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Imagine Futures CiC - Short Films - Imagine Futures Cinema Call Out (North West)
North West filmmakers — Share your Short! Submit for FREE to Imagine Futures Cinema, a regular screening programme based at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Liverpool, kicking off this September, runs until February 2026.
Film Hub North - Film Exhibition Fund
Through our Film Exhibition Fund, funding of up to £10,000 per project, per year is available for screening activity taking place between April 2025 - March 2026. The primary objective of the Film Exhibition Fund is to support exhibitors to engage audiences with independent film programmes in a communal setting. All activity supported through the fund should aim to increase in-person audiences for British, independent and international film in the North. Current round closes on 3rd November 2025.
Film Hub North - Film Exhibition Fund - 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 Freeway LA1 Short - Open Call - Submit your short films
We champion UK short film, and shine a spotlight on supporting Lancashire Filmmakers. We accept submissions from all UK based short film makers with the following categories; "LA1Shorts Best Film" for UK wide submissions, a locally focused "Lancashire Audience Choice Award" for Lancashire Filmmakers only, our "LA1Docs" for short documentary films with a Health and Wellbeing theme in connection with Lancaster University. To submit to LA1Shorts your film should be "MADE IN THE UK" and have a maximum length of 16 minutes. Deadline: 28 February 2026.
Black Liver - Free Comedy Workshops for young people ages 11 -25
The Open Up the Mic course is here to discover and develop writers and performers; whether you are a novice or want to further your experience of performance. Two days of workshops every half term and one-to-one sessions with professional actors, comedians and backstage technicians will be followed by a live stage performance.
20 Stories High - Artistic Leadership Recruitment
20 Stories High is entering a new era and inviting fresh artistic leadership to help shape our next chapter. We are looking for artistic leadership to work alongside our Co-CEO/Executive Director that can drive the company forward with ambitious, excellent and equitable theatre and art for culturally diverse and working-class young people and young adults. You might apply as one of the following: Co-CEO/Artistic Director, Artistic Director – with an aim to develop into Co-CEO/AD, Job share between two – splitting the role part-time across two people. Deadline: 9am, 3rd November 2025.
Horse + Bamboo - Training Residency - Shadow + Light
3 day practical course for professional practitioners, exploring work with shadow and light. The course includes building props/puppets and performance. Over 3 days we will touch on a broad range of techniques including shadow puppetry, lantern puppets, and light painting. Our criteria for selection includes proximity or relevance to Rossendale and Lancashire, artists of diverse backgrounds, sustainable practice or work that includes global cultural practices. We are interested in artists working in other areas that would like to try new practices through presence in our training residency.
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 - 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.
