ArtsFest 2010 (10 – 12 September 2010)
ArtsFest is open for film submissions. ArtsFest is the UK’s largest free arts festival and takes place in the heart of the country, Birmingham.
Last year ArtsFest featured over 80 different shorts (and a few feature films) ranging from music videos to animated comedies to live action dramas.  The films [...]

MICRO BUDGET, MASSIVE SUCCESS – Professionally Handling Constraints Of Microbudget Filmmaking To Achieve Maximum Success
DATE: Monday 28th June 2010
TIME: 09:30-17:00
LOCATION: Light House, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT
INFO: A few break through films are resurrecting the microbudget spectrum of the market. With filmmakers facing tougher times and the inability to compete with studio films at [...]

Paid Opportunity: £15 – £20 per hour

mac, Britain’s liveliest arts centre re-opened its doors in May 2010 following a £15m makeover. We have welcomed people back into our much loved, newly refurbished cinema, showing major releases and the best in independent film programming.
As part of our creative learning programme we are [...]

Hello fellow filmmakers!
Film Forum’s next meet up will be on Thursday 29th April @ The Victoria Pub from 7pm.
The idea of these meet ups is to give filmmakers a networking platform from which they can meet people involved in different aspects of filmmaking from directors to actors to editors in order [...]

National Youth Theatre and IdeasTap are offering 10 young filmmakers/performers the chance to become part of a film and performance group who will stage a ground breaking production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be performed in London and Shanghai, in the summer of 2010.
The challenge is to create a site-specific production for multi-lingual [...]

Fancy helping out at Flatpack? This year’s festival runs from 23-28 March in venues all over Birmingham, and the whole thing wouldn’t be possible without hordes of dedicated volunteers. (See a nice writeup from one of last year’s team here.) Responsibilities will include front-of-house, venue installation, technical support, marketing and bar work, and all volunteers [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]