Shooting People » short film http://shootingpeople.org/blog Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SXSWclick! – vote for your favorite films http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/07/sxswclick-vote-for-your-favorite-films/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/07/sxswclick-vote-for-your-favorite-films/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:56:53 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=281 The 2008 SXSWclick! finalists have been announced and you can watch all fifteen online and vote for your favorites. I’m really pleased to be a juror in the Really Real Shorts category along with Ambulante Documentary Film Festival’s Elena Fortes Acosta and Frownland DoP Sean Williams. Check the films out online now.

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You can download the first chapter for free here:

shootingpeople.org/shortsbook

The Shooters gang are all up in Edinburgh for the film festival there at the moment. There is a limit to how much time I can spend on the road (unfortunately!) so I can’t be there this year. But you can follow the adventures of Shooting People on the Festival Focus blog and on Ben’s Blog – Ben is currently developing a feature project and has written lots of brilliant entries that I’m sure other filmmakers will identify with. He’s also a much better writer than me. Damn him.

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