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Filmmaker Meet Up PUSH 2023

Part of: PUSH Festival 2023

An informal social where you can meet other members of the filmmaking community and reconnect with old friends and collaborators.

Join us for our first filmmaker social of 2023, have a chat with other members of the filmmaking community and find your future collaborators. We’ll also invite industry professional who will say a few words at the start about what they (or their organisation) are up to and be there for the duration should you want to know more.  

For our PUSH filmmaker meet up we’ll be joined by Ben Taylor, Talent Executive at BFI NETWORK/Film Hub North; Rachel Hayward, Head of Film Strategy at HOME and Richard Everiss, line producer at Wall to Wall Production.  

Open to all manner of people involved in making films whether director, writer, producer or members of the production team. 

If networking is your worst nightmare don’t worry, we’ll be on hand if you want to be introduced to people or just want someone to chat to at the start. 

To register for the event, please fill in an expression of interest below and we’ll get in touch with more details nearer the time 

FAQs

Simply fill in the expression of interest below. We’ll get back to you the week before the event to confirm.

  • Contact Details

  • This event is for over 18 only. There are plenty of opportunities for younger filmmakers with our Young Creatives programme (homemcr.org/hyc)

  • About You

    This is only to help us encourage people to meet each other and give other people an idea of who you are. This will not be published online but we’ll circulate it to all attendees so you don’t come in to a room full of strangers you have no idea about.
  • It doesn’t need to be long, nor does it need to be a full professional biography, it is simply to give people an idea of who you are / what you do.
  • Add in any social media handle, website or contact details that you are happy to share with other attendees should they want to get in touch. REMEMBER this will be shared with all the attendees prior to the event.
  • Max. file size: 128 MB.
  • We may do a little focused talk at the start of the event to get disucssion going. If there are any theme you would like to be discussed, or guests you'd think would be great to be there (wether a specific person, an organisation or a "type of guest", let us know)
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

We’ll get in touch with everybody by email a week before (either on Fri 3 or Mon 6 Feb) to check if you still want to come and confirm a couple of days before.

Unless this event get extrememely oversubscribed it is very likely you will have a space.

If you register after that date we’ll let you know by the end of the day you register.

There will be a free drink for you when you arrive (wine or soft drink) and the second floor bar will be open if what’s on offer is not what you want.

For you: we circulate the list before the event so you can see who is there and, if you fancy, plan who you’d like to talk to. Plus it can feel less daunting if you have an idea beforehand!

For us: so we know who you are and can connect people more easily and so we know to order enough refreshements and make sure we don’t go over the room’s capacity.

Event information

In person event.

Over 18 only

Free, limited capacity. Please fill in the expression of interest in the FAQs section to guarantee your place.