SWIF digest 📬 25 Feb 2025

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

🥳 Congrats to local filmmakers Alice Wickham & Gabriela Staniszewska for their inclusion on the Directors UK Inspire mentoring programme. - Directors UK

💸 Tonight, 25 Feb, BFI are hosting a webinar on financing short films. - Eventbrite

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾 An online workshop on job sharing in TV: how to make it work for you, takes place on 27 Feb. - Talent Manager

🌃 Blue Metaphor's next night of art & film takes place in Bristol on 1 Mar. - Eventbrite

👋 Upcoming screening, talk & networking at BFI Future Film Fest in Bristol for 16-25yr olds on 1 Mar. - Watershed

🇿🇦 Cables & Cameras are hosting a screening of docs & short films by KAMVA Collective South Africa in Bristol on 6 Mar. - C&C

💫 BFI are hosting a shorts screening on 8 Mar in Bristol to inspire applications for their Beyond Shorts programme (Q&A 5 Mar) for those making the step to features. - Watershed

🧪 DOCLAB's monthly Development Lab, a safe space to talk about, workshop & develop your documentary film projects, takes place at Exeter Phoenix on 12 Mar. This time with a Q&A with Hugh Hartford of Banyak Films. - EP

🧑‍🎨 Falmouth Uni are hosting a guest lecture with Bob Cheshire, award-winning concept artist (Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic World). 19 Mar. - Eventbrite

👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Upcoming talk with Intimacy Coordinator David Thackeray (The Crown, Sex Education) takes place in Bristol on 22 Mar. - Blue Metaphor Studio

🤩 Weaving worth & wonder, a one day workshop for women in film, takes place in Bristol on 29 Mar. Supported by Forge Women, The Bottle Yard & BFI Network. - Eventbrite

🗞️ Check out D&CFilm for interviews with filmmakers & news about film in Devon & Cornwall. They're open to submissions if you'd like your work featured, especially actors! - D&CFilm

👩‍⚖️ Workwise for Screen just launched. A platform for advice on everything legal, equity, inclusion & respect in the workplace. - Workwise

👨🏽‍💻 Production Coordinator needed in Cardiff. Deadline 27 Feb. - Production Base

🎨 Lighting & Render Artist & 3D Animator wanted in Bristol for a mixed format children's TV show. Deadlines 28 Feb. - Production Base

🕺🏼 Casting call for "step-in dads" for a paid socially engaged art project in Bristol. Deadline 1 Mar. - Tabb

🐑 2D FX Animator (28 Feb) & Digital Matte Painter (3 Mar) needed at Aardman in Bristol. - Aardman

👾 Virtual production Studio Engineer needed in Bath. Deadline 4 Mar. - Production Base

🏃‍♂️ Runners needed in Bristol & Berkshire for a returning quiz show. Deadline 5 Mar. - Production Base

🫨 Mid-weight Motion Designer wanted in Bristol. Deadline 7 Mar. - If You Could Jobs

💃 Casting call for a short film in Cardiff. Deadline 16 Mar. - Tabb

🚸 West of England Music & Arts’ Cultural Education Hub is offering grants as part of the Creatives in Schools programme to support creatives to deliver workshops in schools. Deadline 19 Mar. - WEMA

🤑 BFI’s short film fund is open for applications until 25 Mar. Q&As take place 13 Mar & 20 Mar. - BFI

💷 Genera Film's early deadline for short film funding is 28 Feb. - Genera

🌠 Grey Moth are open to prospective funding approaches for their 'originals' slate. - GM

📹 Gender 2025 invites submissions of art films that delve into complex, lived realities at the intersection of gender & disability. Deadline 4 Mar. - This Is Gender

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

▶️ Stroud film festival takes place 7-23 Mar. - SFF

🏝️ The International English Riviera film festival takes place 15 Mar. - ERFF

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

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

🍿 On film club: The Forty Year Old Version dir. Radha Blank (on Netflix) & Quo Vadis, Adia? dir. Jasmila Žbanić (on BBC iPlayer).

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Until next week!
Holly Holdsworth (she/her)
Writer/Director. bsky website

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