We are Brighton & Hove Pride’s official LGBTQ+ film festival, now in our third year.

***Submissions are now open for FilmPride 2021!***

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Further to Brighton & Hove Pride’s announcement that the Community Parade, Pride Village Party and Pride Festival on Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th August 2021 had been cancelled again this year due to COVID-19 (full statement available here), we will run FilmPride online again this year.

Like last year, we’ll have an online networking event for filmmakers, and pre-recorded Q&As, available during the festival.

We will also of course keep FilmPride on TV! A selection of films from our online festival will be offered the opportunity to be broadcast on Latest TV, Brighton & Hove’s local TV station. There is also a high possibility that a few other local TV channels in the UK will broadcast our shows like they did last year.

And what’s new – we’ve decided to introduce a bit of friendly competition, and give out some awards!
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FilmPride is run on behalf of Brighton & Hove Pride by The Latest Music Bar.

Brighton & Hove Pride is one of the biggest Pride festivals in the world, and The Guardian describes it as “The country’s most popular LGBTQ+ event”.

In 2020, like many festivals, due to the Covid-19 crisis Brighton & Hove Pride had to cancel their real events and switch to delivering a virtual programme online.

We did the same and the FilmPride Online Film Festival ran from 17th to 31st August. We’re proud to have brought our audiences almost 60 fantastic LGBTQ+ short films, documentaries, animations and feature films, along with Q&As with some of the filmmakers.

In addition, we screened a selection of the films in a series of television shows from 3rd to 16th August, on Brighton and Hove’s local TV channel, Latest TV Brighton, and on 13 local television channels throughout the UK. This was a highly successful addition to the festival and gave our selected filmmakers the opportunity to have their works seen by thousands more.

To find out more about our programming for last year, check out our themes below.