Sometime last year the news broke that the celebrated short film festival held annually in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand was in trouble. One of the major funders of the festival announced a surprise 50% cut in their subsidy for the 2023 edition - that had already taken place.

In the realm of filmmaking, the advent of mobile technology has revolutionized the way stories are told and visual narratives are crafted.

Smartphones have changed how we make and consume media in our daily lives. But how have they impacted areas of the film industry?

Elke Sasse is a filmmaker whose titles include THE CORONA DIARIES, THE WAR ON MY PHONE, and #MYESCAPE - all three documentaries focus on footage shot by real people, taken on their mobile phones.

If you’re as old as I am, you’ll remember the advent of the digital democratisation of filmmaking. That was when, up to that point, only the Gods on Mount Olympus could possibly make films as they were the only ones with access to the filmmaking equipment required to do so. Now, we have all been bestowed the power of the Gods.

With a good story, science fiction, much like horror and fantasy, is a genre that has the capacity to transcend film festival programmes and find multiple homes online when the festival run is over.

You don’t need a budget when you’ve got a beach ball with legs - and other lessons from bargain science fiction films from history.

How does the filmmaker and audience interpret documentaries? We ask feature doc filmmaker Riccardo Servini and Oscar-winner Ben Proudfoot.

Academic and short filmmaker Sharon Ryba-Khan shares the importance of audience education in a consumerist world.

Networking these days isn’t just about working a room, it’s also getting the most out of online opportunities too.

Connecting to other filmmakers is paramount on every filmmaker’s journey - but how do you do it?

Women’s Day arrives in early March each year not long after the major awards ceremonies of BAFTA and The Academy. So it’s perfectly placed as a litmus test to see how the film industry is improving representation of women both in front and behind the camera. 

A day dedicated to representing half of the population is a challenging task. One could see International Woman’s day as an opportunity to praise society’s journey with women’s rights and for others a day to highlight the many issues that still occur.