor in Creative Writing. Deadline 14 Apr. - CMU
👷♀️ Head of Programming & Operations needed at The Flavel Arts Centre Dartmouth. Deadline 18 Apr. - Arts Jobs
🗓️ Event Managers wanted at Saltash Studios Cornwall. Deadline 31 Jul. - Arts Jobs
⚽️ Junior & Senior Editors needed for a Bristol based youtube channel. - Bristol Creative Industries
⏳ The Grierson DocLab programme closes this week on 3 Apr. - Grierson Trust
🤣 The Sitcom Mission competition is open until 27 April for short comedy scripts. - Comedy
📗 The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is open until 30 Apr. - 42mp
💰 BFI Doc Society's short film fund is open for applications from today until 1 May, with online info roundtables on 2, 8 & 17 Apr and one specifically for Wales based filmmakers on 10 Apr. - BFI DocSoc
🚫 Yarns is open to applications for short film ideas based on the theme of disinformation. Deadline 2 May. - Yarns Film
👨🏽💻 The BFI National Lottery Discovery Feature Fund for films by debut Directors is open. - BFI
📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: FilmBath (1 Apr), Queer Vision (11 Apr), Short Sounds Student Takeover (14 Apr), Ignite (18 Apr), Cornwall (20 Apr), Fortean (25 Apr) & Cornwall Monologue Competition (30 Apr) - FilmFreeway
💥 WOW film festival continues across Wales until 4 Apr. - WOW
🤠 Bath Archaeo-Heritage film festival takes place 9-13 Apr. - BAHFF
💙 Bluescreen Bristol presents No Reason Short film festival on 23 Apr, screening the best shorts of 10 years of the festival. - Headfirst
✊ The 7th annual Bristol Radical History festival, a series of free talks & radical films, takes place 26-27 Apr. - Headfirst
👩❤️👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a listing.
🍿 On film club: Hunger dir. Steve McQueen (on Mubi) & Divines dir. Houda Benyamina (on Netflix).
📣 Have something to share on the next digest? Could be an event, workshop, behind the scenes updates, crew call, showcasing your work, or a personal ad. Get in touch! hollyholdsworth@gmail.com
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Until next week!
Holly Holdsworth (she/her)
Writer/Director. bsky website
Inclusion in this email does not denote endorsement. I will always try to platform the best opportunities for this community and am not affiliated with any organisation, unless explicitly mentioned besides the link.
