Hitchcock schools us in the all important (to the characters, not us) McGuffin. via Monsieur Bandit McGuffin by Hitchcock from isaac niemand on Vimeo.
Crying with Laughter (2009) Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to [...]
A short film about man’s misunderstanding and mixed relationship with mother nature. “Its a bit of a mix of stop-motion, live action and hand drawn animation, shot in my attic on a Cannon EOS 5D, Cannon 450D and a 7D too (basically any camera i could borrow from friends and siblings)” FLUFFY MC CLOUD from [...]
It’s become increasingly apparent that filmmakers need to look, not to the ever conservative and risk adverse Hollywood machine for the funding of their projects, but to the fans of film and the numerous crowd sourcing options which have sprung up in recent years to connect makers with consumers. Whether this will eventually become the [...]
La Rochelle station Entrance to conference centre The conference centre Party on a boat Sunnyside in La Rochelle is not quite like any other film event I have ever been to. It’s a market aimed at producers and commissioners from all over the world. (think Clothes show live for documentary companies) It has stands, panel [...]
If there was an Oscar category for ‘Best Geek Film’ Java 4-Ever would easily DDoS the competition into oblivion.
Of the twelve days that comprised this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, I was in town for six, during which time I was able to sample a good cross- section of the festival’s programme, meet a lot of great people and attend a few quality parties. For those of us returning to the festival from [...]
I’ve been home for all of two days and am now, yet again waiting for a train to take me somewhere. This time to St Pancras so I can catch the Eurostar to Sunnyside of the Doc in La Rochelle. Edinburgh was over in a flash and was very much wall to wall training, pitching, [...]
It can be hard finding out where you fit in the world without that special someone. Monotone from VectorMeldrew on Vimeo.
Eighteen-year-old Silviu is serving out the last few days of his four year prison sentence. Called away from his manual labour, Silviu finds an unexpected visitor waiting for him: his younger brother, bringing news that their mother has returned from Italy. His mother’s return catches Silviu off guard; it obviously wasn’t expected, and it obviously [...]