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 …
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.
We last met Adam in February 2020 with his worrying (but brilliant) psychological horror, “Like Glass”, built around the horror of an event from which there appears to be no awakening. In The Encounter At Boundless Adam returns again to suspense and uncertain: A father takes his estranged children on a short camping holiday to …
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 …
Elliott Hasler’s short Film “To Hunt a Tiger” is being shown at the “Inheritance” Environmental Film Festival, accessible through your Virgin Box 159 or Freeview Channel 7, at 20.10 on Saturday 27th and at 21.07 on Sunday 28th. To tune in for Freeview just follow the simple instructions here to update all your channel options …