SWIF digest 📬 3 June 2025

🚐 Hello filmmakers. SWIF tour is starting to take shape for late August. Do get in touch if you'd like to co-host an event, have a sofa I can sleep on/scrap of land for my tent, or want to join me on the road for a day or two.

🙏 These digests will always be free but please consider paid membership to support the work. Options start from £1 per week & include filmmaker resources.

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

🤵🏻‍♂️ BTS from recent comedy short James Blonde. - CrowdFunder

🧐 Watch local short films at a pay-what-you-can screening at Bath Fringe on 5 Jun. I'll be there with my short Fathom.- Bath Fringe

📽️ Somerset Film are hosting a short film night on 5 Jun in Bridgwater. - SF

🧑‍🎓 Arts University Plymouth & Plymouth Arts Cinema are hosting a free student film showcase & awards event on 12 Jun. - Plymouth Arts Cinema

🏓 DocLab Exeter will screen Ping Pong followed by a Q&A with the Director on 25 Jun. - Exeter Phoenix

🔧 Tabb's next ScriptLab, for writers to workshop new scripts with actors & directors, takes place on 28 Jun in Bath. - Tabb

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

📰 Read about recent shorts on Devon & Cornwall Film's blog. - D&CFilm

👨🏽‍💻 The Documentary Film Council has launched an online forum, created as a digital ‘town hall’ for doc filmmakers. - DFC

🧭 Uni of Exeter have launched new online courses on film financing & festival strategy. - Uni of Exeter

🧮 Training providers can apply to the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund to support their programmes. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. - ScreenSkills

🗳️ Women in Film & TV are electing two new Member Directors. Applications open until 23 Jun. - WFTV

🎶 Crew call across many departments for a musical comedy filming over Aug. They're particularly eager to work with crew in Devon with lived experience of queerness and/or disability. - Google Docs

🎧 Production Sound Mixer/Designer needed on a feature film in Bristol. - Tabb

🚚 Part-time Production Manager needed in Cardiff for a contemporary music TV series. Deadline 6 Jun. - Screen Alliance Wales

🧪 Photographique Bristol are hiring two part-time Lab Assistants. Deadline 14 Jun. - Insta

🤝 Lots of local arts organisations are seeking Trustees right now, including Ffilm Cymru. Rising Arts have a few thoughts on why young creatives should step into these roles. - Arts Jobs, Ffilm Cymru & Rising Arts

🙋🏿 Channel 4's new Writers scheme has returned this year with a hub in Bristol and a deadline of 25 Jun. - C4

🛤️ Great Western Railway & Exeter Phoenix have launched two new animation commissions, each worth £2,200, for recent grad students from universities on the GWR network (class of 2020 onwards). Deadline 27 Jun. - EP

🏪 The Production Finance Market London is open for feature applications, including animation & docs. Deadline 7 Jul. - Film London

🤑 Somerset Film & BFI Film Academy have a short film commission open to filmmakers uner 25yrs old. Deadline 18 Jul. - Somerset Film

📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Cardiff Mini (7 Jun), Southampton (8 Jun), ANIMINSPO (11 Jun), Cornwall (19 Jun), Cardiff Animation & Ignite (both 30 Jun). - FilmFreeway

🎪 Bath Fringe Festival takes place 23 May - 8 Jun. - BFF

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

⛵️ Celtic Media Festival takes place in Newquay Cornwall 3-5 Jun. - CMF

🐋 Festival of Nature in Bath/Bristol takes place 7-15 Jun. - Natural History Consortium

🧠 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival takes place in Bristol 16 Jun - 16 Jul. - Headfirst

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

🍿 On film club: Submarine dir. Richard Ayoade (on BFIplayer & Amazon Prime) & The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open dir. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
& Kathleen Hepburn (on Tubi).

📣 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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