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1st Folkestone Documentary Festival Announces 2021 Programme
The first Folkestone Documentary festival takes place at the Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse and the Silver Screen Cinema in partnership with Film Hub South East, Creative Folkestone Festival Fund, and Folkestone Town Council.
Click here to find out more.
Trainee Finder recruitment opens tomorrow with live webinar
Trainee Finder, ScreenSkills’ highly-respected programme of paid placements for new entrants opens for recruitment tomorrow with at least 250 places available. Applications close 5 December. Click here for more info
Curating for Change Launched
Curating for Change, a ground-breaking work placement programme for D/deaf and disabled curators in museums, launches today thanks to an award of £950,900.00 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The Marsh: All In A Day’s Work
As part of Fifth Continent filmmaking, Screen South are producing a mini-documentary entitled The Marsh: All In A Day’s Work. Find out how you can get involved here.
CFC – Curatorial Fellowships Apply Now
NOW RECRUITING - Curating for Change Curatorial Fellowships, February 2022 to July 2023. Do you love museums and want to begin to pursue a career in curating? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? Apply for Accentuate’s 18-month Curating for Change Curatorial Fellowships now.
Curating for Change Report launched: Disabled People Leading in Museums
Screen South, through our Accentuate Programme, is delighted to launch our report, Curating for Change: disabled people leading in museums. This is based on extensive consultation we have undertaken over the last year in preparation for the Curating for Change programme (subject to funding).
Discover the New Creatives Interactive Projects, Now Available
As part of New Creatives South East, we recently commissioned 4 Interactive projects. Click here to find out more about how you can discover these unique pieces.
Screen South and Accentuate launch Curating for Change
Curating for Change, aims to tackle the underrepresentation of D/deaf and disabled people in our Museums, secures National Lottery funding. To find our more about the project click here.
A Year In The Life Of The Romney Marsh 2020
Screen South has been working with the local residents of the Romney Marsh area to create a film calender: A Year In The Life Of The Romney Marsh. Click here to see this month's entry and find out how you can get involved.
Alumni
BFI Kent Film Academy Alumni Georgia Thornton was selected by Trinity College London for Progress in her Arts Award achievements.
Mdhamiri Á Nkemi - BFI to Editor
Find out more about how BFI Kent Film Academy helped Mdhamiri Á Nkemi become a successful editor
Katie O’Hara – The BFI Film Academy to Elstree Studios
Find out more about one of our BFI Film Academy Alumni Katie O'Hara who is on her way to Elstree Studios
Twenty, Forty, Sixty
After the success of the Random Act ‘Digital Tattoo: Artefact 1’, Katie and Rebecca Dale-Everett have gone onto launch a successfull production company 'Kabecca Films' and have since created the dance piece ‘Twenty, Forty, Sixty’. Find out more about their journey here.
Jemima Hughes – Technology for Talking
Find out more about Jemima Hughes and Technology for talking. (How to speak when you don't have a voice.)
Charlie Tidmas from Folkestone to Features
Find out more about one of our BFI Film Academy Alumni Charlie who has carved out an impressive career so far leading him to write two feature film scrips, a short and sit-com bible.
Astrid Goldsmith – Quarantine
Find out more about local Animator Astrid Goldsmith and her commission for the BFI / BBC Animation 2018 talent scheme, Quarantine which Screen South Produced.
Ryan Bloom – Maidstone to LA
Find out more about one of our first BFI Film Academy Alumni who has carved out an impressive career so far leading him all the way to LA
Past News
Free Camera Workshops – Fifth Continent
Screen South are running a Camera Workshop in advance of our filming the Marsh Mosaic Event on Saturday 21st August. If you are intersted in attending the workshop or volunteering to help film the event, please click here for more information.
D4D Future Perfect: Future Imperfect Mini Online Festival
‘Future Perfect; Future Imperfect’ Hybrids, Scroungers – or Just Phased Out? Friday 2nd July 2021, 2pm-4pm. Click here for more information
Filming on the Marsh – Filmmaking Volunteers Needed
We are in search of volunteers to capture footage of a number of events taking place on the Marsh in Kent during June-August 2021.
Screen South & South East Creatives presents: The Kent Film Sessions
Welcome to The Kent Film Sessions. A series of Industry Conversations with News & Networking. Our First Session is Thursday 27th May. Click here to find out more and register for your free place.
New Creatives AUDIO Applications Now Open!
Apply now for an AUDIO New Creatives Commission. Click here to find out all the information
JAM on the Marsh Film Challenge – The Winners!
Watch the entries to the JAM on the Marsh Film Challenge and find out who came 1st.
Spirit Corp longlisted for Lumen Prize
New Creative piece ‘Spirit Corp’ by Sian Fan has been longlisted for the Lumen Prize.
New Creatives Audio – Deadline Extended
We have re-opened the deadline for the New Creatives Audio Commissions. Click here to find out how you can apply. Deadline 3rd August Midday.
Funding opportunities NOW OPEN for New Creatives Film & Audio
New Creatives is an exciting new talent development scheme that offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists to create new artistic works in film, or audio or interactive media, designed for BBC platforms. Applications are now open for New Creatives to be commissioned by the BBC. Find out more.
Sir Quentin Blake Artwork sells out in seconds
The Quentin Blake art sale has now sadly ended, with each piece selling in seconds. Click here to find out more about this event.
Sir Quentin Blake supports Screen South’s Accentuate programme.
Sir Quentin Blake has generously donated 10 original artworks for sale to support Screen South’s Accentuate programme as part of the Artist Support Pledge. To find out more and how you can purchase an orignal Quentin Blake, click here.
GET ANIMATED!
We are excited to announce the next launch of New Creatives from the South East Region with GET ANIMATED: being broadcast this Sunday 26 April 2020 on BBC4 at 10:55pm, and available to watch after BBC iPlayer. It will include works from four of our New Creatives; Sian Fan, Chris Dunlevy, Jordan Buckner and Catriona Carswell, with dark, amusing and creative animated examinations of our world.
Over Hawkinge
Are you interested in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and Hawkinge's role in said Battle? We are planning to work with local community groups to make a project around this topic, lead by you. To find out how you can get involved, click here.
JAM on the Marsh – Film Competition and Filmmaking Masterclasses
JAM on the Marsh and Screen South, with support from National Lottery Heritage Fund funded Fifth Continent, are launching an exciting new film making competition, open to residents of Kent or Sussex.
New Creatives Online
We are proud to annouce the first New Creatives Films and Audio pieces are now up online and being shown on BBC Four. Click here to find out how you can watch and listen to the next generation of Creatives.
Autumn Film Challenge – The Winners!
Watch the entries to the Fifth Continent Autumn Film Challenge and find out who came 1st.
Kent in WW1 – The Whitehead Family
In August 2019, Screen South received a phone call from a lady called Patricia who was tracking down her family history and found something interesting on our Kent in WW1 Website.
At the House of Commons: Meeting with policymakers, planning for the future
At our final event at the House of Commons with funders and policy makers, we made the case for all our project has achieved – and looked for the pledges that will embed the stories of deaf and disabled people in museums in the future.
BBC & Screen South launch New Creatives
100 new and emerging artists across the South East will be commissioned to make fresh and innovative short films, audio and interactive works in a new talent development scheme being launched today by BBC Arts and Arts Council England.
Find out how you can enter the Kent Film Foundation Short Film Challenge and see our BFI Film Academy entries from this year’s Academy.
After her identical twin is eaten alive by a shark, Juliet tries to come to terms with her sister’s unconventional death via unconventional means… Find out how you can support “Departure Point” crowdfunding
