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.

Shooting People! Yes Shooting People! We’ve recently added a video component to our website so now members can upload their shorts, reels and trailers and anybody can watch them. Check it out, add your films, and rate other members’ films.

Shooting People recently launched a new section on our website called WATCH FILM where members can upload their shorts, reels and trailers and anybody can watch them. This is filmmaker-generated content and we’re really proud of it. It’s in Beta right now but it’s already rocking. Check it out, upload your films and let us know what you think.

With changes in technology allowing for cheaper production and distribution than ever before, short films are exploding. But how do you get the damn thing funded? And how do you know which distribution options are legit? The new Shooting People book on short film is hot off the press to help you maneuver through the creativity and confusion of the new shorts landscape. The book is called Get Your Short Film Funded, Made and Seen and it will help you…

The Shooting People office in London revealed for you at last! But without any people in it because I took these photos late yesterday after everyone had left for the day. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is where the magic happens.

We had our first event in San Francisco last night at the wonderful Laszlo Bar in the Mission and it was really fun. Lots of people showed up, including folk from many different San Francisco film organizations and the free beer and film conversation flowed merrily. Thanks so much to Bryan and Christian, all the bartenders – and everybody else who made it happen, especially all the Doculink people who came out to say hello. And of course to Malcolm…

Ok, I wasn’t at Berkeley in the Sixties but I was here in 1996. I came here for a year abroad during my undergraduate degree and lived in a co-op and, um, well, those were halcyon days! I’m here now drinking coffee outside Cafe Strada and feeling very happy to be back in the bosom of Berkeley. It’s actually really making me want to study again, something I swore off for life after the horror of my Masters. Deleuze and…

Mad Hot Ballroom Producer Amy Sewell was the subject of our most recent masterclass with DCTV last week. She gave the audience a really candid account of the making of the documentary – and her recent book on the same subject is equally generous with info. She is refreshingly unpretentious which means that there is some stuff in this book that may be obvious to seasoned feature doc filmmakers but it’s a great quick primer for everyone else on everything…

I realize it’s not great form to start a blog and then promptly go silent for a week but I have a good excuse: filmmakers! I have been going to so many amazing master classes, panels and talks over the past week or so that I haven’t really had time to sit down and process it all. Hooray for New York is all I can say. It’s a festival even when it’s not. It makes me feel a lot less…