Brighton Screendance Festival 2025: Homegrown Call Out
Are you a South East based artist with a dance film you'd love to share with audiences at a film festival? We want to hear from you!
From 7-9 November 2025 we're presenting the third edition of Brighton Screendance Festival, our annual celebration of dance on screen, in partnership with CINECITY. This year's festival continues to explore bold, curious meeting points between movement, choreography, and the moving image.
As part of this year’s programme, we’re once again presenting Homegrown – a platform dedicated to showcasing short dance films by makers based in the South East of England on the afternoon of Saturday 8 November. Working with our Community Steering Group, we’ll co-curate a screening of up to 10 selected films.
Key info
Your film must be:
A completed dance film (not a work-in-progress)
No longer than 7 minutes in duration
Created by an artist or collective based in the South East of England (excluding London). For the purposes of this callout, the South East includes Bracknell Forest, Bedfordshire, Brighton and Hove, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Luton, Medway, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Peterborough, Reading, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffold, Surrey, Thurrock, West Berkshire, West Susses, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wokingham. See a map of Arts Council England’s South East region.
We particularly welcome submissions from artists who are underrepresented in the cultural sector and work that foregrounds inclusive and diverse perspectives.
If selected, you will receive:
A screening of your work as part of Brighton Screendance Festival 2025
A £25 honorarium
5 complimentary tickets to the screening
A Brighton Screendance Festival laurel for your film credits
Films will be shown cinema-style on our large projection screen. We can also present your film in a different format if you prefer - let us know in your application.
Apply here: https://forms.office.com/e/Z4bsNxsS8r
The form is quick and simple. It must include a link to your film.
If you can’t access the link or if you have any questions, drop a message to programming@southeastdance.org.uk
Deadline for submissions: Friday 3 October, 9am 2025
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