SWIF digest 📬 1 July 2025
Animation crew this is the digest for you...
🎥 Hi filmmakers. 🌞⛱️🥪🧃🍉🥏🌳😎🐝 Can you tell what's on my mind? 🤣 See you Saturday.
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Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:
🥳 Congrats to the team behind short film Homing, which has now picture locked. - Instagram
🥏 Next SWIF event: Summer picnic at Ashton Court Bristol on 5 Jul from 11am.
🤗 If you've not yet filled out the SWIF survey, then you might be missing out on a mentoring opportunity.
🗣️ Chapter Cardiff's monthly short films showcase & conversations with filmmakers on 7 Jul. - Chapter
👀 City Eye Film Network in Southampton have their next meet up on 8 Jul. - Eventbrite
🏄♀️ West Country Water Park nr. Bristol is hosting a windsurfing doc film night on 10 Jul. Plus a talk from Zara Davis, holder of the women’s world speed windsurfing record and you can try your hand at a windsurfing simulator! - WCWP
🎥 Calling DOPs, Focus Pullers and Self-Shooters for an afternoon of lenses, coffee and conversation in Bristol on 15 Jul. Organised by a SWIF sibscriber alongside TLS & Nine Tree Studios. - Ticket Tailor
🤗 Royal Television Society & Film & TV Charity are hosting a meet up focused on supporting freelancer's mental health. Networking will follow a brief key note from the FIlm & TV Charity. 15 Jul in Bristol. - RTS
🌆 A short film screening on the history of Bournemouth takes place on 17 Jul. - Eventbrite
📲 Exeter Phoenix are running a two day course on content creation for business on 17-18 Jul. - Exeter Phoenix
🤼♀️ Tabb's next scriptlab for workshopping new writing takes place in Bath on 19 Jul. - Tabb
⏰ Wellington Film Festival's 48 hour film challenge takes place 22-24 Aug. Registration will close on 18 Aug. - Wellington Film Festival
🏫 If you run a creative company, consider signing up for Creative UK's programme to show more young people what a career in the creative industries looks like through in-school, workplace or online activities this November. - Discover Creative
📊 Or if you want to run a creative company, Creative UK are offering a free business support programme for aspiring, diverse leaders in the screen industries. Deadline 21 Jul. - Creative UK
💙 Submissions are open for Cube Bristol's next Bluescreen shorts night on 30 Jul. Tickets are now also on sale and this one always sells out! - Bluescreen
🪜 BFI Network@LFF is open for applications until 18 Jul. A bespoke programme for emerging filmmakers ready to step up to their first feature, which includes industry talks, screenings, masterclasses & networking. - BFI
💃 Casting call for a student short film in Bournemouth. Females and males, 20s-40s. - Facebook
🐧 Aardman in Bristol are hiring an Electrician, Trainee & Junior Set Dressers & Prop Makers, Production Coordinator, 3rd AD, Marketing Coordinator & Facilities Coordinator. Some deadlines are today! - Aardman
🌍 Junior Camera Operator needed for BBC's Hidden Planet in Bristol. Deadline 6 Jul. - BBC
🎞️ BBC Studios Natural History Unit's Edit Assistant pool in Bristol is open for applications. Deadline 6 Jul. - BBC
🏃🏿♀️ Wales based Trainees across departments needed for a drama series. Deadline 11 Jul. - Screen Alliance Wales
🫵 Casting Agent needed at Creative Casting in Penarth. Deadline 15 Jul. - Screen Alliance Wales
🩰 Dance Tutor needed at Mountview Exeter. Deadline 16 Jul. - Mountview
👨🏽💻 Watershed Bristol are hiring a Finance Assistant. Deadline 21 Jul. - Watershed
🪄 Creative Kernow need a Director of Creative Enterprise (maternity cover). Deadline 28 Jul. - Arts Jobs
👾 CG Generalist needed in Bristol. Deadline 31 Jul. - FSTVS
🚀 If you're under 25yrs and live in Somerset, you can apply for Somerset Film & BFI's short film commission. Deadline 18 Jul. - Somerset Film
📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: ANIMINSPO (11 Jul), Hell Tor, Bournemouth International (both 18 Jul), Darkroom (20 Jul), Two Short Nights & Bath Film (both 31 Jul). - FilmFreeway
🧠 Exeter Phoenix’s first Festival of Neurodiversity, 'Kaleidoscopic Minds' takes place 13 Jul, including a screening of feature film The Stimming Pool. - Exeter Phoenix
🧍🏾 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival takes place in Bristol 16 Jun - 16 Jul. - Headfirst
🌈 Queer Vision Film Festival takes place in Bristol 28 Jun - 11 Jul, with a shorts screening & mixer on 6 Jul. - Bristol Pride
💎 Cinema Rediscovered Festival takes place in Bristol 23-27 Jul. - Watershed
🕵🏽♀️ Film Noir Fest has announced its line up and dates for 2025. Weston-super-Mare, 31 Oct - 2 Nov. - Film Noir Fest
👩❤️👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a listing.
🍿 On film club: If Beale Street Could Talk dir. by Barry Jenkins & Anatomy of a Fall dir. by Justine Triet (on 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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