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  • Seth Mason in the house!

    Seth Mason in the house!

    Join us for this amazing casting director Q&A with Seth Mason to end our 2024 Seth has most recently been co-casting director on Unforgotten 6 (Mainstreet for ITV), due for release in 2025. He was casting director on the recent West End hit I Wish You Well, The Catch, the feature film Embers and…

  • And that’s a wrap for TweetFest

    And that’s a wrap for TweetFest

    Thank you to everyone who managed to join us for TweetFest 2024. We will have all the pictures up soon from the festival. This year we screened 44 amazing short films in our BIFA qualifying film festival and the standard of short film was extraordinary. We are thrilled to be championing the best of…

  • One Day can we get a casting director from the show in?!

    One Day can we get a casting director from the show in?!

    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…

  • Our next event at The Garden Cinema

    Our next event at The Garden Cinema

    The Uk Actors Tweetup is about to host a one-of-a-kind short film night that you won’t want to miss. We are bringing ‘The Best of the Fests‘ in association with AIFF to The Garden Cinema on the 20th of August. We are teaming up with 9 other UK festivals. Of course every year we…

  • BRINGING CASTING DIRECTOR AMY JACKSON TO GERRY’S FOR A Q&A

    BRINGING CASTING DIRECTOR AMY JACKSON TO GERRY’S FOR A Q&A

    The wonderful Amy Jackson will be joining us this May to chat all things castings and share her wealth of experience having worked with numerous incredible casting directors over recent years. As always, our intimate talk is a chance to get up close and personal and ask Amy all about the casting experience she…

  • Spring into the busy season with LIFF drinks

    Spring into the busy season with LIFF drinks

    WE ARE BACK TO THE GENESIS CINEMA FOR LIFF DRINKS AND NETWORKING UK Actors Tweetup is thrilled to be joining London Independent Film Festival (LIFF) again for networking drinks this April. Our friends over at The London Independent Film Festival (LIFF) have been going for 20 years now (HUGE ACHIEVEMENT). LIFF is devoted to…

  • BBC Casting Director Emma Sylvester joins us

    BBC Casting Director Emma Sylvester joins us

    MEET THE LOVELIEST CASTING DIRECTOR IN SHOWBIZ, EMMA SYLVESTER We are thrilled to announce that first ever daytime Tweetup, with the option for the parents among us to bring their babies if they want to – don’t worry you don’t have to steal a baby to come. Anyone is welcome. This is just going to…

  • MEET THE LEGENDARY PETER HUNT IN PERSON AT THE GARDEN CINEMA…

    MEET THE LEGENDARY PETER HUNT IN PERSON AT THE GARDEN CINEMA…

    We are thrilled to announce that our next in person Q&A, just like the good old days, will be coming up in August with none other than Hollyoaks’ Casting Director Peter Hunt.

  • Join us in the Garden Cinema

    Join us in the Garden Cinema

    Welcome, 2022. And goodbye to 2021. With this new magical year now upon us, we want to welcome you all back with a big ol’ networking event. And this time all the magic will take place at the brand new and very beautiful Garden Cinema in Covent Garden – a𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳…

  • TweetFest in all its glory

    TweetFest in all its glory

    If you missed our latest TweetFest (year 7!!! Wahoo) then you can catch all the glamour, winners, and more about the films in Offical Selection and Competition over at our TweetFest Film Festival links. We would like to say a huge shout out to FAB UK Magazine, NerdSpan and BRITFLICKS for covering the event.…

  • Welcoming Ben Cogan to our next online Tweetup

    Welcoming Ben Cogan to our next online Tweetup

    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.

  • An online panel of industry agents

    An online panel of industry agents

    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 going to take place…

  • BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING

    BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING

    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.

  • An incredible Acting Agent panel

    An incredible Acting Agent panel

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

  • WHY WE WANT YOUR SHORT FILMS

    WHY WE WANT YOUR SHORT FILMS

    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 last year where we…