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. …
Further encouragement for independent film makers, with little capital but bags of talent, comes from Elliott Hasler. You may remember that we met Elliott last year (“Charlie’s Letters”, “To Hunt a Tiger”). Well, with some smart footwork and as exclusively predicted on this Blog, Relsah Productions has achieved the kind of Premier showing status for …
We’ve already met Elliott elsewhere on this Blog (“Charlie’s Letters”, “Refuge”, “The Mayor Diaries” and, most recently “To Hunt a Tiger”). This final film is, you may have seen, the incredibly ambitious but low budget story set at the beginning of the 20th Century where a troubled English Hunter sets off to Sub-continental India …
The best film makers and film companies, whether commercial or independent, capitalise when opportunities arise and make the most of the resulting chance and circumstance. Large commercial companies clearly have the resources to pay to make things happen, although of course there is still the need for Quality to underwrite the project. But …