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…

Eastman Kodak Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York early Thursday morning, after the struggling photography icon ran short on cash needed to fund a long-sputtering turnaround. The storied former blue chip said it had secured $950 million in financing from Citigroup Inc. to help keep it afloat during bankruptcy proceedings. The company also named Dominic Di Napoli, a vice chairman at FTI Consulting Inc., as its chief restructuring officer to help steer the company through bankruptcy…

No misty eyed plans to create a rain sodden British Hollywood, a Brolly-Wood set out to solve all our problems with the glamourous hammer of production… How I Learned To Love The Smith Report…

I love Maria Popova’s site, Brain Pickings. It’s an endless source of interesting ideas. She has also helpfully provided an online bookshelf so you can explore all the amazing books she consumes so voraciously. She often posts videos and cool stuff about the history of film, for example this post on Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary.” Basically, I’m urging you to subscribe to the blog and follow her on Twitter without further ado. “Brain Pickings is…