Online Screening: SFW: Shorts 2021
2021-11-11 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Online
Photo: Still image from Hey, Ma – winner of Best Fiction and the Michael Fuller Award for Best Film.
SFW: Shorts 2021 will screen live on City Eye’s YouTube channel on Thursday 11th November at 8pm and be available to watch at any time until the end of Southampton Film Week.
SFW: Shorts is 2-hour programme of short fiction, documentary and artist films from regional, UK and international filmmakers.
The screening and awards ceremony launched this year’s festival on Friday 5th November and was a fantastic, joyous evening celebrating short film and the achievements of filmmakers during a difficult year. We were delighted to be able to present all 15 films on the SFW: Shorts official selection as a live event this year after being completely online in 2020. This online screening is for all those who couldn’t attend the screening or just want to watch all the incredible films again.
Recommended for 16+
Photo: still from Selcan, Winner Best Artist Film

Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck and virtual Q&A
2020-11-22 14:30 - 16:30
PLEASE NOTE THAT IT HAS BEEN NECESSARY TO RESCHEDULE THIS EVENT TO TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER AT 2.30PM.
Following the story of the only Mayflower passenger to have travelled previously to North America this 90 minute film is shown as part of Southampton’s Mayflower 400 anniversary programme.
A decade before Mayflower left our shores Stephen Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda inspiring Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest. The film retraces Hopkin’s life criss-crossing the Atlantic
Twice Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley, a Hopkins descendant, grew up hearing stories that New Plymouth’s iconoclast tavern keeper may have been the inspiration for The Tempest’s drunken and mutinous Stephano. In their Gumshoe Historian style, Buckley and crew of Hit and Run History seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.
We are pleased to present this film as part of Southampton’s Mayflower 400 programme to mark the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower and in partnership with University of Southampton’s Human Worlds Festival and delighted that the film’s director Andrew Buckley will join us after the film for a Q&A.
This is an online event. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to access the film and conversation which follows.

Live Q&A with Jeremy Theobald & Lucy Russell
2020-11-11 15:15 - 17:00
Jeremy Theobald (Batman Begins, Convergence, Tenet) was lead actor and producer of Nolan’s award-winning debut feature, Following (1998). After making a number of shorts with the director, they later worked again on Batman Begins (2005) and Tenet (2020). Jeremy was recently seen in the micro-budget feature Convergence (2019) where he once again took on the role of lead actor and producer. Jeremy has been working with fellow director, Dave Armstrong, on the MannIN Shorts Film Scheme, training people of all ages in the art of film production from script to screen.
Lucy Russell (Toni Erdmann, Wolf Hall, Chernobyl, The Crown, Judy) is an actor who made her debut in Following and has appeared in several movies, television programmes and short films. She also trains and teaches at Anthony Meindl’s Actors Workshop in London.
Join Jeremy and Lucy with colleagues from Solent University to discuss careers, the making of Following and hear their advice for aspiring filmmakers and actors.
The event is open to Solent students, applicants and members of the general public. Age recommendation 15+. This is an online event and links enabling access to it will be emailed to you when you book your place.
At 2pm – 3.15pm, before the Q&A, students in Higher Education will be able to access and view Following (1998) by clicking here to watch the film via BoB

SFW: Shorts 2020 on-demand
2020-11-06 - 2020-11-22
Image: The Rotation directed by Hazhir As’adi
Subscribe to the new SFW: Shorts on-demand channel to watch the official selection of artist film, documentary and short fiction films.
SFW: Shorts is an annual short film competition that invites films of all production styles and techniques including animation, documentary, drama, experimental and artist film.
On Saturday 14th November 2020, Southampton Film Week announced the winners, selected by our panel of judges, of Best Artist Film, Best Documentary and Best Fiction categories, as well as the Michael Fuller Award for Best Film and the Solent University sponsored Regional Filmmaker Award. SFW also announced who you voted for to receive the Audience Award. Find out more here.
Viewers can ‘subscribe’ for £5 to access all 19 short films at any time during the official festival period.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sfwshorts2020
