SWIF digest 📬 10 March 2026

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

📸 Spent five days with this wonderful crew on Roisin & Raela last week. - Instagram

👁️ Watch short film In The Making in Totnes on 12 Mar. The film follows young people across the UK who are navigating their own unique paths and driving social change. - Eventbrite

✍🏾 Creative Cardiff's monthly free-to-attend writing group next takes place on 18 Mar. Each session is facilitated by a creative writing MA student and will focus on a different topic, theme or genre. - Creative Cardiff

🧑🏽‍🎓 Watch a screening of graduate films from the performance & media degree at the University of South Wales Cardiff on 20 Mar. - Eventbrite

📽️ The next evening in the 'Unplugged' film & discussion night series takes place in Plymouth on 21 Mar. A curated short film screening exploring powerful stories about life, society and the human experience. - Eventbrite

🏊 The iconic Jubilee Pool in Penzance will be transformed into a canvas of light & reflection for a one-off screening of contemporary art film Being Plastic on 21 Mar. The film will be followed by a talk and Q&A. - Eventbrite

🇲🇲 Watch five documentaries and a Q&A from the Democratic Voice of Myanmar Peacock film festival, which seeks to bring global attention to Myanmar’s crisis since the coup in 2021. In Bristol on 23 Mar. - Headfirst

🧛 Bath-made vampire feature film Wild Swimmers is going on tour. Catch a screening: 18 Mar in Swindon, 26 Mar in Exeter, 27 Mar in Dawlish & 5 Apr in Bath. - Wild Swimmers

🏗️ Arnolfini Bristol’s FVU New Takes programme celebrates ambitious talent in moving image. See their first exhibition Giants’ Anatomy until 31 Mar. This film imagines a speculative afterlife for decommissioned North Sea oil platforms within a liminal landscape. - Arnolfini

🥾 Watch Sword and Fiddle's latest short film Booted online now. The film takes the form of a parent's message to their child while remembering the course of their life via the medium of their footwear. - Vimeo

🌞 Bristol Old Vic Theatre School have announced their summer short courses including acting, prop & puppet making. - BOVTS

🎨 Learn animation production skills with Creative Cardiff 23-26 Mar. Apply by 15 Mar. 50% discount available to Welsh residents. - Creative Cardiff

🗒️ Screen Cornwall are hosting a one-day workshop on script supervising in Redruth on 1 Apr. Apply by 20 Mar. - Screen Cornwall

🚌 Freelance dance & drama Workshop Facilitators needed in the south west for flexible work in primary schools. - One Day Creative

📷 Studio Assistant needed at Future Proof photography & video studio in South Bristol. - Bristol Creative Industries

🧠 Producer needed for maternity cover at JonesMillbank in Bristol. Deadline asap. - Bristol Creative Industries

🧑‍💻 Producer needed for a short film BFI application with a film centered on burnout, transformation and seeing the magic in the “mundane”. - Tabb

🕺🏼 Casting call for a male actor 20-35yrs for a Lovecraftian romance feature film in Bristol. - Tabb

🎞️ Edit Assistant needed on an animated series in Bristol. Deadline 15 Mar. - Production Base

🛠️ Production Technician needed at Production 78 in Bridgend. Deadline 15 Mar. - Creative Cardiff

🤳 Social Video Editor & Videographer and an Editor needed at JMP in Bristol. - Bristol Creative Industries

📺 The Edinburgh TV Festival are offering 60 impact bursaries for people from working class backgrounds working in TV to attend this year's festival free. Apply by 23 Mar. - TheTVFestival

🏳️‍🌈 Blue Metaphor are now accepting films, performers and artists submissions for their June event on the theme of "Stories of Epic Queers". - Blue Metaphor

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

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Bristol Independent (11 Mar), Bristol Documentary (14 Mar), Encounters (16 Mar), Cardiff Mini (17 Mar), Cornwall (20 Mar), Gloucester Independent (21 Mar), Iris Prize LGBTQ+ & RS FilmFest (both 31 Mar). - FilmFreeway

📺 Women in Film & TV Festival in Cardiff takes place 11 Mar with a panel on producing drama in Wales with with Bad Wolf & Screen Alliance Wales. - WFTV

👻 Screams By The Sea International Film Festival takes place in Bournemouth 13-14 Mar. - SBTS

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WOW Wales One World Film Festival returns 20–28 Mar for its 25th edition. - WOW

❤️ New pop-up Love Is Film Festival takes place in Swansea 24-26 Apr with networking on 24 Apr. - Eventbrite

🍿 On film club: And Your Mother Too dir. Alfonso Cuarón (on Netflix) & Jane dir. Brett Morgen (on Disney+).

📣 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
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