Short Cuts Film Club

26/02/2026

05/02/2026

Last Monday was a great evening for a filmmaker talk and Q&A with Ukrainian filmmaker Boris Shusterman

Join us for our next filmmaker screening and talk on Monday 2nd March (Bank Holiday Monday!) Alton

26/01/2026

This coming Monday 2nd February, Short Cuts Film Club at Goldfinch Books (Alton, Hampshire) will be joined in-person by Ukraining filmmaker Borys Shusterman for a screening and Q&A of two of his most recent films: Bu****it and New Year Interlude.

Amateurs, enthusiasts and professionals, all welcome to join us in our conversations about filmmaking!

Doors open 7pm
£3 suggested venue donation at the door
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Borys Shusterman was born in 1953 in Kharkov, Ukraine. In the early 1970s, while being an engineering student of the local polytechnic university, Borys participated in the student amateur movie studio as a director and a cameraman. The studio was highly regarded among similar student studios in the Soviet Union. Thanks to its professional-level equipment, the studio had all capabilities for producing 35-mm movies and produced award-winning documentaries and short features. At the movie studio, Borys mastered all processes of the full-cycle production and for many years, dreamed of working independently. It took just 30 years for his dreams to become reality... In 2010, Borys directed the short film Axis. One of the film’s locations was in Rome, Italy. The film was selected for festivals “In the palace” Bulgaria and at the Kiev International Film Festival. In 2012, the film New Year’s Interlude was filmed, which was selected at the prestigious Byron Bay festival in Australia. In 2016, a documentary film “September 16 in Bobrovy Kut” about the Holocaust in 1941 was filmed in the south of Ukraine. The film has been accepted into the archives of the Holocaust Museums in Washington DC and Yad Vashem, Israel. All these films can be watched on YouTube channel of Boris Shusterman. For many years, Borys has worked in the theaters of the city and is friends with many actors who trust Borys and are ready to act in his films based on his scripts, of which he has more than 10. So at the present time, Borys and his friends shot a short film Bulsh*t, which the viewer might like.

11/12/2025

Join us this Monday 15th, 7pm at Goldfinch Books for an exclusive preview screening of LOVE AND SERVICE.

We’ll be discussing filmmaking and finding one’s own voice as a new filmmaker with Director Sam Steele.

LOVE AND SERVICE: A reflective short film about the impact of the LGBT+ ban in the British Armed Forces til 2000, blending anonymous veteran portraits, Etherton testimony, and a journey from silence to healing.

7pm, Suggested donation of £3 at the door. All welcome.

18/11/2025

What a cozy and inspiring venue to hold screenings, discussions and Q&A’s with filmmakers; we love independent bookshops, thank you for hosting us!
Yesterday’s session included a live streamed question and answer session with an independent and talented filmmaker working ‘underground’ in Iran.

11/11/2025

This coming Monday at our Short Cuts Film Club, (meeting at Goldfinchbooks at 7pm)!

Join us for a selection of independent short films from Iran, a country with a rich filmmaking tradition and many contemporary auteurs of the seventh art. We will be hosting an online Q&A with one of the filmmakers!

16/10/2025

Join us this Monday 20th, 7pm at Goldfinch Books in Alton Hampshire for a conversation with production house Animal Tank’s Brecht Van Elslande as well as a screening of their animated short films including Academy Award nominated Beautiful Men!

01/10/2025

Students: Are you itching to test out your skills in text-to-video generative A.I.?

We are looking for pairs of students who would like to pioneer a one-week filmmaking challenge that combines live action and generative AI filmmaking.

It’s really just a bit of fun: you are both set a prompt and must come back the week after, each with a one-minute creation that meets the brief. We’ll vote the winner too!

The challenge will be set at next Monday’s Short Cuts (5-7pm, room SAB201). Students from any year group can participate but will need a Google AI Pro account (which is free with a student email).

Sign up by messaging the Short Cuts team here on our Instagram DM’s. Sign up in twos so you have a challenger! There are limited spaces!

27/09/2025

Short Cuts Film Club is a space for UoW staff and students to gather weekly for screening and discussion of film as art and craft.

During Term 1 2025 we will be meeting on Mondays 5-7pm at room SAB201 with a program that will rotate through the following themes:

- WEEK 1/ FILM CULTURE: a monthly screening of classic and cult feature films, programmed by staff and students
- WEEK 2/ FILMMAKING PLAYGROUND: On these weeks we will continue a tradition of carrying out filmmaking challenges that get students and staff in the experimental filmmaking zone
- WEEK 3/ SHORT FILMS!: A selection of short films put forward by staff and students
- WEEK 4/ BOOKS, ALTON: We take the film club on the road, carrying out a screening in Alton, Hampshire where we have a partner organisation and are building an audience of local creatives.
- WEEK 5/ FILM CULTURE
- WEEK 6/ SHORT FILMS!
- WEEK 7/ FILMMAKING PLAYGROUND
- WEEK 8/ BOOKS, ALTON
- WEEK 9/ FILM CULTURE
- WEEK 10/ DOCUMENTARY
- WEEK 11/ SHORT FILMS!
- WEEK 12/ BOOKS, ALTON

23/09/2025

At our B.A. Film Production course at UoW we’re kicking this academic year off with a Film Social and Screening event.

All students and graduates are welcome! 4-6pm Thursday 25th September at the Stripe Lecture Room (upstairs).

We’ll be joined by Ben Phillips (director) and Ben Dunks (producer) for a screening of their award-winning short film Children of the Valley, followed by a Q&A and discussion about their voyage into filmmaking.

We’ll also get to hear about some interesting initiatives that are coming soon, such as Taskmaster Wi******er which is happening on Friday 3rd of October and the Divergent Visions Film Festival which takes place on the 15th of October (6pm, West Downs Auditorium)