Month: June 2020

Brighton’s Rainbow Chorus in Lockdown (More From Home)

Brief introduction to this “From Home” posting. Brighton Rainbow Chorus say on their site of themselves.. “Our website address is: http://www.rainbowchorus.org.uk. Our Principle Office is: St George’s Church, St George’s Road Brighton BN2 1ED The Rainbow Chorus is the largest non-audition LGBT choir in the South outside of London. We are based in Brighton & …

Mitesh Take on Domestic Violence during Lockdown

  The initiative from Moving Pictures Theatre and Marc Green and Lucy Nordberg continues apace. Mitesh Take has sent, to the From Home initiative, this thought-provoking and original video focussing on domestic violence during lockdown. Mitesh says: “Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a married middle class Indian couple is in a lockdown situation. The wife …

Essential and critical reading: Guidance from the British Film Commission

As independent film makers, as well as studios and television productions, edge cautiously bak into active working and doing The Job, the question of safe working, risk assessment and ensuring the well being of all those in the industry becomes essential. Whether you are filming on a zero, shoestring, self-funded or multi-million pound budget, this …

From Home posting from Shevon Burrows

The highly talented artist and illustrator, Shevon Burrows, has made her own inimitable contribution to the Lockdown project initiated by Moving Pictures Theatre.   Shevon has posted has a brilliant and uplifting 30 second video showing the creation of one her current series of paintings, inspired by the patterns of virus cells, but transforming them …

Untimed by Fabio Reitano part of the From Home series

A further contribution to the From Home project for the Lockdown, part of a series organised by Lucy Nordberg and Marc Green of Moving Pictures Theatre, comes from Italian Director Fabio Reitano. The short film explores the director’s new discovery of his own home. He says “In April 2020, Italy faced one of the most …