Open Call for Film/Video Editor | RTF23 Trailer Brief

Reclaim The Frame champions marginalised perspectives in cinema, and connects with audiences through community building and conversation.

Our events bring audiences together and build communities of advocates for films by people of marginalised genders.

We're on the hunt for an experienced Film/Video Editor who can creatively deliver our brief and create a galvanising and engaging trailer/ident which will be played at our partner cinemas before our events as well as on their plasma screens at box offices and foyers.

Applications close Monday 3 July at midday.

Read more, including the full brief HERE.

Or, download the PDF here:

RTF EVERGREEN TRAILER_IDENT BRIEF.pdf

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Happy Pride Month!

Today – and every day – we see, hear, love and appreciate our LGBTQI+ #ReclaimTheFrame community. Pride is a day for queer joy, but also for protest, at a time when our right to protest is being taken from us. We stand in solidarity with those facing injustice and violence simply for being who they are. At Reclaim The Frame, our aim is equity and inclusion in all film spaces, with a mission to create safe and accessible environments, not least for transwomen and QTIPOC people and all those facing homophobia, transphobia, and other hostilities.

In the spirit of #Pride, we want to share a few recommendations for titles coming to a cinema near you this month and in the coming months:

PRETTY RED DRESS – wri/dir Dionne Edwards (UK 2022)

A stunning sparkling red dress changes everything for one South London family in this exploration of Black masculinity, sexual identity, family secrets and awakened desires, soundtracked by Tina Turner.

Coming to cinemas from 14 June via BFI Distribution.

KOKOMO CITY – dir D. Smith (USA 2023)

From music producer turned filmmaker D. Smith introduces us to four Black trans sex workers in America, each offering thought-provoking and unapologetic insights into their world, telling their own stories through a lens that offers dignity and de-stigmatisation.

Coming to cinemas this autumn via Dogwoof.

ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY – dir Paul B. Preciado (France 2023)

Queering the documentary form, ORLANDO calls for collective imagination in creating alternative futures for gender non-conforming and gender-transcendental human beings everywhere - an inventively creative, subversively humorous film that leaves the audience with pure queer joy.

Coming to cinemas this year via Picturehouse Entertainment.

Cannes Film Festival

Congratulations to British writer/director Molly Manning Walker on her debut rite-of-passage feature How To Have Sex which took Cannes by storm, first with an 8 minute standing ovation, then winning the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This year, 20 films were selected, including 8 debut films and 6 by women directors.

Manning Walker graduated from the NFTS with an MA in Cinematography. Her 2020 short film 'Good Thanks, You?' was selected at the International Critics' Week in Cannes.

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Also, a big shout out to French writer/director Justine Triet and Anatomy Of A Fall winning the Palme d'Or. She is only the third female director to win the Palme since it was founded in 1946, following Ducournau (Titane, 2021) and Jane Campion (The Piano, 1993). Anatomy is Triet's fourth feature and she has been a regular since her fiction debut Age Of Panic featured in 2013’s Acid programme, followed by In Bed With Victoria in Critics’ Week in 2016 and Sibyl, which played in Competition in 2019.

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