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Y R E W E R B N A M U R T LD THE O SPONSORS AND PARTNERS WELCOME warming is an ever important subject across culture and politics, and whether you’re watching Blue Planet II on Netflix or hearing about America refusing to commit Emerging in 2006 as a passion resources to tackle climate project amongst creative change, you are never far from the enthusiasts to celebrate ‘Small conversation. Whilst the issues Films for Small Screens’ and surrounding the environment have flourishing into an anticipated become more popular, there is still annual showcase of shorts, much work to be done to keep it we are proudly back for our front of mind. When it comes to fourteenth year. As the brainchild damage to the planet, it simply of The Smalls company, an isn’t something that can be fixed international community of in post! 18,000+ filmmakers, our show- stopping film festival admires all We’re also delighted to announce manner of diverse and innovative our brilliant partnership with The creative mediums across the Barbican on their Life Rewired globe. project, where a series of short video essays were commissioned For this year’s film festival, we to explore what it means to believe there is no subject more be human when technology is pertinent or urgent than exploring changing everything. humanity’s impact on our planet. We firmly believe in the power Our event, panels, parties and of film and storytelling, to make most importantly of all - the a positive impact, and so we screenings from our filmmakers, INDEX are excited to announce this will be hosted within the year’s festival theme: Edit the P.05 FESTIVAL THEME: EDIT THE ENVIRONMENT contemporary, creative landscape P.06 ABOUT THE SMALLS Environment, there is no plan(et) B. of Shoreditch’s innovative P.08 FESTIVAL STAFF Climate change and global playground, returning to East P.09 TICKETS London’s cultural hub the Old P.10 VENUE Truman Brewery. We welcome P.12 JUDGES you in joining our communal P.14 PROGRAMME celebrations, thank you for coming P.18 PANELS and enjoy this year’s programme! P.28 SHORTLISTED FILMS P.54 PRIZES 2 3 Unbelievably, only 54% of people would classify global warming as a serious problem, and what is most concerning about that, is that the countries with the highest per- We were looking for anything capita levels of carbon emissions that made a statement about are in fact the least likely to be part the environment that we live of this 54%. Raising the awareness in, be that making viewers of the problems - and solutions - want to find out more about of climate change is exactly what the country depicted or making this year’s film festival is all about. them want to do more to protect the environment. We were not The Smalls Film Festival 2019 will looking for films that only used for the first time have a brand new the environment as a back-drop. category dedicated to this very issue - Edit The Environment - Our programme will be a celebrating the work that addresses celebration of the environment environmental issues. that we live in, but a call to arms This category was open to any to ensure that we all keep fighting films with a clear environmental to maintain and protect this focus, this included all types of environment. short films, from documentaries on the destruction of a habitat to animations that depict a range of different environments. 4 5 In addition to our film festival, The Smalls has a day job! We create beautiful original content for brands and publishers by finding incredible filmmaking talent from our community who To pitch to work on one of our can answer our clients’ briefs. client briefs, simply sign up to We combine our in-house our community; www.thesmalls. agency-style service (come speak com/signup-features and watch to one of our team at the festival for briefs that suit your expertise. - that’s them!) with the expertise It’s easy and free to sign up - all of our filmmakers (that’s you) you have to do is link to recent to deliver short-form content examples of your brilliant work - for some of the world’s biggest and simple to pitch when you see advertisers and broadcasters. a brief that interests you. Our clients include the BBC, Bloomberg, Disney, Facebook, Netflix, Expedia, PurpleBricks and Google to name just a few. 6 FESTIVAL STAFF FESTIVAL TICKETS Kate Tancred COMMERCIAL THANKS Co-founder & CEO Lauren Mellman Caroline Seabrook FULL FESTIVAL £30 FESTIVAL Anton Sombart Connor Mason PASS Lucinda Droulers Daisy Rylance Danielle Venton James Lupton Festival Producer DESIGN SINGLE SCREENING Harriet Jones £7 Tom Vaughan Tiana-Jane Dunlop Marcel Appiah FESTIVAL Festival Programmer Mark Farinha FESTIVAL TRAILER Michelle Townsend SINGLE PANEL Grace Kent Vanessa Brown TICKETS FESTIVAL Mdhamiri a Nkemi £5 Festival Assistant And all The Smalls FESTIVAL PASS volunteers! PRODUCTION A special thanks to our Kate Fagan sponsors and funders. Head of Production WEBSITE STUDENT FULL £20 Paymon Yau FESTIVAL PASS Head of Technology SINGLE SCREENING £5 FESTIVAL PASS THE SMALLS FILM FESTIVAL ARTIST: SINGLE PANEL STUDENT TICKETS TICKETS STUDENT £3 For her latest showing in London, Rewati Shahani has teamed up with FESTIVAL PASS The Smalls 2019 Film Festival at the Truman Brewery to exhibit a body of work on the theme of the environment. Shahani’s latest body of work addresses a range of environmental issues and features a series of distinct geometric forms embodying the ‘whole’, be it a nation, place or community. Each of the forms, however, has been broken and recast, to represent the flows of people that shape T where – and how – we live. OR I F C SESSION TICKETS STARTING FROM £10 K K E T C INCLUDING A DRINK WILL ALSO BE I S L AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR C 8 9 SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET VENUE LOCATION C O SHOP 4, M M THE OLD TRUMAN BREWERY E R QUAKER STREET 1 DRAY WALK C I SPITALFIELDS A L S LONDON E1 6QR T R E E T JEROME STREET T E E R T S E L G A E Y E R G E K L THE N A A W TRUMAN L Y A BREWERY K R C D I R B HANBURY STREET LAMB STREET T E E R T S PRINCELET STREET SPITALFIELDS S E K MARKET L I W 10 11FOURNIER STREET JUDGES Animation Comedy Drama Music Videos Dale Newton Brent Kado Damian Spandley Anastasia Kyriacou Animator and Supervisor, Executive Director, Chicago Director of Programme, Curzon Multimedia Journalist Framestore Comedy Film Festival Elisabeth Hopper Calum Youngson Daniela Hornskov Jon Jayson Producer, The Female Film Force EMEA Creative Director, Sun Producer, Musician and Writer Co-founder, The Comedy Crowd Katherine Kim Bloomberg Duncan Poulton and Punkanary TV Programme Manager, The London David Mogendorff Assistant, Film London Artists’ Jonathan Wakeham East Asia Film Festival Head of Artist Relations, Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) Co-founder, Loco Landon Cox YouTube and YouTube Music Malcolm Turner Lara Singer Director of Content, Filmsupply Robin Shaw Executive Director, Melbourne Development Producer, Rhianna Dhillon Director and Creative Director, International Animation Festival Big Talk Productions Film Critic and Broadcaster Warm Street Tina Smrekar Lynne Parker Sarah Pearson Sheloa Nichols Co-founder and Producer, Founder & CEO, Funny Women Head of Content & Entertainment, Head of Content Finta Studio Mark Farinha SomeSuch Creative Director, The Smalls Bite Size Documentary Edit The Environment Student Film Bite Size is reserved for Alessio Nesi Dan Beck Anna MacDonald brand-commissioned social media Lead Project Manager, BBC Festival Director Co-Founder & Co-Principal, Storyworks videos. The winner is decided Jack Harries London Film Academy through a public vote on our Chiara Marañón Documentary Filmmaker Eleonora Passelli website, closing at midnight on Director of Programming UK, and Activist Marketing Manager, the 1st of September BST. You can MUBI Raindance Film Festival vote at Liv Grant Chloe Choppen Conservationist, Writer and Jude Lister thesmalls.com/festival/bite- Digital Communications Officer, Documentary Filmmaker Film Talent Manager, TO V One World Media Creative England O Rachel Williams K T C Dylan Fergus E I Content Marketing Manager, Noel Goodwin L C Producer, Bloomberg Barbican Director of the BFI Future Film Kirsten Geekie Tom Minnock Festival, BFI Future Film Club Operations Manager, Bertha Senior Producer, Protein Agency Robyn Cunsworth DocHouse Content & Community Manager, Yuko Tsukada The Dots APAC Creative Director, Ryan Piper Bloomberg Community Manager, Musicbed 12 13 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW FRIDAY EVENT VENUE 6pm - 10pm Opening Night Party (Invite Only) Shop 4, The Old Truman Brewery P.18 SATURDAY EVENT VENUE 12pm - 1:10pm Official Selection Edit the Environment Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.19 1:30pm - 2:30pm Panel: The Life of a BAFTA-winning Short Film G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.19 3pm - 4:10pm Official Selection Documentary Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.20 4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel: Writing for Diversity 5, The Old Truman Brewery P.20 #SMALLSFF19 4:30pm - 6pm Barbican Q&A Session Barbican Cinema 3 P.21 6pm - 7:10pm Official Selection Comedy Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.21 7:30pm - 8:30pm Official Selection Music Video Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.21 SUNDAY EVENT VENUE 12:15pm - 1:25pm Official Selection Student Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.22 2pm - 3pm Panel: How To Get Your Film Funded G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.22 3:30pm - 4:40pm Official Selection Animation Screening G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.23 5:15pm - 18:30pm Official Selection Drama Screening 5, The Old Truman Brewery P.23 Keynote Speaker: Rob How 7pm - 8pm G5, The Old Truman Brewery P.24 Producer - Chernobyl, Trainspotting MONDAY EVENT VENUE Shop 4 and G5, 6pm - 10pm Closing Night Awards Gala (Invite Only) P.25 The Old Truman Brewery 14 15 #SMALLSFF19 6th - 9th September 16 Friday 06.09.19 SATURDAY 07.09.19 Still from Scenes From A Dry City Opening Night Party 12pm - 1.10pm 6pm - 10pm Official Selection Edit The Environment Shorts Invite only In celebration of this year’s theme, we’ve introduced a brand new We’re so excited to celebrate the 14th year of The Smalls Annual Film category focusing on the world around us.