Last time I saw Jacqueline Wright and Alice Lowe they promised that they were working on their very own web portal through which they could splurge their own beautiful brand of silliness. Delightfully they’ve held good to that promise and recently gave electric birth to www.jackalfilms.co.uk. You can watch all their older material here including the brilliant Straight8 film “Stiffy”, but to celebrate this new bloom on the face of the internet they’ve given us two new music videos. One…

If the trailer for Bevan’s film wasn’t enough to encourage you to come out to the BFI Southbank this monday night, then howsabout this straight8 from Jacqueline Wright and Alice Lowe whose work I’ll be showing alongside. ( http://www.shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=52894 ) How can you possibly stay away?

So next Monday at the BFI I’ll be screening the work of Bevan Walsh, including this… (http://www.shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=53274) Please come, it’ll be fun.

After the usual irregular gap, I am delighted to once more be bringing a pair of fine filmmakers to your attention and laying out both them and their work for your edification and delight beneath the hallowed roof of the British Film Institute. For those of you either new to Shooting People (481 of you last month) or just plain inattentive, let me explain. After years of scouring the Shooting People community for films of quality and distinction I realised…

I bet you thought I was dead! Well, perhaps I was but appropriately for Halloween I have sprung back to life like a Creature sliding off a slab and I am currently in hiding in the snow bound wastes of Hertfordshire. There have been reasons for my silence on this frequency, some interesting, some less so, none to be revealed for the time being – especially since I have great and important news… I too have created a Monster. But,…

Right, mark off Monday 30th in your diary because we’re back in the BFI with two more supremely talented filmmakers bubbling to the top of the sprawling Shooting People community. Even though these events are irregular (and yes, this one was postponed a month because of me wanting to avoid a clash of superb Shooter events that fell into place last month…) I’d sort of hope that most of you roughly know the score by now; however since 599 new…

Well I’m delighted to say that following the success of the first Split Focus event at the BFI we’ve been allowed back for a second bite of the cherry… For those who’ve not been paying attention, Split Focus is a new programme of screenings Shooting People are putting on in an attempt to give a platform to proven talent. For some time now I’ve been trying to find the best films being made by members of the Shooting People community.…

Back at the BFI Studio down on the South Bank this coming Monday night for the first in a new bimonthly programme of retrospective shows where I get to screen the work of two directors who I think deserve closer attention and appreciation. For sometime now I’ve been watching and screening the various shorts, animations, features, music videos, documentaries and oddities made by members of the world wide Shooting People community and not only have certain people clearly stood out…