This is currently up on Shooting People: Under the Freedom of Information Act, NASA released details of all the films held on the International Space Station. At Shooting People, we feel that Bachelor Party, Cheaper by the Dozen and Forest Gump don’t provide sufficient brain nourishment for the astronauts. Your mission Shooters is to provide us with your suggestions. Which films do you think belong amongst the stars? Would you like to see Man on Wire replace Man on Fire?…

We (Shooting People and DCTV) had a totally sold out screening of Miranda July short films at DCTV on Friday, people were sitting and standing EVERYWHERE. We’ve been experimenting with programming different kinds of events and this one was a definite success. Sweet Tooth of the Tiger provided delicious baked goodies and we completed assignment #63 from Learning to Love You More (Make an Encouraging Banner). I tell you there isn’t much I like more in life than watching films,…

Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist, Tromeo and Juliet – to name just a few films from his prolific output) came to DCTV last night for a Shooting People/DCTV event to talk about his career, and his latest book Direct Your Own Damn Movie!. He talked about his experience working outside the system for many decades. Troma Entertainment is one of the longest running truly independent studios (founded in 1974), an incredible achievement. I wish I had written down some…

We’re entering the fourth month of our monthly competition to celebrate the very best of the films uploaded to Shooting People by our members. I’m endlessly impressed by the talent among our ranks and Film of the Month is a really great way to showcase just how awesome Shooters are! Have a look at this beautiful finalist from March: Cinematic Orchestra: To Build a Home by Andrew Griffin. Check out the Cinematic Orchestra website here!

This week we were thrilled to announce the launch of Film of the Month on Shooting People, which recognizes the best films made and uploaded to Shooting People by our members on both sides of the Atlantic. Shooting People Patron director Mike Figgis selected the animated short Zoo by 24 year old Robin Bushell as January’s Film of the Month. The other shortlisted films for January were the documentary Hanging With Frank by David Graham Scott, and the performance piece…

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to celebrate the festive season with Shooting People and the Manhattan Edit Workshop last night. You can’t go wrong with beer, skee ball and cupcakes it seems. I was too distracted to take any pics but the intrepid Jesse Epstein was on the case (when she wasn’t playing Buckhunter!).

On November 22nd, Shooting People turns 10. Whoo hoo! Filmmakers Cath Le Couteur and Jess Search set up Shooting People in 1998 after making their first short film and it has grown from 60 members to 37,000 over the past 10 years. I am hugely proud to work for an organization that fights so hard to create a vibrant independent filmmaking community that is all about collaboration and innovation. As Mike Figgis says: “Congratulations to Shooting People! Shooting People continue…

Just a heads up that I am also blogging over on the Shooting People TOOLS blog about the new(ish) digital, webbified world of production and distribution. Check it out for a link to download the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted book of contacts for filmmakers making shorts (including some tips for filmmaking in a Web2.0 world written by moi), plus lots of other good stuff: most recently links to the Peter Broderick indieWIRE articles on new distribution strategies and The Film…

I wasn’t able to attend the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted event in London earlier this month due to the very inconvenient fact that I was in New York! But all the feedback has been excellent and it sounds like filmmakers really benefited from the day’s panels and case studies. I particularly like this comment: “The event was motivating due to the knowledge of panel members as well as the clever filmmakers attending. Shooting People is ‘as yellow as the generosity…

Films uploaded to Shooting People can now be embedded across the web (you can turn this option off when you upload your film if you don’t want it to be shared). Have a play and please give us feedback. Here’s the trailer for Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer’s documentary We Are Together to show you what the player looks like.