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One Day can we get a casting director from the show in?!
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Meet Katie Mozumder Katie is joining us for our next Q&A with the UK Actors Tweetups and we are beyond thrilled. We will spend an hour getting up close and personal and asking Katie all those important Casting Director questions we are dying to know (about One Day – eek!!!), followed by our usual…
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Welcoming Ben Cogan to our next online Tweetup
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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.
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AWARD WINNING INDIE FILMMAKING PANEL
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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, with a whole lot of…
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We have a Casting Director Claire Bleasdale – right after a BAFTA win!
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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 next day, so if…
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A PANEL OF THEATRICAL ACTING AGENTS
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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 without further ado, meet…
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Our Voiceover Expert evening
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It will be worth breaking away from your holidays early to come and join as at Bar Topolski on Tuesday the 5th September for our incredible voiceover experts talk. We love to share things with our audience that are a little left of the main filmmaking route from time to time, and this month…
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As Wonder Woman opens, so does our wonder woman panel!
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We are bringing along a terrific team of female directors! We will be welcoming a trio of lovely ladies to guest speak for a free panel for us in June, about all things directing. And one of the reasons we are so excited to have them along is they’ve got incredible feature films being…
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Casting Director Gemma Sykes joins us!
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Gemma has now opened her own casting company after working at Dan Hubbard Casting for many years. That’s right – you heard it here first! We are thrilled to have Gemma along to our favourite actor’s bar, Gerry’s Club, on Tuesday April 4th at 7pm to chat castings, acting and all things film/TV. If you didn’t catch…
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Meet the team working on a UNIVERSAL action film – Dir. Sacha Bennett & Brad Moore
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Sacha is best known for his work directing WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY, GET LUCKY, OUTSIDE BET and BONDED BY BLOOD. Sacha has worked with some of Britain’s biggest actors including Bob Hoskins, Phil Davis, James Cosmo, Steven Berkoff, Luke Treadaway, Neil Maskell and Jenny Agutter. He is the king of low budget…
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Party time with Shooting People and Casting Networks
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You want big?! We are giving you HUGE. And it’s FREE. We are going to have a combined event in June with Shooting People and Casting Networks back at Hackney Picturehouse (upstairs where we hosted our first ever TweetFest) and we want YOU to come play with us. . Come to our Film Networking…
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TweetFest 2015
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WOW now how incredible was our TweetFest for 2016! We had over 100 guests on the night, and were blown away by all of your awesome films and charming personalities. Thank you! Goodness we even made it into the news (see below!). Congratulations to our winners (Overall winner Sea Child and Audience Award Gerry’s Garden) and thank…
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TWEETFEST Gala tickets on sale now!
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our Gala screening for our first ever TweetFest film festival will be taking place at the Hackney Attic, upstairs at the Hackney Picturehouse on Tuesday the 3rd November. The Hackney Attic is part of the wonderful Picturehouse suite of awesome cinemas located all around the UK. The…
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We have a Spring in our step with Shooting People…
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Just because it is Spring time, and because we love any excuse for a party, we wanted to let you know that we have another combined party coming up on Wednesday May 6th with Shooting People. Shooting People are an organisation solely focused on independent filmmaking. They connect actors, directors, producers…
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CDs Nicci Topping and Lee Mountjoy join us with Casting Networks for a FREE talk
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We are absolutely delighted to announce our surprise event with Casting Networks! We have teamed up with the amazing CNI so we can offer a FREE Casting Director talk with two of the hottest northern CD’s about – Nicci Topping and Lee Mountjoy. During this intimate session you will have the chance to ask…
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End of year party with Cinema Jam
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Time to party Is it that time already? Nearly the end of the year! For us it’s all about present buying, mulled wine and mischief. Oh, and of course the UK Actors Tweetup & Cinema Jam end of year party! We are teaming up with the film folk at Cinema Jam…