One of the UK’s most exciting crossover filmmaking competitions, 2Weeks 2Make It is coming to the West Midlands. 2Weeks 2Make It is on the lookout for teams of filmmakers, animators and other digital creatives based in the West Midlands to enter the inaugural West Midlands event. Applications can be made [...]

With TV drama series like Hustle and Survivors now filming here, we look at how we can rebuild our TV drama industry in the region. Come along to The Bond to hear a stellar panel of TV drama names give their views.
This is an unmissable event for local screenwriters, directors, producers and anyone who cares [...]

Thursday 25th March 2010
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Vivid, Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth, Birmingham
Everyone’s favourite animated screenings night, Shorts on Walls, returns this March as part of Flatpack Festival 2010 and animators are once more being invited to submit their short films.
Shorts on Walls gives animators the chance to screen their latest works to a room full [...]

Mucky Duck Media are looking for actors to perform in our final year project for university. This short film is an exciting opportunity to work with new talent in the region and help us represent Birmingham as a great location and home to an active creative industry.
We also have two guaranteed screenings at our end [...]

Producers’ Forum Monthly Networking – Feb 2010 – Media Centre Tour (Tuesday, February 23, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
This month we thought that we would offer something a little different from our usual monthly networking.
We will be going on a tour of The Media Centre at The University of Birmingham to see all of [...]

IdeasTap has launched Ideas Fund Shorts, £40,000-worth of funding to help young people realise their short film projects. Eight awards of £5,000 are being offered to anyone aged between 16-25 to create a five minute short film.
Recognising the lack of funding for young people within the arts, and the endless application forms and hassle to [...]

Hi, I’m in the early pre-production stages of a drama short film that I intend to show off at Film Festivals. I’m looking for experienced/skilled and reliable crew members to help with the production shoot in March. Locations are still be researched but it is intended …that it will be in the Midlands or Warwickshire [...]

Filmmaker needed asap for huge project to create a brand around a Band. The band I’m working with are currently attracting major label interest, but are putting off anything too final until they have a great portfolio of promotional materials under their belts. The music for the video has already been selected, and the only [...]

This series of workshops is aimed at writers who would like to develop their skills and learn the tools of the trade. With topics ranging from laying out your screenplay, to writing sitcom, animation, and feature film genres, the programme offers a wide variety of opportunities for writers to hone their skills with input and [...]

Hello fellow filmmakers!
Film Forum’s next meet up will be on Thursday 25th February @ The Victoria Pub on John Bright Street in Birmingham 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 in order [...]