Join us 3 – 6 May 2018 for Season 3 of Pilot Light TV Festival, Manchester’s home of celebrating the small screen!
This year, the festival will return with its communal TV watching experience featuring even more exclusive screenings of series old and new from around the world plus Q&As, panels and workshops with the people behind the series we love so much.
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Previously in this season
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Walter Presents: Tabula Rasa
An intense thriller that follows a young woman with amnesia locked up in a secure psychiatric hospital. She was the last person to be seen…
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Sarah and Duck: Behind the Scenes
This BAFTA-winning CBeebies hit show follows Sarah, a young British girl and her best friend, a mallard named Duck! We take a peek behind the…
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Pitching Digital Series: Beyond a YouTube Existence
Join us as we examine the development, distribution and commissioning options available for Web Series and short form digital content beyond the realms and limitations…
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Workshop: Digital Creators UK Writers Room
This event is designed to improve your web series script before you enter production. Actors will be reading scripts submitted by local creators in a…
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Class in Diversity in British Television
Class in Diversity asks whether TV executives and commissioners are failing to acknowledge the impact of class representation and specifically how stories created by working…
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The Royle Family at 20
To commemorate its 20th anniversary we are delighted to be joined by Sue Johnston (Barbara Royle), Peter Martin (Joe Carroll), writer Phil Mealey (Early Doors)…
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Pilot Light TV Festival Awards 2018
Join Pilot Light TV Festival for an informal session of networking, meeting future collaborators, TV chat and finding out the winners of this year’s Pilot…
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Reel Good Film Club Present: Cakes & Candles + Zine Workshop
Following a screening of the first 11-minute episode of Cake & Candles, RGFC lead a discussion about the future of Queer Web Series, a live…
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Web Series Block 1
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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Web Series Block 3
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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Arrow TV Presents: Gomorrah
A new exciting partnership with Arrow TV allows Pilot Light to present the first two episodes of Gomorrah, widely regarded as one of the best…
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Web Series Block 2
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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New Voices in TV and Film: Distinct Voices, Diverse Stories
This discussion looks at the steps being taken to improve on screen representation, in particular shortFLIX, a short film initiative led by Creative England in…
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Web Series Block 4
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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PLTVS3 Opening Night: Westworld Season 2
For this year’s Opening Night, Pilot Light TV Fest have teamed up with Sky Atlantic to present the Season 2 premiere of Westworld on the…
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Costume Design and Fashion on TV: Behind the Seams
TV Critic and Entertainment Reporter Emma Bullimore (TV Times, BBC 5Live) guides us through a discussion on Costume Design and its role in storytelling and…
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Blue Peter’s The History of Everything + Q&A
The Blue Peter team has searched across their archives and handpicked a selection of the most charming and nostalgic clips from the last six decades…
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Big Train on a Big Screen: 20th Anniversary Screening
What would Pilot Light TV Festival be without a big screen marathon of a beloved British TV comedy? In Season 1 we reopened the Snuff…
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TV Pilot Block 1
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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Sex and the City: The World According to Woke Charlotte
Pilot Light are teaming up with London’s Reel Good Film Club to examine the impact the show had on women of colour in the years…
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TV Pilot Block 2
Pilot Light TV Festival champion the discovery of the next generation of talent in episodic storytelling. They aim to give the creators behind these under-seen…
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In Conversation: Christopher Eccleston
We are delighted to welcome actor Christopher Eccleston to Pilot Light TV Festival for this exclusive in-person event, discussing his small screen triumphs and experiences…
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#Reality2.0 Q&A
Following the screening actor/creator Nathan Bryon (Benidorm, Some Girls) and director Theresa Varga will be in attendance for a Q&A.
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TV in Memoriam: Utopia Q&A
Creator Dennis Kelly (Pulling), Producer Rebekah Wray Rogers (This is England ‘86) and Actor Oliver Woollford (Ghost Stories) will join us for a Q&A following…
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Walter Presents: Tabula Rasa Intro
Before this screening Walter Iuzzolino will chair a Q&A with lead actress/co-writer Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) and director Jonas Govaerts (Cub).
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I Told my Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip Q&A
We are pleased to welcome Julia Samuels (Writer/Producer), Roxanne Moores (Producer) and Lindy Heymann (Director) for a Q&A after the screening of I Told my…
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#Reality2.0
Join us for a screening of all eight parts of this award-winning social commentary anthology web-series about being young, black and British. The series is…
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Michael Cumming: Director’s Commentary
In a professional career spanning 30 years, Michael Cumming has directed some of the most original, groundbreaking and hilarious comedy on TV. In this unique…
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I Told my Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip
This warm and honest drama explores young women’s experiences of abortion. Told through the voices of four actors, the film interweaves real interview material, song…
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TV in Memoriam: Utopia
TV in Memoriam is a new feature of Pilot Light TV Festival dedicated to screening, celebrating and mourning TV shows that left us too early,…
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Panel/ Women in SVoD: Equity on Demand
Over the past decade, women accounted for fewer than 30% of fictional series television writers in the US and the UK. The advent of SVoD…
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The Excellence in Television Award: Julie Hesmondhalgh
We are honoured to present the inaugural Excellence in Television Award at Pilot Light TV Festival to a truly iconic, eclectic and inspirational figure in…