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Gone Fishing Plays At Imax, Waterloo Tonight! (Oct 7th, 7.30pm)

By Chris on October 7, 2009 in Gone Fishing, Screenings

Whoaaaah! Imax! I KNOW! First off, we are not on the BIG BIG screen, we are on the smaller BIG Screen upstairs – I will be there doing an hour long Q and A with Stephen Follows asking the questions on stage (Stephen ran the London based Super Shorts Film Festival when ‘Gone Fishing’ played [...]

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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 3… The conclusion…

By Chris on October 6, 2009 in Hollywood, Inspiration

THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL CHAPTER IN THIS ADVENTURE… YOU CAN CLICK HERE IF YOU MISSED PART ONE, AND PART TWO… OR SCROLL DOWN TO READ… OK to recap… I got a call about a movie that needed a director, a big budget Hollywood studio picture… I dashed into central London to collect a [...]

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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 2

By Chris on October 4, 2009 in Art and Stroryboards, Hollywood, Inspiration

FIRST OFF… IF YOU DID NOT READ THE LAST POST, CLICK HERE OR SCROLL DOWN AND READ THAT ONE FIRST… OK, so to recap… 24 hours ago, this opportunity did not even exist. And now, having read a script, been grilled by Judy over and over, and after waiting in Starbucks for several hours, the [...]

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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 1

By Chris on October 3, 2009 in Film Production, Hollywood, Inspiration

This week has been a white knuckle ride for me. I am writing this with a pounding head from the workload, the stress and the queasy feeling of being pulled backwards, forwards, up and down… There were so many times when I paused and turned to Judy Goldberg and would say… ‘this is it, this [...]

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Free money for film makers! Collect yours here…

By Chris on October 1, 2009 in Money

I received a rather lovely letter this morning, from Directors UK (formerly known as the DPRS, the Director and Producers Rights Society), telling me they had just deposited a couple of hundred pounds into my bank account for a film I made many years ago, the serial killer thriller White Angel. Apparently it has been [...]

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