Festival Screener Workshop
Sun 12 Feb
|The Old George Inn
Learn what it takes to be a festival screener and how it can help you in your filmmaking journey!


Time & Location
12 Feb 2023, 13:00 – 15:00
The Old George Inn, Old George Yd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EZ, UK
About the Event
Fancy yourself as the next Mark Kermode?
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival are looking for volunteer reviewers to help choose the line-up of the 2023 event, and we'd love for you to get involved.
We don't mind if you're a film fanatic or a movie newbie, we want to hear from a wide variety of people on our content to make this our best selection of films yet!
Our training session will cover setting up an account on Filmfreeway.com, how to access the films and what criteria you can assess them on - but what is most important is what you think of the short films and music videos which have been submitted. These reviews are massively helpful to our programming team in helping to choose what will be shown at the festival.
We have found that as well as being a great way to build up reviewing and journalistic skills, volunteering for the festival…