Dear Members,  RE-SCORED COMPETITION FORM SONOS AND ABBEY ROAD . . . DON'T MISS OUT Sonos and Abbey Road Studios are working in partnership to help bring everyday listeners closer to the music making journey, from the moment of composition to the final listening experience. The collaboration is a celebration of the creative process at A...

Dear Members, My friend and business partner (source of inspiration and fellow producer of our developing project Thin, Brittle, Mile ) Matthew Weston, has met a lot of people through his charity work and campaigning for veterans rights since leaving the forces. One such individual is former Army Officer Bob Garbett, who, like Matt, retired early f...

A word from our founder… The British Filmmakers Alliance is not about our own self-promotion any more than it is about financial reward. It's about a love of film. Throughout the site we've often cited the current economic downturn and its impact on the film industry, in relation to filmmakers. And while the financial crisis does compound the chall...

Dear members, Firstly apologies for the lack of time since our last newsletter or magazine. We're in one of our busiest periods at the BFA completing the post production of the first feature made in the BFA's name 'The Spoiler' https://vimeo.com/80752378 and at the same time we're in the final edit of our launch documentary 'Fires we're Starting......

" Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. " Orison Swett Marden Dear Members, We're just a short couple of weeks and 28% away from the BFA website opening its doors and welcoming our members who've stuck with us for the first year of our initiativ...

Often in life the difficulties we're presented with can wear you away. Something anyone who's ever made a film will vouch for and no doubt be able to show an array of battle scars. But it's worth stopping every once in a while to remember why we took up the battle in the first place…. From the BFA's manifesto: "The next generation of filmmakers and...

  This year's crop of acting talent has recently graduated, leaving the safety, comfort and fun of drama school for the stark reality of the battle for his or her place on the stage, with an agent, on our screens… The young, unscarred and hopeful join the multitude of actors, some of whom have spent years, even decades, fighting for their voca...

  'One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle, one who opens up new areas of thought, research or development, one who changes the current 'way of things' and paves new opportunities and benefits for future generations' The term pioneer could have been applied to Kay Mander some sixty plus years ago. Women in the film indus...