Life & CultureNewsLife & Culture / NewsHow to get your films made and seen with Dazed AcademySign up to the next edition of our monthly Making It Up As We Go Along programme of free events to help you break into the creative sectorShareLink copied ✔️June 8, 2021June 8, 2021TextDazed Digital Want to be a filmmaker? As part of Dazed Academy’s Making It Up As We Go Along programme, Nowness commissioner and Sundance programmer Katie Metcalfe and Nowness video commissioner Shelley Jones will be joined by filmmakers Fenn O'Meally and Jabu Nadia Newman to discuss bringing your films to life. Taking place June 16, the group will share tips on what makes your treatment stand out and how to tell your own stories authentically using moving image. They’ll take your questions on pitching and being published, providing resources for budding filmmakers hoping to break into the industry, and any other burning questions. Sign up here. Both O’Meally and Newman have worked with Nowness on a number of projects, including O’Meally’s music video for Texas and the Wu-Tang Clan and a Kai-Isaiah Jamal-starring video for Byredo’s Mixed Emotions fragrance. Newman’s projects include the short films Dirty Laundry and No Direct Flight: The Dream That Refused Me. Sign up to ‘How to get your films made and seen’ here, and familiarise yourself with O’Meally and Newman’s films below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREQesser Zuhrah: The Filton 24 hunger striker speaks from prisonWas 2025 the year we embraced ‘whimsy’?Salomon SportstyleLord Apex brings together community for 20 years of Salomon’s ACS PROVCARBMeet the young creatives VCARB is getting into F1Everyone’s a critic now. Should they be?2025 was the year of the ‘swag gap’Meet the Dazed Clubbers on this year’s Dazed 100The pop culture moments that defined 2025The 2025 Dazed 100 USA list is hereWhat went down at ‘Saint Week’ in MiamiHunting for aliens on Mars should be a ‘top priority’, say scientistsThe silliest and sexiest takeaways from Pornhub’s 2025 report