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LSFF Round Up, Filmmakers Awards & More
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April at SP
✨ THE NEW SHOOTS ACTORS AWARDS CLOSING SOON ✨
Prizes include mentorship with world-renowned casting director, Des Hamilton (Jojo Rabbit, This is England, High Life), Spotlight membership, self-tape equipment, cash and more career support goodies.
Since Shooting People launched in 1998, performers have always been an integral part of the community. The film industry has changed so much since then, and we feel it’s more important now than ever before to provide support to performers, who are often so under-appreciated by the industry. 12 performers will be awarded New Shoots prizes this year.
To enter, all you have to do is answer 4 quick questions. Submissions close on 30.04.23. Oh, and whilst the New Shoots Awards is open, you can become an SP member for 50% off ????
Submissions close on 30.04.23
THANKS BFI NETWORK ????
Thanks BFI NETWORK talent execs for providing mentorship to New Shoots filmmakers. Their short film fund is open for applications and this year they can fund up to £25k. Want to enter the fund but need a producer, director or writer to submit with? SP members have been using Ask & Discuss to find their collaborators; David Moya is looking for a producer for a live action short, Pedro Oliveira is looking for a producer for an animated short, and in this thread loads of Shooters are sharing their projects and application tips. The fund is open until Tuesday, 23 May - find your team on SP ????
GO MEMBERS
- 4 SP members are screening at Flatpack. Director Nadine O'Mahony and Producer (also a 2022 New Shoots: Actor ????) Arnold Voysey are screening 'Rushed', a short chance encounter romance story, Ebele Tate is screening 'Kiss Chase', a coming-of-age short exploring intersectional societal pressures and Jamie Fraser is screening 'Green Space', a fly on the wall short set in Burgess Park. The festival runs from the 16-21 May in Birmingham, so make sure to grab your tickets.
- London Independent Film Festival rolled back round with another chock-a-block programme showcasing the best of low-budget first/second-time UK filmmakers. We had 6 shooters screening, as well as 2 SP alumni screening their feature films 'Love Without Walls' and 'To a Cinder'.
- The amazing SP alumnus ‘Sulky Bunny’ have been selected for Cannes with their epic fantasy short film ‘Wild Summon’. The legendary Marianne Faithfull narrates animation by the director duo, Saul Freed & Karni Arieli. Check it out ????
GO LOOK
- “Film is in my blood”... Check out the UK’s most unlikely film haunt ????
- Heading to Cannes? SP members have been using Ask & Discuss to find festival pals and places to crash.
- The Writers Lab, a programme devoted to women and non-binary screenwriters over 40, is open now until Friday, 5th May.
- Mama Youth and Licklemor Production are offering a free 6-week intensive digital media training course for under-represented creatives aged 18-30. Applications close 30 May
- SP alumnus Rob Savage, the director behind Host and DASHCAM, is terrifying audiences yet again with an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Boogeyman ????
GO GET
- The Sky Documentaries Shorts Initiative will provide up to £500,000 to fund several documentary shorts throughout the year ???? OPEN NOW
- The lovely team at the Talkies are running a new commission ???? for £4k to make a short documentary. Deadline 1st May
- ‘BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund’ is open now, but the BFI Doc Society fund for short documentaries will be open soon… Keep an eye out for updates on the Funding Directory.
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
- ????️⚧️ Official Trans Pride Brighton Film Event | Early Bird Deadline 30th April ????️⚧️
- Open City Docs | Final Deadline 5th May | BAFTA Qualifying
- London Film Festival | Open now until 2nd June | BAFTA Qualifying
- New York Film Festival | Final Deadline 5th May | BAFTA Qualifying
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