Shooters, as most of you know, we’ve invited the UK’s Minister for Culture Mr Ed Vaizey to be our “Minister for Short Film” this August. We approached Mr Vaizey as we wanted to introduce him to you lot – the core of independent film creatives in this country. We also wanted to open up a dialogue between government and the indie film industry so we could learn from the man shaping British film culture and vice versa. We thought a…

Wow the finger really is on the pulse of the youth culture here isn’t it? Having spent all week arguing the moral toss about that most modern of ethical dilemmas, I then spent most of yesterday kicking ideas about for a bit of paid work Chris and I have which is also aimed at angst ridden teenagers. The project involves working with teenagers and getting a lot of feedback and ideas from them. It’s interesting to see how angry they…