Obviously I’m massively behind the times but hopefully some of the previous entries will explain why that is… however I’d just like to extend massive and belated congratulations to two of my favourite people who both find themselves in the Sun.

Brilliantly my mate Cath has been awarded the Sundance/Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant to fund her to write a film called Beds about five strangers who come together in a ‘bed-rest’ experiment to aid astronauts in space.

Equally brilliant my mate Jim was not only the director of the only British short to play at the festival this year but he got a Mention, which is Sundance for shortlisted, which is filmmaker for awesome because it effectively makes his film “Can We Talk”, a past Shooting People film of the month, one of the 7 best in the world.

Look at it here:

Or for those of you not reading this on the Shooters site, look at it here: http://www.shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=76689

Massive thanks to the folks at MovieMaker magazine who have included this virtual tome in their list of the 50 Best Blogs for Movie Makers. And if you’re here as a result of that article then – gosh – hallo – hope this lives up to whatever expectations you may have…

Oh and, if you are new, then I’m one of the people in the picture at the top of this page and the other is my brother Chris. Unless of course you’re reading this item via an RSS feed in some other location like Facebook, in which case, you know, like, get with the programme and do like all the cool kids by visiting http://shootingpeople.org/bensblog.