SWIF digest 📬 17 June 2025

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

🥳 Congrats to Cardiff-based docs producer Toby Cameron, who's been selected for the BFI Doc Society RISE Producer Programme 2025. - BFI Doc Soc

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾 Networking for filmmakers, actors & creatives takes place on 18 Jun in Southampton. - Eventbrite

👀 Bristol's Refugee Festival is hosting a short films screening on 18 Jun. - Headfirst

👥 Cardiff is hosting a similar Refugee Festival short films screening on 19 Jun. - Eventbrite

🍿 A night of short films takes place at Cube Bristol on 25 Jun. - Cube

🥪 Next SWIF event: Summer picnic at Ashton Court Bristol on 5 Jul from 11am.

👩🏿 'Engaging the Black Radical Imagination', a film screening & panel discussion, takes place in Bristol on 10 Jul. - Eventbrite

📽️ A screening of bold new artists’ moving image works from across the UK takes place in Bristol on 10 Jul. - Eventbrite

🧩 Independent feature film Pieces of Us screens with the film's cast, crew & friends on 20 Jul in Truro. - Eventbrite

🧑‍🌾 Somerset Food Trail Festival will host a film screening & panel discussion on farming on 25 Jul in Keynsham. - Eventbrite

📺 One to one meetings with TV commissioners are available at Edinburgh TV Festival. - TV Festival

🎭 Last few days to apply to BAFTA's breakthrough scheme. Deadline 19 Jun. - BAFTA

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales based Writers can apply to the 'Lights, Camera, Cymru!' development programme. Deadline 20 Jun. - Screen Alliance Wales

✍️ Channel 4's new TV Writers scheme closes for applications on 25 Jun. - Channel 4

🤳 A smartphone video production fundamentals course runs in Cardiff on 27 Jun. - Eventbrite

📸 Stills Photographer shadowing opportunity for a project with Iris Prize & Bad Wolf in Cardiff. - Screen Alliance Wales

💄 Make-Up Artist needed for a horror short film in Cardiff. - Tabb

🚌 Casting call for a couple, ages 30-40, for a social film near the Eden Project. - Facebook

💃 Casting call for females for a short film exploring Shakespearean language and themes of domestic violence, filming near Salisbury. - Tomorrow and tomorrow

👨🏽‍🏫 Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is recruiting a CEO. Deadline 27 Jun. - BOVTS

🎬 Self-Shooting Assistant Producer wanted at Boom Social Cardiff. Apply by 30 Jun. - Screen Alliance Wales

🏫 Wiltshire Creative need an Education Officer to take creative programmes into schools, including drama workshops. Deadline 30 Jun. - Arts Jobs

👨🏿‍💼 Creative Kernow are seeking an Enterprise Projects Manager. Deadline 30 Jun. - Arts Jobs

🕹️ Rising Arts Agency is seeking members for its leadership transition steering group. Apply by 6 Jul. - Rising Arts

📣 Exeter UNESCO City of Literature is hiring a Public Programmes Manager. Deadline 31 Aug. - Arts Jobs

👩🏼‍🎨 Plymouth Culture is open for applications to their artist residence programme. Deadline 7 Jul. - Plymouth Culture

📲 Rural Media are commissiong young artists via their 'Artflicks' strand for online content. Deadline 30 Sep. - Arts Jobs

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Cornwall (19 Jun), Cardiff Mini (27 Jun), Cardiff Animation & Ignite (both 30 Jun), ANIMINSPO (11 Jul) Hell Tor & Bournemouth International (both 18 Jul) . - FilmFreeway

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Bath Festival takes place 26 May - 30 Jun. - QB

🌍 SAFAR Film Festival, the UK’s largest celebration of Arab Cinema, takes place in Plymouth 11-28 Jun. - SFF

🧠 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. - Bristol Pride

💎 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: Menace II Society dir. Albert & Allen Hughes (on Netflix) & Mädchen in Uniform dir. Leontine Sagan (on BFIplayer).

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Until next week!
Holly Holdsworth (she/her)
Writer/Director. bsky website

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