Not content with their first feature film, Gypo raking in a number of awards and international critical acclaim, releasing on DVD  February 12^th, Medb films have opened their new post production studios in Ramsgate, Kent, just an hour and half from London and for qouta purposes, beyond that crucial M25 ring road.

"We wanted to create a one stop shop for other small indie companies like ourselves needing the all important last part of the puzzle by creating a low cost, high end facility aimed at other people like us" explains producer, Elaine Wickham.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ashvin Kumar as in the final throes of finishing his latest film, The Forest. And by all accounts it should be a top-notch thriller, but it offers much, much more than rising hairs on the back of the neck as his Ashvin Kumar's personal blog shows...

The Forest is a thriller with an environmental conscience. Instead of preaching to the converted (as wildlife documentaries do), I thought that I need to / could do something significant about the wildlife crisis that is staring us in the face, not only global warming and devastating effects of destruction on the planet, but focus on the most callous destruction of all - poaching, killing animals for skins and bones - to satisfy some ancient quirk of distant Chinese and Tibetan patrons.

Jordan, hemmed in between Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine is facing many challenges, since our country is growing in many sectors and fields, such as the economy, and filmmaking, where the country is witnessing the birth of digital filmmaking, with the media industry in Jordan adapting to the new technology to achieve the highest standards.

Sandra Kawar Samain a Producer & Director from Jordan tells us more...

British Featherweight Champion and Boxing Phenomenon

Filming is underway on what is shaping up to be one of the biggest productions to come out of Wales. The film Risen, about the boxing phenomenon "The Welsh Wizard" Howard Winstone has been generating such interest it promises to put Wales firmly on the cultural map.

Born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1939, Howard Winstone was nick-named The Welsh Wizard. Although he had lost the top of three fingers from his right hand, Howard Winstone not only won the British Featherweight title in 1961, but remained in the championship class until he finally retired in 1968. Out of 67 fights he lost only six. He died on the 30th September 2000

People who buy a word in Michelle Eastwood's film script will get a mention in the closing titles The budding movie-maker is banking on the fact that film fans will want to have the last word on her debut project.

In fact Michelle Eastwood, 23, hopes 369 other fans will also want to stake a claim in a script that she is selling off word by word. Buyers can pick a word of their choice which will cost between £5 and £50. Each of the 370 words in Hesitation - a short film being produced by Michelle - will go towards the cost of making the movie in France.

Busiest Year on Record

Liverpool City Council's Film Office - part of North West Vision - organised a total of  240 filming days between January and the end of March compared to 74 last year.

The number of productions also trebled - up from 21 to 61 in the first quarter.

Here comes the French invasion as the seafront at Redcar in Cleveland is transformed into 1940s Dunkirk - literally a bomb site with tons of rubble, craters, bombed-out houses and tanks half-buried in the sand - for the film version of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel, Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. In addition, 1,000 local people will be needed as extras when filming begins at the end of the month under the direction of Joe Wright, who made the most recent screen version of Pride And Prejudice.

Principal photography has just concluded on 'The Golden Age' directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush who reprise the roles they originated in the Academy-award nominated 'Elizabeth'. Joining them are Clive Owen who plays the dashing seafarer, Sir Walter Raleigh as well as Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish and Rhys Ifans.