I am now back from Cannes, and I returned to a wonderful email from stunt co-ordinator Jude Poyer. Jude is a very experienced stunt guy, and so we were very lucky to have him involved in ‘Gone Fishing’. His job was to help create the impression of Goliath underneath the water, so he spent a [...]

I am now back in the UK and I slept 16 hours last night… and I am still tired. What a Cannes 2008 was! The final day, when we had the screening and the after screening party, was so much fun! The screening was off the 35mm print in the Palais, and it cost about [...]

By being part of The Short Film Corner in Cannes, your film is digitised onto their system and is available for private viewing in their booths. This means people can get to see your film at any point. The quality is pretty poor, which is a shame, but it is very accessible. You also get [...]

I got home very late and fly out soon. So instead of telling you all about the amazing Gone Fishing screening and party, I hope to have the Cannes 2008 video online in the next 24 hours… Chris Jones, Film Maker and Authorwww.livingspirit.commail@livingspirit.com

Last night ended on a real high – I stood right by the red carpet as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford walked right by, after the world premiere of Indiana Jones. I must admit, I got goose bumps. Awesome. So this morning I dropped of the 35mm print of ‘Gone Fishing’ at film [...]

So I landed in a rainstorm and at 10pm was immediately whisked off to my first party at the Century Club on a rainy beach… until 3am (pictured here with producer Ivan Clements sister-in-law). I spent most of the evening chatting to film maker friends and getting the skinny on the market. Apparently, this year [...]

Just about to leave for the airport and I got an email from producer Ivan Clements… Greetings from rainy Cannes. All is going well here now. We have a screening set for 11.30am on Tuesday and I've been on the prowl and inviting loads of people, buyers, film fest scouts etc. Whilst doing this, I [...]

We now have the date and time of the screening of ‘Gone Fishing’ in Cannes, and happily it’s on 35mm in the Palais, which is great. It’s on Tuesday before the party as planned, and I am already getting RSVP’s back, which is great. Remember, you want to come, email me at mail@livingspirit.com. Now we [...]

Time is ticking down and I am making final preparations for Cannes. I have just completed a long poster banner for the launch party and hopefully it will be ready in time. Off to the printers! I spoke with producer Ivan Clements yesterday and we are co-ordinating getting a cinema venue for the premiere screening [...]

We recently held a superb seminar with UK based screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine, about how to live and write in the UK but work and sell in Hollywood. Everyone who came found it both educational and inspiring. I said I would make it available as a Podcast for free, and here it is… It’s crammed with [...]

It’s a matter of hours now before the Cannes Film Festival and Market opens and I am getting very excited about what might happen with 'Gone Fishing'. First off I can announce that we will be having an amazing launch party on the beach at The Century Club on Tuesday the 20th. This is a [...]

To say I was nervous would have been an understatement. Yesterday was the key screening of ‘Gone Fishing’ for Producer Marc Samuelson, the screening that we had been aiming at for the last year. Gone Fishing was produced to show Marc just what I could do as a director, so it was all riding on [...]

So today is the big day, the reason why we made ‘Gone Fishing’ in the fist place… to screen it to Marc Samuelson to show my abilities as a director with a view to my staying on board Rocketboy… And so I have been reflecting on the past year and thought I would share some [...]

So I have moved house. I left my old place in what felt like the winter, and arrived at my new place, 1 mile down the road, in what feels like the summer. I can’t believe how much stuff I have, at least half of which is movie related materials that need archiving. Thank god [...]

A few weeks ago, Simon Drake came on my Career Plan course, and after that, he (along with one other lucky film maker) won a two day seminar on negotiation, with top training company TNA Europe. On the seminar I ran, we established that negotiation skills was one area most film makers are not very [...]