With MOFILM’s competition at the Rome Film Festival just around the corner we recently caught up with Shooting People member James Hillier who won first place for his Nokia advert at MOFILM’s 2010 Tribeca Film Competition. Here’s what he had to say about the experience. What was it like working within the confines of a design brief? Dave Hewitt (my working partner) and myself have been involved with and made a number of films in the past but this was…

To celebrate the forthcoming release of the critically acclaimed, stop-motion feature A TOWN CALLED PANIC (described by EMPIRE as “Toy Story on absinthe”), we are offering you the chance to have your own stop-motion comedy short screened prior to the feature at the Curzon Soho in London. The winner and 3 runners-up will also receive a heap of PANIC goodies and Optimum Releasing DVDs. Your stop-motion comedy can be a self-contained short or an extract from a longer film, no…

We know it can be tough sometimes to secure the locations you’re after when shooting your film. If you’re making a short with a small (if existent) budget, it’s even harder. At Shooting People HQ we were thinking about this. We thought it was a shame that some of the UK’s most beautiful and unique locations were reserved only for those with bigger budgets or pushy producers. Twiddling our thumbs, we drew up a list of filming locations we thought…

We had so much fun last time we’re partnering with Mofilm again! Shooter Henry Scholfield, who won the Grand Prize last month, made his ad over the course of a weekend; he’s now off to make an ad with Avatar producer Jon Landau. This time people entering through Shooting People are automatically put in the draw to win a MacBook. You only have until April 6th to create and upload your entry so get cracking (brands include Nokia, Best Buy…