In partnership with TikTok and My SMASH Media, join us for an exciting and nervewracking live pitching event as seven finalists compete in front of a panel of industry professionals for a funding pot worth £10k to enable them to make their short film. The winner will receive £5k in cash from TikTok and £5k in kind from other partners including Adobe, Festival Formula, Shorts TV and British Urban Film Festival. The winner’s film will premiere at next year’s LBFF and screen at BUFF.

The finalist projects and their teams are:

My Dad Falls Asleep All the Time dir./scr. Esmond Levi Yao, prod. Gurvinder Bharaj

Bang, Zang & Tang dir. Jaffar Aly, scr. Martell Lindsay, prod. Kaytie Neilsen

Shroud dir./scr./prod. Callum Fernandes-Clarke, scr. Ben Mitchell, prod. Scheanel Ness King

Undercurrents dir./scr. Savannah Acquah & Ruby O’Casey, prod. Catherine Joy White

Daughter of a Daughter dir./scr. Temi Yussuf, prod. Phil Ossai

Rent-A-Friend dir. Victor Oparah, scr. Darren Yeboah, prod. Ricardo P Lloyd

Moi et Ma Belle dir. Dubheasa Lanipekun, scr. Winnie Imara, prod. Maria Moss