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 …
An utterly enchanting story and film of loneliness, transformation and a touch of the supernatural. Ramon is a truck driver spending his life on the road and when at home living with his parents. Days and weeks are long and appear monotonous and never changing. But then an encounter gives Ramon a companion and introduces …
Sat 27 Mar 21 Time Programme Title Synopsis 15:00 Inheritance Festival 2021 Episode 1 Irish Folk Furniture 15:10 Inheritance Festival 2021 Episode 47 1. 7 Planets 2. Earth’s Beauty 3. Garbage Man 15:30 Inheritance Festival 2021 Episode 6 Keeper of the Call 15:46 Inheritance Festival 2021 Episode 7 Move Mountain. 15:58 Inheritance Festival 2021 Episode …
From the Artic Lakes, Alaska to the Namib Desert, South Africa and from Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii to Manila in the Philippines, The Greenland Ice Sheet and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, to name but a few, Director Marcelle Abela and Earth’s Beauty takes us on a journey across our planet home. The film is a five …
This Blog is going to try and cover as many of the films in the Belfast based Film Festival as possible. The variety, content, style and quality of the thirty plus films being shown is truly impressive and Deborah Espect and the management at Northern Visions TV Channel are to be congratulated for their vision. …
Filmmaker Deborah Espect, who we know and value on this Blog is leading on a new Film Festival in Belfast. Submissions will need to be made by mid-February. The Festival is called “Inheritance”and will run in the Spring of 2021. Deborah is looking for films of any length, from anywhere in the World on an …
This comes with love and greetings to independent film makers both here in the UK and across the World. After an unprecedented year of challenge and difficulty this Blog sends its very best wishes to all filmmakers everywhere; whether independent or from the main-stream. Particularly independents who, despite the difficulties in 2020, have continued to …
I have been honoured by being invited to join the board of this great film institution. The invitation comes at a time when our industry from top to bottom and end to end is facing its greatest challenges. But with these challenges go significant opportunities to develop, diversify, encourage and grow. No more so than …
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 …