Events Calendar
Keep in the loop about the latest indie filmmaking events near you - from festivals to screenings, workshops and networking.
It’s a festivus… in Sheffield! At The Children’s Media Conference 2025!
Now in it’s 21st year and with over 13,000 members, FESTIVUS continues to bring the best and the brightest of the animation industry together for regular evenings of fun, networking and general socialising among like-minded fools.
Come and be a part of the fastest growing animation community.
Coming up this Thursday at the later time of 14:00 GMT Instagram Live!
We’ll be sitting down with the Rakish’s Head of Sales & Strategy Chiara Useche.
Tune in to learn how to:
* think strategically about building your career
* take intentional steps toward your goals
* evolve of your craft whilst finding ways to align your vision with market needs & cultural shifts
Interviewed by Shiny’…
Come join the creative resistance and explore how queer storytelling as a cultural strategy visions better futures. During this 2.5-hour online convening, we will equip ourselves with a shared understanding about the rise of the global anti-gender movement, and learn about its roots, its funding, influence on culture and politics, and importantly, understand its weaknesses. Join us to build share…
The Independent Film Cooperative Manchester welcomes everyone from all backgrounds and with any level of experience! (Actors are welcome, too.)
They run their networking events 'speed-dating'-style; you have 5 minutes to talk with someone before you move around so you get a chance to speak with almost everyone by the end of the night!
A panel of long-established Scottish film and TV professionals share stories from behind the scenes, tracing five decades of screen industry growth in Scotland. This discussion also marks the launch of a new oral history collection celebrating the freelance technical workforce, developed with Edinburgh Napier University and others. Panellists to be announced.
An evening of specially curated short films that will entertain, provoke and surprise you for a night you wont want to miss!
Think funny, moving, and surprising short films, with many of the filmmakers in attendance.
This special event will take place in the heart of Stoke Newington/Hackney, North East London at The Others venue (a cool and funky place in itself!).
More details and direction…
Shiny are now taking entries for the upcoming Shiny Awards!
Connect with the advertising industry
The best shorts, spec ads, music videos, animations, brand content and more from new & diverse directors worldwide.
At least 70% of the work screened is from directors who are under-represented in the advertising and music video industries.
Shiny helps hundreds of directors make contacts, get sig…
Blue Metaphor presents "Stories beyond the Veil", the third of a series of themed events bringing all art forms together, with filmmaking at the center.
Led by Bristol -based producer and director Sheherazade Bodin and owner of Blue Metaphor Ltd, an independent production company aiming to help filmmakers, writers and any creative voices develop their projects portraying social and/or cultural m…