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From the folks at Film Forum WM comes the news that Moving Pictures – the film night at The Victoria – are to start screening locally made short films. Sounds like a splendid idea.

Send your films to – Claire Goldthorp, Moving Pictures, The Victoria, 48 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BN.

Btw, they’re showing The Life of Brian this Sunday.

• BCMG
  December newsletter for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
• ACE Dance Mapping Survey – West Midlands Dance
  The Arts Council are planning to pull together as much info as possible about all aspects of dance in the country. There’s a lot going on in the West Mids so if you’re involved in dance then I guess it might be worth chipping in
• Punch Update – December 2008
  Punch’s monthly update of what they’re up to
• Film Forum West Midlands – Linking up filmmakers in the Midlands…
  The Film Forum WM now has one of those roll-your-own social networks that are all the rage
• CMYKern – D8
  “Birmingham based D8 has some nice print work in their portfolio”

• Links for November 23rd | daveharte.com
  Dave Harte has a few good links – Self Portrait Birmingham, an RSS feed for the Media Talent Bank blog and the BrumMusicArchive’s YouTube channel
• Film Forum West Midlands − MECHANICAL EYE- Community film project
  The Film Forum WM pick up on Mechanical Eye, a project “to encourage young filmmakers within the region to use their creative tools and minds together and, come up with simple stories to appeal ‘at and to’ the common man through an artistic outlook”
• Birmingham School of Architecture Year 1 Blog
  This is interesting – as the title says, it’s a blog for year 1 architecture students and they seem to be throwing all sorts of bits and pieces at it
• Who is Brummie of the Year 2008? – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
  The voting has opened
• Harry Palmer: Birmingham’s hedgehog crisis. Why it’s so important.The full story
  A thoroughly interesting explanation/reflection on Saturday’s public speaking event

The website for the Film Forum West Midlands, which I mentioned just the other day, has been spruced up and is looking very nice indeed.  The domain name is now filmforumwm.co.uk and if you subscribed to the earlier version of the blog you’ll need to update to this new one.

With all that said, they have news of a free screening of ‘Festival’ at the Library Theatre on 19 Nov at 7pm.  Our own Roger Shannon produced the film and will be introducing it.  Here’s the flyer:

Film Forum West Midlands has been set up following a conversation at the last Birmingham Film Makers meet organised via Facebook.  Taking its cue from the Animation Forum WM:

The focus of this blog is to expose opportunities and bring people together from different disciplines of filmmaking, with the aim that these lovely people will mingle, learn and thrive of each others support to help strengthen the Midlands’ position within the media industry.

The first post only went up yesterday, so give them a little time to pretty it up, but this is one to subscribe to if you’re in any way interested in film in the West Mids.