PreProduction Unit- Investigating the British Independent Film Festival Submission Dates

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, it was suggested at the halfway presentation that my previous idea of submitting to the 2016 British Independent Film Festival wasn't such a good idea, as we would have to have completed the film by March 2016, which limits our production time dramatically. As a result, I have been checking out when the submission period for the 2017 British Independent Film Festival is, as this would give us a much more workable deadline, as well as allow us to have our full amount of production time.
I contacted the people that run the festival after I found their facebook page, and I messaged them asking them the following;

As a result, I now know the submission period for the festival, and will be able to update any pitches and proposals for my preproduction package accordingly.