The Short Cinema

11/02/2025

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📍 Final Session in Person Phoenix Leicester

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Don’t miss this chance to take your creative career to the next level! 🎥🎨

Thank you for your interest in the Platform Business Lab. This four-session programme has been designed to empower aspiring Leicester-based creative entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to turn ideas into a business. Cost: Free Sign ups close: Thursday 13 February 2025 (spaces ar...

09/07/2024

A big shout out and ginormous thank you to the partners and friends of The Short Cinema!

08/07/2024

Check out what people are saying about The Short Cinema 🧡

What a week of films, networking, challenges and Q+As!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the festival ❤

01/07/2024

What an honour for our film to be shown as part of the official selection at The Short Cinema festival in Leicester at the weekend.
Congratulations to the winners!

30/06/2024

29/06/2024

TONIGHT!!

Join us for a celebration of all the Midlands has to offer, with 9 films (including the winner of the 20-second film challenge) of breathtaking variety and creativity, including our annual Awards Ceremony, this year hosted by Leicester-based actor Camille Burnett.

When: Saturday 29 June | 19:00
Where: Phoenix Cinema
Tix: Pay what you can

See you there 🎥🍿🤩

28/06/2024

Join us this weekend! 🎥🍿

It's the BEST day of the week, new films from today! 🎟

Due to demand, The Bikeriders, Freud's Last Session and Wilding stick around for another week - don't miss them on the big screen.

New from today...
👍 Kinds of Kindness
🏍️ The Bikeriders
🇫🇷 Ama Gloria
🛻 Hounds

Our friends The Short Cinema have a packed programme this weekend, don't miss...

🎬 20-Second Filmmaking Challenge Screening
🛸 Unsettling – Shorts
💰 BFI NETWORK Funded Shorts
🇮🇹 Senses: International Shorts
🏆 Midlands Showcase and Awards
🍿 Family Shorts (FREE)

The frank and inspiring doc SOMEONE'S DAUGHTER, SOMEONE'S SON screens this Sunday. Once a teen runaway sleeping rough, director Lorna Tucker examines why 25 years on, a record number of people are still reduced to living on Britain's streets. This Pay What You Can screening is open to all.

Tickets and times via phoenix.org.uk

28/06/2024

We're made up for our screening at The Short Cinema Leicester International Film Festival tomorrow, Saturday 29th at 7pm.

Hope to see you there!

Photo: Paul Copley and Emily Burgess Freelance Makeup Artist, by Becky Ryan Photography

27/06/2024

SOCIALS!

Theres no denying that sometimes going to film festivals is daughnting and lonely. Below are some events happening as part of the festival or adjecent to it, which you might enjoy. Our festival is for everyone to enjoy and feel included. Filmmakers and the festival team will be wearing lanyards of The Short Cinema t-shirts so come on over and say hello!

*Last Friday Street Food Night*

Friday 28 June | 5pm
£2 | LCB Depot

Join us at the legendary LCB street food experience. LCB Depot’s Last Friday provides a great mix of street food from guest vendors and drinks from the LCB Depot courtyard bar. Not to mention music from guest DJs, live comedy, and music and art exhibitions.

*The Short Cinema Wrap Party*

Saturday 29 June | 10pm
FREE | Phoenix

After the Midlands Showcase and the awards have been given out, join us in the Phoenix Café Bar to wrap up the festival, scored by a DJ set from the one and only Alan Morton of The Social Cinema.

26/06/2024

Meet our 2024 judges!

Every year, we are honoured to be joined by a panel of industry professionals who make the difficult decisions about which films will win our awards.

Lateesha Johnson - Talent Coordinator
for BFI NETWORK Midlands

Ulrike Kubatta - Documentary Film
Producer/Director; Associate Professor at De Montfort University

Amy Smart - Head of Partnerships

Barrington Paul Robinson - Creative Producer

Alex Ruhl - Head of Emerging Tech
at PwC

26/06/2024

Our film 'Annalium 8: Sssss' made the official selection for The Short Cinema festival in Leicester, and it's being screened on Saturday (June 29) evening, as part of the Midlands Showcase.

Tickets and details here: https://www.theshortcinema.org/events/midlands-showcase-and-awards-18