Shooting People now has a curated page on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter . We’ll be using this page to highlight great Shooters projects as well as other projects we love (the 360º video capture for the iPhone for example). If you have a Kickstarter project you would like us to consider please email us at contactus@shootingpeople.org We love seeing all the crowdfunding campaigns Shooters are involved in so make sure you post into the bulletins if you are running one…

Is it time to lobby for a quota system for cinema films, as in France, Germany and Spain, to support our beleaguered UK Film Industry?

For my second blog I thought it might be useful to supply a bit of background, so that when I start ranting in future blogs about the perversity of the film business, (and I will) you will know it’s based on some experience.

The very accommodating James Mulligan has allowed me to contribute a blog here on the launch and progress of a venture centered around a film I have written and will direct next spring called ‘Tea Shop Asylum’, which is a comedy (based on barely credible truth) about confused Slav refugees, is set in Hastings and will star among others, John Hannah, Joanna Lumley, Danny Dyer and Sarah Smart.  Supported by the UK Film Council last year with some money to…

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…

Dear Shooters Following my piece in the Times about the UKFC (there’s a link at the end to the article reproduced on Shooting People) I was invited to take part in a round table at the DCMS held by the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey to talk about the future of the lottery funding. All the usual suspects were there (about 20 people in total) including Film London, Cinema Exhibitors Association, BBC, C4, UK Screen Association,…

Shooting People co-founder, Jess Search, answered this question in The Times on Saturday, along with Tim Bevan (UKFC chairman) and director Alex Cox. The link is here: And if you don’t have access to The Times her article is also copied below for your reading pleasure. If you haven’t done so yet please vote and leave comments on our poll: http://shootingpeople.org/polls/7/ukfc Years from now, film people will ask each other: “Where were you when you heard that the UK Film…

Shocking is the only way to describe today’s news that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to abolish the UK Film Council. With an annual budget of £15m, the UKFC has been deemed unnecessary under the growing strain of the UK economic crisis. Ed Vaizey has said that they want to close it down by April 2012. So, is this going to affect YOU? What’s in store for the future? We’ve already kicked off the debate on Facebook and Twitter but…