Interview

Keeley Forsyth: Spellbindingly original poet, actor, singer and filmmaker.

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 …

Screen and Film School, Brighton, Graduate Screening.

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 …

Adam Spinks: The Encounter At Boundless.

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 …

“Inheritance” Web-Site now live.

Please use this link to visit the festival web-site where you will find information, film listings and interviews about this weekend’s international environmental film festival.

Joshua Hext: Immediate impact and update

Following on from the publication of the news and review article on this Blog yesterday, Joshua has had some immediate reaction by way of a telephone call ! The Camera is Broken, Hext’s brilliant seven minute film, is to have a national television broadcast. The film will be shown on the BBC Introducing Arts programme, …

Joshua Hext: “The Camera is Broken”

We first me Joshua back in July 2018 after he had presented “Quietus” at the International Moving Image Society film festival of LGBTQIA+ films. Joshua’s latest offering “The Camera is Broken”. The film is a seven minute insight into both inter-generational relations and influence but also a view back to our own younger selves. If …

Getting some action for your film. Relsah Productions, Brighton, UK show how.

We have spoken about Relsah Productions on a number of occasions on this Blog. For this independent company demonstrate, only too clearly, what can be achieved on a low budget if you are persistent, use Broken Record Technique and just keep knocking on doors. So in this article Elliott Hasler speaks to amateur photographer about …

Brighton, UK, FilmPride 2020

  Take a look at the trailer for Brighton Pride’s own LGBTQ+ film festival. This preludes the Festival that runs from now until 31st August. Entry is free and all you have to do register to gain access to the viewing library this can be done by clicking on the FilmPride below. The Latest Bars …

International Moving Image Society changes for a new age and industry.

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 …

Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Delighted to confirm that this year’s Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ film Festival is going ahead. Now in its second year, Deborah Espect, herself of Moggy Film Productions, says the following: “Like many festivals in 2020, due to the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve had to cancel our live events and switch to delivering our programme online. We’re …