mid month hey! it's may! 👋🏻

Hello from Team RP!

If you're reading this from the UK, we hope you've been able to enjoy the (many) bank holidays that May had to offer. After a rewarding development summit earlier in the month, our team has been making the most of some relaxation time in between taking the first steps towards some exciting new projects. Women X is getting ever closer, too, with less than four months to go before this year's festival kicks off (but more on that later…).

This month we’ve got a special treat for you filmmakers too, our friends at Mansfield Film Festival are offering a 40% discount but be quick as their deadline is approaching on May 28th!

Code: MTAGENT2023  Submit here.

RP Recommends 🍿

What our team has been enjoying and what we're looking forward to in May, from movies to TV shows to podcasts.

• Jury Duty – out now on Amazon Freevee

• La Culturistas podcast – out now

• Yellowjackets season 2 – releasing weekly on Paramount+

• Mockery Manor podcast – out now

• Taskmaster series 15 – airing weekly on Channel 4

• Silo – releasing weekly on Apple TV+

• Plus, this month's pick for our team book club is The Club by Ellery Lloyd

Women X 2023 updates 📽️

🎬 Our submissions are now closed for Women X 2023 are now closed! This means that our programming team are now hard at work putting together the strands for this year’s festival.

🎟 Excitingly, tickets will be on sale very soon, with early bird tickets being released in Mid June – make sure you don’t miss out!

✨ Press and industry will be entitled to a discount on tickets for this year's festival – drop us a line at [email protected] for more info.

🛍 Do you have a small business that you think would be a good match for Women X? We still have a few stalls available to hire in our festival lounge, where you can join the likes of our friends Split Milk Press and more. Email us at [email protected] to find out more!

🏆 We also have room for Award Sponsors too!

What's new on our podcasts? 🎧

• On the Women X Film Festival podcast, Izzy interviewed Women X alumna Tulsia Behl and Alia Ghafar, while Caris and Ashton shared their top tips for networking at a film festival. Keep your eyes peeled for some juicy upcoming episodes about scam film festivals, too…

• The complete first season of our new podcast Pop Culternatives is out now! Asking questions from 'What if Drew Barrymore played Sidney in Scream' to 'What if Colin Farrell got in Boyzone?', all episodes are available to listen to on your favourite podcast platform.

We’d love to hear from you all about your frustrations with networking events? What’s your problem with them? Is it the drinks? Is it the environment? Is it lack of intros? Hit reply and tell us we realllly want to know ✉️