SWIF digest 📬 7 April 2026
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Here’s your weekly digest for independent film in the South West:
📸 BTS from recent short film Text Me When You're Home which shot in Bristol. - Instagram
👋🏽 DOCLAB's monthly meet up for documentary filmmakers to share ideas and develop their projects, next takes place in Exeter on 8 Apr. - Exeter Phoenix
🎞️ Kit Form Community Darkroom Bristol's opening event takes place 12 Apr, which includes demonstrations. - KF
📊 Creative Enterprise's 'Live in Bournemouth' event on 23 Apr will celebrate the region's screen innovators as they share insights on growing businesses across film, TV, games, digital content and createch. - Eventbrite
🧜♀️ Animinspo's April screening & meet up is 24 Apr in Bristol. Submit your films by 20 Apr. - Animinspo
☕️ 'Creative connections' networking in Bath takes place on 29 Apr. - Instagram
🖼️ Spike Island Bristol's open studios weekend takes place 1-3 May. They'll be celebrating 50 years on site. - SI
📟 A new actors' database is launching in the south west. - Instagram
☎️ Screen Alliance Wales & partners have announced the launch of the Wales Production Directory, a single, national crew database for Wales. - SAW
🧮 Screen Alliance Wales are hosting a webinar on developing great formats for unscripted TV on 16 Apr. - SAW
🎶 Composer needed for a Cornish short film about a transgender woman searching for a lost boy. - Instagram
🚀 S4C in Cardiff are looking for a Creative Lead to lead on S4C's identity, visual promotion and brand. Deadline 13 Apr. - S4C
👩🏽💼 Sgil Cymru are hiring a Production Apprentice. Deadline 13 Apr. - Screen Alliance Wales
💪 Last week to apply for CRIW, a 12 month crew apprenticeship programme in south Wales. Deadline 13 Apr. - Sgil Cymru
🏋️♂️ Channel 4's production training scheme is open for applications until 27 Apr. - C4
📖 Script submissions for Female Pilot Club's sold-out live industry readings close on 15 Apr. - FilmFreeway
🧑🏽🔬 Look Aside have launched a feature film development lab with a deadline of 4 May. - FilmFreeway
🤣 The BBC Comedy Collective support & shadowing scheme for Writers, Producers, Directors & Editors is open for applications 8 Apr - 6 May. - BBC
🐧 BFI Network & ScreenSkills' Writing for Animation Lab is open for applications until 11 May, and includes a trip to Aardman! - ScreenSkills
😜 Sitcom Mission's writing competition for 15-minute sitcom scripts closes for submissions on 3 May. - British Comedy Guide
🎧 The Listening Pitch documentary short film fund is open for applications until 20 Apr. - Aesthetica
🔥 FLAMIN Animations' short film commission for early-career Black and global majority artists working with animation closes for applications on 25 May. - Film London
👩❤️👩 The personals: Nothing this week. Get in touch for a personal listing.
🎭 Cornwall Monologue Competition's final deadline has been extended to 15 Apr. - FilmFreeway
📮 Upcoming film festival submission deadlines: Elevation (12 Apr), 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). - 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
🤖 New festival alert! Media Cymru’s Playback festival of innovation takes place in Cardiff on 15-17 Sep. - HS Forms
🍿 On film club: Dirty Computer dirs. Lacey Duke, Emma Westenberg, Alan Ferguson, Chuck Lightning & Andrew Donoho (on YouTube) & The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo dir. Carlos Pérez Osorio (on Netflix).
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Holly Holdsworth (she/her)
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