I have just read some pages of a screenplay that looks both exciting and very well put together. Of course, it’s in ‘development’ and so there are going to be problems and further work needed – the biggest problem being the one that we come across so often when reading other peoples scripts. It’s over [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Gone Fishing Wins IndieFest USA at Disney in LA!
Gone Fishing picked up it’s 31st award for Best Short Film at the IndieFest USA Awards at Disney last night. Associate Producer and LA resident Kerry Finlayson went on our behalf to accept the award – I think that makes about 15 awards she has collected for us now! She is becoming a bit of [...]
John Truby, script guru comes to town, and we have a GREAT OFFER for you
When I decided to make ‘Gone Fishing’, I knew it would open doors. But I didn’t realize just how many it would open, and how many of those doors would be in Hollywood. I am working flat out with Judy Goldberg right now, penning a feature script for a major Hollywood studio – and it’s [...]
Storyboarding the job
I have been working on a very ambitious corporate job for a major client, something I do a couple of times a year to keep the boat afloat. It’s usually a lot of fun too and we all get a chance to work with actors, use new cameras and turn out some polished work. Best [...]
Gone Fishing Festival Update
The last few weeks have been quite intense from a festival view, and we have been accepted into a bunch of VERY exciting events. Probably the most exciting is the Roshd International film festival in Tehran, Iran – the oldest film festival in the region and has been running since the sixties. We are actually [...]
Gone Fishing now on BluRay and tips to sell the DVD of your film
Gone Fishing is now on BluRay! Yes, you can buy your own BluRay disk of Gone Fishing now, with stunning HD pictures in 1080P and uncompressed 5.1 audio, made from the HDCamSR master of the film. We are packaging it with the DVD which has all the bonus features (if you previously bought Gone Fishing [...]
Interviewing Eran Creevy about 'Shifty'
The final interview I did for the Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook last week was with writer and director of Microwave Brit feature ‘Shifty’, Eran Creevy. Immediately likeable and extremely energetic, it’s not hard to see how Eran has achieved so much in so little time. In only a few years, he has gone from runner [...]
Enter… The Black Hole…
‘People laughed at the end of the screening, and we thought huh, this isn’t funny is it? It’s an indictment of human greed…’ Said co-director Olly Williams, proving that artists don’t always know what they have created. If you have not seen it, do yourself a treat now and watch this two minute gen above, [...]
Film Festivals Paying Short Film Makers
Over the last year, I have had a wide range of experiences at film festivals – some amazing, many good, and a handful, well, terrible. One thing that has sometimes struck me at some badly organized festivals is the lack of respect for a basic agreement – here is the deal, implied I might add, [...]
There's a new girl in the office. And she has a blog…
There’s a new girl in the office. And she has a blog. And it’s rather entertaining. I met Judy last year after she brought a terrific script to me called ‘From Beneath Us’, via editor Eddie Hamilton. We got on like a house on fire, and now we are collaborating on an unannounced project (we [...]
Interviewing the film makers… 'Dead Wood', shot for peanuts and sold to Lionsgate for hard cash
Film Making Tip #682 – If shooting on location and the fridge makes too much noise, the sound recordist will switch it off. But, if they forget to switch it back on, it could ruin a fridge or freezer’s worth of food. It has happened many times! So ask the sound recordist to leave their [...]
Gone Fishing Film Festival Final Analysis and Data (well nearly final…) Download Film Festival Spreadsheet.
As we have decided that we will not be entering more festivals (unless we have good reason to), I thought now would be a good time to tally up some statistics for the whole Gone Fishing campaign. So you can see from the rough ratios from the chart here – ‘Win’ means a festival we [...]
And the winners are….
We have just won the Ballston Spa Film Festival in New York State, USA… What a way to start Monday Morning! And it gets better, we also won Best Editing and Best Sound! I am gutted I was unable to attend as it was an open air festival and to see ‘Gone Fishing’ in such [...]
Metaphysical Meeting With The Mentor…
It’s been an intense and emotional week – Judy and I are now in full swing on a script, which we hope to announce soon. We have been spending mornings working on real world stuff, such as setting up courses, corporate work and the new Guerilla book. And from mid afternoon, until as late as [...]
Blake Snyder, writer, teacher and guru to thousands of film makers, dies yesterday…
We just heard the terrible news that American writer, teacher and guru Blake Snyder died yesterday. He was 53 and suffered a cardiac arrest. Blake’s best selling writers book, ‘Save The Cat’, was an instant classic, and his enthusiasm for great stories well told resonated through those pages, and bounced off the walls whenever you [...]
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