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Get your free tickets to After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home at the Bertha Doc House on Monday 16 December.
WFTV members have the chance of entering a give-away of five free tickets to After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home at the Bertha Doc House on Monday 16 December.
The Director Sarah McCarthy, the only Academy shortlisted female director in the UK, will take part in a Q&A after the film alongside film protagonist Inna Sidoruk.
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The first five WFTV members who email Sarah on s@rahmccarthy.com can get their free ticket.
20% discount code at the Irish Film Festival, London
The Irish Film Festival, London is offering WFTV members a special 20% discount code for all films in the festival from 13 - 17 November.
It’s a fantastic line-up that celebrates the very best in Irish filmmaking. The programme includes opening film Mrs Robinson (13 October, Vue West End), the first feature-length doc about Ireland’s first female President, Mary Robinson, who detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990.
Housewife of the Year (15 November) lifts the lid on one of Ireland’s most controversial and criticised shows, told by former contestants, charting the competition’s rise and fall against the backdrop of vast societal shifts in attitudes towards women and marriage.
Book https://iftuk.com/schedule using the promo code Friend
WFTV Member discount to EuroScript's How to make it as a screenwriter workshop
EuroScript is hosting its How to make it as a screenwriter workshop at BECTU's HQ in central London on Friday 29 November 2024. WFTV members receive a discount - £98 for WFTV writers, usually the workshop is £110.
WFTV Member Launches - Script Savvy
WFTV member Leana Arrell announces their new venture - Script Savvy - a script consultation service which offers guidance, feedback and critique for scripts. With different levels of feedback - from just a couple of pages of feedback from a read-through, all the way to in-depth mentoring and development for your script. For more information or to get a quote, please get in touch at hello@script-savvy.com.
Follow script Savvy on Facebook here.
Glasgow Film Festival 2025 open for submissions
Glasgow Film Festival will take place 26 Feb – 9 March 2025 and we're on the lookout for the most exciting new titles.
If you're a filmmaker, we want to hear from you! We are looking for features from Scotland, the UK, and around the world. Glasgow is one of the friendliest film festivals on the planet with a wide-ranging programme that celebrates every corner of world cinema and provides a fantastic showcase for the best of Scottish film. Perfectly placed in March for spring and summer releases, GFF has launched some of the best new films to the UK's film press and cinema market.
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We're offering a discounted rate to those titles with a strong Scottish connection. To find out if your film is eligible please contact programme@glasgowfilm.org.
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Find out more here.
Chapters Agency & Diary Service
Chapters Agency & Diary Service represents freelancers in Film, Drama and Commercials, both in London and regionally across the UK.
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They have now extended their regional crew representation to include Northern Ireland and applications are open.
Feel free to get in touch with an email and CV to cv@chapterspeople.co.uk or call to find out more on 020 87471203.
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chapterspeople.co.uk | @chapterspeople
FLICKD: the social app for all film & TV lovers
Imagine you could easily connect with other TV & film lovers for free in a safe place online without distractions or clunky user experiences? flickd has launched its free app in UK for iOS and Android users, hoping to transform the experience for TV and film enthusiasts across the world.
What is flickd?
flickd is an app for the TV & film community, a “movie/tv club 2.0” which includes both film and TV shows and delivers an intuitive and modernized user experience which puts its users first, alongside their favorite content. There is no single safe place built with film+TV lovers in mind, where users can openly share opinions and enter discussions with a user-first content-forward clean and modernized UX. flickd is a modern-day Goodreads but for film and TV instead of books – the user discussions and content are connected and at the centre of the app, letting film and TV fans discuss all aspects of the content in depth, learn from each other and share thoughts on specific scenes in a safe online setting.
Who founded flickd?
flickd was founded in 2024 by Matilde Neffe out of a strong need to create a user-centric app for all TV & film lovers like herself, to come together and have discussions around content, as well as track what they're watching in one single place. After 10 years at Amazon, Matilde decided to leave the company and pursue her passion for film & TV.
While at Amazon, she gained extensive experience at Prime Video, working with studios to integrate their content onto Prime Video's selection, and leading the team responsible for personalization and recommendation of content across iOS, Android, Fire TV and smart TVs. Next, she worked closely with startups at AWS and then with Product and Engineering in the development of the search functionality of the Amazon app on both iOS and Android, leveraging cutting-edge technology like automated speech recognition and GenAI technologies.
WFTV member has set up a WFTV short film club group chat
Casey has put together a WFTV Short Film Club group chat in order to find collaborations, ask questions about funding or just general support and queries.
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If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please fill in the form here with your details.
Black Women in Post Production (BWIPP) Network
Are you a Black/Black Mixed heritage woman or non-binary creative working or aspiring to work in Post Production. Join the Black Women In Post Production Network for free here.
By joining their community, you'll gain access to a wealth of resources, tools and support systems in a safe, inclusive digital space.
Together, we're shaping the future of their industry by connecting Black female and non-binary talent to opportunity and building networks that are all too often out of reach.
You'll receive an invite to their Community Hub and have the option to join their talent directory too!
For allies, advocates and industry friends that wish to support their work and be invited to their networking events, please sign up to their mailing lis.
Listen to BWIPP Network on Spotify here.
Watch BWIPP Network on YouTube here.
Follow on Instagram: @bwippnetwork
Actors' Children's Trust - Fund for actors who are parents.
The Actors’ Children’s Trust (ACT) funds actors who are parents. ACT pays for children’s activities, support for specialist educational needs and disabilities, kit, IT and lots more.
ACT may be able to make work more feasible by paying childcare costs of up to £600 per child per month, or the cost of seeing your family when you are working away from home. You don’t have to be on benefits. Gross household income (plus general savings over £6k) should total less than £45,000 in the last 12 months. Charity grants are not taxable and don’t affect benefits.
Send the confidential contact form on actorschildren.org or email robert@actorschildren.org.
Join the Messy Collective - London’s messiest writers collective
The three founders of Messy Collective are known as the Messy Women and organise events and online spaces in their own chaotic fashion because they adore the quirky, hot-but-doesn’t-know-it community they’ve built, and want to help talented artists connect and create great work.
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They run monthly drinks for writers and collaborators, plus other events
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Run a WhatsApp group for writers and collaborators to chat, celebrate and commiserate
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Their newsletter will consist of invites to events, monthly writeealongs, workshops and live reads of new work.​​​​
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