Events (W.C. 13 February)
1. RTS Futures: Anatomy of a Hit: His Dark Materials
Join the team behind one of the BBC’s most-ambitious dramas as they discuss what it took to bring three seasons of Philip Pullman’s best-selling trilogy to the screen.
Actor Dafne Keen (Lyra) will be joined by Executive Producers Jane Tranter and Dan McCulloch, Production Designer & EP Joel Collins, Writer & EP Francesca Gardiner and Senior VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson to discuss the ground-breaking production and unpack the challenges of creating worlds, angels and daemons in Wales for a global audience.
Featuring exclusive clips and an audience Q&A.
Panel:
Dafne Keen – Lyra
Jane Tranter – Executive Producer
Dan McCulloch – Executive Producer
Joel Collins – Production Designer & Executive Producer
Francesca Gardiner – Writer & Executive Producer
Russell Dodgson – Senior VFX Supervisor
Booking Details:
Tickets are £15 for non members and free for RTS Members but must be booked in advance.
Please input your membership number when booking. Email membership@rts.org.uk if you need help finding your membership number.
Tickets are non-refundable
Register for tickets HERE
2. Fixing the skills shortage: Recruiting for the future of the industry
Skills shortages are pressing across the economy, but are particularly acute in the creative industries. In recent years these industries have delivered more economic value than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive sectors combined. But skills are currently the biggest single inhibitor to growth (Seetha Kumar, ScreenSkills)
Our industry has the tricky challenge of developing a coherent and compelling narrative for both government and potential entrants to the many possible careers. The situation is multi-faceted, with hundreds of data points: this session will address issues such as what is happening in education, where are the mid-tier scarcities, and how should the industry address churn in some of the most vulnerable areas?.
Chaired by the Founder of Talented People, Kimberly Godbolt.
Panel:
Seetha Kumar – Chief Executive, Screen Skills
Kevin Blacoe – Head of Partnerships, 4 Skills at Channel 4
Alison Small – Grow Creative, Netflix
Sonny Hanley – Director, ITV Academy
Event Details:
Location – Zoom Webinar
Date – Tuesday 21 February
Time – 1pm – 2pm
Register HERE
3. UNLOCKING THE BBC ARCHIVE
How digitisation and the Cloud have made the BBC’s hidden treasures more accessible.
In this session, RTS London looks at how new technology has opened up the BBC Archive as a source of new resources and user experiences, enabling producers, educators, and the public to access an incomparable volume of audio and video content. The switch to modern digital architectures is enabling transformational process change, leading to more efficient forms of discovery and curation, and far greater accessibility.
The BBC Archives Technology & Services team will show how machine learning has helped to construct new content, including an in-depth look at how the BBC’s widely celebrated Centenary promotional videos were made. They’ll also explore the challenges of extensive digitisation and its ongoing preservation.
As technological change continues to sweep across all aspects of our lives, this session is a great opportunity to find out how the BBC Archive is refreshing its contribution to our cultural heritage, in support of our digital future.
Tickets include a complimentary glass of wine over which to continue the discussion in the bar afterward. Please note this event has now sold out but will be recorded. Join the waiting list to be notified when this is released. You will also be notified if physical places become available.
Chair:
Brendan Mallon – Head of Product & Services, BBC AT&S
Panel:
Claire Coss – Head of Product Library & Curatorial Services, BBC AT&S
Lynne Dent – Executive Product Manager, BBC AT&S
Mark Glanville – Senior Architect, BBC AT&S
Producer: Carol Owens
Venue:
Screen 2
Everyman Kings Cross
14-18 Handyside Street
London N1C 4DN
Wednesday, 8 March, 2023, 5:30pm for 6:00pm
To join the waiting list, click HERE
4. ICO Spring Screening Days 2023
11/03/2023 – 19/03/2023
BFI Southbank, London
Screening Days is a chance for cinema professionals to preview key upcoming films to aid their programming, marketing and audience development.
We’re delighted to be returning to BFI Southbank for our flagship spring event, where we’ll be screening an array of the best independent films set for release in the months following so you can pack your programmes with new discoveries to delight your audiences.
This Screening Days is a hybrid (in-person and online) event. You can attend in-person at BFI Southbank from Sat 11 to Mon 13 March and/or watch a selection of films from the programme online from Tues 14 to Sun 19 March.
New to Screening Days? Check out our trailer to get a sense of what it’s like. These events showcase some of the best upcoming independent films from across the world – and if you work or volunteer somewhere that shows films, we’d love you to join us!
Not sure if Screening Days is for you? See our Eligibility section.
For all other details, scroll down or see our FAQ.
Explore the programme HERE
5. Subject + Director Q&A
Bertha Dochouse
Date & time:
Fri 24 Feb, 6:30pm
Join Betha Dochouse for a special screening of Subject. Subject explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through key participants of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square. These erstwhile documentary “stars” reveal the highs and lows of their experiences as well as the everyday realities of having their lives put under a microscope.
Also featuring commentary from such influential names in the doc world as Kirsten Johnson, Sam Pollard, Thom Powers and Sonya Childress, the film unpacks vital issues around the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking. As tens of millions of people consume documentaries in an unprecedented “golden era,” Subject urges audiences to consider the often profound impact on their participants.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera and contributor Margaret Ratliff, hosted by freelance writer and broadcaster Simran Hans.
Book your tickets HERE
6. BFI FLARE 2023
The 37th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival programme is finally here with 58 features and 90 shorts from 41 countries. For the first time ever, this year’s BFI Flare features a selection of four immersive projects from LGBTQIA+ artists, taking you beyond the cinema screen.
BFI Southbank will be buzzing with special events and DJ Nights, and a curated selection of free short films will be available to watch on BFI Player including Five Films for Freedom in partnership with the British Council.
Tickets go on sale on Fri 24 Feb (BFI Members book early), so now’s the time to start browsing the line-up on our website, by downloading the digital brochure or grabbing a copy from BFI Southbank. Don’t forget to check out our How to Fest guide to help you get started.
Explore the Programme HERE
7. Creature + intro and Q&A with director Asif Kapadia and other members of the filmmaking team (TBA)
Friday 24 February 2023 18:10, NFT1 – BFI South bank
Based on the acclaimed English National Ballet production, choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy, The Warrior), Creature is a genre-busting collaboration that fuses film and contemporary dance. In a dilapidated former Arctic research station, Creature (Jeffrey Cirio) is unknowingly enlisted by a military brigade into an experimental programme. Creature meets and falls in love with Marie (Erina Takahashi), a cleaner who shows him kindness and compassion; together they dream of escape. This vivid cinematic experience is a beautiful, tragic tale of an outsider’s search for belonging, the insatiable desires of the powerful, and the enduring hope found in human connection and compassion.
Book your tickets HERE
8. London Film & TV Job Fair
If you’re looking for your next job in the Film & TV industry then come along to the London Film & TV Job Fair. There will be a range of 40+ companies including:
- Production Companies looking to hire
- Individual feature and short film productions looking to hire
- Film & TV Recruitment Companies
- Casting & Extras Agents
- Runner & Crew Agencies
- Further resources for finding work in the Film & TV industry
On the day you will be able to:
- Talk to employers, recruiters and agents face to face
- Have mini interviews on the spot and make an amazing first impression with your personality instead of relying solely on written CV
- Discover the range of options there are when looking for work in the Film & TV industry in London
- Network with hundreds of filmmakers and building lasting relationships that will help you build your career
- Have a professional take a look at your CV and give you tips on how to improve
In just a few hours you could walk out with a wide range of industry contacts to help grow your career, a better CV, knowledge of where to find work, potential interviews lined up, or even a job.
NETWORKING:
Come along to meet and network with like-minded filmmakers, actors, film financiers and indie-film marketing specialists. Whether you’re on the hunt for cast and crew, new projects, or are looking to explore your financing and marketing options, this is the perfect time and place to discuss all your current and future projects, with a drink in your hand and some great company! We welcome everyone to attend, whether you’re a filmmaker with heaps of experience or are completely new to the industry.
Below are the currently confirmed exhibitors:
Find more details HERE
9. Close-Up Cinemas on Danny Lyon: 18 – 26 February 2023:
Danny Lyon is best known for his work as a photographer: often in association with the New Journalism movement, for his landmark photobook The Bikeriders and as the unofficial documentarian of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Born in New York in 1942 to German and Russian Jewish immigrant parents, he has also made films since the late 1960s, that look at ‘invisible’ lives in the US immediate to him and beyond. These short and mid-length non-fiction works, made concurrent to his photographic practice but distinct in their feeling, present a pairing between and up against the parameters of portraiture and political filmmaking.
Curated by Elizabeth Dexter, this programme is the first UK overview of his moving image work and features early shorts and the full trilogy of films Lyon made documenting his friend Willie Jaramillo in New Mexico over fourteen years. It represents a rare opportunity to experience the filmmaker’s “humble and intensely personal works overswept by a sense of the depth and durability of the human spirit as observed during long moments that accrue and become years, in a practice constituting more than a style, but rather a whole system of ethics.” – Will Van Koughnett
Explore the Programme HERE
10. A Taste of Queer Cinema: Wed 01 Feb — Tue 28 Feb 2023
Throughout February The Garden Cinema is celebrating LGBT+ History Month. Expect panel discussions, poetry readings and filmmaker networking. Plus, join us in the bar to meet up with old friends and new.
Breakdown of screenings and events below:
From 27 January, don’t miss All the Beauty & The Bloodshed, which follows the photographer and activist Nan Goldin, famous for her intimate photographs documenting gay subcultures in New York, as she protests against the Sackler family for their role in the opioid crisis.
From 10 February, catch Georgia Oakley’s BAFTA-nominated debut Blue Jean: a searing portrait of life under Section 28 in 1980’s England. The screening on 15 February will be followed by a panel discussion with Hélène Sifre (producer of Blue Jean), Laila El-Metoui (Founder of Pride in Education), and Sarah Drummond (Director of Don’t Say Gay- a feature documentary uncovering the story of Section 28). The panel will be hosted by Trudy Howson (the LGBT Poet Laureate).
On 17 February, we are thrilled to present Gateways Grind + Q&A with director Jacquie Lawrence and producer Felicity Milton, hosted by the LGBT Poet Laureate Trudy Howson. The film relives the glory of the Gateways club, London’s longest-surviving lesbian club, with Sandi Toksvig as your guide.
On 22 February there’s also a chance to see the LGBT classic Victim on the big screen. Basil Dearden’s groundbreaking drama was one of the first films to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality.
From 24 February, we’re proud to be screening Saim Sadiq’s dazzling debut Joyland, which won the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Join the Queer Filmmakers Network for mingling in the bar before and after the screening on 24 February, or join us on 26 February for a special fundraiser screening and panel discussion.
Explore the Programme HERE