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01.09 - 05.09 London 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 Film Festival 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 short film, 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 Music Video 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, The Guardian 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.