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May 15, 2013 • Launched last night at our first Time of the Month networking event Underwire, in partnership with Euroscript, announced their first ever script competition! We are looking for submissions from female scriptwriters of short films scripts no longer than 15 pages long. A shortlist of 5 scripts will be announced, with a winner being selected to...
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May 13, 2013 • Continuing our series of catch-ups with our Underwire 2012 winners, we’ve been speaking with Isla Ure about what she’s been up to since November. She’s even treated us to a screen shot of her new film Drag and Drop in post-production…oh the dreaded timeline of editing! Since Underwire I have been mainly working on completing...
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May 7, 2013 • Back in 2011, when we were plotting our second festival, we decided it was time we to make a space for women film journalists. From there sprouted our first competition for lady film scribes, inviting them to write about an aspect of film culture that interested them. They went on to find mentorship from four...
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May 3, 2013 • After a successful tour of the UK last year, UnderWire’s networking nights are coming home to London. UnderWire, the UK’s only short film festival dedicated to showcasing the raw cinematic talents of women, are launching Time of the Month, a series of bi-monthly networking events in London. The events will include an ‘open mic’ session...
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Apr 29, 2013 • Back with friends the London Short Film Festival with their LSFF 2013 and Beyond series of events, on May 29th we’ll be spending the afternoon diving into the murky, mysterious and sometimes misogynistic world of short film protagonists and asking where are the women, and what are they doing? We’ll be kicking off the...
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Apr 24, 2013 • From under 25 to a very successful over 25, we’re very excited to hear from our winner of the Outstanding Female Talent u-25 category, Lucy Luscombe. Underwire has been a great opportunity for me. The support from the team and exposure I’ve received has been like no other film festival I’ve been a part of....
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Apr 16, 2013 • We caught up with Francesca Fowler, Underwire 2012 Screenwriting Winner, to find out what she’s been up to since winning for her dark and powerfull film Pitfall Having your film ‘Pitfall’ as one of the award winners of the festival in 2012, what did you take away from the experience of Underwire? There’s so much...
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Apr 1, 2013 • We are delighted to announce our partnership with write2screen, a network for the East of England based in Norwich for writers of fiction and non-fiction and those working in the film and related industries in drama and documentary, on our next Forum outing in Norwich on our Creative England tour. On the 24th of April...
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Mar 15, 2013 • This is the third event in Women in Film and Television‘s screening programme in honour of International Women’s Day and we’ll be joining in the fun showcasing a collection of some of our favourite shorts from the 2012 Underwire film festival. Not only will we be screening the films, but we’re delighted that the filmmakers...
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Feb 25, 2013 • We were excited to catch up with Underwire Award Winning Producer, Rosie Crerar, whilst at the Glasgow Short Film Festival this month. Here’s what she’s been up to since winning for NOCTURN at Underwire 2011. “2010 was a busy year, I wound up my day job as Development Producer working with the consortium of Scottish...
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Feb 14, 2013 • We’re joining Underwire partner, BFI Future Film Festival, this weekend as part of their three-day bonanza of sessions, screenings and talks for aspiring filmmakers aged 15-25. They are hosting absolutely jam-packed days, and we’ll be there on Sunday as part of their focus on Animation. Teaming up with the Animate Projects team, we’re hosting the...
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Jan 31, 2013 • At the Underwire Festival in November, the London Short Film Festival posed the question Why Can’t Women Make Feature Films? A great debate erupted at the Ritzy, with Hannah McGill, Lizzie Franke and Carol Morley fearlessly taking on this controversial question. Well, it’s not over yet. Kate Taylor is taking the helm of this difficult discussion...
