Come To The Hub
Join the next free monthly event, meet local creatives, watch member work, and talk filmmaking in a friendly room.
Next EventWhere to start
Whether you want to come along, make something, or share work for feedback, there is an easy way into Reel Creatives.
Make Something
Use the current challenge as a prompt. This season's theme is Pressure, open to any genre, style, or format.
Current ChallengesSubmit Work
Send finished or unfinished work for showcase, feedback, or support from the community.
Submit WorkNot ready to make something or sign up yet? That is completely fine. You can still come along, watch, listen, offer support, meet people, and be part of the community in your own way.
Member Area
Make the website work for you
Create a free account to keep track of your submissions, find people by skill, and put your own projects in front of the Reel Creatives community.
Track submissions
Send work for feedback or screening and see when it has been seen by Reel Creatives.
Find collaborators
Browse members by skills like actor, editor, sound, camera, or willing to help.
List a project
Share what you are making and ask for the skills you need to get it moving.
Keep details private
Connect through the site without putting personal contact details on public pages.
About Reel Creatives
Story first. Community always.
Reel Creatives is a free, friendly filmmaking and creative hub for Sunderland, Wearside, County Durham, and the wider North East. We bring people together to learn, share work, build confidence, and make new things.
Monthly hubs, creative challenges, member submissions, and project callouts all point at the same goal: helping local creatives meet each other and keep moving from idea to finished work.
Next Hub
Come to the next free event
Meet local filmmakers and creatives, watch member work, and talk through ideas in a friendly room.
This month we will watch and discuss work created for the current challenge theme. Pressure.
Any experience, any involvement, always welcome. Come along in whatever way feels useful to you.
Current Challenges
Make something. Share it. Get feedback.
Challenges are prompts, not barriers. Work solo or collaborate, submit finished or unfinished work, and use the hub as a friendly space to test ideas.
Theme: Pressure
Main Challenge
A three-month creative season built around one theme. Any genre, format, or experience level is welcome.
60 seconds
1 Minute Challenge
Tell a complete story in exactly one minute. Short film, script, monologue, or something unexpected.
Open call
Submit Anything
Share any creative work you want feedback on. It can be new, old, polished, messy, related to the theme or not.
Ready to share?
Submit your work
Send a YouTube link for a challenge entry, rough cut, scene, script read, monologue, or anything else you would like the community to see.
Please keep submissions ideally under 15 minutes. If your piece is longer, send a message first and we can work out the best way to include it.