THE ART OF BALANCING DREAMS WITH MAKING THE BREAD & BUTTER
Short film screening & industry-focussed networking.
tue 3 mar
6:30pm
SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud, GL5 2HA
£6/£8/£10 - Pay what you can
Come down to SVA for an evening of beautiful short films, candid conversations and a great growing community of creatives living in and around Stroud. We will be screening four standout works from directors across the UK, followed by a discussion on impact, craft, sustaining your practice and how to balance dream projects with the work that pays the bills. If you want to meet filmmakers, find collaborators or simply hang out with people who care about story, this is the night. The bar will be open for refreshments.
THE PROGRAMME
Ranch / Florence Bass and Lydia Bowden
Skala eressos, Lesbos, has long been a mecca for queer women as they trace the steps of Sappho, the poetess who gave lesbianism its name. Residents hold a week-long festival in May celebrating the island’s queer spaces and community, encouraging the younger generation to claim the space as their own. This short documentary follows the residents and visitors and those who are part of it, attendees, organisers and performers.
The film had its premiere in the UK in May 2025 and has been selected for multiple film festivals including London fringe festival, magic nights queer film festival and les gai cine Madrid.
Wish You Were Here / Ramzay Sabbagh
The lengths a lonely old woman would go through to find some kind of human connection.
This short film was created to highlight the fact that 2 million people over the age of 75 live alone in the UK, going by months without speaking to anyone. Quite interesting how loneliness is the most curable disease. You literally just have to talk and listen to people. We wanted to show this problem in a fresh, fun and unexpected way.
Shot in one day. In one house. With one very talented actress.
GOLDMINE / Adrian Fisk
Goldmine tells the story of a young artisanal gold miner and his family in the Siguiri Basin in Northern Guinea. The harsh reality of their existence is exposed as we follow the family into a gold mine and witness the challenges such a life brings.
Louis Rummer-Downing
Is a Natural History television producer, working at the BBC Natural History Unit, Bristol. He’s worked on productions such as Dynasties & The Green Planet and have recently completed a landmark series for a third party client.
Awards include a Grierson for Cinematography on "Tropical Worlds", The Green Planet (BBC, Producer - Paul Williams); WCSFP Emerging Producer Award 2022; plus team wide awards for The Green Planet - including Wildscreen Panda Best Series, RTS & more
He will be showing clips from ‘The Making of’ Green Planet and talking about innovation within Blue Chip Natural History filmmaking as it is today.
Cert 12
Genre Short Films + Networking