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Hi, I'm Mark... a Multi-Award-Winning Indie Filmmaker and my script 'My Week with Maisy' a 'beautiful comedy' about cancer has to date won 9x Best Screenplay/Best Dialogue Awards.…

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Hi,
I had arranged a meeting with Ben & James which they, unfortunately, canceled at short notice. More, unfor…

For the recent Manchester Lift-Off Online festival there were about 100 short films on offer. It cost £10.00 for guests to view all the films (free for submitting filmmakers). Gue…

Would you place Lift Off London above Raindance?

In regards to comparing LiftOff to Raindance, they are not even in comparable leagues. Elliot Groves, Raindance is now considered by many to be one of the top ten film festival co…

I am entering the MOMENT INVITATIONAL Film Competition as a director and I am looking for a 3 mins script (max.)

The rules:
The film must be shot on a phone.
It must be under 3 m…

What's the deadline Matteo?

Hi, I need your help!

If you have made a short or a feature in the last 5 years that you have submitted to film festivals I'd be grateful for your insights.

Please take the sho…

Vasco this gets a like, retweet and follow. Very well written.

I disagree about your last line... for professionals film festivals give exposure and can build an audience. I've s…

Got a new short film?

The late deadline for 'The Shortest Nights' is coming up fast!

Inspired by the longest day of the year, The Shortest Nights takes place over an entire da…

Hi there, Anyone know a production house able to make DVD/Blue Ray and potentially a DCP for Feature Film? London based and reasonably priced. Thank you! :)

We can get all these done at very good rate, plus you'll get -10% discount as a member of Shooting People!
We are based in Central London (Kings Cross /Russell Square area). www.e…

Hello Shooters,

Got a short film? Submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Nightpiece Film Festival which runs this August in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We've screened ov…

If anyone's planning to go up to Edinburgh in the summer, I really recommend going along to the festival. I went last year and there was a fab collection of shorts.

As you know this is the first season of our new international horror short film festival, and we are looking for anyone in the press, bloggers, vloggers, twitterati, online theatr…

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know about this Film Festival I am involved with...

It gives us great pleasure to welcome the inaugural White Elephant Film Festival, …

Hi Thomas,

This sounds great. I'd recommend adding the festival to the 'Events' section of SP, that way it will be in the calendar and we can post it into the Bulletins. https://…

Welcome to deprofundis we have a new horror film festival, we accept horror films up to 30 mins long, inc international, submit if you have anything here is the new link for our…

great thank you Helen, just posted x

Why do people not put their short films online?

**Just to be clear - I'm not talking about those ropey old bits of work people are happy to keep hidden away**

I'm talking about …

My film The Gun Man was picked up by Shorts TV for online distribution, so I can't have it on my Vimeo or You Tube Channel. (I can still screen it live and sell DVDs). Yes, it's h…

Dear Shooters, I have produced a sci-fi Shakespeare webseries called 'A Throne of Shadows' which is in three parts, but also makes up a short film of around 25 minutes. I am going…

That’s very helpful, thanks Glyn.

Hello all,
I'll be at Aesthetica with Little Shit (www.littleshitfilm.com) next week and part of the panel discussion on Directing: Establishing a Unique Style on Friday. If any S…

Cheers Paddy.

I completely sympathize with Davina Brown post "Help! An East London Film Office wants to charge my £20K feature project £150/hour", many thanks for bringing this up Davina as I w…

Ta for the update. I suspect the reason was less malice than mundanity, so glad you got it sorted :)

Absolutely stoked to have indie film legend John Sayles on the podcast talking about Exec Producing THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT and offering a few writing tips …

Chris Cooke, co-founder of Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, talks through 5 Great British Horror Films... Other episodes listed in the link below too

https://leytonrocks.wordp…

Night of The Demon is an absolute classic and then some

22 features... impressive stuff :)

My latest indie portmanteau horror feature Psychomanteum screening plus
Q&A at Festival of Fantastic Films Manchester October Sat the 27th

Tickets can be booked on from:
Gil…

Hi there,

I run a few film clubs and am always looking for short films and independent feature films to screen.

Film clubs are on a monthly basis based on a theme. You can subm…

Hello Shooters,Fellow Filmmakers and Fans,
3 likeminded souls and myself have launched a new podcast called 'GeekSweat' - bringing you news (#HotTopic), reviews (#TrailerTrashTal…

We are just finishing post on our last short film. The plan is to then take it to film festivals, in order to network and hopefully find some investors for a feature (already writ…

I've had a pretty disillusioning festival attempt this year with my film Buddy Goes To Nollywood. Here's the trailer (link found on the website), which I'm not especially happy wi…

Hi SP Hive mind

I made a comedy surreal short film last year and after an unsuccessful
festival campaign have recently whacked it online.

Any feedback you have bad and good wou…

Hi Simon,

A very we'll put together film, nicely shot (a little over-saturated at times as Zsani pointed out) but definitely the right sort of grading for this comedy. I think ov…

Dear filmmakers, we would be thrilled if you would consider making and submitting a one-minute film to this year’s 13th edition of Filminute, the international one-minute film fes…

'London Short Documentaries' is a screening programme of short documentaries old and new, all about London and Londoners, curated by award winning documentary filmmaker Tal Amiran…

Hi Shooters,

We noticed that a few of you have posted in about sharing apartments or meeting up in Cannes during the festival (8-19 May).

If it's helpful, you can use this threa…

Hi Lloyd,

Ref your YouTube positing: https://youtu.be/5xG1CHXGVD8

I promise that I will share that link to Shooting People in the UK (Approx 20K plus), I also will post my supp…