London’s Underwire Film Festival returns at the end of this month, boasting an exciting programme of new features, shorts, and Q & As from up and coming and established female British filmmakers.

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) have unleashed their programme for this year’s edition. Tickets for the festival are on sale now. From the 2nd through 11th of December, the LIAF will be showcasing a spectrum of creative animation at the Barbican, with additional programmes at The Horse Hospital, Close-Up Cinema, and The Whitechapel Gallery.

The LIAF is a year-round celebration of animation and will be a 10 day comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the international indie animation scene encompassing every style, genre, and technique.

LIAF 2016 will include: International Programmes; Abstract Animation Showcase; Animated Features; British Animation Showcase; Retrospectives; Music Videos Session; Late Night Bizarre; Masterclasses; Workshops; Special Guests; Animation Industry Events; Best of the Festival and much more. Here’s five events you might not have thought about to check out during the December festival.

As revealed by the blatant bias of my recent blog on politics in film, I am a creature of the left. I doubt this is either a surprise or a problem for you, chances are you think of yourself the same way. However the simple left/right binary is a broken clock when used to explain 21st century politics; no surprise for a metaphor that casts back to the aisles of a church in revolutionary Paris. There was a time when your work all but dictated your political alignment, but now? What does filmmaking make you now?

Generation Revolution is a feature-length documentary about the new generation of activists of colour, striving to change the political and social landscape in this country. Ahead of the film’s UK screening run, the filmmakers behind the projector introduce us to the conditions that led to the film’s creation, why they made the film and what they hope it may achieve.

Small notice about a SP filmmaker’s film, one that’s had considerable festival success, and now has a limited cinema run. Support SP filmmakers!

Camilla Long and Toby Young in discussion on Ken Loach’s recent film pic.twitter.com/q4riBXmfEP

— Clee (@jmsclee) October 25, 2016

The BAFTA, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has, once again, created a professional network and masterclass programme designed to connect emerging talent to BAFTA-winners and nominees. This year they have selected 18 talented newcomers across film, television, and games. These “Breakthrough Brits” are selected by an international jury which, this year, included actors Joe Dempsie and Rosamund Pike, director Sarah Gavron and game designer Mike Bithell.

SCREAM PITCH: Our annual round-up of the best horror projects in town.

Yes. They’re back. And this time no one gets out alive. It’s SCREAM PITCH!!!!

To read complete pitches and to contact any of the writers, please email Andy.

Alexander Dinelaris is a producer, playwright and screenwriter best known for his work on Alejandro Iñárritu’s last two features. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant. Dinelaris, along with the other three credited screenwriters, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Birdman in 2015. His smart stories offer a peek into his rocky beginnings.