SWIF digest 📬 18 March 2025

🎥 Hello filmmakers. Bit of a quiet week for me. I'm still on the look out for local creatives on Bluesky.

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

🥳 Congrats to the Beacons filmmakers from Wales whose short films will be screening on BBC2 Wales next week! - Bluesky

💜 Bristol Poetry Film Club's next event, a celtic special, is tonight (18 Mar). - Headfirst

😎 Gorilla Post Production are hosting a talk on getting into screen as part of a creative industries careers fair in Cardiff on 20 Mar. - Eventbrite

🧵 Bristol Old Vic & Bristol Design Assembly are hosting a meetup for Designers of set, costume, sound, lighting & AV on 22 Mar. - BOV

💬 Intimate cosy improv session in Exeter on 23 Mar, with more realistic stories than regular comedy improv (but still loads of fun). - Eventbrite

🧉 Networking drinks take place in Bristol on 25 Mar. - Eventbrite

🤗 Forge Women's all day workshop is 29 Mar in Bristol. Funded by Bottle Yard & BFI Network, 'Weaving Worth and Wonder' will explore vulnerable parts of filmmaking through nurturing sessions, with a Q&A with BAFTA-nominee director Ella Glendining. - Eventbrite

⬆️ The two events above will have a talk about 'All Set West', a new skills package for the region funded by the BFI National Lottery Places Fund. It launches in April. - Film Bristol

🌊 Wave Makers film festival's talent day of networking & panels takes place in Portsmouth on 26 Mar. - WMF

😱 A night of short indie horror films takes place in Bristol on 26 Mar. - Eventbrite

🟦 Short film night 'Bluescreen' takes place in Bristol on 26 Mar, with a silly animation of mine. - Headfirst

🎪 Join a day of conversation on 'what are we going to do about culture in Plymouth?' on 27 Mar. - Eventbrite

🤩 Rising Arts are hosting a community film showcase on 30 Mar in Bristol, with a shorts screening & panel. - Eventbrite

🙊 If you don't know how to market your work, come in "listen mode" to this marketing meetup in Exeter on 2 Apr. - Eventbrite

👁️ City Eye Southampton's monthly networking is back on 8 Apr. - Eventbrite

👨🏽‍💻 A fellow swif member is starting a business providing admin services for creatives so they can focus on their art. They have a survey open right now. - Google Forms

🏴 A week long residency (with stipend) in North Cornwall to improve the use of Cornish in your creative practice takes place in July. Application deadline 1 Apr. - Endelienta

📲 CETA are offering 6 months free access to their production management software to emerging creative studios. - CETA

📘 Seed&Spark & Kinema have a free online distribution playbook for indie film. - DP

🦆 Camera Operator / Assistant needed at Plimsoll Productions for a wildlife series. Deadline today (18 Mar). - Plimsoll

🧑🏽‍🎓 Course Leader needed for MA Feature Film Making at Falmouth Uni. Deadline 20 Mar. - FU

👩🏼‍🎨 3D Animator needed in Bristol. Deadline 28 Mar. - FSTVS

👨🏽‍💻 Curzon Cinema Clevedon are hiring a Marketing & Visual Communications Officer. Deadline 28 Mar. - Curzon

🚦 Good Gate in Cardiff need a Post-Production Coordinator asap. - Screen Alliance Wales

📣 Crew call in Bournemouth/Poole/Dorset for a short film entry to Easterseal's disability challenge. Especially interested in disabled & neurodiverse filmmakers but open to all applicants. - Tabb

🤑 Lots of short film fund deadlines in the next week or so: BFI Beyond Shorts (24 Mar), BFI short film, Slick (both 25 Mar), Exeter Phoenix (26 Mar), First Flights (31 Mar).

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Cornwall (20 Mar), Ignite (21 Mar), Encounters (24 Mar), Iris Prize LGBTQ+, Elevation, Pompeywood Genre (all 31 Mar) & FilmBath (1 Apr) - FilmFreeway

🎟️ Bristol Independent film festival takes place 22-23 Mar. - BIFF

🙋🏽‍♀️ Women in Film & TV film festival takes place in Cardiff on 27 Mar. - WFTV

🪶 Pigeon Laughs film festival takes place in Cardiff 28-29 Mar. - Eventbrite

😱 Screams by the Sea film festival takes place in Bournemouth on 29 Mar. - Pavilion Dance South West

🤠 Bath Archaeo-Heritage film festival takes place 9-13 Apr. - BAHFF

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

🍿 On film club: A Thousand and One dir. A. V. Rockwell (on Netflix) & Born in Flames dir. Lizzie Borden (on Mubi).

📣 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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