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So great to be part of the brilliant School of Arts in such a creative city. Today we're gathering to talk about Local/Regional and International Partnerships at hearing from Bristol Culture and

Provocations:

How can Bristol attract, grow and retain the next generation of artists, makers and cultural leaders?

How can cultural institutions work for everyone?

How can we be more deeply embedded within the community and bring the international into dialogue with local contexts?

How can we be more inclusive, sustainable and accessible?

How can partnerships avoid being extractive?

How can we be more radical about our partnerships?

How can large-scale, international cultural institutions support and work in tandem with smaller, grass roots, artist-led organisations to support emerging artists and foster a healthy ecology?

How can partnerships amplify voices of emerging talent and advocate for arts and culture?

UWE Filmmaking students' work was recently showcased at an albert event held at BAFTA's headquarters. Their project, The Footprint Follows, was highlighted as a case study on the BAFTA albert Education Partnership website. We are incredibly proud of the sustainability knowledge our students demonstrate both behind and in front of the camera! Read more on their website: https://wearealbert.org/2023/10/10/education-partnership-spotlight-how-uwe-students-put-sustainability-first-with-their-award-winning-commercial-footprint-follows/

Our wonderful students have been at it again! The UWE Bristol Screen Industry programmes of Filmmaking, Animation and MA Wildlife received a total of 7 nominations and 3 wins at the National RTS Student Awards 🌟

, created by last year's graduates as part of their final film production module, won 'Best Undergraduate Drama' 🎉

Here's what the judges had to say:
“The winning film impressed the panel with its authentic and relatable story, told with an irresistible life force, wit and energy. Brilliantly dynamic use of camera, interesting framing and sophisticated yet simple lighting brought the drama to life. Clever visual storytelling, music and humour augmented the piece; really highlighting the feel of the film's world and the aspirations and frustrations of the lead characters.”

✂️ Skive wins Nations Student Television Award for Best Undergraduate Drama 28 seconds · Clipped by Charlotte Crofts · Original video "Student Television Awards 2024 | Highlights" by Royal Television Society

Great to hear from Homegrown Journeys offers an exclusive opportunity to hear from BFI NETWORK South West New Voices alumni Jojo Bossman and Shanti George , hosted by Euella Jackson, Co-director of Rising Arts Agency , with an intro from Adam Murray from . Really inspiring start to INSPIRED 24!

Good luck to our students at the Student Commercial Awards! Ceremony starting now!

Final crit of UWE Film graduate films, happening NOW!!!!!

Our students had the exciting opportunity to visit Bristol-based prop makers Mangostone and learn about all the amazing craftsmanship that goes into creating objects for film and TV – from ancient creatures to enormous telescopes 🔭

The students were given an insightful tour of the workshop and its processes; they were even able to witness a current prop build by their talented team 🔨

The students came away with a renewed respect for craft and inspired by the many wonderful creations by team Mangostone.

Now hearing from Jonathan Brigden and team from & the newly launched Distortion Studios talking about Virtual Production, using camera-tracking kit, and Unreal game-engine, initially developed during pandemic to work safely, now has environmental impact, saving on transport

Next up, hearing from a panel of freelancers doing it their way, Richard Botchway assistant commissioner , Georgia Redman Script Supervisor and filmmaker, Emma Walker managing director at Curly Media and Jeremy Wiles camera and editor

Great turn out and fab first panel at the Creative Cities Convention Student Masterclass, on getting into the industry with Vicki Ball Camilla Chiverton Allison Dowell Helen Pratt host d by alumna Stacey Olika, inspiring the next gen if film & TV talent supported by

Experiments in Radical Publishing

Join us for an informal panel on exciting developments in screen and sound research publishing



Sonic Screen Lab, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

Wednesday 1 May 5.00-6.30pm Lecture Theatre B (LTB)



Academic publishing is rapidly changing from traditional print journals and books to multiple forms, sites and places to present research. This event explores these developments with a focus on practice-based screen and sound journals, open access research, and innovative publishing projects.



The event will address how these developments are challenging the way academic research is presented and published. This will include examining developments in practice-based research and journals; the politics of open access research; experimental book publishing; race and postcolonial digital publishing and new possibilities in knowledge exchange and university research.



The event is open to all UAL staff, students and external guests. Please reserve a place by booking via Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiments-in-radical-publishing-tickets-884178350247



Speakers:

Charlotte Crofts is Professor of Cinema Arts, Department of Arts, College of Arts, Technology and Environment, teaching on BA (Hons) Filmmaking (), MSc Sustainable Development and leading the BAFTA Albert Educational Partnership for Sustainable Filmmaking. A filmmaker and creative producer, Charlotte works across film, locative-media and festival curation. She is Editor-in-Chief of Screenworks, the online peer-reviewed journal of screen media practice research () and co-editor of Open Screens.



Janneke Adema (she/her) is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University). In her research she explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production, where her work incorporates processual and performative publishing, radical open access, post-publishing, scholarly poethics, media studies, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory.



Ashwani Sharma is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL). He is a co-ordinating member of the Sonic Screen Lab at LCC, and an associate fellow of the Research Centre for Transnational Arts, Identity and Nation (TrIAN) at UAL. He is the co-founding editor of darkmatter, an online, open access peer-reviewed journal and platform which focuses on race and postcolonial culture.



Mark Peter Wright (Chair) is a Reader in Critical Sound Practice at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts, London (UAL). He is also the Screen School Research Coordinator and a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice).

Experiments in Radical Publishing Join us for an informal panel on exciting developments in screen and sound research publishing.

So proud of our recent Alumnus Oscar and grateful the Bristol is such a vibrant film city that can provide opportunities like this for our graduates! Thank you Bristol Film Office

As part of our new series shining the spotlight on local new entrants working in Bristol's film and HETV scene, we spoke to 22 year old Oscar Blakeborough from Bristol, a UWE Bristol Filmmaking graduate (Filmmaking_UWE) who got his first proper break into scripted TV drama as a Rushes Runner on Season 3 of Alex Rider.
Read our Q&A with Oscar here: https://bit.ly/4aARrUF

Produced by Eleventh Hour Films, Alex Rider Season 3 filmed from November 2022 to March 2023 at The Bottle Yard Studios' new TBY2 facility and on location in Bristol, assisted by our Film Office team. Watch it from 5th April 2024 on Amazon FreeVee.

If you live in the West of England and are interested in a career in scripted film and TV production, check out the 2024 West of England Film & HETV Workforce Development Programme, delivered by The Bottle Yard Studios, Bristol UNESCO City Of Film & Bristol Film Office. The next cohort opens for applications in May. For full details, click here: https://bit.ly/3HntT8y

Delighted we were joined by wonderful Jess Wheeler, talent executive for in convo with our very own Professor Charlotte Crofts talking about the BFI Short film fund, New voices scheme, the Early development fund, the BFI academy and all the other work around talent development in the region. Thank you so much!

Exciting to learn more about inroads into sustainable production, climate editorial as well as accessible filmmaking practices.

A group of our L3s screened their short documentary at
Bolton Film Festival yesterday! 🎉

Their film 'Forgotten Fibre' won the Lens for Change award 🌳

The film aims to reveal wool's forgotten potential in textiles, and the industry's urgent need for sustainable solutions 🧶

Previous winners have gone on to win at a national level, so we're keeping our fingers crossed for them! 🤞

We are proud of our 2022-23 albert Education Partnership graduates of the Applied Skills for a Sustainable Film Industry Accreditation led by Professor Charlotte Crofts.

This year we embedded the training in our Professional Practice modules at Level 2 and 3 led by Vanessa Bewley, and we had a bumper crop. Students learn about sustainable production best practice and how to reduce the carbon footprint of their productions, but are also assessed on their ability to tell stories that can engage audiences with environmental sustainability through "climate content".

albert is fast becoming the industry standard internationally and may soon become compulsory learning for some employers in the industry, so we're delighted that our students have got a head start with this which will make them more employable.

Watch this space for more updates about our students' engagement with green filmmaking!

https://wearealbert.org/education-partnership/

Congratulations to our amazing UWE students who won at Royal Television Society National Student Awards! 🎉 4 award wins and a further 6 nominations across & Animation 🏅

⭐ Best Comedy Drama (Undergraduate) - Chloe Ireland, Patrick Whinder-Montague, Indigo Knox Thompson, Sam Schoettner & team for 'Robbie Wrecked the Band'

⭐ Best Editing across All Undergraduate Filmmaking - Indigo Knox Thompson for 'Robbie Wrecked the Band'

⭐ Best Writing across all Undergraduate Filmmaking - Tova Persson for 'Offerlamm'

⭐ Best Camerawork across all Postgraduate Filmmaking - Miles Storey for 'Finding Solo'

Three of our fabulous student films have been nominated for national Royal Television Society student awards!

🎺 Robbie Wrecked the Band (Undergraduate Entertainment and Comedy Drama)

🌍 Blind Spot (Undergraduate Environment and Sustainability)

🍸 Spiked (Undergraduate Journalism)

Winners will be announced on 23rd June at the ceremony at BFI Southbank 🤞

📸 Robbie Wrecked the Band

Our fabulous alumni Chloe May Law, George Blu Byford and their team won 'Best Short Documentary' at Bristol Independent Film Festival this weekend! 🎉

Directed by Chloe, 'The Mogumentary' tells the story of Bristolian cat-about-town Mog 😻

Congratulations to our fabulous class of '22! 🥳 We are so proud of you all and can't wait to see what you go on to achieve.

We are so proud to announce that our students won an amazing 6 awards at the National RTS Student Awards! 🎉

⭐Eden - Best Factual
⭐Barney Janes - Best Camera for Eden
⭐The State of Earth - Best Undergraduate Sustainability Film
⭐The Third Man - Best News & Sport
⭐Flight of the Puffin - Best Postgraduate Sustainability Film
⭐Amanda Sosnowski - Best Camera for Ghost Ponds

UWE_Film successful at NAHEMI/KODAK awards yesterday!

The NAHEMI Kodak Competition has now been running for 25 years and is a chance for the country’s leading Film Schools to respond to real life commercial briefs and to produce adverts using 16mm Film supplied by Kodak.

Competition was stiff this year, with 12 institutions taking part, responding to five briefs set by professional creative agencies.

UWE Bristol again had a very strong showing across the board, winning a number of highly prized craft awards as well as placing well and winning a Best in Brief.

Here are our results;

Best Cinematography - Olly Blower for Queen of Sass (Hun)

Best Production Design - Christel Draycott for Goddess of the Moon (Mooncup)

Best Editing - Emily Merritt-Moore for A Better Way (Mooncup)

Best in Brief for HUN - Queen of Sass
Courtney Knowles and her team

2nd in Brief and 3rd Overall - Financial Mobility
Sam Schoetttner & Patrick Whinder-Montague and their team

3rd in Brief for Ovarian Cancer Action - Missing Pieces
Chloe Ireland and her team

Three of our amazing student films have been nominated for National RTS Student Television awards!

🐝 State of the Earth - Undergraduate Sustainability category
🏊‍♀️ Eden - Undergraduate Factual category
🥊The Third Man - Undergraduate News and Sport category

Winners to be announced on Friday 24 June!

Huge congratulations to "Brown Wolfe" for being shortlisted for the international Yugo BAFTA Student Awards, celebrating the next generation of filmmaking talent! The film was created by a group of our students last year and we are so proud of them 🙌
https://bafta.org/supporting-talent/the-2022-yugo-bafta-student-awards-shortlist

The 2022 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards Shortlist The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has today announced the shortlist for the 2022 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards. This year’s shortlisted 82 projects have been selected from a record-breaking 715 submissions f

LET US BE SEEN DOCUMENTARY SCREENING &‌ DIRECTOR'S Q&‌A

Join us for this screening hosted by the Bristol Radical Film Festival and the UWE Moving Image Research Group, followed by a director Q&A

Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA View Map
Date and time: Wed, 4 May 2022, 18:00 – 20:30 BST

Synopsis:
Let Us Be Seen (dir. Elspeth Vischer, 2022) is a documentary about grassroots feminism in Belfast, featuring activists, artists and educators from the North of Ireland. This is a film that showcases the punk alternative to sectarian politics of old and ascribes to the mantra: 'Not the Church. Not the State. People must decide their fate!'

Charlotte Crofts (co-convenor of the UWE Moving Image Research Group) will introduce the film and the screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Elspeth Vischer, led by Humberto Perez-Blanco of the Bristol Radical Film Festival.

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The film was developed as a Creative-Practice PhD at Queens University, Belfast: 'Let Us Be Seen: Analysing and Documenting the Development of Grassroots Feminism in Belfast'. Through an oral history approach, interviewing numerous people in Education, Arts and Activist organisations in Belfast this feature documentary film and accompanying research explores the ways in which feminism is operating on a grassroots level in contemporary Belfast and its recent history. The project takes a comparative approach to look at Peace Process-era grassroots feminism and explores the nexus of feminist and q***r identity politics, investigating how intersectionality operates in practice versus theory.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/671640634

Elspeth Vischer is a freelance filmmaker specialising in writing, directing and editing music video, fiction and documentary content. Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Elspeth is a graduate of UWE Film Studies and went on to complete a Masters and is currently undertaking a PhD at Queens University Belfast

We are excited to announce that student film Eden won Best Factual Film at Royal Television Society West of England student awards! The documentary tells the extraordinary story of transgender woman Eden who, on a quest to preserve their fertility, managed to break the rules and find a new passion at the same time 🏊‍♂️

Green Screen: Climate Emergency Films of the Year
Sun 27 March
Watershed - FREE

Award-winning filmmaker and UWE Phd Candidate Adam Laity is featured at Green Screen, a day of free short film programmes, plus a panel discussion and a family workshop all of which celebrates filmmakers and their work to explore cutting edge climate research. From the perils of a stork migrating to Sudan, to the life of the Marma People on the Bangladeshi border, to the heartbreaking and colossal shifts in ancient landscapes, the winners of this year's Climate Emergency Award push us to see the climate crisis through new eyes. Green Screen shines a light on this work and the impact it is having around the world.

Panel Discussion: Filmmaking as Climate Action
14:20 GMT

How does film help us in the fight against climate change? Join us for this discussion featuring a panel of changemakers, from filmmakers documenting the frontline of environmental collapse to activists forcing the film industry to be active participants in the transformation to a green economy.

We are delighted to welcome Suzie Cross, Adam Laity, Alfie Warren Knight and Manu Maunganidze to discuss how film can amplify crucial voices, communicate complex issues, open space for nuanced conversation as well as understand the undeniable power of aesthetics and storytelling.
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/11146/panel-discussion-filmmaking-as-climate-action

Ice on Fire: RIFA Finalist Short Films classified 12A
16:50 GMT

Join us for three cinematic shorts bearing witness to the shrinking and crumbling of ancient ice landscapes at the hands of the human race.

These RIFA award-nominated and winning films offer an emotional connection to the cold places most of us will never go, where the impacts of climate change are writ large. Offering a humbling weight to the phrase ‘the ice-caps are melting!’, the shorts also open a space for nuanced thought and provide hope for the future through cutting-edge research.
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/11148/ice-on-fire-rifa-finalist-short-films

Green Screen is an event supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (part of UK Research and Innovation) and hosted by Zoe Rasbash, Bristol + Bath Creative R+D’s Environmental Researcher, highlighting the exciting projects shortlisted as part of the AHRC’s Research in Film Awards.

Ice on Fire: RIFA Finalist Short Films A second collection of RIFA finalist short films that bear witness to the shrinking and crumbling of ancient ice landscapes at the hands of the human race.

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We are excited to announce that two of our student films have won NAHEMI National Student Film Awards! 🙌 'Eden' won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography while 'An Exquisite Dinner' won the Creativity Award. Well done to all students who worked so hard on these films! 🎬