BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7532@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20231021 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20231022 DTSTAMP:20230710T101840Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/birkenhead-international-film-fe stival/ SUMMARY:Bloom: Birkenhead International Film Festival DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nWe will be hosting the Fourth Birkenhead International Film Festival on the 21st October 2023. Hot on heels of our SOLD OUT 2022 festival. We are delighted to bring you our 4th festival\, this year.\n\nT he BIFF brings together a collective of filmmakers to explore the art of f ilm from a varied range of backgrounds\, filmographies and genres.\n\nBirk enhead International Film Festival is all about bringing the world to Birk enhead and so for our 4th Edition of the BIFF we are exploring the theme o f ‘World-building’.\n\nWhat do we define as world building?\n\nWorld-B uilding is often described as the process of constructing a world\, and of ten imaginary ones. World-building we feel is a staple tennent of the film industry\, as writers and makers create experiences in film that transpor t us as viewers into new worlds and universes of their making. We want to celebrate this as part of the festival this year. We want you to let us in to your world\, we will champion and celebrate the world you have created through film.\n\nFor film submissions we want the term world-building to e ncompass all genres and is of course free to your interpretation of the ph rase but to give you an example we have explored some of the following the mes\, narratives and topics within our definition that we are hoping to di scover in the submissions process.\n\nWe would look for films that may exp lore:\n- Visions of the past\, present or future.\n- Films that explore ne w worlds\, visionary landscapes\, dystopian and utopian portrayals of life .\n- Films could be person centred\n- Films could explore class\, discrimi nation\, exclusion\, global majority\, lgbtq+\, gender\, disability\, and underrepresented groups.\n- Can explore history\, shared memory\, folklore and collective past.\n- Films can explore realist\, surreal and abstract films.\n\nWe are looking for existing works that explore the theme to show case at our annual festival which will be shown in a heritage location in Birkenhead. We encourage submissions from all genres\, and have a run time of up to a maximum of 30 minutes in length.\n\nWe are looking forward to seeing your submissions and we are confident that this will be our best ye ar yet.\n\nWhat is Convenience Gallery?\n\nConvenience is a not for profit \, creative arts platform based in Birkenhead\, UK. Our programmes aim to make arts &\; creativity a part of everyday life. Our work is shaped by and for the community here in Birkenhead alongside the national artistic and creative community.\n\nWe use our platform to promote and advocate for creative people nationally\, and to inspire people. We run free and affor dable events\, exhibitions\, installations\, workshops\, labs\, creative c ourses\, and artistic support. We believe anywhere can be a space for cult ure and run our programming across multiple venues and spaces in the area. \n\nOur role in supporting the BIFF is to work with independent festival p roducers and curators Ben Loveland and David Harrison to help continue to bring independent and international film and filmmakers to new audiences i n Birkenhead. Whilst also providing a platform to filmmakers across the gl obe to showcase work.\n\nFor the fourth year of BIFF we are also looking t o implement a space for one of the film blocks to be focussed on Northern UK based filmmakers. There is a significantly lower percentage of opportun ities for northern filmmakers in the UK and we want to ensure the festival provides an opportunity for makers living and working in the north of the UK. Whilst still championing and celebrating films from across the world. \n\nWe are also as a team excited as ever to showcase filmmakers from acro ss the globe. With previous selection at festivals coming from 32 differen t countries and The BIFF Audience choice award having gone to filmmakers f rom Mexico\, France\, Cyprus\, and United Kingdom. 92 filmmakers have show cased their work with us so far and previous filmmakers have gone on to sh owcase work as prestigious festivals globally too.\n\nEach year we have al so had a partnership with Scenegraph Studios\, who have brought new techno logy and digital media to the festival. They have created AI bot generated films from audience prompts and showcased VR films during the festival.\n \nWe also have established partnerships with Northern Fortress Films ahead of this years festival.\n\n2023 will be our most ambitious festival yet a nd we can wait to build the programme with you. We dream of a world full o f filmmakers and thank you for taking the time to apply for this year's fe stival.\n\n\n\n\nAwards &\; Prizes\n\n\nThis is our fourth event so ple ase bear in mind that this opportunity is unpaid\, we hope to raise the fu nds to work towards paid commissioning and screening in the future.\n\nAwa rds will presented for the:\n- Audience Choice\n- Screeners Choice\n\n\n\n Rules &\; Terms\n\n\n\nWelcome to Birkenhead international film festiva l\, a film festival exploring and celebrating emerging filmmakers across b oth physical festivals and online programming.\n\nBIFF 2023: World Buildin g\n\nThis is an open call to any filmmaker who is interested in taking par t in the third iteration of the Birkenhead International Film Festival. We are a festival solely focused on short films that focus on different genr es. This year our theme will be Science Fiction.\n\nThis genre covers a wi de blanket that focuses on many different styles of film\; dystopian\, cyb erpunk\, utopia\, artificial intelligence\, alien invasion just to name a few. Film length can be anything up to 20 minutes. For additional question s on the film length please see our list of FAQ’s on our website www.bif f-fest.com or send an email to the email address listed below.\n\nThe time period for this open call will be from June 7th to August 7th. Submission s will cost £3. Once submitted\, your film will be reviewed by our BIFF S creeners and if selected will progress on to a final selection in which it is decided whether your film will be shown at the BIFF.\n\nAll selected f ilms will be shown at the Fourth Birkenhead International Film Festival. T o submit a film please go to our page on FilmFreeway\, details are also on our website\, www.biff-fest.com. The Third BIFF will take place on the 15 th of October. The end date for submissions will be August 31st at midnigh t. We are excited to see what submissions we receive! Until then good luck and if you have any questions feel free to email us at birkenheadintfilmf estival@gmail.com.\n\nAlso just before we go… fancy taking part in the f estival but don’t want to submit a film? Why not become a Birkenhead Int ernational Film Festival Screener! You will be part of our front line in w atching films and telling us which ones you think deserve to be shown on t he big screen at the third Birkenhead International Film Festival. We are also accepting volunteers if you are interested in taking part in the actu al film festival itself. Please send an email to the same email address li sted above.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/07/image-asset.png LOCATION:Bloom\, Abbey Close Unit 1\, Birkenhead\, Wirral\, CH41 5FQ\, Unit ed Kingdom GEO:53.38841;-3.013196 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Abbey Close Unit 1\, Birken head\, Wirral\, CH41 5FQ\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bloom :geo:53.38841,-3.013196 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR