Shoutout to all comedy creators! The registration on the DAFTAS 2023 is now open.
Register now to take part.
WHAT:
- Comedy shorts challenge
- Spoof BAFTA-Nominated film
- All original content
- Shot in two days
- Between 19th of Jan and 19th of Feb 2023
- Only £20 registration fee (worth every penny)
JUDGED BY CELEBRITY JUDGES
- Award-winning filmmakers
- Celebrated actors
- Casting Directors
- Comedians
- Film Critics
- TV Personalities
WIN BIG!
- Screening in Central London
- Public screenings at the Brighton Fringe 2023
- Gifts from our sponsors!
Registered NOW: daftas.org/daftas-registration-form/
Hey DAFTAS Fam! Hope you are all enjoying your sunny and not so sunny Sunday. Time for a quick shootout to @comedylabuk and @thatsamelyguy for their regular comedy nights at People’s Park Tavern in Hackney. Giving budding and pro comedians time and space to try their new work and present their best. We joined them for a comedy night earlier this week and really appreciate the concept 🤘. If you ask us, the more the merrier!
Well done to all #comedians: @maeve_like_wave @spladamson @callumisjones @osmanshibli and @thatsamelyguy
Check them out!
#comedynight #freecomedy #freecomedynight #openmic #practicecomedy
Love Comedy and Festivals? We've got you covered! We will be screening Six hilarious DAFTAS-Winning Spoofs at the @brightonfringe.
For the first time YOU, the generous public will be able to watch the best spoofs of 2022, shot in two days and on a shoestring budget! #SaveTheDate
10th May @ 6PM - Press and Industry Screening
11th May @ 6PM
15th May @ 4:30PM
2nd June @ 4:30PM
3rd June @ 4:30PM
Get your tickets now!
https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-daftas-comedy-short-films-screening-159799/
#comedy #comedyfestival #TheDAFTAS #Comedyawards #filmmaking #BrightonFringe
We are delighted to present our shortlisted spoofs - you can watch those spoofs tomorrow at 7PM - not to be missed!
Belfast: The Divide by Malcolm Modele
Behind The House of Gucci by Artie Brennan
Beach by James Allen
Freestyle Cowboy Showdown by Liam Taylor
Last Night in Boho by Bec Wallen
Last Night in Yeovil by James Murphy
#TheDAFTAS #comedy #comedyawards #filmawards
There is no better time to get your tickets to the ONLINE DAFTAS Awards ceremony. Get you 50% off with 'LAUGHS50' discount code at a check out.
Watch all shortlisted and award-winning spoofs of this year's BAFTA-Nominated Films in one place.
The spoofs are only 6-minute long and were shot in two days with a budget of up to £200.
Get your tickets now and see you tomorrow!
#Comedy #discountcode #Filmmaking #filmawards #TheDAFTAS
The DAFTAS Film Draw
The DAFTAS Film Draw
We are Streaming The DAFTAS Film Draw tonight at 7PM. Tune in via IG Live and FB Live!
We selected 7 BAFTA nominated films for our 2022 competition 🤩
sociatap.com/thedaftas
📣Hey Comedy Creators!
The time is running out to register for The DAFTAS 2022 spoof film challenge!!!
Take part in the most exciting and challenging comedy competition and put your skills to the test.
What's required:
- Register until 13th of January on the daftas.org
- Take part in a film draw
- Spoof your selected film
- Shoot in two days and use only original content
- Four weeks to produce your masterpiece
- Watch your film premiere in Central London on a big screen
- All shortlisted films will also be screened at the Brighton Fringe.
REGISTER NOW:
https://daftas.org/daftas-registration-form/
#comedychallenge #comedypodcast #filmmaking
HEY COMEDY FILMMAKERS! The Registration for #TheDAFTAS is now open!
- Free Participation*
- Films judged by celebrated filmmakers, film critics, actors
- Shortlisted films premiered in London
- Cash prize for main winner (Best Spoof)
- Shortlisted films go to Brighton Fringe 2022
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Centered around BAFTA-nominated films, The DAFTAS celebrate the best spoof films, shot in no more than two days and on a shoestring budget.
If you want to take part, you need to register your interest by 13th January 2022.
The BAFTA-nominated films will be allocated on 3rd of February 2022 (when BAFTA announce their shortlisted nominees)... this is the point at which you pick which film to spoof.
Once you've had your film choice confirmed, you'll then have till 13th March 2022 to finish your spoof of it.
When it comes time to make your film, you'll need to:
- Shoot it in no more than two days
- Spend no more than £200 (plus food expenses and travel) on making it
- Film in a resolution of 1080 or above
- Edit it down to no more than 6-minutes, including opening and closing titles
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Read more and REGISTER NOW: https://daftas.org/daftas-registration-form/
* During the registration process, a refundable fee of £22 is collected. This registration fee will be returned to you (minus processing fee £2) upon submission of the film. The proceeds from any drop outs will go towards the cash prize for the Best Spoof.
#fringe #bafta #comediansofinstagram #comedy #Comedyfestival #comedywriter #filmmaker #filmchallenge #filmawards #bbccomedy
Cally Beaton is a comedian that is known for her TV appearances in shows like BBC’s QI as well as The Apprentice You’re Fired, Radio 4’s Museum of Curiosity, The Unbelievable Truth and Saturday Live. She is a frequent guest and commentator on BBC 5 Live, BBC Radio London and Times Radio.
Her journey fo transitioning from Senior Vice President of ViacomCBS (Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount) started when Cally was forty five. It was while working for Comedy Central, on the road with the late, great Joan Rivers, that Cally was nudged into the sphere of performance. Acting as an unofficial business event warm-up for Ms. Rivers, it was she (then 81) who told Cally she had what it took to be a stand-up; and so, as a 45 year old single parent, Cally first took to the stage. She has since become one of the UK’s most-booked professional comedians.
Her latest project - a blazing podcast 'Namaste M*therF*ckers' on Audioboom is where the worlds of comedy, self help and business collide.
We sat down with Cally Caroline Beaton to chat about finding her voice as a comedian and about failing - but failing better and failing further.
https://daftas.org/interview-comedian-cally-beaton/
#comedy #comedypodcast #comedian #comedyinterview
Thrilled to have visionary Film Director and Composer Tom Lawes joining our judging panel for a second year running.
In 2011 Lawes directed and produced a feature length documentary The Last Projectionist, a film charting the history of independent cinema in the UK. In 2010 the British Film Institute selected The Last Projectionist to be included in its permanent archive collection.
Most recently, Tom has written and directed feature film Amaryllis that has won 12 awards internationally and has picked up a UK theatrical distribution deal this autumn.
We feel lucky and privileged to have the wealth of Tom's expertise.
Thomas Lawes is known for renovating the oldest working cinema in the UK Electric Cinema, Birmingham.
Happening NOW:
https://daftas.shortly.film
#indiefilmmaking #theDAFTAS #TomLawes #Filmmaking #FilmAwards
Absolutely chuffed to hear such amazing words of encouragement for our Team Leaders from one of our judges Damon Smith.
Since 1996, Damon Smith has been film critic of PA Media (formerly the Press Association), the national news agency of the UK and Ireland. His reviews are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers and magazines with an audited weekly circulation of 3-4 million copies, making him the most widely read critic in the UK and Ireland.
Happening NOW:
https://daftas.shortly.film
#indiefilmmaking #theDAFTAS #DamonSmith #FilmReview #FilmCritic
Privileged to have an award-winning Actor and Producer Karen Bryson MBE on our judging panel who recorded this wonderful video for our Team Leaders.
Karen has graced our TV screens in such TV series as MatherFatherSon, Black Narcissus , and Safe among others. Most recently, Karen has starred in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
Karen has made the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2017 for her services to Drama. Karen's passion for her craft can be seen in every word in this message. Always keen 'to give back' and support bussing filmmakers, Karen is the best role model we could have wished for. We love you Karen!
Happening now: https://daftas.shortly.film
#KarenBryson #KarenBrysonMBE #filmawards #indiefilmmaking #TheDAFTAS
We are ready to roll! Our fabulous hosts Katie Pilbeam and Ruairi McInerney are running through their notes one final time before we are going live.
WATCH NOW!
https://daftas.shortly.film
#TheDAFTAS #Comedy #ComedyAwards
We are not done with trailers yet! Tune in to watch the NordmannLand by Line Nathalie Rønning with assistance and mentoring from our last year's participant Ashley Jonassaint - today at 7 PM!
https://daftas.shortly.film
#normannland #comedy #comedywriting #comedynight #comedyfestival #indiefilms #onlinefestival
Don't forget to tune in this evening to watch all #TheDAFTAS shortlisted films! Among them, this little gem by @theawkwardsilencecomedy : The Awkward Silence's Extraordinary Rendition of The Mauritanian.
There is still time to get your free tickets to our online awards ceremony: linktr.ee/thedaftas
#comedyfestival #comedyawards #theawkwardsilence #comedynight #comedywriting
Here at the DAFTAS we're all about collaboration and creativity. And so it was only natural that when we came across a Murder Mystery Game titled 'The Death at The DAFTAS' we immediately got in touch and offered collaboration.
Turns out, The Death at The DAFTAS is a #murdermystery game written by amazing writer Joanne Smedley of Red Herring in late nineties!!! Better still, their characters all have appropriate pun names and this murder mystery game is so much fun!
If you love The DAFTAS, you will enjoy this mystery game. Their online version will take place on the 18th of September at 7PM and you can get 50% off by using our promo code: daftas50.
And just to give you a flavour of what to come in September, they have kindly recorded a short and sweet video for us. Bravo team Red Herring; we absolutely love it!
https://red-herring-games.com/product/death-at-the-d-a-f-t-a-s-18th-september-700-pm-uk-time/
Time to reveal yet another fab trailer. #NomadLife by @artie.brennan was shortlisted for #TheDAFTAS 2021 and you can watch it online on the 29th of May! 🥳🥳
linktr.ee/thedaftas
#comedy #comedynight #freetickets
#nightin #bankholidayweekend #comedy #comedywriting #shortcomedy
