BUNS - Bristol Unscripted Network

BUNS - Bristol Unscripted Network Bringing together Unscripted TV Folk in Bristol, every 3 months. Bristol Unscripted Network is the place for Unscripted TV & Film folk across Bristol.

Set up by freelancers for anyone working in Factual. Every three months we’ll bring you a series of drinks, screenings and Q&As with some of the most exciting voices from across the industry. It’s been a rough year: we started this night to bring together freelancers from across Bristol for fun, unpretentious social events. Our nights are never run for profit, and aim to provide a space for the community to get together and share stories, skills and ideas.

A good event coming up...Tix here:
10/09/2026

A good event coming up...

Tix here:

Talk and Networking for Bristol film-makers, featuring panel with documentary Directors: James Reed, Lucie Machin and Charlotte Sawyer

A good event coming up... Tix here:
10/09/2026

A good event coming up...

Tix here:

Talk and Networking for Bristol film-makers, featuring panel with documentary Directors: James Reed, Lucie Machin and Charlotte Sawyer

Last chance to apply - by the end of today! A good opportunity and they're keen for more regional applicants.LAST CHANCE...
30/09/2025

Last chance to apply - by the end of today! A good opportunity and they're keen for more regional applicants.

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! We are super excited to be offering our Step up to PD training scheme, which includes an 8 week paid PD placement and is highly subsidised by ScreenSkills with further bursaries available too. The deadline closes at midnight on 30th Sept and we are keen for more regional Unscripted crew to apply. More info and the application form is here:

ScreenSkills

A fantastic opportunity for free training here, thanks to Amazon and the NFTS. All Bristol and South West freelancers, m...
06/09/2025

A fantastic opportunity for free training here, thanks to Amazon and the NFTS. All Bristol and South West freelancers, make sure you get involved and state what you need!

I am delighted to be working with Donna Taberer from Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios and Rhiannon Forsyth from the National Film & Television School to offer Free Training for TV Freelancers. Please complete our quick survey to help us understand what training sessions you'd like as a TV freelancer...

Please share the following as far and wide as you can:Action for Freelancers Roundtable Invitation - Best date and time?...
10/06/2025

Please share the following as far and wide as you can:

Action for Freelancers Roundtable Invitation - Best date and time?
AfF is hosting a final roundtable on Zoom—open to all industry groups, volunteer bodies, and freelancers—to present its planned structure, working groups, and key priorities.

To help as many people attend as possible, please select your preferred time. The date and time will be set based on the most popular choice.
Vote for your preferred meeting time by 8:30am, Wednesday 11 June 2025.

https://forms.gle/rRkSur1YakboE3JM6

Can’t join live? A recording will be available for one week— details will be shared via social media in various industry groups or by request at [email protected]

You can also submit questions in advance below or by emailing AfF directly.

Thanks,
The TV Mindset, TV Switch Up, Telly Mums, We Are Doc Women, Bectu Unscripted Branch, SUSST, Platinum Collective, The 130+ Signatories and many other groups.

Action for Freelancers* Roundtable Invitation - Best date and time? AfF is hosting a final roundtable on Zoom—open to all industry groups, volunteer bodies, and freelancers—to present its planned structure, working groups, and key priorities. To help as many people attend as possible, please sel...

Thursday 20th March, 7pm doors for 7.30pm start. The Square Club: 15 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HB. Tickets Free - Li...
09/03/2025

Thursday 20th March, 7pm doors for 7.30pm start. The Square Club: 15 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HB. Tickets Free - Link in Bio!

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BUNS will meet the teams of two brilliant Bristol productions - Imposter: Back From The Dead, and Earthsounds.

Imposter: Back From the Dead (Channel 4)
With Producer and Director Owen Phillips, for Five Mile Films
Hosted by Ben Luke

and

Earthsounds (Apple+)
With Producer Sam Hodgson and Director Tom Payne, for Offspring Films
Hosted by Stephanie Wessell.

There will also be the chance to chat with others in our Bristol creative community.

Tickets are free, and space is limited, so please hurry to grab a ticket!

*BUNS End of Year Digest*Bristol Unscripted Network is now just over a year old - and we couldn’t have begun our gatheri...
18/12/2024

*BUNS End of Year Digest*

Bristol Unscripted Network is now just over a year old - and we couldn’t have begun our gatherings at a more important time for the industry.

There’s lots of stress and strife out there; we have personally suffered it too, and in solidarity we’ll be supporting our community again in the New Year.

In 2024, BUNS:

-Gathered almost 40 freelancer testimonials to create a 100 page document informing the then-Shadow Cabinet about the current crisis and creative freelancers’ working conditions

-Worked with Films at 59 to provide Masterclasses in Data Wrangling and Grading

-Hosted a John Yorke Story Documentary Masterclass at BBC Studios

-Represented freelancers’ concerns and tweeted live from the Creative Cities Convention

-Hosted an Expert Panel about the Industry Crisis and ways forward for Bristol, at the Watershed. Link here: https://youtu.be/Vzr33lZh6eU (many thanks to Helen Lancaster for filming the event)

-Supported TV Mindset’s Creative Freelancer Hubs in Bristol

-Gave a talk to the South West Talent Managers group

-Began BUNS Doc Club - which has now morphed into the exciting collaboration Bristol Doc Club, in partnership with the Doc Film Council, Doc West, Doc Yards and the Watershed.

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has attended, volunteered, donated, hosted and supported our efforts this year. Thank you all - and a big YAY to Bristol’s brilliant and best creative community!

BUNS is looking forward to some exciting new plans for 2025… if you’d like to help us, please get in touch.

We hope you have a lovely Christmas break, and a Very Happy New Year!

With best wishes, the BUNS co-directors:

Benjamin Luke
Stephanie Wessell
Helen Waddell
Alice Crinnigan
Natalia Atkins

… with brilliant help from
Phoebe Sinclair
Maxine Trump

and many, many more… we love you all. THANK YOU.

Reminder for our Doc Club tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you there x
19/11/2024

Reminder for our Doc Club tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you there x

Reminder for our Doc Club first event tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you there xx
13/10/2024

Reminder for our Doc Club first event tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing you there xx

Hi BUNs Followers! We're beginning a Doc Club! Like a book club but for watching documentaries. We'll try meet either once a month or every 6 weeks, pick a documentary for people to watch in their own time and then get together to review, discuss and be inspired.

For updates please join our WhatsApp community group for the BUNs Doc club here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FNEFMMRcP3aEJVa47muuAj

Kicking off our club will be a collective watch on 14th October at the Watershed to see the preview showing of Endurance and then a drink afterwards.
Get your tickets here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/12892/preview-endurance/

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