A few weeks back we screened Gone Fishing at BAFTA – this was made possible by another film maker, David Chamberian, who has made a film about bullying called ‘Wednesdays Child’ He has some spare capacity so offered it to us and we ended up having a great industry screening of both Gone Fishing and [...]
Archive | September, 2009
The Asiana Int Film Festival and other fun and games…
In a week of loose ends, the kind you get when a production wraps – stuff that’s gone missing needs finding, stuff that you put off as the production dominated your life needs doing, invoices appearing and sifting accounts until it all ties up and of course, a little sleeping, I find myself writing a [...]
Invitation to speak to Kodak about Indie Film Making
Yesterday I was invited by Kodak to speak to their top motion picture European executives, about what it’s like to be an independent producer in 2009 – reading between the lines, it was really about how Kodak could better reach emerging film makers in the digital age, and tell them about film and why it’s [...]
The next feature film… so close to being announced…
The dust is settling on our frantic Corporate Film and I feel a little like I have been at war for three weeks – but earned some money for the extended script development process that sits ahead of us. So much has happened with our, as yet, unannounced feature film project too – contracts have [...]
There’s never enough time, money or light…
So here I am, Saturday night, in my little office with fellow film maker, Simon Cox, working flat out to complete this corporate film for the big presentation to the board on Monday. And it’s a HUGE project too, with loads of new technology being featured, with a cast and crew jet setting back and [...]
Play your movie back, in HD, in a Digial Cinema with kit costing just £70
Last week I got a call from my good friend Eddie Hamilton, editor extraordinaire (who also edited 'Gone Fishing'. He is currently working on ‘Kick Ass’ for Mathew Vaughn and needed a way of presenting the edit, in HD, to folks without the need for laying off the film to ‘HDCam’ and hiring decks to [...]
'Gone Fishing' wins another festival… that's thirty something by my counting!
I am in the deepest darkest depths of this corporate job and slowly losing my mind, as one does during production. But a little ray of sunlight glimmered last night when I got word from the Indianapolis International Film Festival that ‘Gone Fishing’ won the Best World Cinema short award. WOW! We have won a [...]
Last day of the shoot… and first day of prep for the next!
After a week of shooting, we have wrapped the UK end of our large scale corporate job and sent a camera team off to the USA for another week of filming. It’s been a tough shoot so far as there have been so many locations and actors. In fact, more locations and actors than your [...]
And the award goes to… the film maker who is not present!
I got a message yesterday from the organizer of a festival to say… ‘what are you doing in two weeks time… do you want to come to our festival because, well, er, you have won?!’ WOW! But… as I am shooting right now, sadly, I can’t attend the festival (or reveal the festival just now). [...]
Five out of Five for online film making workshop
The online Making Your World Class Short Film workshop is going from strength to strength. Over the next month or so we are going to be adding two further modules (once you sign up you get all the new modules for free). But I thought I would just share the feedback I just got from [...]
Awards, Awards and more Awards for ‘Gone Fishing’
What a bumper day for the FedEx man. I came back from our shoot to find two trophies for ‘Gone Fishing’, waiting patiently at the studios. First was from the Indie Fest USA awards a few weeks back, and second was from the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA where we won Best Screenplay a [...]
I always knew I should be in music
All this week I am on location shooting an ambitious corporate film for a major technology company. The film is going to be showing lots of cool new technology in action, and as such, it’s been my job to get all that kit working for the camera. I have always been a techno-geek, so this [...]
Heaven and Hell at BAFTA…
Whenever I have taught my two day Guerilla Film Makers masterclass, one of the things I talk about is having a really amazing premiere. You have worked your guts out for months, probably even years, and you deserve the premiere of a lifetime. I have always hired the Princess Anne Theatre at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, [...]
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Sardines in the production office!
The office has never been more full – right now, our tiny twelve foot by eight foot space is housing an entire production team for the corporate job we are undertaking (plus boxes and boxes of high tech props). It may looked cramped, it is actually, but it’s also a lot of fun. And because [...]
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Rare archive podcast interview with legendary American screenwriter and director John Hughes
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