I had the privilege of being on the Sterling Short Film Jury at SILVERDOCS, along with Angela Tucker and Bryan Stamp. The films were superb, Angela and Bryan were fantastic fellow jurors and Sky Sitney and the entire SILVERDOCS staff did a really impressive job this year. We awarded the shorts prize to 12 Notes Down by Andreas Koefoed, a beautiful and moving portrait of talent, music and adolescence. We also felt compelled to give an honorary mention to Michael…
This is a post about the recent and very successful edition of SILVERDOCS by Trish Dalton, filmmaker, Shooting People member, and all round amazing person. Trish riding the Bolt bus back to NYC wearing her newly acquired and very fetching cowboy hat. I just got back from my first Silverdocs. My primary objective was to visit filmmakers from Canada and Isreal, who I’m collaborating with, and to learn more about educational distribution (Silverdocs offers panels focused on education called ‘school…
This was originally published on the Shooting People Festival Focus blog. I had the privilege of being on the Sterling Short Film Jury at SILVERDOCS, along with Angela Tucker and Bryan Stamp. The films were superb, Angela and Bryan were fantastic fellow jurors and Sky Sitney and the entire SILVERDOCS staff did a really impressive job this year. We awarded the shorts prize to 12 Notes Down by Andreas Koefoed, a beautiful and moving portrait of talent, music and adolescence.…
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I’m part of a Shooting People team teaching a workshop on how filmmakers can best use the web at the Frontline Club in London on Saturday, July 4th. The workshop will include case studies on films that have harnessed the power of the web, tips on using social media, and online strategy and resources for filmmakers. If you’re looking for help distributing and marketing your film online then Digital Bootcamp is for you! I’m working on some lovely slides for…
This last week Los Angeles was of course gripped by a phenomenon very much other than its fine annual Film Festival, run by Film Independent. The Festival’s centre in Westwood is right around the corner from UCLA’s medical Centre, where Michael Jackson was rushed after collapsing, and delegates could barely hear themselves network, for the buzz of helicopters. And today, Monday 29 June, days on from his demise, there remains a solid throng of hundreds of mourners gathered outside Mann’s…
OK so for sometime now my geek of a brother has been getting hot under the collar for the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Not that it takes much to see why because, as well as being a general upgrade to their top range digital SLR stills camera the 5D Mark II is Canon’s first digital SLR camera that records HD video. That’s already too many initials for one paragraph so to be clear… we’re talking about the sort…
Just heard this on the radio as part of a discussion of women in the Royal Air Force… “…well I’m sorry to be so ordinary but I joined as a result of a bet with my Dad…” What world does she live in? I don’t know anyone who joined the armed forces due to a bet with their parents. That’s not normal behaviour is it?
A mix of encroaching penury and helping a friend led me to spend last night filming a conference on the future of the food industry. It was actually more interesting than you’d have thought, however it did include a fair amount of conference gibberish, including this opening gambit from one speaker… “We’re here to talk about food futures, the future of food, the future of foodies but in many ways these debates remind me of the Michael J Fox film…
Keep meaning to mention that we’ve got our first ever unofficial fan site, for our film Hallo Panda. I know that it only takes about five minutes to set up a page in Facebook so it’s not like they’ve built a pyramid or a henge to honour our creations, but never the less the thought that the bunch of us managed to delight strangers to the point of casual internet use still brings a warm glow.
