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Reframe and Rejoice
International Women’s Day Shorts Showcase

Reclaim The Frame presents

ABOUT OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 

 

Inspired by International Women’s Day’s theme of ‘accelerate action’ and in celebration of our 20th anniversary of the inaugural Birds’ Eye View Film Festival, we’re planning a special Weekender of events in London 7-9 March 2025. 

 

8 March 2005 marked the first annual Birds’ Eye View Film Festival: a platform for early, emerging and established women filmmakers, which in itself was built on the legacy of short film events. Twenty years later our Charity continues to build audiences of all genders for marginalised gender-led work, with a mission to reach equity in all film spaces. Now year-round, UK-wide, and under the auspices of ‘Reclaim The Frame’.

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ABOUT THE SHORTS PROGRAMME

Birds Eye View started as a shorts event so we're thrilled to return to our roots with this special showcase!

Entry Criteria

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  • Films completed between 2024 - 2025

  • Maximum 20 minutes (no minimum length requirement)

  • Must be directed or co-directed by a filmmaker of marginalized gender

  • UK-based director or UK production involvement required

  • All forms and genres welcome (fiction, documentary, animation, artist moving image, all genres and genre defying)

  • Accepting films which have either not yet premiered or have screened already in the UK

  • Films must not be currently or set to stream online

Timeline and Details

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  • Selected filmmakers will be contacted by end of January

  • Selected films will be publicly announced early February 

  • Screening at BFI Southbank on International Women's Day (Saturday 8 March 2024)

  • As a registered charity, Entry Fees contribute towards the costs of administering the process and reviewing all films

    • Entry Fees are as follows (please note VAT will be added in total): 1-5 minute film: £10 / 6-20 minute film: £15 

    • Applicable for a limited amount of un-funded films, if the entry fee is a barrier, please get in touch with us at mail@reclaimtheframe.org

  • Selected films will be offered a screening fee, per film (1-5 minutes : £75/ 6-20 minutes : £100), as per Artist Union England / LUX rates of pay. 

  • Some travel and accommodation support available for filmmakers based outside Greater London

International Women’s Day

Please consider that though we have set no theme for this programme, it will be presented on International Women’s Day, and - as with our programming every day - we take an intersectional approach to this: centring the work of global majority, LGBTQIA+, disabled, working class and otherwise doubly or multiply minoritized filmmakers of all ages and from across the UK, from all over the world and in all languages. 

Films presented may centre women on screen, characters or issues, but needn’t. Our focus is more on who is telling the story and how, challenging cinema’s dominant gaze through a broad vista of perspectives.

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SHORT FILMS ENTRY FORM

Please fill out the following to the best of your ability. If you have any questions please contact mail@reclaimtheframe.org ​

Where needed to upload files, please paste a link to an online folder (i.e. Google Drive or Dropbox) and make files available for us to view.
Entries close Sunday 12th January 11:59 PM

Director / Co- Director’s Information

Film information

Please note the final film file needed for early February 2025; more details will be provided upon selection.

Access Provisions

We will be screening this programme with on-screen descriptive subtitles and also strive to provide optional audio description (where possible).

If any of the above are not currently available - please note selected filmmakers will be asked to provide supporting files to aid in the creation of access files; this could include timecoded film transcript (as an .srt or .txt file) including dialogue, action directions, sound effects/music description, offscreen/voiceover notes, along with anything else that could aid in the creation of access files, such as scripts, dialogue lists, CCSL docs, music cue sheets.

Contact details

In-Person Screening (Saturday 8 March 2025 at BFI Southbank, London)

Is the director available to travel to London to participate in the post-screening discussion?
Yes
No
Unsure at this time

British Council Touring Programme

Films selected for this programme may also have the opportunity for inclusion in a Reclaim The Frame and British Council partnered international touring programme of shorts. This programme is non-exclusive and is focused on international screening opportunities that centre cultural exchange. This is designed to run alongside commercial or festival arrangements that participating filmmakers may already have planned. This programme has the potential to reach thousands of new audiences around the world through the British Council’s global network and will be part of a series of programmes that champion UK films and a diversity of UK storytelling worldwide.

I can confirm that, if selected, my film can be considered for inclusion and that my details can be shared with the British Council.
I consent
I do not consent

Entry Fee

As a registered charity, Entry Fees contribute towards the costs of administering the process and reviewing all films.

Fees are as follows

Applicable for a limited amount of un-funded films, if the entry fee is a barrier, please get in touch with us at mail@reclaimtheframe.org, with the subject line ‘Shorts Programme - Entry Fee.

We look forward to viewing your entry! We will be in touch with selected filmmakers by early February at the latest.


Note: Please review all details before clicking 'Submit and proceed to payment'; all information will be lost if you come back to the form from the payment page.

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