Some pics of our own dashing Creative Director, James Mullighan at the Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards’ Ceremony in Cannes. Mullighan was a judge for the Babelgum Festival and is pictured with the other judges, including: Spike Lee, Honorary Judge; Albertha Will Derks, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Bhuvan Lall, Indian Independent Filmmakers Worldwide Association; Johannes Newrkla, Founding member of the Art Directors Club of Europe; Joe Neulight, Co-Founder and President Withoutabox; Sandra Ruch, Executive Director International Documentary Association; Stefano…

Shooting People run a really fun series of networking events with DCTV called Hook Me Up. It’s like speed-dating but you get to talk about your skills and your projects rather than about why blue is your favorite color and why you’re a cat person and not a dog person (look I don’t know what people talk about when they go speed-dating ok!) The next one is happening on Tuesday, June 10th at 7.30pm and this time we’re going to…

Finding useful tools for downloading video from the web can be very confusing. Check out Liz Gannes’ article on newteevee.com about the different options, their perks and their pitfalls.

Well apologises to all six of you who asked me where I was and why I’d stopped writing. Truth is I haven’t, I’ve just been concentrating on writing things other than rambling gibberish intended to distract and divert you from your day in the office… However, that’s not all I’ve been doing because I stumbled across a rather good site called The Open Video Project which offers an astonishing collection of old films for public use. On the whole they…

I love bikes. And I love films. So I am really chuffed that Shooting People is presenting the FUN BIKE SHORTS program at the Bicycle Film Festival on May 30th. Get tickets and come out to play!

Sandi DuBowski, the producer of A Jihad for Love and Director of Trembling Before G-d, is one of those people who knows a lot of people. And he knows a lot of people because he is awesome – generous and inspiring – so I am jumping in and spreading the word about the film. I haven’t seen it yet but I have been following its progress for a long time and will definitely be going to support the opening weekend.…

It’s a poor excuse but I downloaded these photos onto my laptop and then never seemed to have it with me when I wanted to post them to the blog. So here, finally, are a few pics from HotDocs and Tribeca in April. Hanging out at HotDocs: AJ Schnack, Charlie Phillips, Bjarte Morner Tveit, Maxyne Franklin, and Tine Fischer and Daniella Eversby from CPH: Dox Me and my old friend and colleague Daniella – showing off our big sunglasses Max…

Tuesday night, at the salubrious Baoli restaurant on the Croisette, Spike Lee made the day of several young filmmakers from around the world when he announced the winners of the first Babelgum Online Film Festival. Shooting People has been supporting the Babelgum Online Film Festival since its launch at least year’s Venice Festival, and SP’s James Mullighan was at the ceremony. Alongside Joe Bateman (Rushes Short Film Festival) and Stefano Martina (Arcipelago, Italy), Mullighan was a juror for the Babelgum…

James Lees is the Director of The Apology Line, a beautifully shot and deeply personal short film based on people confessing their secrets anonymously over the phone. The film has played at a number of festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Sundance, SXSW and HotDocs. I interviewed him a while back and the interview is now up on Shooter Films. I was really pleased when James won the Best Short Documentary Award at HotDocs and I happened to be sitting next to AJ…

Tuesday night, at the salubrious Baoli restaurant on the Croisette, Spike Lee made the day of several young filmmakers from around the world when he announced the winners of the first Babelgum Online Film Festival. Shooting People has been supporting the Babelgum Online Film Festival since its launch at least year’s Venice Festival, and SP’s James Mullighan was at the ceremony. Alongside Joe Bateman (Rushes Short Film Festival) and Stefano Martina (Arcipelago, Italy), Mullighan was a juror for the Babelgum…