With Halloween approaching on the horizon, and our promo underway, here’s a list of the best spooky gatherings going on around the capital to get your skin crawling in excitement.

A new festival, co-curated by BRITDOC‘s Luke Moody and Nico Marzano from the ICA, Frames of Representation offers a selection of the sort of documentaries that rarely reach UK audiences through regular distribution. Presenting new styles, methods and forms for non-fiction filmmaking, the programme focuses on films that present their subjects in unique and innovative ways. Their inaugural edition is based around the theme of the ‘New Periphery’, looking at documentaries that bring marginalised individuals to the forefront of the screen and offer voices to…

  BAFTA will be running their ‘BAFTA Crew’ scheme for the fourth year soon, and have opened applications for entrants. Its an initiative we are quite fond of and one we feel falls in line with Shooting People’s values, recognising that films are not made by a single person, but as part of a collaborative process of many talented, often under appreciated, individuals. BAFTA Crew aims to connect emergent “below the line” talent with experienced industry professionals across all of film’s…

Please JOIN US, for the last Shooters in the Pub of 2015! If you’ve yet to swing by our lively London meetup, our Christmas Party will be the biggest one yet. We’re partnering with Jameson First Shot to finish off the year in style. We’re offering free drinks. We’re screening some blistering short films (including previous Jameson First Shot winners and award-winning shorts by SP members). We’ve found yellow balloons. We’re going to introduce you to the brilliant activism of…

A  weekly series of 10 films at Bertha DocHouse that have influenced and developed the art of documentary and which continue to inspire us today. The Rule Breakers is a 10 week educational series that we’re incredibly excited about. The season is a journey through the ‘boundary pushing’ docs of the 20th and 21st century, from Robert Flaherty’s Man of Aran in the 30s, to Peter Watkins’ controversial Punishment Park in the 70s, right up to the radically experimental and…

Planetary (dir. Guy Reid) Meditation Session Yes, I meditated to a film – this was a nice little retreat from the hustle and bustle of the festival. Taking yourself away to a ‘mindfulness meditation’ session to the audio of Planetary; a poetic and cosmic journey into global perspective. It’s a visual reminder that every living thing is connected that will question your own environmental awareness. The soundscapes are mesmerising, so much so that I completely missed the bells ringing for the meditation to…

On June 1st we’ll be meeting up for Shooters in the Pub at the Arts Theatre Club, 50 Frith Street, London W1D 4SQ from 6.30pm onwards. We’ll be talking to Lisa Gunning, (Seven Psychopaths, Fifty Shades of Grey, Nowhere Boy) about how she started her career as a film editor, director and writer. The talk will start at 7.00pm and will be hosted by Shooting People’s co-founder Cath Le Couteur, following this there will be a short Q&A with the…

This week (7th May), DocHouse are hosting a special DocHouse Thursday screening of Peter Anthony’s epic cold war ‘thriller’, The Man Who Saved The World.  “Few people know of Stanislav Petrov… yet hundreds of millions of people are alive because of him.” 1983. The height of the Cold War. Stanislav Petrov is the man with his finger on the button when Russian radars intercept what appear to be five American nuclear missiles heading straight towards Russian soil. With alarm bells ringing and panic spreading,…