I’m not much of a fan of horror but Iove the welsh and am a huge fan of awful puns so I thought I’d bring to your eyes this trailer for the Aberystwyth Horror Festival – Abertoir. or if you’re a local…

The UnderWire Festival aims to showcase the raw cinematic talents of women with four days of screenings and events in London from 18th – 21st November 2010. With a particular focus on filmmakers at the beginning of their careers, the festival will bring attention to the work of women, who are still massively underrepresented in the film industry. The closing date for submissions is 10th September. There are Directing, Producing, Editing, Screenwriting and Cinematography categories that open to submissions from…

The backlash has started! For everyone grinding their teeth over the over exuberance surrounding DSLRs (for the ungeeks these are digital stills cameras that shoot HD video which have in many quarters been hailed as the future of low budget filmmaking) here’s something that should bring a smile… In today’s Filmmaker’s bulletin the expertly knowledgable Andrew Doughty describes the DSLR as “…an abomination. They are a mistake…” and he was arguing with the equally sage Karel Bata who’d just called…

A true classic!

The odd thing about the internet is people still treat it as if reverses normal logic, rather than magnifying it. This was one of the key problems behind the dotcom boom and, like radiation lingering long after the blast, echoes of this emotion are still with us today. That’s why I warned you at the outset that I wasn’t going to come any surprising or new revelations by examining the questions posed by online distribution. Putting films online doesn’t make…

Whilst pontificating about the purchase and viewing of moving pictures using the internet my scope has been general. However a few of the responses I’ve had suggest that some have seen my comments squarely aimed at short films, rather than features, music videos or any of the other myriad categories used to subdivide the rainbow nation that is Shooting People. It’s not surprising, the case studies I’ve used have all been lazily if accurately drawn from my own short films.…

The tireless observer will have noticed that over the past month or so I’ve been exploring some of the new online platforms that allow you to charge for your work. Most especially I’ve been dealing with the three outlets that my brother and I use, MiShorts, the Dynamo player and iTunes. But now that we finally have a series of workable, practical and efficient ways of bringing our films to an online market, what effect is that going to have…

Oh what a lot of delicious bru-ha-ha there is on the Shooter’s bulletins at the moment. There’s the Ambleton Delight Debacle, where a couple of badly chosen words about DPs have sparked a furore, at least two different rows about the fall out from the axing of the UKFC and over on Screenwriters it seems like even a simple discussion of the worst lines in movie history is about to turn toxic… It must be late summer. Either that or…

Branchage Official Film Festival Trailer 2010 from Branchage Film Festival on Vimeo.

Image via Wikipedia What is Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet. It ensures that all data on the web is treated the same, whether it is your independent film blog or the website of James Cameron’s latest 3D spectacular. It means that Internet service providers cannot treat certain kinds of content and online applications differently. It does NOT mean that you get the Internet for free or that you can’t pay…