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BFI & Film 4 - Future Takes Funding
A collaboration between British Film Institute and Film 4, Future Takes offers support for higher-budget live-action, short-form projects from UK-based teams of writers, directors, and producers. BFI and Film4 are committed to backing bold and innovative new voices, helping filmmakers bridge the gap between early work and ambitious long-form projects. We’re looking to support up to six short films with funding of £60,000–£90,000 each. Applications close at 12 noon on 20 Oct 2025. Apply via link in bio.
The Whitworth - Senior Curator (Transcultural Perspectives)
We are looking for a senior curatorial leader to join our management team and help deliver the gallery’s programme, mission, and strategic priorities. As Senior Curator (Transcultural Perspectives) you will play a leading role within our curatorial team, embedding transcultural perspectives across our programmes, contributing to the Whitworth’s strategic priorities to acknowledge the diversity and global interconnectedness of art and their histories. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development and delivery of specific programme strands. Deadline: midnight, 29 September 2025.
Blaze Arts - Blaze Arts Trustee
Are you passionate about wanting to create meaningful change for young people in Lancashire? We're looking for new Trustees to join the Board of Blaze Arts a young people-led charity committed to empowering young upcoming producers in the local area of Lancashire. As a Trustee, you'll help shape our governance and strategic direction, playing a vital role in delivering our mission. We are looking for people with expertise in the following areas: HR, delivery of youth-led projects, a passion for youth-led projects that shape the Arts scene, Finance/Business. Deadline: 24 September 2025.
Music Education Council - Co-Chair
If you know the music education sector inside-out and want to help shape its future direction, then this Co-Chair role is for you. The Music Education Council (MEC) was established in 1975 and has been influencing policy and practice in music education across the UK for over 50 years. This Co-Chair role will give you the chance to be a genuine change-maker. You’ll help shape the sector’s future, advance equity, diversity and inclusion, and influence policy at local and national levels, working alongside fantastic colleagues who share your passion for positive change. Deadline: 26 Sept. Remote.
Screenskills - Animation Trainee Finder 2025-27
ScreenSkills Animation Trainee Finder is an entry-level placement scheme which places trainees on animation productions to ensure a continued supply of talent capable of making world-class creative animated content. Participants become part of an industry-recognised group of trainees and receive exclusive access to training placements across the UK. This is the third edition that we are able to offer this programme thanks to the support of UK animation productions that have paid into the ScreenSkills Animation Skills Fund. Application deadline: 26 September 2025.
Dragonfly International Film Festival - Call for Submissions
Dragonfly International Film Festival is a film competition celebrating diverse and creative filmmaking from around the globe, providing an opportunity for emerging and established filmmakers to showcase their work to an engaged and diverse audience in the heart of Lancashire, UK. Submit your film to one of eight categories. Regular deadline for submissions: 1st October. Late Deadline: 31 December 2025.
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can experimentation re/imagine alternative futures/presents/pasts? considering experimental sound, cinema, performance, text-base practices, and their distribution; we collectively discuss/create/share through the lenses of those that have imagined/supported/resurfaced possibilities; altering/speculating/changing our understandings of the current/historical/potential to re/imagine a more hopeful/progressive/radical society in the north west and beyond Thursdays 19:00-22:00 in Morecambe 09/10/25 23/10/25 06/11/25 20/11/25 04/12/25 18/12/25 apply online by 02/10/25
Film Hub North - Film Fund Exhibition - Pitch Pot
Our Pitch Pot fund provides organisations with quick-fire micro-grants for one-off events and short screening programmes. Awards up to: £3,000. Support for in-person & online events. The fund is suitable for organisations looking to start a local screening programme, put on a special event, or enhance their existing programme with extra audience development work. Rolling, apply at any time until 16 Feb 2026. Submit your request at least 4 weeks in advance. Activity window: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026
Film Hub North - Bursary Fund
Our Bursary Fund helps film exhibitors access training opportunities, improve their skills, and boost confidence. If your organisation has training needs or specific development ambitions, our Bursary Fund could help you realise them. Once you find an event or training scheme that works for you, apply for support from us to cover your travel, ticket, and accommodation expenses. Up to £500 per organisation, per annum. Support for in-person and online opportunities. Rolling fund, apply at any time. Submit requests 2 weeks in advance.
LeftCoast - Artist Commission: Travelling Tea Cabinet
We are looking to commission an artist to work with our Supper Club Ambassadors to design a Travelling Tea Cabinet. We’d like an artist to work with our Supper Club Ambassadors to co-design, and potentially make, a vessel that we can use to move about different spaces, a travelling tea service if you will. We don’t want a huge piece of furniture, it needs to very easy to carry and set up, but in needs to consider the essentials. Visit the website to view the briefing spec. Deadline to apply: Tues 16th September at 5pm
