Falstaff International Film Festival is a brand new festival which will be hosted at  Stratford-upon-Avon between November 16th – 22nd.
The festival will comprise of various programmes including educational seminars, panel discussions, workshops, screenings, the Midlands Shorts Competition, the FIFF Student Film Competition and the FIFF Awards Ceremony.
If the following list of awards are anything to go [...]

Here’s a re-post of Dave Allen’s Animation Forum WM article:
A couple of events for animators and scriptwriters looking to hone their writing (and perhaps meet new collaborators) take place in July.
SCRIPT will be running a course tailored towards writing for games and online drama with the handsomely titled ‘3D to 3G Storytelling: New Narrative Structures and Opportunities [...]

Media Evening is a cool networking night, this time hosted by Clusta at The Vaults on Newhall Place from 6:30pm. We met some good people there at the last one. It’s free but you have to register here first: http://me0609.eventbrite.com/
Here’s what they say about it:
People of the media unite! Whether you’re in the creative, digital, marketing and [...]

Oliver Jones of BetterFeelingFilms has put a call out for a DP and some one for sound for a feature film that he’s shooting over the summer. The film is a comedy drama that focuses on an up and coming faux rock band from Birmingham. It follows their trials and tribulations and their relationships with [...]

Matt Rebeiro has posted an interesting message:
2008’s Virgin Media Shorts winners, Phil and Olly, won with a film called ‘Black Hole‘, which has since gone on to be included in this year’s Cannes festivities. They’ve had quite a year since winning the Virgin Media Shorts competition (judged, amongst others, by Kevin Spacey) and if you’d [...]

Hello everyone,
Film Forum’s latest social get-together (and informal networking night) will be held on Tuesday 7th July at the Victoria Pub on John Bright Street in Birmingham from 6pm.
For those that haven’t been to a meet-up yet, here’s the low-down. We meet up each month to get people from all aspects of filmmaking in the [...]

Screen WM are seeking Production Trainees to work on the new series of major BBC drama series Hustle, shooting across Birmingham this summer. Amy Newbery gives all the information below.
Screen WM, the West Midlands regional screen agency are seeking production trainees from the West Midlands to assist in a variety of departments working on the [...]

Ian Price is getting the Redditch Film Festival ready to be hosted at the Redditch Palace Theatre in Spring 2010. They’re looking for loads of great local films from filmmakers in and around the Redditch area
If you’re interested get in touch at info@redditchfilmfestival.com. All films will be considered for the festival.
http://www.redditchfilmfestival.com

Filmrats will be hosting it’s multimedia evening again on Wednesday 24th June at 8pm at the Bristol Pear in Selly Oak.
Whilst we didn’t manage to make the their opening night, it seemed to have a great atmosphere and turn out. We’ll definitely be making this next one as it looks like a great chance to take [...]

As part of Screen WM’s fantastic news that they will be bringing BBC’s Hustle to Birmingham, they have also called out for crew and members involved in the West Midlands film and Televsion industry to register with them.
Working with Kudos Productions, Screen WM has secured joint approval over it’s crew, meaning that jobs generated in [...]