REGISTRATION: 21ST JAN (Website)
DATE OF EVENT: Feb 1st 2010 (UK) ONLINE – 28TH Feb 2010
DETAILS: Teams will pick a random theme & title which they must turn into a 70min B movie in 28 days!!
VENUE: ICA
FORMAT: You can return your film on DVD format,
please email for more details on ratio for screening & Sound.
ENTRY FEE: [...]

Description
Producer wanted for short film to be made in association with Screen West Midlands and the UK Film Council. Must have experience.
£8,000-£10,000 budget.
Award winning Director and Cinematographer attached.
Fee is negotiable.
Will need to start as soon as possible and be available until the film’s completion.
Filming will take place in the West Midlands.
Closing: February 21st
Location: West Midlands
Pay: [...]

This is an exciting opportunity for emerging screenwriters in the West Midlands to see their screenplays produced.
Muckyduckmedia is a fledgling independent television company based in Birmingham and is made up of five very enthusiastic and hard working third year media students from Birmingham City University. Meeting through our degree and building a strong working relationship we [...]

Below is a repost from David Allen of Animation Forum with a listing of all the local support for creative industries, hope this helps someone!
I’m often surprised at the variety and breadth of support for creative industry workers, businesses, graduates and start-ups in the Midlands, and to the outsider it’s often bedazzling as to what [...]

DATE: 25TH January 2010. 09:30-16:00
LOCATION: The Electric Cinema, 47 Station Street, Birmingham, B5 4DY

Increasingly independent filmmakers are finding the best way to get their film made is under microbudget principles. The more entrepreneurial a producer can be in financing their film, the more likely it is they will get it made.
Numerous microbudget feature [...]

Hello and Happy New Year!
Film Forum’s first meet up of 2010 will be on Tuesday 19th January @ The Victoria Pub on John Bright Street in Birmingham from 7pm.
The idea of these monthly meet ups is to get people from all aspects of filmmaking in the West Midlands together to chat and start building networks [...]

Sheffield Doc/Fest, in partnership with Wide Eye Pictures, Screen WM and The Flatpack Festival, invites you to THE ENGINE ROOM PITCH
Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th March 2010
The Bond, Birmingham
THE ENGINE ROOM PITCH is an intensive 2 day proposal development and pitching workshop to help you prepare your factual project for UK and international funding.
The workshop [...]