Indie-Lincs is an International film festival that champions low and micro budget films and their filmmakers. The event’s organiser, lecturer at the University of Lincoln School of Film & Media (LSFM) and award winning filmmaker is Dr Mikey Murray: Our festival programme is brought to Lincoln through the hard work of student co-ordinators, who’re on the Film and TV course at LSFM: Becca Booty, Tom Durrans, Lucy Hansard, Ali Mendzil, Ben Reynolds & Tom Woodcock. Indie-Lincs aim is to help the best independent filmmakers from around the world showcase their original work and network successfully with their audience, other filmmakers and the indie filmmaking community. Screening of over 40 shorts and features at University of Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC).

Deputy Head of the College of Arts Dr Sarah Barrow: We very much hope that you can make it along to some of the Festival. There will be several filmmakers visiting Lincoln for the event and some wonderful international film content over the two days Friday 17th and Saturday 18th March in LPAC. On Thursday 16th March there’ll be a Special Opening event – with film, guests and live music – in the Stephen Langton Building Cinema, 7pm-9pm. If you would like to attend the Opening event, please email Mikey: mmurray@lincoln.ac.uk 

The opening event will celebrate work from the Lincoln School of Film & Media; the 6 films to be shown that night include 2 by students, 3 by staff (with multiple student/staff involvement) and 1 from our colleague Tom Brandau at Moorhead State University Minnesota as a celebration of 15 years of the Moorhead exchange programme.  

The festival is sponsored by the School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln and Arts Council England through Lincoln BIG’s Cultural Destinations Funding. Films will compete for prizes in several categories. These prizes take the form of an ‘Imp’, inspired by the Lincoln Imp as the emblem for our city.  The mischievous Imp is the perfect embodiment of the independent filmmaker’s spirit.