The BFI Future Film Festival
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5th BFI FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL
18 - 19 February at BFI Southbank
FEATURING
PREVIEW SCREENING OF WILD BILL AND Q&A WITH DIRECTOR DEXTER FLETCHER,
PREVIEW SCREENING OF BLACK POND AND Q&A WITH DIRECTORS
TOM KINGSLEY AND WILL SHARP
VFX MASTERCLASS WITH ED HALL
WINNING PITCH COMPETITION
SCREENING OF DAVID LYNCH’S ERASERHEAD
PLUS MASTER CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS
AND THE FUFURE FILM AWARDS CEREMONY
The BFI Future Film Festival returns for its fifth year on 18-19 February. Throughout the weekend, BFI Southbank is the destination for aspiring filmmakers to see the hottest new films from the next generation of UK talent. The festival also offers 15 – 25 year olds a unique chance to learn essential skills from industry experts. Directors Dexter Fletcher (Wild Bill), Tom Kingsley and Will Sharp (Black Pond), film critics from Little White Lies magazine, VFX expert Ed Hall (Casino Royale, John Carter, Clash of the Titans) and representatives from IDEASTAP, BFI Film Fund, The Script Factory, FILM CLUB, SAE Institute and BAFTA will be taking part in masterclasses, workshops and Q&A’s in everything from storyboard art, casting for film, VFX, screenwriting, producing, funding, exhibition and distribution, blogging, music videos and a live pitching session.
The Future Film Awards will be presented over the weekend to the best young filmmakers to have entered films into the Future Film Festival. There will be awards for Best Fiction Film, Best Documentary and Best Animation in two age categories: 15-18 and 19-25.
The Winning Pitch Competition
As part of this year’s festival, Doc Next Network are hosting a pitching masterclass with actor (The Iron Lady) and Producer (Mandela’s Children), David Westhead. In the run up to the event, Future Film are asking young people to come up with a 140 character Winning Pitch for a documentary they would like to make, either by Twitter @BFI with the hashtag #FFPitch, or in an email to futurefilminstitute@bfi.org.uk. Six finalists will then be invited to the festival to pitch their idea to an industry panel who’ll select one winner for an expenses paid trip to a filmmaking workshop with one of Future Film’s partners in Holland, Spain, Poland or Turkey.
The full festival program will be available to view at www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm.
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS
Future Film Awards - Animation short films
Eraserhead (part of our first features strand)
BAFTA presents: Short Attention Span - how to make your short stand out
IdeasTap presents New Music Videos
Making your first Micro-feature
BAFTA: Mastering Your Craft - Producing
FILMCLUB presents: Visual Effects masterclass with Ed Hall
Short Film Funding Surgery
Blogging workshops
BFI Classic Preview in partnership with FILMCLUB : Laura
Animation Storyboarding workshop
Casting Masterclass with Amy Hubbard
Euroscript Script Doctoring Surgeries
Sign up as an extra with casting agency Star Now
SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS
Future Film Awards - Documentary and Fiction short films
Making your first independent feature
Film Critic Masterclass with Little White Lies
Black Pond plus Q+A with Tom Kinglsey and Will Sharpe
Wild Bill plus Q+A with Dexter Fletcher
Screenwriting: Crimes and Misdemeanours with Scriptfactory
Screenwriting: What's the Big Idea? Renewal and Rehabilitation with Scriptfactory
Routes to success - Online v Offline debate
Documentary Pitching Masterclass and live Pitch
Blogging workshops
Introduction to After Effects
Euroscript Script Doctoring Surgeries
Sign up as an extra with casting agency Star Now