EXCLUSIVE: The British Impartial Movie Awards (Bifa) has confirmed its ceremony dates for the following three years, whereas including new board members and appointing a chair and deputy chair.
The ceremony will stay on the Camden Roundhouse venue by to and together with the 2027 ceremony, having taken place there final yr for the primary time since 2007.
The awards will happen on Sunday, November 30, 2025; on Sunday, December 6, 2026; and on Sunday, December 5, 2027.
Bifa has additionally set its key dates for 2025, under:
June: Entries open
August 1: Early entry deadline
August 22: Closing entry deadline: shorts
September 3: Closing entry deadline: options
September 15-29: Spherical 1 Voting (options)
From October 16: Longlist bulletins
October 15-27: Spherical 2 Voting
November 3: Nominations announcement
November 3-25: Spherical 3 Voting: Craft
November 18: Nominees Celebration
November 20: Craft Winners announcement
November 30: Ceremony
Premier Reside will deal with occasion manufacturing administration for the 2025 awards, with DDA dealing with media administration.
The occasion is the primary main ceremony of the UK movie awards season, with Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap main the winners final yr with seven prizes together with greatest British unbiased movie.
New board members
4 non-executive administrators have joined the Bifa board, overseeing the strategic route of the organisation in collaboration with its voluntary advisory and nomination committees. The 4 new members are: Alex Hamilton, chief worldwide officer at Studiocanal; Martin Baker, chief business affairs officer at Channel 4; writer-director Rungano Nyoni, who received greatest director and greatest debut director on the 2017 Bifas for I Am Not a Witch and greatest director final yr for On Changing into A Guinea Fowl; and Sera Holland, CEO of consultancy agency Ketchum UK.
Holland will probably be chair of the board, with movie programmer and head of distribution and particular tasks at We Are Parable Carmen Thompson as deputy chair.
The opposite board members are Dominic Buchanan, producer and co-CEO at Dwelling Staff; Magda Lojszczyk, head of experiential at Reside Nation Leisure; Tim Platt, director of selling & audiences on the BFI; Bifa founders Elliot Grove and Suzanne Ballantyne; and Bifa govt administrators Amy Gustin and Deena Wallace.
Former Channel 4 govt Dan Brooke stands down having chaired the board for the utmost time period from 2019 to 2025, and can be part of the board of ParalympicsGB as chair.
“Our organisations share lots of the identical values and are dedicated to nurturing, supporting and platforming artistic expertise,” stated an announcement from Gustin and Wallace in regards to the prolonged partnership with the Roundhouse. “And naturally it’s a wonderful venue for a giant celebration.”
“Our beneficiant and constant companions ATC, Broadsword, Intermission Movie and Purple Chutney, amongst many others, are instrumental in making a champagne manufacturing on a faucet water finances, one thing lots of the filmmakers we’ll be celebrating will probably be very conversant in.”
“The worth that repeat internet hosting provides to our work with numerous, younger, rising filmmaking expertise and the trade partnerships that assist us to launch their careers is immeasurable,” stated Derek Richards, head of broadcast and digital programme on the Roundhouse.
