SWIF digest 📬 15 July 2025
There's an embarrassment of Bristol events in this digest...
👋 Hi filmmakers.
🚙 SWIF tour is live! 🥳
Get your free tickets to the first events announced. Come out to events on your doorstep from SWIF and local partners in Aug & Sept, including...
🧐 All film pub quiz in Plymouth
🍿 Short film open mic in Exeter
🍦 “Ice-Screams by the Sea” beach day in Bournemouth
🎂 SWIF's 2nd birthday party in Bristol
🤝 Creatives networking in Swindon
& more to be confirmed.
Meet other filmmakers, fuel your creativity and celebrate summer.
Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:
🏄♀️ Bristol Surf Cinema is screening documentary Point of Change on 16 Jul in Bristol. - Watershed
🗣️ A panel in Bristol on 17 Jul called 'Greenlight: Streaming Smarter, Not Harder' will bring together technologists, creatives, and sustainability champions to shine a light on smarter, more conscious ways of building and consuming content. - Eventbrite
🧐 Girlhood Reclaimed is hosting a screening and panel discussion on An Army of Women, the documentary that follows lawyers and plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit in relation to sexual assaults. 22 Jul in Bristol. - Headfirst
🍻 Networking in Bristol takes place on 22 Jul. - Eventbrite
🙋🏿 Everyman Bristol are hosting 'We Are Parable' on 23 Jul, a programme of films and events showcasing Black British shorts. - Everyman
☕️ Gorilla Academy are please to start its breakfast club in Cardiff, where new entrants can come and get an informal overview of career pathways alongside professionals there to meet friends. 4 Aug, 8am in Gorilla 101. - Gorilla
📽️ BIFA has launched a cinema of the year award. Submissions open until 31 Jul. Public vote opens 22 Aug. - BIFA
🗡️ Cornish language short film The Flag is running a crowdfunder. This micro short focuses on a lone knight in the haunting stillness after defeat in battle. - Crowdfunder
🧑💻 Filmmakers in Plymouth can attend a free training day on Unreal Engine 5, the software behind virtual production volume stages. 7 Oct. - Eventbrite
📣 BFI Film Academy courses are now open for applications for those aged 16-19 years. - BFI
👨🏽🏫 Bookings are open for Screenology film school's open day in Bristol on 17 Oct. - Eventbrite
⛑️ Learn CPR and potentially save someone's life on set. It's free and takes 15 mins. - Set Starters
🤗 Mid-career women in any part of the industry can now apply to Women in Film & TV's mentoring scheme. Deadline 8 Sep. - WFTV
🎞️ The Grierson DocLab Archive Producers programme seeks to develop its next cohort through upskilling and improving their career opportunities. Deadline 31 Jul. - Grierson
🕺🏼 Script Club Cardiff want to hear from Actors for an upcoming showcase. - Instagram
📝 If you're aged 16-25 years, you can request to be a Reviewer for Picture House. - Picture House
👨🏽🏫 Lecturer in Creative Writing needed at Exeter University. Deadline today, 15 Jul. - Exeter University
📡 Production Co-ordinator needed in Cardiff. Deadline 16 Jul. - Production Base
🏃♂️ Wales based Runner needed. Deadline 17 Jul. - Production Base
🎆 On Set VFX Supervisor needed in Bristol. Deadline 21 Jul. - Production Base
🏃🏿♀️ Shopfloor Films are hiring several roles for a feature filming near Swansea; Production Designer, 1st AD, Fight Director, Hair & Make-Up Assistant & Wardrobe Runner. Deadlines 31 Jul. - Screen Alliance Wales
🇯🇵 Development Consultant (fluent in Japanese & English) needed at Bad Wolf in Cardiff. Deadline 8 Aug. - Screen Alliance Wales
👋🏾 Babbasa is commissioning creative pieces that relate to racial (in)justice in Bristol. Deadline 18 Jul. - Babbasa
🎶 Musicbed's short film challenge is open for submissions until 7 Aug. - Musicbed
📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Cardiff Mini (17 Jul), Hell Tor, Bournemouth International (both 18 Jul), Darkroom Bristol (20 Jul), Two Short Nights, Bath Film (both 31 Jul), Southampton Film Week (10 Aug) & Screams by the Sea (11 Aug). - FilmFreeway
🧍🏾 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival takes place in Bristol 16 Jun - 16 Jul. - Headfirst
🌊 Save The Waves Film Festival takes place in Croyde nr Barnstaple on 15 Jul. - Eventbrite
💎 Cinema Rediscovered Festival takes place in Bristol 23-27 Jul. - Watershed
👩❤️👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a listing.
🍿 On film club: To Sleep with Anger dir. Charles Burnett (on BFIplayer) & Rocks dir. Sarah Gavron (on Amazon Prime).
📣 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
Inclusion in this email does not denote endorsement. I will always try to platform the best opportunities for this community and am not affiliated with any organisation, unless explicitly mentioned besides the link.
