{"id":278022,"date":"2025-06-07T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/a-new-film-festival-aims-to-build-a-community\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:09","slug":"a-new-film-festival-aims-to-build-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/a-new-film-festival-aims-to-build-a-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A new film festival aims to build a community\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Collective-Film-Festival-London-film-shoot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CFFL aims to help develop filmmakers\u2019 skills through workshops and Q&amp;As focused on overcoming various filmmaking roadblocks such as difficulty networking, restrictions on budget or access to locations.<\/p>\n<p>Bethany adds, \u201cWhether you\u2019re interested in cinematography, lighting, sound, you\u2019re an actor, or you\u2019re multidisciplinary, there\u2019ll be things at the festival that everyone can learn from.\u201d She and Anthony believe that the festival\u2019s community spirit will be further fostered by slightly unorthodox activities like karaoke.<\/p>\n<p>The pair believe in the power of social media in building community, and will be leaning on it heavily to help promote creatives\u2019 work online and make their collaboration and networking easier. Bethany describes how in the past many of her collaborations have happened from seeing what people share on Instagram, rather than through film festivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be difficult sometimes. You go to these film festivals and meet so many people and then it\u2019s just silence afterwards. If you don\u2019t manage to see someone\u2019s film or catch them, and they leave the festival immediately afterwards, you\u2019re not sure how to follow them up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through mailing lists and social media posts, including vox pop-style interviews, Bethany and Anthony hope to build a platform to help filmmakers keep in contact with each other long after the first CFFL comes to an end. They also hope to inspire other festivals to emphasise their potential to build communities, an essential for amplifying underrepresented voices.<br \/>Looking to the future, CFFL aims to be a yearly event and eventually join the Association of Independent Film Festivals.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the screening programme, the festival will have an international flavour, showing films from around the world. The CFFL team has received submissions from the likes of Nigeria, India, Iran and Taiwan, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not just shorts, they\u2019re features and documentaries\u201d, Anthony remarks. \u201cWe\u2019re not just looking for films that are set in stone and have a particular budget or crew cast attached, but also first-time and second-time filmmakers, and stories that are not just rooted in the UK but also worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The inaugural Collective Film Festival London takes place on Friday 18 July at Collective Acting Studio. Book tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveactingstudio.co.uk\/film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collectiveactingstudio.co.uk<\/a> and follow the festival on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/collectivefilmfestivallondon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/collective-film-festival-london-community\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CFFL aims to help develop filmmakers\u2019 skills through workshops and Q&amp;As focused on overcoming various filmmaking roadblocks such as difficulty networking, restrictions on budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}