It was over 90 degrees in NYC last night but the Big Screen Plaza was in the shade and there was a miraculous cool breeze. The cold beer also helped! Thank you to all of you who so generously let us screen your wonderful short films at our Shooting People/Telegraph21 event. See the full list of films below – click to watch them online. It’s a Small World, Axel Roessler, 2009, 2min 02sec Everyday Heroes, Fiona Brownlie, 2009, 3min 27…
We’re very excited to be screening a program of great short films at the Big Screen Plaza (it’s very Bladerunner!) in New York City on Tuesday, July 12th from 5pm till 7pm. The event is free and you can join at any time – there’s a fancy food court and beer for purchase too. Thank you so much to all the Shooters who are allowing us to screen their wonderful short films – the full list is on our Facebook…
If you’ve been following all the recent debates about what makes something an “event” that cannot be replicated online then you’ll be thrilled by this immersive theater, experience, event… I’m not really quite sure what to call it. It’s so thrilling to have experienced Sleep No More and it’s very difficult to describe it to someone who hasn’t been – which is fantastic and exactly as it should be! It’s Macbeth in the 1940s with a dose of Hitchcock (I…
Shooters, We have a special treat for you. Think of it as an early Easter present. We’ve teamed up with the good people at Picturehouse Entertainment to present a special free screening of Werner Herzog’s hugely anticipated 3D documentary CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS at the Museum of London. All attendees are invited to browse the Museum of London’s Prehistoric exhibition prior to the event, with Deputy Keeper in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic material at the British Museum, Jill Cook, providing a…
Shooter Mark X Jones is about to launch his first DVD. Here he considers the journey the film has taken; a film he initially thought was too specialist to make any money. http://shootingpeople.org/cards/MarkJones3 If making a film is akin to having a baby, then making the DVD is like packing the growing teenager off to college and making him face the world on his own two feet. My (business) partner Maya Hammarsal and I are wondering how our off-spring will…
Shooters, We’ve produced two events for this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts Festival at BAFTA. These events have been born out of running our Short Sighted sessions up and down the country and finding repeatedly that filmmakers are interested in knowing more about how they can fund their work through alternate routes. The way we see it, brands are – and increasingly will be – working with filmmakers and funding their projects. The aim of these events is to hook up…
I’m really thrilled that Shooting People is involved in so many fantastic events this month – from the Rooftop Films panels on Saturday June 13th to the Short Sighted event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday June 21st. And now we are also doing a special screening of the powerful documentary Pray The Devil Back To Hell with producer (and all round amazing person) Abigail Disney in attendance. Please join us at DCTV on Thursday, June 25th –…
We (Shooting People) have gotten together with Rooftop Films, Cinereach and IndiePix to bring you some really great filmmaking panels before the screening of Persona Non Grata at Rooftop Films this Saturday, June 13th. This is part of the Rooftop Films 4-day Panorama Weekend which runs from Wednesday to Saturday this week with fantastic films screening each night: www.rooftopfilms.com Panel Schedule: 5:00-6:00pm Message vs. Craft: The Art of Effective “Issue” Storytelling When a filmmaker takes on a topic related to…
I’ve just been watching Dominic DeJoseph’s wonderful film, Johnny Berlin, and I’m looking forward to seeing the sequel, Johnny Berlin 2, tonight at the Anthology Film Archives where it is screening as part of the fantastic Flaherty NYC monthly series. Jon Hyrns (aka Johnny Berlin), the subject of both films (and the star of Alex Karposky’s Woodpecker), tells sad, hilarious, wonderful stories about his life. The films are essentially monologues but don’t let this put you off because Jon sees…
We (Shooting People and DCTV) had a totally sold out screening of Miranda July short films at DCTV on Friday, people were sitting and standing EVERYWHERE. We’ve been experimenting with programming different kinds of events and this one was a definite success. Sweet Tooth of the Tiger provided delicious baked goodies and we completed assignment #63 from Learning to Love You More (Make an Encouraging Banner). I tell you there isn’t much I like more in life than watching films,…
