SWIF digest 📬 22 April 2025
Meet ups, screenings, film funds and more for the south west independent film community.
🎥 Hello filmmakers. This one's a little shorter, as we all slowly come back after the bank holiday I suspect. Send me your project updates etc.
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Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:
🤝 Your networking needs are sorted this week in Plymouth & Newquay, both on 24 Apr. - Eventbrite
👩🏼🤝👩🏾 Rising Arts Agency are hosting a talk exploring new equitable models of fundraising where communities are becoming the funders on 23 Apr in Bristol. - Eventbrite
🪖 Documentary An Army of Women will screen at Chapter Cardiff on 24 Apr, followed by a conversation with director Julie Lunde Lillesæter. - Chapter
📺 Women in Film & TV will host a conversation with Gwawr Lloyd, Acting Senior Commissioning Editor & Wales Lead at Channel 4 on 29 Apr online. - WFTV
🎤 Bristol Creative Industries are hosting networking followed by a panel discussion on skills gaps on 22 May. - Eventbrite
📋 Project Producer needed at The Spring Portsmouth for a project helping young people to explore creative careers. Deadline today (22 Apr). - The Spring
🎞️ Editor/Camera Op needed at Bristol Old Vic. Deadline 30 Apr. - BOV
🧐 Park Circus & Cinema Rediscovered are inviting film curators to pitch a 4-5 repertory film season idea curated from their catalogue. Deadline 2 Jun. - AirTable
🙏 Check out this crowdfunder for a young Cornish filmmaker's short on grief in the digital age. They also have a casting call out. - Indiegogo
⏰ Genera's short film fund has a regular deadline on 30 Apr. - Genera
🌳 New Forest national park paid artist residencies are open for applications until 2 May. - SPUD
🚥 MiraBan's short film fund has its final deadline on 7 May. - Genera
🍃 Sheffield Doc Fest & Climate Spring's documentary fund is open for applications until 19 May. - SDF
✍️ Uni of Exeter are offering stipends to south west writers engaging with their special collections. Deadline 15 Jun. - UoE
🏭 BFI are seeking organisations to run creative project development programmes in feature film and/or immersive media for the benefit of participants. - BFI
📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Fortean (25 Apr), Cardiff Mini (28 Apr), Pompeywood Genre, Cornwall Monologue Competition (both 30 Apr), Short Sounds Student Takeover (4 May) & Encounters (12 May). - FilmFreeway
💙 Bluescreen Bristol presents No Reason Short film festival on 23 Apr, screening the best shorts of 10 years of the festival. - Headfirst
🎪 Bournemouth Writing festival takes place 25-27 Apr. - BWF
✊ The 7th annual Bristol Radical History festival, a series of free talks & radical films, takes place 26-27 Apr. - Headfirst
🎓 University of Bristol's graduate film festival takes place 15-19 May. - Eventbrite
👩❤️👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a listing.
🍿 On film club: Timbuktu dir. Abderrahmane Sissako (on ITVX) & The Eight Mountains dir. Charlotte Vandermeersch (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
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.
