SWIF digest 📬 18 February 2025

🎥 Hello filmmakers. This is a repost from our previous platform to ease the transition.

Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:

🥳 Congrats to Stephanie Wessell, Bristol-based factual series Producer, on being included in the latest BAFTA Elevate cohort.

📽️ Upcoming screening from three emerging artist filmmakers whose work amplify marginalised voices through the spontaneity of documentary. 20 Feb at Kit Form Bristol. - Headfirst

🍻 Women in film & creative industries’ next networking drinks is 24 Feb in Bristol. - Eventbrite

🫄🏽 Mums in film meetup in Southampton has been changed to 25 Feb. - Eventbrite

💷 BFI Network are hosting an online session on how to fund your film. 25 Feb. - Eventbrite

🚌 And their shorts school is back with online sessions 24-27 Feb. - Tickettailor

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾 Create Studios Swindon are hosting networking & a shorts screening as part of BFI Future Film Fest on 25 Feb for 16-25yr olds. - Eventbrite

🌎 Scorch (a Bristol-based collective telling stories in the urgent fight for our planet) presents a screening of two short documentaries accompanied by Q&As. 26 Feb. - Headfirst

🏆 A screening of award winning films from the A&E festival takes place on 1 Mar in Bristol. I’ll be there. - ANEFF

🤪 Fiasco Film Society Cardiff are screening locally made comedy shorts on 3 Mar. - Eventbrite

🏛️ Curious Minds Festival in Bath is hosting movies at the museum in Mar. A series of feature films screening in local museums. - Bath Box Office

👏 Locally based Short Burst are offering one-on-one advice sessions with Writers, Directors & Producers to help you get ahead with your short film. - Great Scott Films

🥊 Protect your creative work from the proposed changes to copyright law & AI. Write to your MP. - Creative Rights In AI

👀 Encounters Film Festival are seeking volunteer pre-selectors. Apply by 24 Feb. - EFF

🗳️ BIFA is seeking to expand its voter pool. If you have worked on a previously nominated BIFA film or have over three years experience, apply by 9 Mar. - BIFA

📺 The TV Foundation are looking for changemakers. Ten senior TV professionals brought together in a yearlong programme to put climate at the heart of the industry. Deadline to apply 20 Mar. - TV Festival

🎭 The Actor Rebellion offers actor training & workshops for beginners to professionals. Based out of Bristol & Swindon with new classes starting in Mar. - TAR

😱 Storyboard Artist, Production Designer, Production Assistant & Director of Photography needed on a horror feature in Bristol. Various deadlines. - Tabb

🎪 Bristol Commons Festival is open to applications from workshop leaders. Deadline 20 Feb. - Mailchimp

🏃🏿‍♀️ BBC Production Apprenticeship for those who live within a commutable distance of Bath. Apply by 23 Feb. - BBC

🦋 BBC Studios are open to applications for their natural history unit researcher talent pool. Deadline 24 Feb. - BBC

🕺🏼 Casting call for a Plymouth short film. Deadline 28 Feb. - Tabb

👩🏻‍💻 The Female Filmmakers in Tech & Art Fund is empowering women filmmakers who are in production/post-production of a feature documentary focused on technology & art. Deadline 18 Mar. - Unleyek

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Swindon Independent (28 Feb), Watch Africa (1 Mar), Carmarthen Bay (3 Mar), Pompey Wood Genre (4 Mar), Pigeon Laughs (5 Mar) & Short Sounds Student Takeover (7 Mar). - FilmFreeway

🎟️ Stroud Film Festival takes place on 11 Mar. - Tickettailor

👩‍❤️‍👩 The personals: Nothing this week, get in touch for a listing.

🍿 On film club: Fruitvale Station (Amazon Prime) & (Lost) Laapataa Ladies (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

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