Electric December, a short film competition led by Watershed for under 21s has its deadline coming up on the 25th September. So get cracking and submit your short film online.
http://www.electricdecember.org/generic/submit.html
(via Brendan O’Neill)

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 [...]

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 [...]

ThinkSync Films are making their final call for entries to its competition ahead of the deadline on 12th June.
ThinkSync have made a selection of music leading independent labels and publishers available for download. The competition rewards the most skilful and appropriate use of the music within a short film. It should not be seen as a ‘music video’ [...]