Beyond The Screen: Events/Curation Open Call

Box; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Box seeks innovative artists, curators, and organisations for the 2025 Margate Film Festival, inviting submissions for audio-visual works and event ideas. This opportunity focuses on creative collaboration to enhance cultural engagement and outreach, especially for young audiences and families.

Qualifications

• Open to all creatives of any background, experience level, medium, or style.
• Seeking fresh ideas and collaborations for innovative audio-visual works.

Responsibilities

• Develop new audio-visual works that take film beyond traditional formats.
• Collaborate with individuals and organisations to deliver engaging events.

Skills

Creative collaboration

Event curation

Project management

Job description

Beyond The Screen: Events/Curation Open Call

Margate Film Festival

Margate

Home Beyond The Screen: Events/Curation Open Call

Margate Film Festival returns for a 6th edition in November 2025. This year we are expanding to include a wider programme of expanded & immersive screen events and installations, as well as performances, workshops, talks, live scores and more.

Margate Film Festival is a project born out of the turbulence of changing cultural landscapes and a love for the chaos of creativity. A journey through the wilderness of the cinema; of art, politics, identity, feminism, music, performance and more.

In a town with no cinema, we want to take film out into the streets, into unusual spaces and experiment with what defines “cinema”. The festival connects local communities and artists with national and international initiatives to create a DIY, collaborative film & visual arts celebration. For 2025, we will be expanding our offering with a focus on young audiences and family-friendly events.

At this stage, we are looking to discuss ideas for potential collaborations or events that align with our festival vision for 2025 before we begin submitting funding bids.

For artists:
We are looking to commission new and innovative audio-visual works that take film beyond the screen, offering financial support via ticket splits, or grants via funding. The call-out is open to all creatives, local and international, of any background, experience level, medium or style.

For curators/programmers:
We are interested in hearing ideas for specialist programmes of films and events that could bring a fresh perspective to political and cultural zeitgeists – this could be a short film programme, or a themed strand of features and talks.

For organisations:
We’re looking to collaborate with individuals, venues, organisations and businesses to deliver an unforgettable experience for all audiences. We want to hear from artists, set designs, performers, educators, speakers and musicians, to those with quirky spaces, time to spare and skills to lend.

The closing date for this position is 01/07/2025 at 17:00

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