LSFF2022: INDUSTRY
This year's Industry Programme, curated by T A P E Collective, offers invaluable insight for budding filmmakers, established industry professionals and everyone interested in the changing landscape of production, distribution and commissioning. Hear from the directors of TV hit Sex Education and leading POC executives, and join us for our daily Happy Hour drinks and networking at Rich Mix.
Industry Programme: FLAMIN: Funding your Artist Moving Image
17/01/22, 13:30
Rich Mix
For moving image artists interested in finding out more about available support and funding, this session will outline how to access the opportunities offered by FLAMIN as well as highlighting other sources of support.
Industry Programme: Skin Deep x Resolve: Local Storytelling
17/01/22, 15:00
Rich Mix
This session will focus on telling stories and sharing narratives that are built locally. In December, Skin Deep and Resolve launch their first creative online season around the theme ‘LOCAL’, celebrating how diaspora communities in the UK have shaped and are shaping local urban spaces and their built environment, particularly in areas where there are real issues of unequal access to resources, decision-making and power.
Industry Happy Hour Drinks: Guardian Docs
17/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Join fellow LSFF filmmakers and festival partners for daily Happy Hour drinks after our Industry events at Rich Mix. Sponsored by Guardian Docs.
Greenlit: Speed-Pitching Event
17/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Have a one-on-one pitching session with the team behind Greenlit, a British-based crowdfunding platform designed specifically for creatives. Get feedback and discuss funding and marketing options with one of their crowdfunding experts at their pitch speed dating event.
Industry Programme: Digital Criticism
18/01/22, 13:30
Rich Mix
This panel of film creatives working across TikTok, Instagram, Letterboxd, podcasts, video essays, and more will talk through the rise of alternative digital mediums in reviewing & examining films and the industry at large.
Industry Programme: Birds Eye View: Class Act
18/01/22, 15:00
Rich Mix
In this session, Birds’ Eye View’s Melanie Iredale with fellow industry experts will discuss how class issues interconnects and compounds with other axes of oppression and exclusion, and what we can do to challenge this.
Industry Happy Hour Drinks: Birds Eye View
18/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Join fellow LSFF filmmakers and festival partners for daily Happy Hour drinks after our Industry events at Rich Mix. Sponsored by Birds Eye View.
Greenlit: Speed-Pitching Event
18/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Have a one-on-one pitching session with the team behind Greenlit, a British-based crowdfunding platform designed specifically for creatives. Get feedback and discuss funding and marketing options with one of their crowdfunding experts at their pitch speed dating event.
Industry Programme: After the Circuit: Distribution for Short Films
19/01/22, 13:30
Rich Mix
While feature films have a reliable and traditional circuit of release going from production, to festival and ending up in cinemas - short films have a more fluid life cycle. It can be a maze for filmmakers to decipher just where to take their film after the festival circuit.
Industry Programme: Collectively Doing It Differently
19/01/22, 15:00
Rich Mix
Whether it’s building a DIY digital archive, leading radical debates on othering, or launching a production company, our speakers have built impactful work as a direct response to the need for wider representation and conversation around radical change.
Industry Happy Hour Drinks: T A P E Collective
19/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Join fellow LSFF filmmakers and festival partners for daily Happy Hour drinks after our Industry events at Rich Mix. Wednesday's drinks are hosted by T A P E Collective.
Industry Programme: Booksmart: From Page to Screen
20/01/22, 13:30
Rich Mix
This panel examines and sheds further light on the immense pull and power of books within the industry, especially now at a time when some manuscripts are being optioned for rights before they're published, or even written.
Industry Programme: Cinesisters
20/01/22, 15:00
Rich Mix
Cinesisters was founded to share experiences and resources among female feature directors in an effort to help create more films by and about women. Our panel features three members of Cinesisters who will discuss their experiences maintaining a career in the film industry.
Industry Happy Hour Drinks: Cinesisters
20/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Join fellow LSFF filmmakers and festival partners for daily Happy Hour drinks after our Industry events at Rich Mix. Thursday's drinks are hosted by Cinesisters.
Industry Programme: Power Hour
21/01/22, 13:30
Rich Mix
This panel assembles and celebrates the work of a group of high-flying POC film executives - working across development, production, sales and distribution - making major moves in-house, whilst also making more transparent for our audiences exactly what that work entails and their career journey to date.
Sex Education Director Panel
21/01/22, 15:30
Rich Mix
We sit down with 3 of TV hit Sex Education's directors, Kate Herron, Runyararo Mapfumo and Ben Taylor, and discuss the show has served as a stepping stone for their own careers, opening up opportunities for young filmmakers behind the camera, as well conversations in front.
Industry Happy Hour Drinks: LSFF
21/01/22, 16:30
Rich Mix Bar
Join fellow LSFF filmmakers and festival partners for daily Happy Hour drinks after our Industry events at Rich Mix. Friday's drinks are hosted by LSFF!