Karma, Community and The Edinburgh Film Festival 2011

Ann McCluskey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:51:28 +0100

Providing a write up for the Edinburgh Film Festival 2011, which came to a close yesterday, is not straightforward for me – Edinburgh is my adopted home of 28 years, and taking pleasure and pride in its cultural events is part of why it’s a great city to live in. But whether or not we wanted it,Read More...

Combative Filmmakers and Breakdances as Sheffield DocFest winds up

Ann McCluskey — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:41:49 +0100

Sheffield Documentary Film Festival wound up on Sunday, with a brief interlude before the Scottish Documentary Film Institute hosts the Edinburgh Pitch on Tuesday and prior to the Edinburgh Film Festival officially kicking off on Wednesday. Filmtastic week. As was probably part of the rational to shift Sheffield to June (whRead More...

Personal filmmaking abounds at impressive 51st Krakow Film Festival

Nic Wistreich — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Amateur: barely a few letters from Auteur - but what, in our social media world, is the difference? If there was a dividing line of the 51st Krakow Film Festival, it was betwRead More...

Marwencol, The Arbor and Life in Day – Sheffield Doc/Fest draws to a close

Ann McCluskey — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:52:43 +0100

Sheffield Doc/Fest wound up on Sunday night after 5 full-on days. Capturing a flavour of the event overall did mean sacrificing time spent in screenings, but I caught two films up for a Special Jury Award; Clio Barnard’s The Arbor (premiered at London Film Festival in October) and Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol (premiering in the UK at Sheffield).

Sheffield Documentary Film Festival 2010: Joan Rivers, Kevin MacDonald + the MeetMarket

Ann McCluskey — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:57:37 +0100

If you want to meet documentary filmmakers from around the globe, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival is the place to be. The 17th year of the event kicked off on Wednesday evening with the UK premier of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. Interviewed yesterday by the chair of the Festival, Steve Hewlett, Ms Rivers replied to the loaded question - ‘why did she make the film?’ – with the pithyRead More...

What Gurinder Chadha Should Do Next

sandip mahal — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:06:07 +0100

Gurinder Chadha has had a long career directing very successful films since her breakthrough with 1994’s Bhaji on the Beach.

In an industry that is notoriously slanted to male and middle class she has managed to maintain a steady career giving opportunities to Indian actors to have choice parts that rarely come to those working in moviRead More...

is there space for another horror film?

sandip mahal — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:41:34 +0100

the horror film franchise is still surprisingly resilient and not really showing signs of slowing (some would say that the current incarnation has outstayed it's welcome). The question i ask is if there is space for a real rough and ready old school horror film that does what it says on the tin? The last good horror for me was Outpost. It didn't make you think too much and had a great genre story. Not a great story itself but a solid one that helped the movie along. My friend has written a horroRead More...

Question - Best way to promote Online Comedy?

sandip mahal — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:23:09 +0100

i have spent the last 6 months trying to make a small impact on my website with my content that hopefully is something different to what is offered by the established networks (as i have no budget there will be cracks here and there in the quality) and seeing as i am not handcuffed by the censorship and regulatory boards my material can be inflammatory if need be depending on what i am thinking at the time. In terms of marketing it out there, I have done the usual promotional routes via Social NRead More...

London's Brazilian community out in force for Cine Fest Brasil:

Jesse Tate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:17:41 +0100

The first London Brazilian Film Festival hit town last week with the warm and vocal audience participation of the city's expat community, and a couple of cinematic gems.

You get the sense that organizers ‘Inffinifo' want to express that there is so much more to Brazil, and it's cinema, than the sex, violence and povertRead More...

Alpha-ville 09, a celebration of audiovisual arts.

alpha ville — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:47:34 +0100

A groundbreaking celebration of advanced electronic music, digital media, cutting edge visuals and short film

Announcing Alpha-Ville 2009, the first in a series of audiovisual events that aims to administer a much-needed shot in the arm of London’s flagging music scene. Taking place within the plush environs of Bloomsbury’s Horse Hospital, the night promises to be thRead More...

GOP's 'What would it look like if the world changed?' goes Creative Commons

Nic Wistreich — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:23:45 +0100

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Funded by the American Kalliopeia Foundation, the Global Oneness Project seeks to compile wisdom of unsung world changers from every corner of the planet. With all videos licensed under the Creative Commons license, the videos are free to download, share, recut, remix and reuse (hence this trimmed version here). For a documentary series with a social purpose, the license gives them the edge over films such as Age of Stupid and An Inconvenient Truth which seek to reach Read More...

What city and country was the Church bombed?

Sharon Corr — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Thursday, March 19, 2009
To Whom it May Concern:

Please in what city and country was the Church bombed in the movie The Reader, where 300 Jewish Woman died. Are the only survivors Ilana and Rose Mather?

Does anyone know if the name of her book is Memoir? Is this book still in print?

Best Regards,
Sharon Corr

Never Mind The Celluloid Strikes Back - today at Hull Screen

Nic Wistreich — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:01:36 +0100

I woke this morning, at the godawful hour needed for my slow and pricey train ride to Hull , from a dream where I was a kid once more, back in my school hall at St Aidan's again. We'd just finished a double filmmaking lesson (probably inspired by watchingRead More...

Flug Tag

Emma Carter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:32:34 +0100

Red Bull's Flug Tag is back on the 7th June 2008, and they have kindly given E4 an offcial entry birth. The idea is to make your own flying machine, and well basically fly into the seprentine.

Now E4 want their own fans to represent them at the Flugtag. One lucky team consisting of four fans will be E4's offcial team at the big day. They will design, build and pilot the craft

All you have to do is get creative with your flying machine, make sure it fits tRead More...

Democrat battle : view from a Brit in India

Nic Wistreich — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:27:46 +0100

The beaches of Goa are a bit like the United Nations, so many pepople from around the world, so many ambassadors of peace. They mostly seem lovely wise souls who will probably one day run companies and countries.

Meanwhile in the US a very real battle continues, the ultimate in a way.
"No-one from the label is saying, look man, we like what you do, but
could you include some trumpets. Or how about some dancing girls?"

Right, so there's this guy, TayZonday, and he put his song up on
YouTube and it's called Black Rain Read More...

The Axeman Dumbeth as Thompson demands mass cull of talent at BBC

Nic Wistreich — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:06:47 +0100

The day Greg Dyke was pushed out of the BBC was a grave one for both the corporation and broadcasting in general, yet Mark 'the scissors' Thompson was reportedly seen that day skipping around the Channel 4 office where he had been Chief Executive for barely a probation period, gleeful in the neRead More...

This is Edinburgh Film Fest 2007, Day 1

Nic Wistreich — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:49:54 +0100

Hallam Foe, Edinburgh 2000, Protagonist, Rataouille & Planet B-Boy

"You know, everytime someone says they don't believe in cinema, someone, somewhere makes a sequel to a bad movie."

I'm slammed head first into multiplex A&E. Pulse falling, Read More...

So who owns copyright..

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:02:21 +0100

..on the collective unconscious?

French Letter: Paris Gare de Lyon, May 16

nic — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:22:14 +0100

'Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you'

Ray Bradbury

Dear Tom,

It has been a while. I forget whose turn it is, but for sake of ease I shall both ask and answer my own question - a simplRead More...

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