As Christmas closes in, after three days of editing and mastering the opus of all wedding videos for my girlfriends sister Maria, I can relax into a delightful evening with the final two episodes of ‘Dexter’… Mmmm, lovely Christmas eve! I have had a lot of feedback from the Apple TV blog, mostly about both [...]
Archive | 2009
Santa has brought me an Apple TV!
Santa came early for me this year. I was given a shiny new and lovely Apple TV as a gift from Lucia, and I am rather excited! I asked for it early as I wanted it up and running before Christmas so that if there was a problem, I can get it sorted before everyone [...]
1 Million Downloads is the target for cellphone short that will touch your heart…
I just got an email from the lovely chaps at a company called Treehive in Australia. They are the film makers behind a short called ‘Mankind Is No Island’ and I met them when I was down under for the Heart Of Gold Film Festival earlier this year (original post with an interview here). When [...]
Astonishing zero-budget Killer Robots Film lands film maker in Hollywood!
Good lord! I was just sent this… the film is above, the cutting from the BBC news site below. Irrespective of whether this really cost $300, or if the reported deal does come off or not (I sense a great deal of hyperbolae) I am sure that this guy is destined for great things. Terrific [...]
2010 Oscars Shortlist Announced… and only one British film again!
It’s Oscars time. Last year, I had just got word from the Academy that ‘Gone Fishing’ was shortlisted, which I blogged about here. Last year the shortlist was kept secret, but this year it appears to be public (you can see the complete list on the Academy website here). And there is just one short [...]
Ten great ideas for Film Makers at Xmas
I am a pain to buy Xmas presents for, and in that spirit, I have decided to list a bunch of things I would have loved to get for Xams, if I didn’t already own them! It’s a way for you to avoid getting the mythical pair of socks or DVD you really don’t want, [...]
How secure is your data? Do film makers create more data than most others…?
It’s that time of year again, when I look to the digital assets created in the last year, and consider the data archiving needed. I know from experience the utter terror and anguish caused by a data loss or a hard drive crash – I had a bad on in the late nineties, and since [...]
Four Eyed Monsters film maker Arin Crumley speaks to the Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, on the most appropriate of settings…!
Hectic! Hectic! Hectic! That’s been my day so far. I have been doing interviews for the book, with fascinating film-makers, and I have got several more to go today too – between breathes, I ended up on a BBC radio show from Scotland called Movie Café – they wanted to know more about Gone Fishing [...]
Marc Price, director of 'Colin', talks to the Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook
I just spent the last hour and half interviewing the Marc Price, writer and director of zero-budget Zombie movie, ‘Colin’, for the new Guerilla Pocketbook. Marc is a effervescent Welsh lad, self confessed movie geek, whose humble view of himself and his role in the film business is both refreshing and charming. We all know [...]
Did you know, before I was a film maker, I was a stunt double for Santa? Really!
XMAS SPECIAL, BUY 1 GONE FISHING DVD, GET 1 FREE! That’s right, two for one – and we promise that the DVD’s will be sent with love from Santa and his little helpers. Really. Honestly. Truly. Not many people know this, but aside from being the writer and director of Gone Fishing, I was also [...]
It was like Ground Hog Day all over again… Only with bigger teeth!
Gone Fishing played at the Prince Charles in Leicester Square twice this weekend, Friday supporting ‘Jaws’, and Saturday supporting ‘The Shark Still Works’, an awesome feature length doc about ‘Jaws’, and the legacy it has left (my original post here where you can watch the trailer). This was part of The United Film Festival, which [...]
The debate rages on… What value is there in Art Film?
I have had a lot of emails and comments on the blog regarding my experiences at the Bilbao Film Festival last week – so here I am blogging about it again! And I want to be really clear again, the festival, venue, town, people, film makers were all wonderful. But the films, were in my [...]
A ‘declassified’ blog from 2008! The Oscars Short Film Shortlist is announced!
Occasionally, I have written a blog that, as soon as is posted, I have had to pull. This is one such blog I wrote last December at the Bahamas Film Festival, when I got an email from the Oscars saying we were shortlisted… I have included the entire blog entry (we were told to pull [...]
Life in the raft…
So 24 hours ago I was in a hospital bed having a very long tube with a camera shoved down my throat. As bad experiences in life go, this rates among my top ten. I have a minor stomach problem that the quaks insist on checking every two years, and so every seven hundred and [...]
EXAM trailer goes live…
A few days ago, Empire magazine in the UK premiered the trailer for EXAM, a feature film I Associate Produced last year. Almost immediately it was ripped and is now on youtube and a host of other video sites. It will be released in cinemas early next year. Here is what Empire said… We’ve been [...]
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Tom Khazoyan: Good tips, Chris. Don't give in to the tempt...
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Does the National Minimum Wage (NMW) mean the end of micro budget film making the UK?
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BECTU debate and the National Minimum Wage…
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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.
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It’s time for film makers to take action over distribution… it’s OUR problem, not theirs!
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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 1
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Rare archive podcast interview with legendary American screenwriter and director John Hughes
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How to use powerful film lighting in a domestic situation without a generator
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Producing ‘Clowning Around’ with Leilani Holmes
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Your film is unique – no single solution fits all, the fundamental rule of nu-distribution
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My first movie, ‘Necronomicon, book of the dead’
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