7Inch Newsletter Round Up

November 26th, 2008

Just got my 7Inch monthly mail and thought I’d cherry pick a few film related events to share with you…
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7INCH No.35 – HOUSEWIVES’ CHOICE

“A compendium of docs, shorts and outright propaganda from the BFI archive to round off our autumn programme, exploring the lot of the British housewife [...]

‘Mecahnical Eye’, a new Facebook group has popped up. To be honest I’m not completely sure what they’ll be up to, so join and find out I guess. Here’s the blurb:
A positive community project awakens to encourage young filmmakers within the region to use their creative tools and minds together and, come up with simple [...]

The December Film Makers meet-up will be between 11:30 and 12:30 on Saturday 6th December at the Old Contemptibles, near Snow Hill station, in Birmingham. As always, everyone is welcome to pop by to chat about upcoming projects or events, new ideas, what you favourite film is or anything else remotely film-related. Here’s the bumf:
Hello [...]

A Meeting of Minds, Weds 3rd Dec

November 13th, 2008

A Meeting of Minds invites aspiring writers to an evening of talks and discussion at The Film Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday the 3rd December. Here’s what they have to say:
A Meeting of Minds is THE Literary Forum for Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. We aim to create an evening of informative discussion about topics which affect [...]

To find out about opportunities in music,dance, film, graphics, script writing, animation and much more, come along to:
Kings Heath Cricket Club, 247 Alcester Rd South, B14 6DT
on Thursday 13th Nov 10.00am to 12.30pm
A free networking event for anyone who is interested in creative media.
For more information call Olivia on  0121 224 7375
As it’s on [...]

Local Shorts Film Club

November 11th, 2008

This is mainly just a reminder for myself to blog on this when it’s more relevant, but I’m going to briefly mention Local Shorts Film Club. They do screenings at the Central Library Theatre (see previous post) and are exactly in the remit of this website. You can show your short film, talk about it [...]

Wed 19th Nov. 6-9pm, The Library Theatre…

Film First are screening the award winning black comedy ‘Festival‘ about the hope, dreams and fears of Edinburgh Fringe performers. Executive Producer, Birmingham-based Roger Shannon will be introducing it and will no doubt be on hand to chat with before and after.
The bar opens at 6pm wth the film starting at 7pm, [...]

And we’re off…

November 4th, 2008

Following a conversation at the last Birmingham Filmmakers meet up, Film Forum West Midlands is born. The focus of this blog is to expose opportunities and bring people together from different disciplines of filmmaking, with the aim that these lovely people will mingle, learn and thrive of each others support to help strengthen the Midlands’ position within the media industry.
The [...]