The esteemed Mark Cousins has provided his thoughts on the highest voted entries for March Film of the Month.

Renting filmmaking equipment can be a costly and arduous process. A lot of the time its easier and much more cost effective to borrow from friends and collaborators. Newly launched service KitMapper offers a much easier and affordable way to source equipment, letting filmmakers hire kit from other nearby filmmakers. Listers can advertise their equipment on a browsable or searchable map, and hirers can search for what they need and where they can find it near them. We caught up with…

After careful consideration Pegah Farahmand is back with her decisions on the February Film of the Month finalists. If you enjoy Pegah’s feedback head over to Channel 4’s Random Acts, their dedicated arts strand for innovative and creative short film commissions, and check out her work as the Editor. After previously working at VICE for 10 years, Pegah certainly has a discerning eye for the film industry and we can’t wait to disclose her choices on the top three.

Spring is officially here, not that you can necessarily tell yet, and its the busiest time for production. Join SP (at 50% off until April 5th) to meet fantastic collaborators like those below, and get those productions rolling going forward into the summer. In case you are not familiar, Shooting People is the largest and best network for independent filmmakers in the UK, a 38,000 member community that is host to filmmaking events, opportunities, training and funds, in which 200+…

As the pre-screening credit roll and accompanying statement (“our credits tell the story”) boasts, graduates of the National Film & Television School’s filmmaking courses tend to go places. As well as all the cross discipline feature work they advertised recent graduates having been involved in, the prominence of their graduates in festival and award circuits seems to be hard to miss. At the recent BAFTA ceremony, both short film awards, live action and animated, were won by (female) NFTS graduates. (Nina…

Last night, LOCO unveiled their programme, alongside a swish new website. With twelve days of comedy focused cinema, events, parties and a terrific training weekend for young filmmakers, (more on this soon) LOCO is one of the friendliest, most convivial film festivals in London. As they put it at their launch, “it’s about meeting filmmakers, screening good films, making partnerships and bring people together.” We’ve flicked through their lovely print brochure and picked five possible highlights amongst the programme.

One of a kind filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins joins us as the judge for March Film of the Month. A highly-regarded figure within the film industry, Cousins has always been keen on incorporating his own unique perspective within all of his projects – whether conveyed through his work as a producer, director, or film critic/presenter.

Michael Lengsfield is a Screenwriter, and Scriptwriting Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. We spoke briefly with him about teaching the craft, developing your writing process and the (free) online course he is launching with FutureLearn.

BRITDOC‘s Luke Moody has returned with his esteemed opinions on the January Film of the Month finalists. If you find Luke’s remarks insightful, you might want to check out the site he curates for BRITDOC, Something Real, in which he highlights documentary double bills and where to watch them. Luke will be also presenting a series of documentaries at the ICA soon, dubbed Frames of Representation, so keep an eye out for that too. Luke noted his pleasure in viewing the top voted…

Having sat on our panel at LSFF on film funding, we have the wonderful Pegah Farahmand in as our Film of the Month judge for February. Pegah is the Editor for Channel 4’s Random Acts, a position created for her at the start of last year. Random Acts is a dedicated arts strand set up by Channel 4 in 2011, created to invite bolder, more innovative and creative commissions for the broadcaster. C4’s Random Acts welcomes the kind of unclassifiable…