Events (Week Commencing 16 January)
1. London Short Film Festival
Various London Venues
Date & time:
Fri 20 – Sun 29 Jan
Founded in 2003 and now in our 20th year, London Short Festival (LSFF) is a BAFTA and BIFA qualifying, internationally regarded independent short film festival. Join London Short Film Festival as they celebrate its 20th edition over nine days with packed programmes of short films, supplemented with panel discussions, Q&As and live performances. The opening screening of the festival celebrates the work and careers of some of its illustrious alumni, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.
Find out the Full Programme HERE
2. Meet the Makers 2023
LCC Screen School Presents ‘Meet the Makers’ – a week-long series of masterclasses with hi profile guests, screenings, interviews, Q and A, and meet n greets where all Screen School students are welcome.
MONDAY 23rd JAN. (LTA 11 – 1 ) – EVE GUTIERREZ , Executive Producer & Head of Talent
MONDAY 23rd JAN. (LTA 2 – 5) – PETER HOAR , BAFTA Winning Director (The Last of Us, Umbrella Academy)
TUESDAY 24th JAN. (LTC 11-1) – KATIE BUCHANAN, Executive Producer, Showrunner, Producer, Documentary Director
TUESDAY 24th JAN. (LTA 2-5) – TOBY HAYNES, Director, Executive Producer (Andour, Sherlock)
WEDNESDAY 25th JAN. (LTA 10 – 1) – FOTIS BEGKLIS – Film poet, director, editor and IAN D. FLEMING – Screenwriter and director. Join Ian and Fotis as they share historic works with Q&A Quizzed by Mark Clompus
WEDNESDAY 25th JAN. (LTA 3 – 5) – VIKASH PATEL, Emmy-winning Editor (Ozark, The Morning Show)
FRIDAY 27th JAN. (LTC 11 – 1) – NOSA EKE, Director-Screenwriter (Inspirational BAFTV / NFTS / BFI Flare alumni)
FRIDAY 27th JAN. (LTA 2 – 5) – BAFT graduation films ‘They’ and ‘Keep off the Grass’
3. RTS FUTURES CAREERS FAIR 2023
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
10am – 4pm
Location – Business Design Centre. London N1 0QH
The RTS Careers Fair is making a comeback in person so don’t miss your chance to be a part of this HUGE event. They are once again teaming up with exhibitors all over UK, giving you the chance to network with them and other attendees!
The Careers Fair 2023 will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2023 at the Business Design Centre, London.
Get all the latest tips, tricks and practical advice to help you land that all important first job in TV, learn about the different jobs and schemes out there and network with the most influential creatives in the business!
Take part in the CV Clinic & Career Advice area where you can get your CV tweaked by industry professionals. Within this area we will have tables dedicated to CV tips and advice and a number of Career Advice tables for those who just need some general advice. This area will be an all-day advice hub where attendees will have the chance to network with industry professionals of different levels, find out who they are, what their job entails and how they got their start.
They will also have several informative sessions running throughout the day delivered by the best in the industry.
Find more information about the RTS Future Careers Fair HERE
4. All The Beauty and The Bloodshed + Q&A
PICTUREHOUSE CENTRAL
Date & time: Fri 27 Jan, 8:00pm
Age Guidance: 18
Join Picturehouse Cinema for a screening of All The Beauty and The Bloodshed. The film is an emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable. The film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Laura Poitras.
BOOK YOUR TICKET HERE
5. BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD: INFINITE FOLDS, THE SERPENTINE, LONDON
Now in her 80s, Philadelphia-born, Paris-based sculptor, poet, and writer Barbara Chase is finally getting her long-awaited flowers. Since the 1960s, Chase-Riboud has been “committed to foregrounding transnational histories and cultures”, paying homage to cultural legends like Malcolm X, Josephine Baker, Cleopatra, and more, through her sculpture and drawing work, and “prompting a consideration of which people and events are commemorated, and for whom”. Currently she has her first UK solo exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery with Infinite Folds, a retrospective that will bring you up to speed on her incredible oeuvre from its early beginnings to the present day.
Until 29 January. Free admission
BOOK YOUR TICKET HERE
8. RTS Student Masterclass
The 2022 RTS Student Masterclasses have been postponed to Thursday 26 January 2023.
RTS masterclasses offer insights into the inner workings of the television industry, from presenting to camerawork.
Speakers include –
Nima Elbagir is CNN’s multi-award winning Chief International Investigative Correspondent. She joined CNN in 2011 as a Johannesburg-based correspondent before moving to the network’s Nairobi bureau and later London, where she is currently based.
Elbagir was named the 2020 Royal Television Society ‘Television Journalist of the Year’ and received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her “fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern day slave market in Libya, to child labor in Congo, and a smuggler’s network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption.”
Tanya Stephan is a BAFTA and multi-award winning documentary director and series director.
Her films address major current affairs stories and challenging social issues though people’s personal stories. Cinematic and intimate, her films have been described as beautifully crafted, sensitively handled and bold.
In 2022 she won the BAFTA Specialist Factual Award, and the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Award for Best International Current Affairs Documentary for her feature-length documentary The Missing Children.
With 20 years’ experience in the industry, Sohail specialises in factual entertainment, factual and popular culture programming; and has credits on all 5 UK terrestrial channels and numerous digital channels worldwide.
Alongside commissioning & production, Sohail has been a successful Head of Development, heading up development departments for BBC Studios, ITV Studios, STV Productions and October Films amongst others. Since 2018, Sohail has also been a Non-Exec Director for Elstree Film and TV Studios, helping the world-famous studio to expand; culminating in the launch of the brand new ‘Platinum Stages’ in 2022.
He has also served as part of the Edinburgh Film and Television Festival Advisory Board several times, as well as being a committee member for the ‘Ones To Watch’ and ‘The Network’ Talent Schemes which take place during the annual media event.
Lewis Arnold is a director and producer. In 2021 he directed Jimmy McGovern’s TIME starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, which won a BAFTA for Best Mini-Series and Best Leading Actor for Sean Bean.
In 2020 he directed DES for New Pictures and ITV, having created the three-part drama with writer Luke Neal. The series won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance.
It was on graduating from the National Film and Television School in 2013, that Lewis embarked on directing his first TV project, directing with two episodes of BAFTA-winning C4 show, MISFITS. He has also directed hit shows BANANA, BROADCHURCH and HUMANS.
Follow RTS on Twitter @RTS_media and #RTSStudent
Visit RTS Masterclasses page to watch sessions from previous years.
For more information on bookings, please click HERE
9. Guillermo del Toro in Conversation: Animation for All
Friday 27 January 2023 18:00, NFT1
Guillermo del Toro comes to BFI Southbank to talk about his passion for animation and its importance as a medium. Pinocchio had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and has gone on to receive huge critical acclaim and awards attention. We are delighted to welcome Guillermo del Toro to BFI Southbank to talk about his long-term passion for animation, his journey in making his first animated film and the importance of recognizing animation as being a medium that is for everyone. This event will be hosted by the BFI’s Justin Johnson and features clips from some of del Toro’s favourite animated films alongside a discussion about the making of Pinocchio with a guest appearance from his fellow director Mark Gustafson.
Tickets £18, concessions £16 (non-members pay £2 more). Book your ticket HERE
10. LSFF: Mark Jenkin: An Fylmow Berr + Q&A with Mark Jenkin
Sunday 29 January 2023 18:20, NFT3
Total running time 115min
A showcase of the Enys Men director’s earlier work.
Acclaimed BAFTA-winning Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men, Bait) presents a retrospective of his short works. Continually experimenting with form, this programme delineates his transition from digital to the highly distinctive, analogue techniques for which he is celebrated. These are codified in Silent Landscape Dancing Grain 13 (SLDG13), a self-penned manifesto that promotes the aesthetic and practical benefits of handmade celluloid work.