The new Gone Fishing PRESS website is now up and running. This is a dedicated website for members of the press and is not a film site about the movie. I decided to do this when I noticed while attending festivals, just how reluctant journalists seem to be now, to carry a press pack around [...]
Archive | December, 2008
Lyn The Fin Inspires Us All…
Most of us have dreams and ambitions, some big, some small. But most of us pay lip service to those dreams. Yeah, we will do it one day some day. I want to share with you a video and story of one incredible friend of mine, Lyn Hawkins. She had a dream. And it wasn’t [...]
The Calendars Are Completed!
You may recall that a few months back, Gone Fishing DP, Vernon and myself, were guilty of spending a whole Sunday shooting an all girl netball team in semi clad attire. If you didn’t see it, there is a hilarious video of the days shenanigans here. The shoot has now resulted in a super A3, [...]
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Free Xmas Podcast with Screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine
Last year, I hosted a terrific seminar with British screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine. His latest work is out right now, he did a re-write on ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’, so you can see just what circles he moves within. He has also just directed his first feature, a 35mm widescreen psycho thriller called ‘Exam’, [...]
Gone Fishing at Christmas…
As everything starts to wind down, we become a little reflective at Christmas time. It’s true that the next few months, potentially, could be the most exciting yet for Gone Fishing, with the Oscar nominations being announced on Jan 22nd, the BAFTA nominations being announced on Jan 15th, and with it attending another festival in [...]
Merry Xmas Podcasts…
As a special Xmas diversion for those of us who get a little bored with the Queens speech, listening to a slightly drunken Uncle Albert tell us the same old stories or have just maxed out on their Wii’s, here is a collection of special film makers podcasts that I put together and released over [...]
Press Pack Revamped!
We are in the throes of updating and reformatting the whole ‘Gone Fishing’ press pack. What we have is great, but it’s a little outdated now, and also, now I have been out there in the world with it, I can see how we can improve it. The big thing I have found is that [...]
Stacey Parks, Distribution Guru, FREE PODCAST!
A few days ago I promised a free podcast with Indie Film Distribution guru Stacey Parks. Well here it is! I recorded this two hour seminar last May with Stacey, at Ealing Studios. Stacey pretty much came straight from the plane and had a great deal of insight to share with us all. So here [...]
The Film Festival Marathon Runner!
Team Living Spirit has recently been joined by Sara Morrison, as head our festival submissions co-ordinator. I was getting overwhelmed with the whole process of festival submissions and I needed someone reliable and constant to deal with it, someone who could see the process through for maybe up to a year without having to take [...]
Movie Blueprint at Sundance!
I just took delivery of ten Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks and wouldn’t you know it, the publishers sent me copies of the Movie Blueprint by mistake! Doh! At the very same moment, I also got a mail from a fellow film maker, Jason Clancy, who bought the Movie Blueprint some time ago and has been [...]
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Watching Past Oscar Shorts on DVD
I have been watching a lot of the Oscars short film winners and nominees from the last few years. They are available to buy on DVD and I also believe via iTunes, though I haven’t checked that yet. I just wanted to see what they were really like, in terms of quality, style, feel etc. [...]
Gone Fishing Feedback from the DVD, Bahamas and beyond…
First off, can you believe, we won another festival. While in the Bahamas, Gone Fishing also won the Barbados Film Festival. I am waiting for the organisers to send me more details and hopefully some photos. I thought I would share some comments I have had, both at the Bahamas International Film Festival, the Oscars [...]
Bahamas, the complete webisodes…
With the dust settling in the Bahamas, I have now edited the two webisodes together and added a few testimonials from people who really connected with the film. Several people came and spoke to me about how much the film had touched them, people who had recently lost a parent. What they shared with me [...]
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And the award goes to…
Watch the video before reading… No really, watch it! OK. So we won. Against stiff competition too, 20 films in all. It was a great evening which went on into the warm Bahamian night. This has been a great festival and I have been lucky enough to make lots of new American friends who I [...]
Postcard from the Bahamas
Watch the video first, it says it all! The Bahamas Ingternational Film Festival has kicked off in full swing. The weather is warm, bright and breezy, as is the company. For such a young festival, only five years old, it’s extremely well organised and attended – last nights astonishing Versace Opening Night Party is a [...]
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