Filmrats’ next event is on Tuesday 25th May @ The Sunflower Lounge. Doors open from 8pm.
For those of you who have never been or know about our event, Filmrats is a multimedia evening of short films and live music, a hybrid of different creative artistry coming together to showcase their [...]

Filmrats’ next event is on Thursday 18th March at new venue The Sunflower Lounge. Doors open at 7.30pm.
For those of you who have never been or know about our event, Filmrats is a multimedia evening of short films and live music, a hybrid of different creative artistry coming together to showcase their talents, enjoy music, [...]

Filmrats will be hosting its last event of the year this coming Wednesday 25th November. For those of you who have never been or know about it, the evening consists of live music from some great bands from in and around Birmingham and has some brilliant short film screenings too. If you love music and [...]

Bit of reposted news from More Canals Than Venice:
On Wednesday nights from 8pm, The Jekyll & Hyde pub will be screening classic black and white films in their gin parlour.

4th November: Brief Encounter (1945) A classic romantic drama set in 1945 during WWII in and around the fictional Milford Railway Station. Meeting a doctor, a married woman [...]

Filmrats’ next event is on Wednesday 28th October and its a Halloween Special! The event is fancy dress and the theme is you have to come dressed as your favourite dead celebrity, whether it is an actor, musician or a film character – it’s totally up to you!
In addition they are only going to be showing [...]

Dice Productions, that’s us (cheeky), have been asked to bring successful London comedy film night, Popcorn Comedy, up to Birmingham.
It’ll be hosted at the The Electric Cinema on Monday 5th October at 8.30pm, featuring the rap/stand up stylings of Doc Brown and the wonderful Holly Walsh live on stage, as well as a selection of the newest and [...]

Jolly Demon Productions are screening their film, ‘Frame of Mind’ at the Electric Cinema on Monday 31st August at 1pm
The film is about a failed filmmaker who’s life changes when a film crew start documenting and eventually dismantling his life.
Admission is free so pop along if you’re free this Bank Holiday.

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

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 [...]