Elliot Bloom
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Curriculum vitae

Elliot Bloom

British-Indian filmmaker, curator and writer · Amsterdam & Bristol · elliot@inbloomstudios.nl

Films — writer / director
  1. 2026 Eyes Wide ↗ Fiction short · Dosed Films / House on Fire
  2. 2025 Stuck ↗ Art film · co-director · In Bloom Studios
  3. 2022 Dancing in the Shadows ↗ Animation short · In Bloom Studios
In development
  1. 2027 Where There's Light ↗ Fiction short · Idle Eye Productions
  2. 2027 Lost in Thought ↗ Animation short · Valk Producties
  3. 2027 Lieve, Lieve Mensen ↗ Hybrid doc-fiction · In Bloom Studios
Selections & awards
  1. 2026 Eyes Wide In international festival submission
  2. 2022 Dancing in the Shadows BFI Future Film Festival · Palm Springs International Animation Festival · CINANIMA, Espinho
Funding
  1. 2022 Amarte Fonds Dancing in the Shadows
Curation & programming
  1. 2025 — present Fight the Power: Films of Resistance ↗ Curator & Moderator · LAB111, Amsterdam
  2. Dec 2026 LA Rebellion Curator · LAB111, Amsterdam
  3. Sept 2026 Manufacturing Consent Curator · LAB111, Amsterdam
  4. 2025 Kurdish Film Festival Amsterdam Jury · Amsterdam
  5. 2024 Diaspora Diaries: Shorts Programme Curator & Moderator · LAB111, Amsterdam
  6. 2024 Stories From Palestine: Land and Spirit ↗ Co-Curator · LAB111, Amsterdam
  7. 2021 IDFA Moderator · Amsterdam
  8. 2020 CinemAsia Film Festival Young Jury · Amsterdam
Other film experience
  1. 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla Video editor · solidarity campaign videos
  2. 2024 Production Assistant Netflix, Amazon Originals, Videoland
  3. 2023 Ecstatic Dance 1st AD & producer · dir. Valentin Hénault
  4. 2023 Looking, She Said, I Forget Production assistant · dir. Naomi Pacifique
  5. 2021 It's Time To Wake Up Director · SOHO House mentorship
Writing
  1. 2025 On Afro-Surrealism ↗ What's Culture
  2. 2025 WC Film School: Ernest Dickerson ↗ What's Culture
  3. 2024 WC Film School: The Battle of Algiers ↗ What's Culture
  4. 2022 Fashioning Rebellion ↗ Senses of Cinema
  5. 2020 Preserving Cultural Histories Through Archives: The Case of Afghan Film Heritage (with Jamil Fiorino-Habib) ↗ Eye Filmmuseum
  6. 2026 That's Revolting ↗ Substack · with Joshua Smith
  7. 2026 National Renewal Starts in Manchester (with Joshua Smith) ↗ Mainstream Labour
  8. 2026 Britannia, Rule Ourselves (with Joshua Smith) ↗ Compass
  9. 2026 A Britain Worth Fighting For (with Joshua Smith) ↗ Compass
  10. 2024 Why Ukraine Must Show Greater Solidarity with Palestine ↗ DiEM25
Podcast
  1. present Celebrating Cinema ↗ Host & producer — guests incl. Ken Loach, Mati Diop, Raoul Peck, Ernest Dickerson
Education & teaching
  1. 2021 Lecturer — Film Studies (Radical Aesthetics) University of Amsterdam
  2. MA Film Studies, cum laude University of Amsterdam