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#207: Wed. 4th Jun 2025
Shoots, sandbags and sunshine
#206: Wed. 30th Apr 2025
Who’s Your Daddy? Creative Chaos and Comedy Film
#205: Wed. 2nd Apr 2025
38 Comedy Filmmaking Tickets Left & other Spring Must Do’s for Filmmakers
#204: Tue. 4th Mar 2025
Upcoming deadlines, New Shoots: Awardees, BFI Flare & more.
#203: Fri. 31st Jan 2025
Networking Social, Awards Shortlists, Celebrations & more.
#202: Fri. 22nd Nov 2024
11 days until our Wrap Party, Writing Masterclass & More
#201: Thu. 31st Oct 2024
Screenwriting Opportunities, Halloween Releases, Offers & More
#200: Wed. 2nd Oct 2024
Screenwriting Masterclass, Awards Extension & More
#199: Fri. 6th Sep 2024
Upcoming Networking, Masterclasses, Actors Shortlist & More
#198: Tue. 6th Aug 2024
JIJO Masterclass recording, Filmmakers Award, Oppportunities & More
☀️ May at SP ☀️
Summer Shoots ????
It’s that time of year. The big funding application rush is behind us, and plenty of shooters are looking for support for their projects, including:
- Ivan Francis Clements has sold off all his camera gear and is looking for a 1st Assistant Director, a Hair and Makeup artist, a Sound Recordist, as well as other roles for his short Kilter. Shooting in Brighton, he's got high hopes for Oscar nominations for his drama following Neema and Athena, as Neema grapples to gain citizenship. Pay is currently expenses only as he's working with a skeleton budget.
- Sheherazade Bodin is prepping her indie arthouse feature Ephemeral, a story about self-acceptance and friendship through the eyes of Mia, a singer dealing with trauma and body image. Shooting next May in London or Bristol, she’s after a Production Designer and a Sound Mixer with a couple of feature credits. The production is working to Equity and BECTU rates.
- Linda M James is back on track after a weather-hit shoot and needs an experienced DoP for a half-day trailer shoot of Touching Colours, a true story about a blind artist rediscovering her vision through painting. The shoot will be in a wood and an art studio, ideally on June 18th or 19th. Pay is £150 for around three hours - short but solid.
If you’ve been away a while, now’s a solid time to come back. Reactivate before 7 June and get 2 months for the price of 1 – access to jobs, projects, cast and crew, plus all the resources to kick something off of your own. ????
OFFER ENDS 7 JUNE
The Great Sandbag Debate
Where do you put your sandbag? On the tall leg? The one opposite the arm? Whichever one’s vibing that day? Can sandbagging be art?
Shooter Niki Jones is trying to settle it once and for all.
GO MEMBERS
- After a whirlwind tour of Cannes and the BFI IMAX, the Straight8 2025 season wrapped up brilliantly. Big shout to the eight shooters with films screening across the programme - Bitter Fruit by Kristin Duffy, Sign Language by Max Mir, Your New Home by Carlotta Beck Peccoz, and especially Immodest by Charly and Robyn Faye, plus The Return of the Screw by Cosmo Fletcher and Wolf Newton, who both made the top 8. The films will be live to watch online soon, so keep an eye out.
- Shooter Molly Manning Walker is following up her acclaimed debut feature How To Have Sex with a six-part TV series Major Players for C4. The series follows two teenage girls who want to start a women’s football club. The producer is Matthew Mulot (Baby Reindeer and Ghosts).
- Big congrats to four SP members named Film London Lodestars this year. Georgie Yukiko Donovan’s directing work highlights important stories from underrepresented communities, Rebecca Wolff produces acclaimed docs and fiction projects, Helen Simmons is a rising writer with a string of awards and a Netflix show in the pipeline, and Jack King’s debut feature just bagged a major festival prize. These are folks to watch.
GO LOOK
- Snails, cats and lonely robots - indie animation is having a moment. With Memoir of a Snail now streaming on BFI Player and Latvian breakout Flow nabbing the animation Oscar, Andrew Osmond looks at how small studios and individual animators are quietly reshaping the form (and sometimes upstaging Pixar while they’re at it).
- Mark Forbes’ Quiet on Set is a vital documentary exposing class barriers in the film industry. Made solo without funding, it’s been selected for Galway Film Fleadh. He’s crowdfunding to attend and share this important film with a wider audience.
- Producer Sylvain Corbeil says “film must always be a conversation,” reflecting on his work with Anne Émond’s Peak Everything. He explains how Metafilms supports director-driven projects and why festivals like Cannes matter for films that ask audiences to think.
- David Lynch’s unique vision shaped some of cinema’s most iconic and strange moments. Now, over 400 of his personal items - from Twin Peaks props to scripts of unmade films and even a custom five-necked guitar - are up for auction until 18 June.
GO GET
- Undocumented (Screen Heritage Ambassador programme) | Deadline: 9 June
- LUX London Critical Forum (Call for participation) | Deadline: 10 June
- Watersprite Hubs (Free Training) | Deadline: 30 June
- The Young Black Filmmakers Fund | Deadline: 1 August
GO SUBMIT
- Shorts On Tap | Regular Deadline: 15 June
- FrightFest | Shorts Deadline: 20 June
- Manchester Film Festival | Advance Deadline: 17 June
- Cambridge Film Festival | Late Deadline: 26 June
- London International Animation Festival | Late Deadline: 31 July
