Sheffield Film Festival

My first time at SIFF and so far it's been great - except for today's tropical downpour.

It was quieter on Tuesday for the Crossover Market but now that the Meet Market has kicked in in earnest, Sheffield is full of people strolling around with pink lanyards. The festival opened with a fantastic screening of The Big Melt which is a documentary made up of BFI archive material: a documentary by Martin Wallace, it splices archive footage of the city and its steelworkers to a live soundtrack by Jarvis Cocker and other Sheffield musical alumni, including the City of Sheffield Brass Band, Richard Hawley and members of his band, some of Cocker's Pulp colleagues, the Forgemasters, a string quartet and a youth choir.

But meanwhile it's all about meetings and pitches... But later tonight I might get to see Werner Herzog eating his shoe.

Sheffield-2013_700.jpg


Find out more

We're in production and development so things are always changing. Ohna will be keeping the news page and Twitter feed up to date. But if you want to know more please do get in touch!

Recent posts

2020

BIFA Crocodile and Baby

2019

Films in LFF2019
First Time Directors
Experimental Film Award -

2018

Producers Roundtable - BF
BFI LFF 2018 - Films
Pantene Commercial
MERCURY PREMIERE AND SCRE
SUSPENDED ISLAND PREMIERE

Recent Entries

BIFA Crocodile and Baby

BIFA has had a great idea in this period of Coronavirus lockdown - they have made all the BIFA nominated and winner shorts over the past 10 years available to view for FREE. How lovely to see BABY and CROCODILE up there and among such an exciting batch of films - great to be able to watch them all.

By ohna
Films in LFF2019

This year my highlight of the festival was going to NFT1 to listen to an interview with Céline Sciamma, fabulously talented French writer director of Water Lilies, Tomboy, Girlhood (writer of the animated My Life as a Courgette) and in this year’s festival - her period piece Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

By ohna
First Time Directors

I have been thinking about the stigma and the draw surrounding this title. All my feature projects - and I guess my shorts too in terms of “feature status” - are pretty much with first time directors. Sometimes I long to be at the stage where I can be working with more established directors – albeit them also being the first-timers I’m working with, only them (and me) having MADE that first feature!!! –. Get me out of perpetual development please…

By ohna