01.09 - 05.09 Festival

01.09-05.09

Programme Friday 01.09.17 Saturday 02.09.17

Still from Import by Ena Sendijarević Opening Night Party Directors Taz Tron Delix + Directors’ Commentary LIVE Compulsory Viewing in partnership with VOTD BAFIC 6:30pm - 11.30pm Pulse Films ADMISSION Invite Only Fred Rowson Colonel Blimp Plenty of music, bubbly and good film chat? Day of Diversity Why, it’s The Smalls opening Matilda Finn party! Join us in celebration of 12 years of FRIEND London This day has been created and curated with a deep desire to spark inspiring work by The Smalls global Georgia Hudson dialogue, inspiration, and to bring people together in unity over a filmmaking community and this year’s OB Management/Agile Films universal love for , fully embracing our differences, extraordinarily talented shortlisted Roger Guàrdia similarities, and unique diversities. filmmakers, with a side of some of the UK’s Canada London most loved videos. With live, unscripted commentary from these videos’ directors - Host some of the most prominent names in the Rob Hughes industry! - this is a night you don’t want to Head of Culture, Moxie Pictures miss out on! Saturday 02.09.17 Saturday 02.09.17

SCREENING PANEL SCREENING Once Upon A Time In The East Talk The Talk, Walk The Walk – Official Selection 1:30pm - 3pm Diverse Representation on Both Documentary Shorts TICKETS £7 Sides of the Lens 5:15pm - 6:30pm 2:30pm - 3:30pm TICKETS £7 In collaboration with our venue partner TICKETS £5 Calvert 22 Space, a foundation dedicated No other category can offer a film about to supporting contemporary arts from the Aimed at directors and producers, this hardcore footballer grannies in South Africa New East, and all the incredibly bold work session will discuss the importance of and travel to the hatches set up in Malaysia to from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and bringing diverse perspectives and save abandoned babies in the same session. Central Asia, this screening embraces the backgrounds both in front of and behind the Documentaries explore paths less walked and festival’s Day of Diversity with a showcase of camera lens. Looking towards the shifting their otherworldly narratives. Obsessive binge work from the region. Celebrating landscape of diversity in film, we will delve Still from Laymun by Catherine Prowse & Hannah Quinn eating to achieve comfort and a corner of contemporary short film and creativity, our into the essential benefits of working with Wales swamped by fish-related surnames, no curated screening features the daring breadth cast and crew members of all orientations, story in this shortlist is the same as another. PANEL and creative sensibilities of the New East. genders, cultural backgrounds and abilities. With the barriers the industry poses being May The Girls Be With You – known all too well, the debate will steer Empowering Women to Enter SCREENING Programme the Film & TV Universe Transition towards more productive advice, exploring the Official Selection Dimensions of Dir. Milica Tomović, Serbia options that are available for people of diverse in partnership with VOTD Diversity Shorts backgrounds, such as funds, initiatives, Volcano Island 4pm - 5pm 7pm - 9pm Dir. Anna Katalin Lovrity, Hungary training and employment opportunities. TICKETS £5 Additional to exploring what we can do every TICKETS £7

Strokes day to promote the attitude of diversity, we Dir. Vladimir Perović, Serbia This panel will contribute to the theme of In celebration of this year’s festival theme of will also discuss what mindsets we must Dimensions of Diversity, and focus on initiat- diversity, multiculturalism and cultural Chilli overcome to avoid the trap of creating token ing a positive, productive dialogue about the progress, we see unique interpretations of Dir. Martina Mikušová, Slovakia roles and the importance of turning to the top many opportunities open for women in the potent issues from global perspectives in of the food chain, discussing how and what Uteg film and TV industry, as well as discussing pro- Dimensions of Diversity. Have you ever asked Dir. Zoran Pribičević, Croatia kind of leadership is required to make sure grammes that are dedicated to helping wom- yourself what it means to be human? Saw that diversity is engaged on a higher, Boles en succeed in the business. The conversation your own vulnerabilities in the gleam shining true level. Dir. Špela Čadež, Slovenia/Germany will also steer towards initiatives already in across a boxing glove? Experienced a punk

implementation to initiate change, as well as revolution against crippling racism that had the collective effort and advice the industry Panelists brought your country to its knees? Hakeem Kazeem can contribute to encourage younger women Our shortlist will take you across bridges, blur Programmer, Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest who want to enter the film and TV arena. degrees of separation, and rekindle your sense

Daniella Shreir of unity with the world. Editor, Another Gaze Journal Panelists Mia Bays Vicky Lawton Producer, Birds Eye View Director, Rankin Film

Keeya-Lee Ayre Vanessa Whyte Marketing Manager, Mobile for Development (GSMA) Co-founder, Illuminatrix

Kim Jarrett Directors’ Rep, OB Management

Heather Firminger Directors’ Rep, FRIEND London

Still from Full of Dreams by Marinka de Jongh Beth Webb Multiplatform Editor, Random Acts & Events Producer, The Bechdel Test Fest Sunday 03.09.17 Sunday 03.09.17

SCREENING Panelists Official Selection Animation Shorts Rachel Aroesti Previews Editor, 1:30pm - 3pm TICKETS £7 Lara Singer Comedy Development Editor, Big Talk Productions Delving into worlds of dimension and Sarah Asante illusion, mystery and digital art, our Animation Assistant Comedy Commissioner, BBC shortlist this year honours the beauty of the Ben Mallaby medium at its crux. Through the peephole of Director an apartment door, across deserts with an Ruth Pickett anteater, brewing tea at a Turkish country Director house and living in a virtual reality, we are taken across whole universes of experiences. SCREENING Official Selection Comedy Shorts Still from Addison Groove – Changa by Vector Meldrew PANEL 7:30pm - 9:15pm Show Me the Money! TICKETS £7 How to Secure Funding for SCREENING PANEL Your Next Film Official Selection Drama Shorts Finding the Light In Dark Serving the vanguard of Comedy on a gold platter, we are led down a rabbit hole of 2:30pm - 3:30pm 3:30pm - 5:30pm Comedy: Learn the Elegance of sinister twists and turns with this year’s TICKETS £5 TICKETS £7 Creating Compassion with Cheek shortlist. An assembly of the morosely funny

6pm - 7pm and bleakly hilarious, get ready to laugh at This panel will discuss forms of funding Complex landscapes of emotion, intimacy TICKETS £5 things you will feel like you shouldn’t find available for your next film, from applying for and suffering alike, the Drama shortlist this amusing. Satanic cults in picturesque grants and awards, to considering private year is a selection of stories that hit close to A session on dark comedy for writers and suburbia, assigning murderous tasks to best investors, crowdfunding and brand sponsor- home. Everyday nuances explored in how we directors, we will explore how the subgenre men, and receiving word of your own suicide, ships, as well as negotiating your project’s remember our bereaved, the intricacies of benefits from its offbeat ability to make light some parts of life are fated for laughter. distribution. We will cover the latest develop- single fatherhood, family mysteries reborn in of serious events. We will discuss what the ments in film financing, discuss what funders the North Yorkshire Moors, and confronting keys to a successful dark comedy are, how to are expecting from you as a filmmaker, and deep traumas of assault and impotence, there construct funny situations out of tragedy, and look at success stories. The conversation will won’t be a dry eye in the house. how to swing the laughs to your favour on the SCREENING be led by UK film industry experts, providing binary gauge characterising whether a dark Official Selection Music Videos you with an industry-assured plan of action to comedy is a hit or a miss. We will discuss how 8pm - 9:15pm help get your project off the ground. SCREENING to effectively create relatable, comical TICKETS £7 narrative riffs to lower audiences’ resistance Panelists D&AD Next Director to taboo and difficult subjects, addressing If there’s anything that will get the house Lou Phelps Award Showcase how levity can be achieved by integrating bumping, it’s our Music Video shortlist! Coordinator & Website Content Editor, BFI NETWORK 5:30pm - 7pm humour with compassion, maximising the Playing some infectious tunes that have been Caitlin Meek-O’Connor TICKETS £5 capacity of a joke to create respite from the brought to life with an unrivalled fusion of Head of Acquisitions, Little Dot Studios plights of life. Taking the conversation all visuals and style, we are taken to the Join D&AD for an exclusive screening of this Fateme Ahmadi the way to household names, we will look at hikikomori of Japan, travel alongside a wood Writer & Director, Bitter Sea year’s Next Director Award shortlist. From how to avoid the danger of taking jokes too mouse’s whip-sharp sense of smell, and join music videos to animation and shorts to Yaw Basoah far, which creates knee-jerk responses such political fistfights at the UN. Get ready for an documentaries, this is your chance to get up Founder, Dark Pictures as Sony’s ‘sanitised’ films initiative, and how adrenaline rush of rhythm and superb image. to speed with work from the next generation strong the subgenre stands to be without Kate Tancred of inspiring new talent. Co-founder and CEO, The Smalls causing an affront.

Did you know that The Smalls has its own film fund Come and see who’s Next… initiative? Find out more at thesmalls.com/film-fund Monday 04.09.17 Tuesday 05.09.17

MASTERCLASS Directing Actors with Creative England + shortFLIX 6pm - 8pm ADMISSION Free

This one-off masterclass, aimed at new directors, is presented as part of shortFLIX, a short film initiative for ages 18-25. The relationship between directors and actors is an essential collaborative partnership in filmmaking. Clear and meaningful communication saves time and gains your actors’ trust, which is imperative to making a quality film. During this session, Carolina Giammetta (writer, director and actor in film, TV and theatre) will talk through the specific needs of directors & actors to achieve a useful communication skillset.

We will be joined by actors Ellie Kendrick (Game Of Thrones, The Levelling, An Education) and Karla Crome (Misfits, Under The Dome) who will share their thoughts on how directors can communicate effectively with actors in their own language. The session will provide screen acting tips and simple techniques that will help directors get that sought-after best take. Still from Leningrad – Kolshik by Ilya Naishuller

This event is free to attend, but you must RSVP at [email protected] to guarantee a spot. SCREENING Official Selection Closing Night Awards Gala Student Film Shorts 6:30pm - 11pm 8:30pm - 9:45pm ADMISSION Invite Only TICKETS £7 The culmination of our festival, our Closing Night Awards Gala is the final event where shortFLIX is led by Creative England in partnership A new, bold generation of filmmakers infused with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain with carat golds of talent make up this year’s we will be announcing the festival’s winning and Sky Arts, with support from Creative Skillset’s Student Film shortlist. Stories of detachment filmmakers, giving away an impressive arsenal Film Skills Fund, with BFI’s Film Forever between a father and his young daughter, of prizes across the eight categories, and National Lottery funds. recounting unfortunate events involving a screening the winning films! The glitziest,

Find out more at bowl of porridge, and standing in solidarity most glamorous of our events, join us for the creativeengland.co.uk/film-and-tv/shortflix with those unlucky-in-love on Valentine’s Day, festival’s final party - complete with finger this wave of young creativity is a testament food and beverages! to the blooming masters taking the film world head on. Shortlisted

Films Animation Sunday 03.09.17, 1:30pm - 3pm new hope. anteater, searching for accompanied by hererratic an endless sand desert A weary girltravels across DURATION Dir. Rui Fan Wang, UK and Tides Between Sand complications. and adolescent, schoolyard a path full of possibilities sends Joe Connollydown An ambiguouslove note DURATION Dir. Jack Bennett,UK the World Not theEndof Still from Anvil by Geriko 08:20 mins 08:20 04:17mins

warning through time. historical imagery echoes a title, acollage of vintage and Tempest’s poemof thesame Inspired by artist Kate DURATION Dir. Gary Dumbill, UK Europe is Lost lunar cycle. pulls andenergies duringthe its glow, invoking pushes, of themoonaffects allunder The presence andradiance DURATION Dir. Yulia Ruditskaya, Belarus Stands Still And theMoon 04:36mins mins 10:43 strings of time. watch become tangled in the of abasket andapocket streets of Mumbai, thelives Following afamily onthe DURATION Dir. Suresh Eriyat, India Tokri (TheBasket) brewing tea. extraordinary way of its residents have an house, itisrevealed that mysterious Turkish country On anordinary day at anold, DURATION Dir. Yagmur Altan,Turkey Rabbit Blood 13:46 mins 13:46 04:36mins

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funhouse party. curated, interactive 29-room to promote Refinery 29’s directed thisepicanimation US-based studio Oddfellows DURATION Dir. Oddfellows,USA 29 Rooms Refinery 29 – he forages Henof theWoods. allure of winter emerging as Rogan inthewild,with Michelin-star chef Simon Ben Lankester follows DURATION Dir. BenLankester, UK Hibernot –Earth Landrover: New York. Ray-Ban’s new venue in Nicolas Ménard promotes this colourful animation by A playful 30-secondloop, DURATION Dir. NicolasMénard, UK 116 Woosterat Ray-Ban: Get Creative Bakewells. Battenburgs from your chef orcan’t tell your on whether you’re abudding Faith; you can get your bake A film for Maltesers by Chris DURATION Dir. Chris Faith, UK Bake aMillion Maltesers: 00:37mins mins 00:30 mins 00:40 mins 00:30

by Giorgia Benazzo. for Nike Lab, brought to life and personal nature of Love simultaneously universal We take alookat the DURATION Dir. Giorgia Benazzo, Italy InThePowerOfLove Nike Lab#WeBelieve women through theyears. celebrates inspirational Jessica Hislop’s animation International Women’s Day, Created to honour DURATION Company, UK Dir. The Progress Film Women’s Day International #BeBoldForChange – the perfect Negroni. teaches you how to make stop-motion for Campari Walkingframes, this Beautifully crafted by DURATION Switzerland Dir. Walkingframes, Campari Negroni 01:00mins mins 01:00 00:32mins

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Comedy Sunday 03.09.17, 7:30pm - 9:15pm makes perfect. lesson: onlypractice criminals learn animportant car-jacking, two aspiring turns into anunlikely When anattempted burglary DURATION Schneider, USA Dir.Leisten Thomas Point andShoot but rather facilitation. isn’t intheprevention game, surprise, thesuicidehotline Hotline. To Mr. Jameson’s employee of theSuicide call from Mike, adedicated Mr. Jameson answers acold On aThursday like any other, DURATION Dir. Philip Clyde-Smith, UK Suicide Hotline chicken domination. plan for otherworldly shop owner, andhissecret Bossman, alocal chicken investigates thetruthabout A wildlyimaginative stoner DURATION Dir.Theresa Varga,UK Bossman home andsociallives. tragicomically affecting their jobs asnewscasters, to switch off from their A group of friendsare unable DURATION Dir. Alicia MacDonald,UK Bad News 06:15 mins 06:15 mins 08:45 mins 10:00 02:39mins

one another. they’re not sodifferent from shoot-out, they realise course of awarehouse cornered, butover the Jane. Hefinally hasher trail of acareer criminal, A copperhasbeenonthe DURATION Dir. JonDrever, UK Bullet to theHeart praising the thugs. by offering to write asong out of hisdeath sentence manages to write himself One of thecaptives prisoners through aforest. thugs asthey escort soldiers are ambushedby A procession of Norman DURATION Dir. Will Kenning, UK Bob Leonard The Legend of Still from La Madre Buena 11:31 mins 11:31 07:30mins

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turned upside down forever. cum-pure evil, herlife is intosuburban mundanity- fateful barbecue. Lured an invitation to aneighbour’s A woman recounts accepting DURATION Dir. David Chaudoir, UK Aphrodite Adonis and questions Donald’s sanity. would entail, hestarts to guard aboutwhat hisduties when Patrick iscaught off to behisbest man.However, and asks hisfriendPatrick Donald isrecently engaged DURATION Dir. Freddie Hall,UK Best Man 12:30 mins 12:30 04:26mins

Trump piñata. request -aDonald to fulfill herson’s birthday land andbeyond herpolitics upon anepicjourney across A Mexican mother embarks DURATION Dir. Sarah Clift, Mexico La Madre Buena love behelpedby science? romantic endeavours. Can to seethefuture of their a helmet allowing thewearer He tries outtheCupidatron, Pfferberg isafter true love. Left at thealtar, Melvyn DURATION Dir. Damian Samuels Pfferberg Lives of Melvyn The Five Wives & 05:36mins mins 16:56

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Dimensions of Diversity Saturday 02.09.17, 7pm - 9pm the team? drive beenoughto make impression. Willtalent and instantly makes an basketball tryouts and at thehighschoolboys’ A new kidintown shows up DURATION Dir. JeannieDonohoe, USA Game rather thanset usapart. differences bindus together inclusion, love, andhow our cast of modelscelebrates Through apopaesthetic, a DURATION Dir. Luca Italy Finotti, ThePowerOfLove #WeBelieveIn Still from Irregulars 08:20 mins 08:20 15:53 mins 15:53 by Fabio Palmieri

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status quo. fanzine challenges the influence, until apunk National Front gains Britain astheneo-Nazi In 1977, immigration divides DURATION Dir. Rubika Shah, UK White Riot: London their home. make thisnew place situations ariseasthey tryto permit in1994. Absurd receiving aresidence the Netherlands after ends upinasmallvillage in A Bosnian refugee family DURATION Netherlands Dir. EnaSendijarević, Import

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his own vulnerabilities. forced to face thetruthabout and confident fighter is boxing club, Paris, askilled begins training at the local When atalented new arrival DURATION Dir. Jonny Ruff, UK Heavy Weight societal serviceshouldbe. young peopleonwhat true words comealive, addressing writer Isidora Sekulić’s last from Radio Belgrade in1958, Based onanaudio recording DURATION Dir. JelenaMilunović, Serbia Overcome Distances Are wrenching words. immigration crisisinhisown encapsulates theglobal factory backdrop, arefugee Against atellingly hypnotic DURATION Dir. Fabio Palmieri, Italy Irregulars re-inject hopeinherlife. her home–aneffort to planting alemongarden in Eastern war zone by and destruction inaMiddle A woman fights violence DURATION Hannah Quinn,UK Dir. Catherine Prowse & Laymun

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Documentary Saturday 02.09.17, 5:15pm - 6:30pm community’s livelihood. farming, businesses andthe drought, affecting local been suffering from severe four years, theregion has Central Valley. Over thelast in theheart of California’s Stratford isasmalltown DURATION Dir. Joris Debeij, USA Runs Dry a TownWhen Still from Buang Bayi: BehindtheBaby Hatch 08:16 mins 08:16

by CorineTiah at joy. a decent life andachance years of abuse, fighting for centuries of taboos and and kicktheirway through lace uptheirfootball boots Village grannies inLimpopo DURATION South Africa Dir. Lara-Ann de Wet, ofSouth Africa SoccerThe Grannies Alive &Kicking: 19:40 mins 19:40

unimaginable places. abandon theirnewborns in pregnant outof wedlock to force girlsthat have become where conservative beliefs up to save babies inMalaysia, Baby hatches have beenset DURATION Dir. CorineSingapore Tiah, the Baby Hatch Buang Bayi: Behind 14:40mins

perseverance. commitment and The couple’s story isoneof admitted to anursing home. with advanced dementia and partner Carlwas diagnosed giant houseever sincehis Cecil haslived aloneina DURATION Dir. Elvis Leon, USA Cecil& Carl 14:45mins

the coast of North Wales. surnames have gathered to families withfish-related quest to unravel the reason fame becomes adetective A family’s unusualclaimto DURATION Dir. Charlie Lyne, UK Fish Story the refrigerator door. decisions lead to opening comfort, andwrong of addiction equates food to eating, where thestruggle A personal account of binge DURATION Dir. Courtney Dixon, USA The One that IFeed 13:38 mins 13:38 07:21mins

Drama Sunday 03.09.17, 3:30pm - 5:30pm her abuser. anniversary of leaving survival onthefirst choose between love and a violent relationship must South, awoman whofled Set inthedeepAmerican DURATION USA Dir. Brantly Jackson Watts, Birthday Cake her local beach. attack onthe sand dunes of returns to thesceneof her and closure, afemale jogger A story of confrontation DURATION Dir. Aurora Fearnley, UK Struck Still from Cubs by NannaKristín Magnúsdóttir 14:42mins 17:16mins

family are not whothey seem. light, hebegins to realise his missing person case cometo developments inahistoric farm, butasnew from his father onthefamily learning to take thereigns Yorkshire Moors, Joe is Deep inthesecludedNorth DURATION Dir. Jack Benjamin Gill, UK Lambing Season lands onhislap. a package for hisex-fiancee routine morningcollection, have children. Butthen,ona discovering heisunableto with hisbreakup after Delivery manTerry struggles DURATION Dir. Jack King,UK The Crossing 17:33mins mins 15:00 Merseyside. family back homein disaster unfolded for one the Hillsborough stadium A fictional account of how DURATION Dir. Mike Forshaw, UK Saturday than anticipated. turns outmore challenging intended to beafun evening and asinglefather; what was A girls’ slumber party, an iPad DURATION Iceland Magnúsdóttir, Dir. NannaKristín Cubs

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as normalfor? how longcan they carry on their mother isunableto, but fend for themselves after Two children continue to DURATION Dir. Tessa Hoffe, UK Spinosaurus Still from Saturday 13:56 mins 13:56 by Mike Forshaw but amemory. out what isreal, andwhat is has himstruggling to work goes missing,thetrauma When adog’s beloved owner DURATION Dir. Jennifer Sheridan, UK Set Adrift 08:05mins Music Video Sunday 03.09.17, 8pm - 9:15pm her handsomeaccomplice. other-worldly hostess and potion provided by an getting a taste of themagic party-goers loosen upafter Pulled into asurreal realm, DURATION Dir. Pablo Maestres, France Coeur Croisé Polo &Pan – inside aman’s house. create alucid,shiny dream a colony of white rabbits cage, agiant Lazy Susan and A sultrydancerinagilded DURATION Dir. Alan Masferrer, USA – Electrify Scott (ft Oliver Mellis) scene unfolds. gruesome, apocalyptic narration Pop, of Iggy a mouse andunderthe On thetiptoes of awood DURATION Dir. Casper Balslev, Denmark alt-J –In Cold Blood Still from Bonobo(ftNickMurphy) – 03:37mins mins 04:30 mins 04:43

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love story. bliss of aneverlasting bunny coupledanceinthe human-shaped, dog and his fiancée, whilea A young mansteals aringfor DURATION Dir. Ronald Grandpey, France Kool A.D. –Prove It Still from Pooma – James –DearJohn blue hues. under thecomfort of love, loss andsadness, all screens andscenes explore A multitude of animated DURATION Dir. Eat The Danger, Ireland Wolf Alice –Lisbon and malleable bodies. preternatural dancemoves journey through groovy A warped andwonderful DURATION Dir. Vector Meldrew, UK Changa Addison Groove– discover darksecrets. the forest where they who leads themastray into is interrupted by ablack cat A couple’s tripto amountain DURATION Dir. Péter Vácz, UK

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Programme Overview

Fri 01.09.17 Event Venue 6:30pm - 11:30pm Opening Night Party Ground Floor + Lower Ground Floor 12 7:30pm - 9:30pm Directors’ Commentary LIVE in partnership with VOTD Ground Floor 12

Sat 02.09.17 1:30pm - 3pm Once Upon a Time in the East Screening Ground Floor 2:30pm - 3:30pm Panel: Talk The Talk, Walk The Walk – Lower Ground Floor Diverse Representation on Both Sides of the Lens 4pm - 5pm Panel: May The Girls Be With You – Empowering Women to Lower Ground Floor Enter the Film & TV Universe in partnership with VOTD 5:15pm - 6:30pm Documentary Screening Ground Floor 7pm - 9pm Dimensions of Diversity Screening Ground Floor

Sun 03.09.17 1:30pm - 3pm Animation Screening Ground Floor 2:30pm - 3:30pm Panel: Show Me the Money! Lower Ground Floor How To Secure Funding For Your Next Film 3:30pm - 5:30pm Drama Screening Ground Floor 5:30pm - 7pm D&AD Next Director Award Showcase Lower Ground Floor 6pm - 7pm Panel: Finding The Light In Dark Comedy – Ground Floor Learn the Elegance of Creating Compassion with Cheek 7:30pm - 9:15pm Comedy Screening Ground Floor 8pm - 9:15pm Music Video Screening Lower Ground Floor

Mon 04.09.17 6pm - 8pm Masterclass: Directing Actors with Creative England + shortFLIX Ground Floor 8:30pm - 9:45pm Student Film Screening Ground Floor

Tue 05.09.17 6:30pm - 11pm Closing Night Awards Gala Ground Floor + Lower Ground Floor