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Tonight is the night of the Kodak Awards!

Tonight is the night of the Kodak Awards!

By on July 31, 2008 in Uncategorized

It’s all VERY exciting! Everyone here at Team Living Spirit is simply giddy with anticipation at tonights events. We are officially up for the Kodak Best Cinematography, and the Kodak Audience Award for Best Film. There is still time to see the films and vote, so if you haven’t yet and can do so, try [...]

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Kodak Awards Official Selection Screenings

Kodak Awards Official Selection Screenings

By on July 29, 2008 in Awards, Publicity

 Yesterday was the official selection screenings of the Kodak shortlisted films at the Curzon West End. I have written a much lengthier blog entry to publish next week, after the whole event has ended, about my thoughts and feelings regarding the entire experience and the British Film Industry. For now though, this is just a [...]

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Watch The Kodak Awards Screening VideoBlog

By on July 27, 2008 in Competitions, VideoBlog

So the Kodak Screenings have begun, and yesterday I attended the afternoon screenings and we made this short video here. I am attending again today, and will be there during the week at various points too. If you can make it, we would love to see you there. Go on, you know you want to [...]

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Gone Fishing Posters!

Gone Fishing Posters!

By on July 25, 2008 in Publicity

We have just taken delivery of our brand spanking and shiny new posters for Gone Fishing. They are A2 in size (420 x 594 mm) and look awesome in a black frame (frames cost about £10 on the high street). I must say, I am looking forward to plastering whole walls with them at film [...]

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Help us win the 2008 Kodak Awards!

Help us win the 2008 Kodak Awards!

By on July 24, 2008 in Competitions

The Kodak 2008 Awards are now underway, and we need your help and support TO WIN with ‘Gone Fishing’! Gone Fishing is down to the final 8 films, and the best film is an audience award. So, we need you and EVERYONE you know, to get to a screening and vote for our movie. Most [...]

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Coming to a cinema near you, soon!

Coming to a cinema near you, soon!

By on July 24, 2008 in Festivals

So the film festival bonanza has begun. It will all kick off next week in London with our fist set of official screenings in the Kodak Short Film Awards 2009, for which we are up for Best Film (Audience Award) and Best Cinematography (Judged). I will be posting details of screenings in the next 24 [...]

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Universal Pictures at ComicCon

Universal Pictures at ComicCon

By on July 20, 2008 in Conventions

Yesterday I went to the London Comic Con at Earls Court, a science fiction, horror and comics fan convention. It was filled with stalls selling film and comic memorabilia and there were also stalls where you get movie stars (and some folk who are little more than extras) to sign their autographs for £20 a [...]

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Laemmle Letter for The Academy Arrives

Laemmle Letter for The Academy Arrives

By on July 16, 2008 in Oscars

Today I got the emailed letter from Laemmle theatres confirming that Gone Fishing screened in LA – this is needed for the application to the Oscars. A copy has been forwarded to AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and you can read the letter here is you are interested. Now we need [...]

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LA Screenings Video

LA Screenings Video

By on July 15, 2008 in Oscars, Screenings

Film making colleague Andrew Zinnes managed to make it to the screenings in LA this weekend, just to check them out, and he shot a very short 1 minute video, which you can watch here. We have been in touch with the Leammle guys who have told us that they will write us an official [...]

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Gone Fishing Plays Hollywood Baby!

Gone Fishing Plays Hollywood Baby!

By on July 14, 2008 in Oscars, Screenings

This weekend, Gone Fishing has been playing in Hollywood! I KNOW! How amazing is that. It played six showings at the Laemmle theatre on Sunset Boulevard. This was a paid for screening as part of the Oscars qualifying procedure, so we wont get any money back, and in fact it cost us $500 to put [...]

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Downconverting for Kodak Awards

Downconverting for Kodak Awards

By on July 12, 2008 in Competitions

I am just preparing Gone Fishing for the Kodak Awards. Sadly, the film can only be screened on DigiBeta, which is much lower resolution than the HDCam or 35mm copies we could have used. This is a pragmatic choice on behalf of the festival organisers and Kodak, as not all of the films being screened [...]

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Gone Fishing Selected For Kodak Awards

Gone Fishing Selected For Kodak Awards

By on July 10, 2008 in Competitions

Great news! Gone Fishing has just been selected for two major events. First off is the prestigious UK 2008 Kodak Awards. I just got an email from the organizers and here’s what it said… ‘The Kodak Short Film Competition Judging is now complete. I would like to officially congratulate you in being one of the [...]

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Gone Fishing BluRay completed

Gone Fishing BluRay completed

By on July 8, 2008 in BluRay

Today I went back to Abbey Road studios to meet up with Richard Osborne (pictured here) who was good enough to take on making the BluRay of Gone Fishing for us. Because of the Beetles famous cover album, photographed on the zebra crossing just outside, the studio entrance is always crammed with tourists. It’s quite [...]

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Gone Fishing at the Odeon!

Gone Fishing at the Odeon!

By on July 6, 2008 in Screenings, VideoBlog

Today we had our screening of Gone Fishing at the Odeon Covent Garden. It was rainy and cold and so I was delighted when we had a bigger than expected audience turn out for the movie. It was part of the Super Shorts Festival, run and organised by one-man-power-house Stephen Follows. I also discovered myself [...]

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Gone Fishing Hits The First 20 Festivals

Gone Fishing Hits The First 20 Festivals

By on July 3, 2008 in Festivals

I spent most of the day submitting Gone Fishing to a long list of international festivals that we have researched and targeted. I don’t want to say which they are (for inter-festival political reasons), but needless to say they include the likes of Sundance, as well as some other more esoteric choices. WhithoutABox.com is really [...]

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