Hi Everyone, You may have seen already that Film of the Month has undergone a transformation. The biggest change is that we now have 2 rounds. The top 5 films voted by members in the first round have now be joined by 5 ‘Wildcards’ picked by SP Staff and Friends. The best thing about having a Final Round is that we can really shout about these 10 films, and give the filmmakers a platform to promote themselves. You can give…
Winning the Vimeo Award was amazing. I couldn’t make it to the ceremony but some friends of mine from New York went. I was at a party in London when they texted me the news and didn’t believe them at all. It wasn’t till the next day that I realised they weren’t joking. Since winning, over three hundred thousand people have watched the film on Vimeo and it has made thousands watch my other films. I also won the Grand Jury…
With The Artist full of BAFTAs and poised to devour the Oscars like a delicious pudding, there has never been a better time to put your money where your mouth isn’t. This is your chance to support a genuine silent classic and to save a film by one of British Cinema’s greatest ever auteurs.
I attended the Vimeo Festival + Awards in 2010 and was blown away by how fun and creative the whole experience was. We did a Digital Bootcamp workshop and the packed audience was fantastic, asking really great questions. The film curation was top-notch and they had a bunch of really fantastic speakers including Reggie Watts, Morgan Spurlock and King of DSLR Philip Bloom. During the festival Seeper did a really jaw-dropping projection mapping onto the IAC building where most of…
In “Hugo” Scorsese forgets the lesson taught by “The Artist”. Don’t show, imply. This is where cinema’s third dimension truly lies, in the ability to create a sensation in the viewer which is more than the sum of its parts. That’s the magic.
Shooting people member Naomi Smyth’s UK street art film “Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal” has won the first place as winner of the Dynamite Dynamo Doc Award 2012. The documentary movie tells the underdog story of guerilla art performers – The Invisible Circus – and No Dress Rehearsal is set in Bristol, home to several major street artists (and reputedly once being the home of Banksy). Smyth takes us on a 4 year journey as the group takes over…
Hi Everyone, To be nominated for Best Short Film at BAFTA is a massive accolade, previous winners include Shooting People Patron Andrea Arnold for her amazing film Wasp. Four Lions Director, Chris Morris won back in 2002 with a film which stars Paddy Considine along side a talking dog. This year a few of the nominee’s are Shooters, so congratulations to: Martina Amati and James Bolton for their film CHALK Rungano Nyoni for MWANSA THE GREAT ONLY SOUND REMAINS by…
Perhaps it is purely a result of paying less and less attention to bad science-fiction the older I get but my own sense of the distant present is fixed at a point which is rapidly because the actual present.
If you read the UK Filmmakers bulletin religiously you would have noticed the staggering number of Shooters screening at LSFF this year. So much so that we only managed to total up the number of Directors, which was 143! A few of those directors won awards. Louis Hudson http://bit.ly/cAJMUK won the LoCo Award for Best Comedy Short for his film ALL CONSUMING LOVE [MAN IN A CAT] he won a pass to the exclusive LoCollege and a chance to have…
Like a boisterous, smiley, fur covered behemoth, LOCO has arrived at the BFI Southbank, literally putting a smile on London in what is meant to be its most depressed week. Whilst the sky outside looked overcast, amongst the gathered attendees at the comedy film festival’s inaugural education event, the Locollege, there was not a grey cloud in sight. Before the festival had even begun, its organisers were already thinking of the future by enabling participants to kick start their comedy…
