BFI Film Academy x Young Film Network South East x Into Film: Screening and Networking Event for Young People
Foyle Rooms
Join us for a special screening and networking event for aspiring filmmakers aged 16-25. Meet industry experts, expand your professional network, and connect with fellow creatives for potential collaborations.
Taking inspiration from the themes of Turner Contemporary’s current exhibition, Resistance, this screening will showcase captivating short films by filmmakers in the South East, each telling distinct narratives through innovative filmmaking styles.
Speakers from BFI Film Academy and Into Film will join us to discuss upcoming opportunities, funding, and programmes you can get involved in. During the networking part of the event, you’ll have the chance to connect with fellow attendees, and our speakers will be available to answer any questions you may have.
Drinks and snacks will be provided. Booking is essential.
Schedule:
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1.00pm: Welcome
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1.15pm: Film screening
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2.15pm: Break
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2.25pm: Talk – Into Film with composer Bankey Ojo: Breaking into the industry, exploring hidden roles, Q&A.
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3.05pm: Networking, snacks and drinks
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3.30pm – 4.00pm: Time to visit Steve McQueen’s Resistance
Bingo Queens
A modern fairytale about queer friendship, inner-city loneliness and the redemptive power of platonic love.
Directed by Nicholas Finegan.
Content notes: features anti LBGTQI+ harassment and scenes of violence that may be upsetting.
The Last Days
An apolitical woman learns that she has been given an incorrect Death Day, and seeks justice before her time runs out.
Directed by Dipo Baruwa-Etti.
Content notes: explores themes of racial inequality and death that may be upsetting.
The Lost Land Girl
Two sisters join the Women’s Land Army during WW2, but find themselves fighting a battle a little closer to home.
Directed by Shakira Francis.
Content notes: explores themes of racism, violence and death that may be upsetting.
Out of the Peat
An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate Lancashire peatland, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.
Directed by Tabitha Carless-Frost and Theo Rollason.
Content notes: this film contains flash photography which may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. It also contains real images of fossilised human remains.
Bankey Ojo
Bankey is a Film Composer and Sound Designer writing contemporary scores for award-winning television, films and documentary productions for the likes of Sky, National Geographic and Netflix as well as bespoke composition and sound design for advertising, branded content and experiential marketing for global brands like Beats by Dre, Nike and Mercedes, helping make meaningful connections with target audiences
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Delivered in collaboration with Young Film Network South East and Into Film, with support from the BFI Film Academy through National Lottery funding.
About Young Film Network South East
Young Film Network South East works with venues and organisations across the South East of England, with the aim of increasing access to and appreciation of cultural cinema among 16-25 year olds, and encourage a greater awareness of strategic progression routes for young people within the industry. Young Film Network is supported from both BFI Film Academy and the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
About Into Film
Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.
