If there is one place in the entire country where I would wish to be for the Premiere Day launch for “Vindication Swim”, if I wasn’t already committed, it is The Alhambra in Keswick, Lake District, a place I regard as my second home! To think of this wonderful, original film, that I have had …
We have a recommendation to start 2024, and invite you to consider joining the International Moving Image Society! The Society is the international network for professionals working throughout the industry. IMIS facilitates professionals to network across areas of expertise. The organisation pronotes synergy, employment opportunities and aims to increase knowledge and skills within and between …
Manchester is no stranger to producing strong, original talent with innovative ideas and styling to their work. Jack Clarke is one such emerging producer. Schooled at the University of Salford, and selected for the BFI Creative Producer Lab 2021 project, Clarke is now turning heads with his first major feature, as producer. Manchester is also, …
Every so often, by chance, one comes across a performer so outstandingly original in their approach that they seem far ahead of their time and setting new standards in new and fresh arenas. Either that, or they exhibit a power of musical narrative that has found its time, place and expression not in the future …
To begin 2022 we turn our attention to Nigeria and the rise of a sound engineer. This BLOG will be diversifying more in 2022 to ensure it covers all parts of our industry. Shiloh Godson is an international sound and recording engineer who has worked in London, Canada and his country of Birth, Nigeria. Currently …
Another graduate from this year’s Screen and Film School is Sophie Clennell with her, decidedly tongue in cheek, homage to the stop-motion, fantasy, films of the 1970’s and 1980’s. That era in film making saw a number of international short and full length animated stop-motion films such as Jabberwocky, Castle of Otranto, Battle of Kerzhenets, …
A point that this Blog continues to emphasise is that the most successful independent film companies are those that are prepared to diversify their work and interests. To this end it is well worth examining the case of Moving Pictures Theatre. On Friday of this week, November 5th, company directors Lucy Nordberg, pictured above, and …
Phillip Brown is a recent graduate from the Screen and Film School and “Love in Vein” his graduate work, his Master-Piece, by traditional ways of thinking. Phillip, a filmmaker prior to going to film school, has spent his time well and the film is an excellent example of the kind of originality that the best …
Screen and Film School, Brighton held their Graduate Screening on the 19th October 2021, at the prestigious Duke of York’s Cinema in Brighton, the oldest cinema, in the country in continuous operation, having opened its doors in late 1910 and the cinema has been showing films ever since. In those one hundred and eleven years …
The value of diversification for independent filmmakers.