You know most of the time we pass through life, allowing circumstance or others to make choices for us. In many ways it’s inevitable, it’s simply too hard to swim against the current all the time, and those who do, usually burn out. The trick is making the distinction between what is, and what is [...]

Over the course of the Gone Fishing festival run, I met tons of very cool film makers. Once such person is Jason Van Genderen who I met in Australia, when I was in competition with him at the Heart Of Gold Film Festival – he has mad an extraordinary short film, shot on a cell [...]

Andrew Stanton on Pixar presents a short masterclass in ‘Story’ at TED. I was just sent this by editor friend of mine, Mark Talbot Butler. So many powerful truths compacted into such a short presentation. Gold dust. For those of you who have not seen it, sit back and enjoy… Onwards and upwards Chris Jones, [...]

When I wrote the last Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, I asked Brit producer Richard Holmes what was the most important advice he could offer an emerging film maker. He said ‘Learn to make the distinction between what is real, and what you want to be real’. This resonated with me at the time, and it [...]

I came across this footage a few days ago, a sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see, while researching Kodak and their current dire financial situation (which may force them into ‘Chapter 11’ in the USA) for my blog entry on chages in 2012 for filmmaker. It’s odd to [...]

Some of you may know that my good friend and film maker David Reynolds just ran a HUGELY successful crowdfunding campaign where he and his team raised over $100k for their Under Water Realm project. Over the last year or so I have blogged a few times about what he has been up to, first [...]