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Feature Film Masterclass, Freelancer Freebies, Halloween Shenanigans + more
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Free Event: Making a Feature & Brand New Distribution, Actors Award Winner, Strikes & More
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Filmmaker Meetups / Help Improve Video Editing / New Funds
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May at SP
SUMMER MEGALOPOLIS PARTY ????????
We're back for another party at Rich Mix ????. We know meeting collaborators is already tricky, but being able to chat in-person can make it easier. So come down and meet your next director, producer, writer, actor, editor, crew member, best friend... who knows!
We'll also be welcoming Oscar-winning and indie legend Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode, Suspension of Disbelief) for a live Q&A chatting about his upcoming, BTS doc of Coppola's latest epic 'Megalopolis', plus Mike’s latest inventions with kit and tech for DIY filmmaking on the go, including the brilliant ‘Fig-Rig’.
On top of all that, we'll be briefing you all on the upcoming New Shoots awards, hosting a random raffle, screening some shorts and celebrating all round.
5 JULY / 7PM / RICH MIX LONDON
We're also offering a great bundle for a ticket and 4 month membership to us, coming in at £12 - its the perfect way to jump in to the SP community...
NEW SHOOTS ACTORS????
Thank you to the BRILLIANT performers who entered this year’s New Shoots Actors Awards. We’re so grateful to everyone who has participated and look forward to updating you all on this year’s actors very soon. Our 2022 overall winner, Wolf Newton, has just had a project of his released - Wolf played the role of Dominus Thrax for the Duviri Paradox, the latest update of the video game Warframe. Check it out ????
Casting a project? Take a look at all of our past New Shoots Actors Awards winners here.
3 LEGGED THING ARE CHANGING THE GAME...
We ???? it when brands come along and listen to exactly what us filmmakers want, and 3 Legged Thing hit it out the park with their Mike tripod.
It's versatile, reliable and a real do-it-all - with a max height of 1.48m, ability to compress down to super-small table set-up, options to convert to a monopod and more. Coming in at just 1.65kg for the entire set-up it won't weight down your kit bag either.
So check them out if you're in the market for a new tripod...
JOIN THE SP COMMUNITY
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Dorothy Allen-Pickard, New Shoots Winner 2022.
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Offer ends 3rd June.
GO MEMBERS
- A huge congrats to the 10 SP members screening at the one-and-only Sheffield DocFest! A special shoutout as well to Ashley Francis-Roy for having her own talk after the screening of 'The Greatest Show Never Made' ahead of it's Prime release.
- A whopping 17 members screened at Camarthen Bay Film Festival... it's always a great festival, rammed with independent filmmaking talent so no wonder so many of you wound up screening ????.
GO LOOK
- Tears and Love forever to the extraordinary Tina Turner, who was much loved as well on set with all her films. For Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner had to shave her head for her wig to fit properly. She reportedly had no problem with that. Nor with wearing a steel mail dress in the film that weighed more than 55 kilograms.
- Went to Cannes? What’s next on your festival list?! Meet other SP members on the film festival circuit ????
- We’ve had so many AMAZING applications to the New Shoots Actors Awards, with loads of exciting talent coming through from the Actors Class & National Youth Theatre - performers, check those organisations out ✨
- The Film London Production Finance Market is open for applications, if you’re trying to get your first feature off the ground this market is THE place to be at ????
- It's been confirmed, Scorsese's next film is set to focus in on the one and only Jesus Christ - and he's even been in talks with the Pope...
GO GET
- The Sky Documentaries Shorts Initiative is OPEN NOW ???????????? They’ve got up to £500,000 to fund your short docs.
- Calling all funny ladies - The Phoebe Frances Brown Film Fund is a £1000 grant for an up and coming female filmmaker with a comedy idea.
- The European Documentary Journalism Fund is open for applications for funding of up to 50,000 Euros ????
To save you time, we spend hours and hours finding every film fund you could possibly apply to, and then we list them in our SP Funding Directory. A one stop shop of funds ????. It’s currently a goldmine of over 50 funds and you can follow the directory for weekly updates - good luck applying.
GO SUBMIT
- The Venice Film Festival | Shorts Deadline: June 1st
- The Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival | Films complete before 2022: July 11th
- Sundance Film Festival | Early Shorts Deadline: July 31st
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