Enter your film to be considered for the 20th edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival!
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is the UK’s Festival for New Cinema & Artists’ Moving Image. Taking place in England’s most Northerly town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the 20th edition will be taking place 27 - 30 March 2025.
Entries are predominantly considered for the New Cinema Awards. As well as being showcased at the Festival, each filmmaker receives a £400 award.
The deadline for entries to Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018 is 1st May. We’re looking for resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation. BFMAF presents artists’ and filmmakers’ work in the cinema as well as expanded formats of exhibition and performance.
Entries under 60min will be considered for the Berwick New Cinema Award and a £1000 prize.
Submissions will be considered for all areas of the programme including: • Cinema screenings • Installations and exhibitions: moving image based and otherwise • Live events and performance
Entries are welcome from any genre, and in any format and on any subject. Before entering your film, you might like to consult the website.
Deadline:
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 18:00 to Friday, June 2, 2017 - 17:45
Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival are pleased to announce that applications are now open for our annual artist's residency. The residency is for a six-month period beginning in April 2017 and is an opportunity for an artist with a moving image-based practice to create a new work to be premiered at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival between 20th and 24th September 2017.
Dates:
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 17:00 to Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 16:55
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is an international celebration of the art of film. Spanning 12 locations in North East England’s walled border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, BFMAF is serious about cinema in its fullest of senses. Creating a forum where new cinema meets artists moving image and profiling passionate, joyful, genre-busting film is at the heart of the Festival.
Dates:
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 18:00 to Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 17:55
The 11th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is open for entries! The 11th edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival takes place this year on 23-27 September. Set in North East England’s walled border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwick is a festival that’s serious about cinema in its fullest of senses, featuring film premieres and retrospectives as well as moving image installations and live performance.
With programming this year responding to a theme of ‘Fact or Fiction’, the Festival encourages film and moving image submissions of all types and lengths that turn a curious eye to the grey areas between fact and fantasy, documentary and narrative, journalism and propaganda.
