SWIF digest 📬 4 March 2025

🎥 Hello filmmakers. If you're working on a micro-budget feature I'd love to hear about it. It's a road I am just starting down, so mutual knowledge sharing & support would be excellent.

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

👀 Recent bts on a short scene shoot in Bristol. - Bsky

🕰️ RTS Cymru Wales are celebrating 25 years of Bargain Hunt in Cardiff on 6 Mar with a screening & bts panel. - RTS

👨🏽‍🔧 Find crew & hear about new projects at Screenology's pitching forum on 11 Mar in Bristol. - Eventbrite

🖍️ Tabb Bristol's next bring your own animation showcase & meet up is 12 Mar. - Tabb

🏞️ Bristol Creative Industries are hosting walking networking in nature. Small group sizes. Next one is 14 Mar. - Eventbrite

🗣️ Watershed Bristol is hosting 'Inside Screen' on 15 Mar, a half day of screenings, panels & networking for people aged 16-25yrs. - Watershed

👩 Mums in Film Southampton are next meeting on 18 Mar. - Eventbrite

🎏 London Screenwriters Festival is hosting an online weekend of free workshops 29-30 Mar. - London Screenwriters Festival

🚢 Networking near Portsmouth taking place on 10 Apr. - Eventbrite

🌙 The Film & TV Charity and UK Muslim Film have teamed up again to promote their guide on how to support colleagues during Ramadan. - FTVC

🏆 Entries are open for the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards. - BAFTA

✍️ Little White Lies magazine recently did a call out for article submissions. No deadline, on going. - LWL

📋 BECTU want you to fill out their big survey 2025. - Survey Monkey

🚚 We Are Albert are inviting submissions for their suppliers directory. - WAA

📢 NFTS x Prime Video Director's workshop is a free 12-month course and with a strong encouragement on applications from female directors & those from under-represented backgrounds. Deadline 23 Mar. - NFTS

🏃🏿‍♀️ Applications are open for CRIW, a 12-month apprenticeship programme in south Wales. Deadline 26 Mar. - Sgil Cymru

🤣 One day comedy acting masterclass in Cardiff on 27 Mar. - Eventbrite

💼 Development Manager needed at NFTS Cymru Wales in Cardiff. Deadline 16 Mar. - Screen Alliance Wales

🎶 Composer/Sound Designer needed on a student drama/thriller short film. - Email

😱 Team behind a queer folk horror short applying for BFI funding seeking a Producer. Open to new & emergent talent. - Email

💸 Reel Impact's grant to support mid-senior level talent & organisations from the Black and Global Majority opens today (4 Mar). - Film & TV Charity

💰 Regular deadline coming up on 31 Mar for First Flights short film fund, with a focus on female Directors. - First Flights

📹 FLAMIN Productions' fund for art films is open until 31 Mar. - FLAMIN productions

🌎 UK Global Screen Fund's international co-production funding has its deadline on 3 Apr. - BFI

🕎 UK Jewish Film have a launched a new short film fund, with a call out for Screenwriters. Deadline 21 Apr. - UKJF

🎸 Musicbed's short film competition is open until 27 Mar. - Musicbed

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Pompeywood Genre (4 Mar), Pigeon Laughs (5 Mar), Short Sounds Student Takeover (14 Mar), Cornwall (20 Mar), Ignite (21 Mar) & Encounters (24 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

🙋🏽‍♀️ Women in Film & TV are holding their first film festival, with a day 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

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

🍿 On film club: Rye Lane dir. Raine Allen-Miller (on Disney+) & Cléo from 5 to 7 dir. Agnès Varda (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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