@filmhubmidlands
We support people to watch, make, and show films in the Midlands. Broadway Cinema + Flatpack, @networkfhm, with BFI + BFI NETWORK, funded by The National Lottery Find us elsewhere: Website: filmhubmidlands.org Instagram: @filmhubmidlands
NEW feature on #FVUWatch: ‘The Eel's Tale' by Sam Williams 🌱
Don’t miss the online premiere of Sam Williams’ new film ‘The Eel's Tale’ on #FVUWatch, available for free as part of The Open Road: Online Screening 🎬
Green text in the image reads - A two-day training lab for Midlands-based directors who are looking to take their next professional steps and develop their skills. Above is an image of filmmakers surrounding a phone outdoors.
Less than two weeks left to apply for the BFI NETWORK Midlands Directors Lab!
Join two inspiring days of roundtables, workshops and panels led by industry professionals and working directors.
Set yourself up to leap into feature films.
Apply by 25 January 2026 - bit.ly/middirlab26
BFI NETWORK Immersive Storytelling Lab
EXTENDED DEADLINE
We know it's hard coming back after the holidays, so we've given you an extra day to apply!
Find out more - bit.ly/immersivelab
BFI NETWORK x BFI Film Academy Winter Online Mentoring
Designed to connect you directly to the industry professional who can take you to the next level - if you think you're ready
Open for 18 - 25 year olds
Apply ~ bit.ly/wintermentoring25
CLOSING THIS SUNDAY, 7 DECEMBER
@networkfhm.bsky.social
+ MORE Midlands Short Film Club next week!
@networkfhm is jumping on the road to come to @wtonfilmfest.
We invite you to chuckle, cluck, giggle and laugh out loud at comedy shorts made in the region.
9 Dec | 6 PM
18 Fryer Street
Book Tickets - bit.ly/MSFCxWolverhampton
🌟 Discover new voices from the Midlands!
📽 BFI Film Academy SCENE presents Midlands Short Film Club for a special showcase screening and Q&A of the films supported by the BFI NETWORK Short Film Fund.
🗓 13 Dec | 5 PM
📍@derbyquad
🎟️ £5 + booking fee
🔗 bit.ly/MSFCxQUAD
@networkfhm.bsky.social
@networkfhm.bsky.social x @BFI Film Academy Online Mentoring Sessions are back for the final time in 2025–26! ❄️
Offering three 1-hour online mentoring sessions with an acclaimed industry professional.
⚡ Only 15 spaces available, don’t miss out!
📝 Apply by 7 December - bit.ly/BFImidlandsmentoring
@networkfhm.bsky.social X BFIfilmacademy online mentoring sessions are back for the final time in 2025-26!
Connect directly and gain tailored advice from inspiring indie filmmakers
Apply by 7 December here - bit.ly/BFImidlandsmentoring
For Midlands creatives aged 18 - 25 (limited exceptions)
🪩 We have teamed up with Birmingham Film Festival for a Midlands Mixer
Join us to enter a room full of people who love film as much as you do
19 November | 6:30 PM
Millennium Point, Curzon St, Birmingham B4 7AP | The Platform bar
RSVP via bit.ly/BFFmixer25
@networkfhm.bsky.social
Early Development Fund is closing tomorrow!
It's your last chance to tweak your application and hit submit
Deadline: Tuesday, 18 November at 11 AM
Midlands filmmakers apply now: bit.ly/edf25
@networkfhm.bsky.social
Poster: Funeral parade of roses 24th Nov, mockingbird cinema. Goodbye dragon inn, 1st Dec, mockingbird cinema. The big city 3rd December, Cuban embassy.
Screen b14 x PFI presents meshes of the afternoon with piera onacko live synth score + doc feature sister with transistors. Pan pan digbeth, 19th Feb, 7.30pm, £14
What a season coming up from #ScreenB14 and at prices that won't break the bank. Catch these cinematic classics on the big screen and check out our next live score event Meshes of the Afternoon with music by Piera Onacko followed by Sisters with Transistors doc!
🎟️ shorturl.at/l5b20
Film Hub Midlands presents The Ceremony | Roundtable + Q&A
Join us @broadwaycinema.bsky.social for a special roundtable and screening of the feature film The Ceremony
18 November
5 PM
Book now bit.ly/ceremonyroundtable
Want to join the next one? Become a member at filmhubmidlands.org/show
MEMBERS MEETUP
We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming members' meetup for film exhibitors in the Midlands.
📍 @mockbirdcinema & The Nest
📆 6 November
🕙 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
For film exhibitors who are already members of Film Hub Midlands only
RSVP bit.ly/RSVP-MM25
📢 Filmmaker notice
Due to unforeseen circumstances, our Midlands mixer in Stoke-on-Trent has been cancelled.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
If you have already registered to attend, you will receive an email notification.
Thank you for your understanding and support!
📽️ Get your project started and meet filmmakers at our next Midlands Mixer in Stoke-on-Trent!
4 November
The Woodman
RSVP filmhubmidlands.org/upcoming-events/
BFI NETWORK EARLY DEVELOPMENT FUND
🦩 Tailored sessions for Midlands writers to help make your application stand out!
🎫 Book now - filmhubmidlands.org/upcoming-events/
📽️ Early Development Fund Deadline: Tuesday, 18 November - apply via filmhubmidlands.org/make
@networkfhm @bfinetwork
Don’t miss out on an exclusive Midlands premiere!
Falasteen on Film is bringing Palestine ‘36 to Birmingham for a special preview screening this Wednesday
📆 22 October | 5 PM
🎫 Book tickets via Mockingbird Cinema website
Falasteen on Film is supported by Film Hub Midlands Film Exhibition Fund
The BFI NETWORK Early Development Fund is now open, supporting filmmakers in developing their debut feature idea into a strong initial treatment.
Learn more and apply bit.ly/edf25
@networkfhm.bsky.social
OCTOBER FILMWIRE JUST LANDED
🎃 Check your emails or sign up already to see the spine-tingling slate of cinema being served up across the Midlands!
bit.ly/Filmwire
📢 We’re back with Midlands Filmmaker in Focus
Celebrating the voices shaping film in our region
We spotlight BIFA-nominated director Rebekah Fortune, making waves with her upcoming feature Learning to Breathe Underwater
📖 Dive into the full feature filmhubmidlands.org/news
"You're just Too Much" is exactly what we want to hear this autumn!
As Midlands screens serve scandal, betrayal, and big feelings, as part of the BFI FAN Too Much: Melodrama on Film season
🔥It’s cinema turned all the way up
Find a screening near you
filmhubmidlands.org/toomuchmelod...
There's still time to join the roundtable starting at 5 PM today
Filmmakers in the Midlands!
Join us for a filmmaker roundtable @broadwaycinema.bsky.social with The Severed Sun producer Rebecca Wolff
🗓️29 September | 5 PM
🎟️£5 ~ bit.ly/severedsunround
Tickets are limited and inclusive of the special screening and Q&A
We are teaming up with Worcester Film Festival for a mixer.
Meet filmmakers at the festival and discuss what you've seen so far!
25 September | 7 PM
Spin the Black Circle, WR1 2QX
RSVP - via filmhubmidlands.org/upcoming-eve...
⏳Just one week left to register for Distributor Slate Days
An opportunity for film exhibitors to preview upcoming slates and meet distributors, held in London on 24-25 September
For more information and eligibility, follow the link >>
filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-lon...
BFI announces Too Much: Melodrama on Film
A major UK-wide season celebrating cinema’s biggest emotions and heightened dramatics from around the world!
Look out for announcements of Midlands-supported screenings coming soon!
Find out more bit.ly/melodramamid
Join BFI NETWORK Talent Executive Lauren Parker at Platform Leicester's event
"What do producers actually do?"
📅TONIGHT
⏳6:30 PM
📍Phoenix Leicester
Demystify the role of producing and join the panel in an honest conversation about the role
Book Now bit.ly/Platformproducers
A huge thanks to @filmhubmidlands.bsky.social for being our event sponsor in May. Here’s @louishudson.bsky.social looking sheepishly unprofessional while half naked in a cake.
📽️Think you know what producers do?
Producers have the most misunderstood role...
Our BFI NETWORK Talent Executive, Lauren Parker, will be joining the panel of the next Platform Leicester to make it clear
🗓️28 August
⏲️6:30 PM
Book Now - bit.ly/producerplatform
