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My friend the wonderful Claire Wilson pointed me towards this film and a more intoxicating 12 minutes of Americana romance you’ll be hard pushed to find. Watch it… Watch Death to the Tinman in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

I recently mentioned some of the possible uses a filmmaker might have for the social networking/micro blogging/photo-sharing site www.tumblr.com. Determined to prove me right they’ve just launched Reblog This Festival. “We had so much fun at this summer’s Reblog This Concert in New York City that we’ve decided to take the party to the West Coast. In five weeks we’ll descend upon Los Angeles to showcase some of our community’s amazing creative work that inspires us every day. So fire…

Obviously it’s no news that filmmakers can use the internet to promote their work but I have to say that this website to promote Jane Campion’s John Keats film “Bright Star” is one of the nicest I’ve yet come across. As is only fitting to such a romantic subject, the site eschews modernity for a hand written, pencil and paper vibe which is pleasingly tactile for something merely virtual. Have a look http://www.brightstarthemovie.com.

I recently had a bonfire. As I built the pyre I was irritated to find myself mithering on about some of the recent comments in the endless debate about the “state” of the “british” “Film” “industry”. I’m trying to keep out of it now because I get the impression I’ve proved my point to anyone who is actually reading the words I’ve spilt on the subject. However, as I lit the match I noticed the branding printed across the box…

The other newish internet service that I think has a lot to offer filmmakers is Tumblr which can be found at http://www.tumblr.com and which claims of its self: “Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme’s HTML.” In effect Tumblr is just another blog cum social network but it’s super simple interface and…

First up in my list of new filmmaking tools are a couple that really prove my point about how suddenly the internet is actually useful. Soundcloud which exists at http://soundcloud.com/ describes its self like this… “SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.” And just to prove its up to the moment ecommunity credentials, the site then better explains…

I’m actually quite cynical about new technology. I think this stems from being a childhood science fiction fan and old enough to remember when everything new was a lie. I remember, at primary school, a day of lessons was once put aside so that the whole school could witness the demonstration of a new educational computer device which had recently been purchased at the cost of thousands. It had been on Blue Peter the previous week and almost as much…

Oh my god, it’s a deadline. And Chris and me just hit it. Thwack. That’s twice now we’ve hit deadlines with the feature length script for “Hallo Panda”, which shows that either we’re getting a little bit better at knowing how long things take us (ages) or we just really know this story inside out… For those of you (me) who care about this it’s now down to 99 and a half pages and has taken us about twenty actual…

For those of you reading my blog in sources other than the original (http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/bensblog) you may not have realised that my recent thoughts about Jason Solomon’s Observer attack on British Film actually came in response to Colonel Mullighan’s highlighting of the article with this Shooter’s poll – http://shootingpeople.org/poll/britishfilm – which pulls a few of the more contentious statements out for the general examination of the Shooters community. One that has been nagging at the back of my mind all day…