Ben Cogan is best known for his 15 years at BBC casting over 300 episodes of Doctors, 180 episodes of Casualty, as well as Holby City, EastEnders and more. We can't wait to chat to Ben about castings, lockdown, one-to-ones, and what's next for the film industry.

Welcoming Ben Cogan to our next online Tweetup

A PANEL OF INDUSTRY AGENTS After the success of chatting with Shakyra online the other week we are bringing you not one but two upcoming talks in the next few weeks…lockdown is not going to stop our Tweetups! For the next one, we are inviting two busy London agents. It’s […]

An online panel of industry agents

Shakyra Dowling workshop 2020
Casting Director Shakyra Dowling has kindly volunteered to come and do a virtual Q&A with us to talk shop about castings, chat about her upcoming film, Wolf, starring George MacKay, Lily Rose-Depp and Paddy Considine, and answer any casting director questions you might have.

BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING

Acting agent panel 2019
We are welcoming back some fantastic agents, and bringing in some new faces for our first acting agent panel for 2019 in London.

An incredible Acting Agent panel

Ever a fan of showcasing our members work, and that of British filmmakers, we saw the introduction of TweetFest Film Festival back 5 years ago and have been delighted with its growth ever since. From our earliest festival where we showed just 6 brilliant shorts, all the way through to […]

WHY WE WANT YOUR SHORT FILMS

SEX EDUCATION’S KATE HERRON JOINS US! What a year we are having. We love a good old humblebrag – we have had some incredible events withMakeYourFilm, Kino London and our Indie Society night with Shorts On Tap+ London Film Academy, and now we feel like it’s time to get back to our grass roots and have […]

MEET DIRECTOR KATE HERRON – SEX EDUCATION, FIVE BY FIVE ...

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ALICE LOWE IS OUR FIRST CONFIRMED GUEST  Ww love sharing news about other filmmaking organisations – so much so that for the month of April we are teaming up with one of them – MakeYourFilm. Alice Lowe is near and dear to us and we are thrilled she can come along and share her […]

Teaming Up With MakeYourFilm To Bring You Alice Lowe

Laura windows casting
KICKING OFF THE NEW YEAR, WE WELCOME CASTING DIRECTOR LAURA WINDOWS We are 99% sure you’ll already know who Laura Windows is given her extensive credits in casting including all of these movies and television shows shown above…and they are just a few of her many credits. And we would love […]

WELCOMING CASTING DIRECTOR LAURA WINDOWS

Tree Petts q and a
We were thrilled when Tree said yes to coming along in August, to Gerry’s Actors Club to share her thoughts on castings and being in the industry for over 19 years. A member of the CDA, and also an ex actress herself, Tree knows a thing or 20 about castings. […]

Welcoming Tree Petts Casting to the Tweetups

HOW TO MAKE AN AWARD WINNING FILM, GET IN SCREENDAILY + MORE  With summer firmly afoot, and castings rolling in, we feel like it’s time to get down and dirty with a few experts on how to make a film. We all know it takes time, and that it’s a grind, […]

AWARD WINNING INDIE FILMMAKING PANEL

tweetfest 2017 volunteers
With TweetFest accepting submissions for this year’s film festival right now, we felt it was only fitting to let you all know about another exciting component of TweetFest 2018… This year we have opened up an additional day to include F–Rated films. The F-Rating was introduced by IMDb in an effort to encourage […]

We added an F-Rating to TweetFest

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CASTING DIRECTOR CLAIRE BLEASDALE JOINS US With Cannes fast approaching and the Oscars and BAFTAs recently on, we thought it was only timely to bring in a Casting Director whose short film just WON A BAFTA. Also Claire will be heading off to Cannes for the film festival the very […]

We have a Casting Director Claire Bleasdale – right after ...

TOPOLSKI BAR
This one is a biggie. We have not two, not three, but four agents joining us for an acting agent panel on MONDAY the 19th March. And this will replace our March and April Tweetup as one combined event (given there will be the Easter holidays coming up shortly). So […]

A PANEL OF THEATRICAL ACTING AGENTS

On Tuesday October 3rd the Zimmerman himself will be joining us to discuss his casting career. Jeremy is one of the busiest CDs in London so we’re extra lucky to have him with us next week at Bar Topolski. More about Jeremy… Jeremy Zimmermann is one of the UK’s leading casting directors and has worked on […]

Jeremy Zimmerman joins us to chat all things casting….