With all details including the INDIs Short Film competition:
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INDIs Film festival 2023 is back! |
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The 12th
edition of the INDIs Film Festival is less than one week away!
We've picked out some of our highlights from the programme. But
with over five days of film screenings, workshops and special
events there's too much to fit in one newsletter, so check out
the full programme. The INDIs Film Festival connects film
lovers and encourages fresh new film talent.
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Screenings will be taking place
in the Pyramid Theatre inside Leeds University Union.
All tickets £5.
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DON'T
HUG ME I'M SCARED + PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOP
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If our in-person watch party
marathon of the demented Channel 4 show Don't Hug Me I'm
Scared sounded fun before, it just got even better
with a new, free DIY puppet workshop before the screening with
Leeds comic, performer and puppeteer Freddie Hayes.
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The screening will be BYOP
(Bring Your Own Puppet) but if you don't have a puppet ready to
go then it's a perfect chance to make a mini-friend to enter
our Best Puppet competition. We'll also be doing a prize for
the best cosplay so you better bring it! 👌
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Find out more about the workshop
and book your tickets to join Freddie, Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and
Duck as they learn everything there is to know, with the help
of some friendly talking objects in this surreal, existential,
dark puppet comedy.
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7pm
/ Wed 22 Feb
Choose your
own path at our special interactive film experience
where you and the audience get to decide how the story
unfolds. An art curator is held hostage by a
portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless
their demands are met. The audience must make decisions
in a bid to better understand and escape their captor.
However, it soon becomes apparent that not only the
life of the protagonist hinges on these decisions, but
also the lives of others.
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7pm
/ Sunday 26 Feb
Grab your
friends and share the laughs in our in-person watch
party marathon of the hit Channel 4 show Big Boys. Jack
Rooke's semi-autobiographical comedy follows a
closeted, awkward boy who strikes up an unlikely
friendship with his new housemate when they're thrown
together at university.Based on Jack's Edinburgh Fringe
show, don't miss your chance to this funny but
heartfelt comedy on the big screen.
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12:30pm
/ Friday 24 Feb
Do you want
to learn how to host your own film screening or
cinema event? Whether you want to gain exposure
for the film and the filmmaker, screen your
own film or just to create a fun social experience for
film fans, DIY screenings are a great way to explore
film exhibition on your own terms. In this masterclass
we’ll look at how to organise, promote and host your
own film screening with our panel who work in
festivals, venues, and plan their own screenings.
Perfect for anyone interested in the film exhibition
sector.
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How To Get Ahead In Screenwriting
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1:45pm
/ Thursday 23 Feb
Do you want
to get paid to write movies or television shows? Then
don't miss this opportunity to discover how to plan a
career in screenwriting through a Q&A session with
two seasoned industry practitioners with almost 50
years of experience between them. Craig Lawson (We Are
Poets) and Dean Cavanagh (Irvine Welsh’s Crime,
Creation Stories) will discuss their own careers and
give pointers and advice to anyone looking for a
sustainable career as a screenwriter.
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7pm / Thursday 23 February
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Things haven’t been going well for
the exhausted crew of a low-budget gothic
horror film set in the British countryside. It
was bad enough having to deal with their lead
actor, a washed-up alcoholic thespian, but now
it seems that there’s a new problem to deal
with, with much sharper teeth.
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Trapped inside the walls of the old
country house they’ve been filming in, beleaguered
assistant Fiona and the rest of the crew must find
a way to survive the night and finish the shoot in
one piece. Literally.
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The screening will be followed by a
Q&A with Director Dominic Brunt.
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10am
/ Thursday 23 February
Talia is a
young Belgian woman who travels to her ancestral home
in Senegal for the first time to connect with the
extended family she's never met. Staying in a luxury
villa with her privileged cousin Binta, it isn’t too
long before she is restless to explore beyond the walls
of the villa and discover more about her roots.
Enter Malika, a working-class street seller who shows
Talia a different city to the one she’d imagined,
making her start to question her own identity and role
within this new world.
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2:30pm
/ Saturday 25 February
What would you do, to fit in? The long-awaited debut
feature from Edmonton-born filmmaker Trevor Anderson
asks this question, taking viewers back to 1987 where
new, non-binary student Robin is starting their first
day at a new school.
While the other students wonder if Robin is a boy
or a girl, Robin finds themselves strangely drawn to
the school bully, forging a complicated bond. Soon they
start to have to make increasingly dangerous choices in
order to fit in, but at what price to their own
identity.
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12:30pm
/ Satruday 25 February
Cherry is a young woman drifting through life, still
living with her parents and dividing her time between
her job at the costume shop, rollerblading dance team,
semi-serious boyfriend. But everything threatens to
change when Cherry discovers she is pregnant and has
less than 24 hours to make a huge decision about her
future.
Charming but thoughtful, Sophie Galibert’s bold
directorial debut is a fresh take on embracing adulthood.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature Film
(Online) at Tribeca Film Festival 2023.
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INDIs
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
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12pm / Wednesday 22
February
The INDIs Short
Film Competition returns for
with a showcase of the best new short films from up-and-coming
filmmakers across the country. Get inspired by a unique mix of
genres, styles and narratives; handpicked to spotlight the very
best in fresh new film talent.The shortlisted films have
been selected from over 400 submissions and are presented in
three age categories: 15-18, 19-21 and 22-25.
The films will be viewed by a
jury of industry
professionals who will choose winners from each
categories which will be announced in online INDIs Awards on
Saturday 25 February.
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INDIs
Film Festival • Movie Nights •
Career Opportunities
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The INDIs is part of Leeds Film, which is part of
Leeds Ticket Hub, the city’s cultural ticket office:
Leeds Ticket Hub. Carriageworks Theatre, The
Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD
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