SWIF digest 📬 14 April 2026

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

📸 BTS from Bristol short film Tying the Knot. - Instagram

🤝 City Eye Southampton's next networking is tonight (14 Apr) & includes a guest speaker. - City Eye

☕️ Last few tickets remaining for BFI Network South West's virtual coffee morning on 16 Apr. - Eventbrite

✍🏾 Motion Folks Bristol's animation meet up takes place on 16 Apr. - Headfirst

📽️ Cornwall Filmmakers' spring showcase takes place in Newquay on 16 Apr. An evening of deep dives into how the films were made and Q&As. - Eventbrite

🌏 Watershed Bristol is celebrating Earth day from 18-23 Apr with workshops, panels & screenings. - Watershed

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾 Filmmakers Plymouth Social's next meet up is 23 Apr, where filmmakers can workshop ideas, share work and connect. - Eventbrite

🐬 A screening tour & Q&A of The Tales Of Cetus, a feature-length documentary following environmentalists & artists in their fight against plastic pollution, takes place in Truro on 19 Apr, Wadebridge on 26 Apr & Newquay on 3 May. - Eventbrite

🎞️ Women in Film & TV and Gorilla are hosting a panel on the post-production pipeline. 28 Apr in Cardiff. - WFTV

👋🏽 Join Making Moves & Movies for their female & non-binary spring mixer in Falmouth on 30 Apr. - Eventbrite

🌇 A photo exhibition & networking event takes place in Gloucester on 30 Apr, focusing on the city's regeneration. - Eventbrite

👹 Exeter Phoenix are hosting a talk on the psychology of horror movies on 11 May. - Eventbrite

🦦 Documentary film Rave on for the Avon is now available to watch online. - Eighty Sita

🤖 Help map AI use by below-the-line film & tv professionals in this BFI backed survey. - Microsoft Forms

😵‍💫 Need skills training but don't know where to start? It's likely ScreenSkills have a free online course in the area you need. - ScreenSkills

🫣 ScreenSkills are offering a surviving unscripted development workshop on 29 Apr in Bristol. Free half day session. Apply by 19 Apr. - ScreenSkills

🏃🏿‍♀️ Trainee Production Coordinator opportunites in Bristol & Cardiff as part of Channel 4's trainee scheme. - Channel 4

🐌 Casting call for a Lovecraftian-horror feature, one of the feature films in SWIF's micro-budget workshop. - Tabb

😱 Runner, Intimacy Co-ordinator & 1st AC needed for a Bath folk horror music video. - Tabb

🏗️ Scenic Workshop Assistant needed at Wiltshire Creative. Deadline 20 Apr. - Arts Jobs

🗂️ Media Co-ordinator needed at the BBC in Bristol work with the natural history unit archive. Deadline 27 Apr. - BBC

👩‍🔧 MyWorld Bristol are taking expressions of interest for Freelance Technicians. Deadline 31 May. - MyWorld

🎧 Last week to apply for The Listening Pitch documentary short film fund. Deadline 20 Apr. - Aesthetica

😎 The BFI have launched a new immersive fund. Deadline 3 Jun. - BFI

👩‍❤️‍👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a personal listing.

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Wildscreen (16 Apr), Cardiff Mini (16 Apr), Queer Vision (18 Apr), ANiMiNSPO (22 Apr), Queer Bath Film Festival (27 Apr), Bristol Documentary (30 Apr), Electric (1 May), Gloucester Independent (2 May), Encounters (4 May), Cornwall (22 May) & Iris Prize LGBTQ+ (24 May). - FilmFreeway

🖍️ Cardiff Animation Festival takes place on 23 Apr. - CAF

🤖 Forbidden Worlds Film Festival takes place on 23-26 Apr in Bristol. - FWFF

🟠 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival takes place on 18-21 May. - CBFF

🌍 Watch Africa Film Festival takes place in Cardiff on 11-13 Jun. - WA

🍿 On film club: Badhaai Do dir. Harshavardhan Kulkarni (on Netflix) & Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror dir. Kier-La Janisse (on Amazon).

📣 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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