Filmrats is upon us again on Wednesday 22nd July at the Bristol Pear in Selly Oak. Entry’s £1.50, so pop along and remember to send your short films in DVD format for future screenings to Filmrats, Flat 3, 889 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6ND

Local filmmaker, Olly Jones of Better Feeling Films is looking for an actress in her early to late 20s for 5-6 days during August for their feature, Lost in the Headlights. Expenses and food will be provided. The film centers on a rock band who have to deal with the tragic loss of one of there [...]

Tony Wilkes is on the look out for an animator to work on some limited animation for 2  one minute scenes. As the budget is self funded the rate is £75/min of footage.
Here’s Tony’s explaination of the scenes:

A spaceship in space – there’s some narration about emotions, and different parts of the ship light up accordingly; and [...]

Film Forum members Kelly Kaos and Kel Webbo of Kaos Productions have launched 2009’s Halloween Monster Movie Challenge. The challenge is to make a 5-10 minute film that contain only monsters (NO humans!) by the 19th October.
To enter the competition email monstermoviechallenge@hotmail.com with your team name. They will then send you three lines of dialogue. One [...]

See the fruits of The Great Animation Challenge, the best entries to last year’s Flip Animation Festival and chew the fat with Animation Forum WM members at the next Animation Forum West Midlands event, Out Of Hours: Animation on Tuesday 21st July 2009 at the Light House, Wolverhampton.

The event starts at 7pm, with screenings of [...]

(via Sarah Arnesen & The Light House) Local filmmaker, Nerina Villa, has been commissioned by Screen West Midlands to make a short film and is looking for participants from the general public to be stars of her production. Nerina is an experienced documentary director who has made films for Channel 4 and regional ITV [...]

Rage Arts are looking for an experienced editor to edit a short film they will be making with a group of young people from 23 July to enter into a number of short film festivals.
They are looking to appoint an editor on a self-employed basis the total fee payable is £250 inclusive. To apply [...]