Ah the autumn. Children trudging back to school. A chill creeping over the grass in my garden. The leaves not quite turning yet are never the less clinging with less lustre to the branches than they did a few weeks earlier. And someone is moaning about the state of the British Film Industry. Like the first cuckoo of spring I have come to appreciate the sound of the first journalist’s moan of the autumn as one of those beautiful natural…
Esther Robinson is da bomb! Seriously. She’s a brilliant filmmaker (A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory) and a tireless supporter of artists and creativity. She used to work at Creative Capital and in that spirit of professional development and sustainability has recently founded ArtHome to “help artists build assets and equity through financial literacy, homeownership, self-sufficiency and the responsible use of credit.” Hear, hear I need help with all of that! You can read her…
I have recently returned from Japan. Flight is a pleasure only for the unimaginative or those who actively enjoy thinking about their own messy death. I am neither of those but I coped with my 22 hours in the air by watching all the films that I had previously either missed or avoided that were offered by the in-flight entertainment system. This strategy had the twin benefits of either distracting me from the prospect of plunging screaming to my death…
This year SXSW have opened up their panel picker voting system to the Film Conference (it used to be just Interactive). You have till Friday, Sept 4th to cast your vote for the panels you like best.
