It’s the Day before the final screening and everyone is getting very excited. Producer Ivan Clements is flying in tomorrow for it, and the awards ceremony on Sunday. HDCam is being presented in the theatre, the Columbia on Broadway, and it looks great, but I have chosen to go with the 35mm print as it [...]
The Opening Night Screening at the Rhode Island International Film Festival
Watch the video first, then read on… So the opening night took place. There were 2,000 people in the audience… And yes, there were some technical problems. But, I survived and the audience loved it! It appears that the projector that was supplied, while excellent, was fitted with a fixed focus and fixed focal length [...]
Day 2 and the build up to the opening night!
Day 2 began with a trip to an old theatre that serves as HQ for the RIIFF, where we met all the guys who run the event.� Registration and parties lay ahead, as did the spectre of catastrophic technical problems at the opening night gala… The next 24 hours of my life were not as [...]
Getting To Our First International Film Festival
The Journey to the Rhode Island International Film Festival has begun. Our hope is of course, to win an award, but also, I am trying to take us all on the journey too – and so we are making this video blog to capture the sights and sounds of an international film festival where your [...]
Kodak Awards Feedback and thoughts…
I am compiling this on the plane as I fly to Rhode Island… I had considered having a rant about the state of British Film and the UK film council, but I realised that many of the comments I received after the Kodak screenings and events did it much more eloquently than I could. So [...]
Kodak Awards Dust Settles…
So the dust is now settling on the Kodak Awards, and already, sights are being set on the next big event, Rhode Island, just north of New York, next Tuesday night. But for now, some reflections and thoughts on last weeks exciting events. (Pic right shows Eddie Hamilton, me, Ivan Clements and 2nd unit Dir, [...]
Gone Fishing at the Kodak Awards, 2008
STOP AND WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE BEFORE READING ON… No really, watch it first… So the night came. The games played out…. And we won. Yes we actually won the Kodak Best Short Film Award, 2008. Right now I am overwhelmed by my phone ringing, emails arriving every minute, and all sorts of new opportunities [...]
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