European associations raise concerns about AgoraEU 21/04/2026 - More than 17 bodies, representing thousands of professionals and SMEs across the film and audiovisual sector, have sent a joint letter to the European institutions

🚨 More than 17 European audiovisual associations have sent a joint letter to the European institutions, raising concerns about #AgoraEU. While the funding scope is wider than in Creative Media, the signataries warn that the objectives are diluted in the new programme.
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Sands: Ania Trzebiatowska On The Festival’s Milestone Fifth Edition The Sands International Film Festival wrapped Sunday evening, concluding the Scottish event’s milestone fifth year on the circuit.

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Our display for the South West Shakespeare Festival is now open! Get your fill of Shakespeare on Screen this week, everyday 10am-5pm, in the stairwell of the upper gallery. Thank you to @lightbearlane.org for having us as festival partners!

##SWShakespeareFest #shakingitup

The Green Producers Tool – Updated

D3.1 documents the latest technical and functional upgrades to the GPT. Full deliverable on Zenodo 🔗 zenodo.org/records/1925...

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Image Empire “Something strange is happening in the dark corners of data centres, smart phones and game engines…”

Join our panel of experts as they discuss Image Empire, Dr. Alan Warburton’s new animated fairytale. The session examines how “large world models” fuse the real and the virtual together in potent new forms, bringing game logics to our working lives.
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Another great #SandsIFF! Great session from John Sloss w. Wendy Mitchell on Cinetic & Linklater. Added bonus of the Cavs’ okes doing the club proud at MaBells7s.

Forecast: Online video, TV revenues over $1tn By 2030 According to data presented by Maria Rua Aguete, Senior Research Director at Omdia, at the FED Show in Madrid, global traditional TV and online video revenues a

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Great job GB & Bartolomeo!

🎉 Smart Data Research UK is delighted to announce the recipients of its 15 new Fellowships.

The Fellows will address some of the UK’s most pressing challenges and join SDR UK's growing community of smart data researchers.

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Strengthening Europe’s Media Ecosystem Through Connected Workflows - Tems

Shared environment-enriched metadata-avail to multiple partners-improves discoverability, less admin. Creative institutions' materials-difficult to share when rights&metadata inconsistent-connected framework helps make collections more accessible w. clear conditions tems-dataspace.eu/strengthenin...

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UK Film & TV Fund Allegro Finance Secures $2.6M Working Capital Facility New UK Film & TV Fund Allegro Finance Secures $2.6M Working Capital Facility

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Old books .. to be surrounded . #oilpainting #art

Home - Open City Documentary Festival Celebrating the art of non-fiction, Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.

The @opencitydocs.bsky.social Festival starts today📽️

The festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers🎞️

📆14 - 19 April

Screenings take place across the city⬇️

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📢 DATAMITE's newsletter special edition: DATAMITE's final event !

You will find:
🔸A full report on the final event.
🔸Video highlights from the final event.
🔸Video: The full final event.

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Goldsmiths staff back industrial action over latest job cuts Union opposes new savings target and questions plans for online courses

'Goldsmiths announces a further £22m of “savings” (ie job and programme cuts) after making £24m savings since 2021 and spending £14m on consultants since 2019' ch/p Des Freedman www.timeshighereducation.com/news/goldsmi...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

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University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

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Ethical data practice: What we measure shapes what we value - Arts Professional Stephen Dobson and Anna Kime from the Centre for Cultural Value reflect on why ethical data practice sits at the heart of their approach.

Writing for @artsprofessional.co.uk, we share more about the Centre’s approach to ethical data practice and how going beyond simply measuring what culture does and where can help to begin to shape how culture is understood, strengthened and sustained.

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Interoperability for Audiovisual Production in Europe - Tems

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The Creative Europe public dashboard is now live 📊

Explore data, track trends and gain insights into how cultural and creative sectors are supported across Europe and beyond— all in one place.

👉 Discover more & dive into the data: link.europa.eu/pDkQKp

Lisa Smithstead writes: "My main role on the project is interviewing curators and archivists to find out more about their working methods with women’s screen work collections. (1/4)

Open Call for to apply to the 23rd edition of CICAE's Arthouse Cinema Training

📣 #OPENCALL Applications are now open for the 23rd edition of CICAE's Arthouse Cinema Training, the international program dedicated to independent & arthouse cinema exhibition.
💁 The intensive workshop will take place in Berlin from 24–30 August.
Apply by 29 April: cicae.org/activities/training

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Building the Narrative R&D Lab Lessons from a year of experimentation in the economic mobility space, and why we’re focusing on AI narratives next.

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@helenexeter.bsky.social writes: “I am the Project Lead for the fantastic team on the Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible Project. My role is to help co-ordinate our activities, but the work and generation of ideas and insights on our project is truly collaborative. (1/6)

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