Film, television and video games

Royal Mail has released a set of stamps celebrating pioneering British video games from the 1980s and 1990s.

Video games are a vital part of the UK’s creative industries, contributing nearly £3 billion to the economy according to a 2018 British Film Institute (BFI) report.

DCMS launched the UK Games Fund in 2015, which provides grants up to £25,000 to designers and developers, enabling more games to be made and more talent to break into the industry. DCMS confirmed an extra £1 million for the fund last year, extending it until March 2021.

The Arab British Centre is seeking a film curator for the fifth edition of the SAFAR Film Festival, taking place across London venues from 17 – 21 September 2020.

The opportunity is a freelance position and is available for candidates based in the UK and overseas.

Apply before 8:00pm GMT (UK time) on 15 December 2019.

Working closely with the festival directors and producers, the responsibilities of the curator include:

We want to make it easier for everyone approaching digital rights and have been talking to rights holders, arts organisations and arts representatives and working with digital rights expert Ben Green to create a new digital rights framework to open up the knotty area of digital rights.

The BFI London Film Festival 2019 is its 63rd edition, with hundreds of leading filmmakers in attendance, 345 films and dozens of events to choose from.

British film is heavily represented including: 

Register your interest in joining the Department for International Trade (DIT) at SXSW (South by Southwest) 2020 on 16-22 March 2020, in Austin, Texas for the annual nine-day festival showcase of music, film and tech.

SXSW brings around 300,000 visitors each year, from entrepreneurs and investors to cutting-edge digital disruptors, and a readymade audience for your company’s creativity, expertise, technology and innovation.

Companies could benefit from the connections, knowledge and experience of DIT in the following ways:

British writer and actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge has won Emmy's for her show Fleabag, which included best leading comedy actress, best comedy writing and best comedy show - a first for a British show - at the 71st Emmy awards which took place on 22 September 2019.

The 14th London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) launched its full programme of films and events at Regent Street Cinema ion 16 September 2019.

The festival will be taking place from 1-14 November in London before embarking on the annual tour from 18-24 November.

A new film by Joseph D. Bonczyk. 

This endeavor addresses the continuing disaster that is the modern school shooter/bomber era, which commenced on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. After planning for more than a year, two teenagers drove from their comfortable suburban homes toting more than 90 homemade bombs and a cache of firearms to school intending to blow Columbine High off the face of the planet, killing hundreds of their classmates and teachers in the process.

In 2014, the completely DIY book/musical/art/merchandising project by Kathy DiTondo called "I Was a Teenage Guitarist 4 the Clash" which recalled the mid 1970s cultural big bang involving DIY artists, musicians, publishers, designers, merchants, writers and other creators of independent content which emerged from the streets of London and went global was brought to market.

Artist Vincent Kamp has turned film maker with ‘Queen of Diamonds’, a short film he has written and co-directed with Naeem Mahmood (Brash Young Turks).