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Jeanie Finlay 2011 Top Ten
2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the Stockton record shop I made the film in. In February I got the news we had got into SXSW for our world premiere and [...]
Jeanie Finlay 2010 Top Ten
It’s that time of year again and this year MarBelle has laid down some very strict ground rules. Only ten films (hard), in order of favour and only films made or released this year (positively mean). That means I can’t mention one of the best films I saw this year – Wake in Fright an [...]
Sound It Out: Adventures in Crowd Funding
I was at Sheffield Doc/Fest last week and crowd funding was everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE! It felt like the thing that was being talk about and discussed more than ever before. A year ago it was a vague notion that was on the periphery of my experience but now I’m acutely aware of it as [...]
Sunnyside of the Doc
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 [...]
Home from edinburgh but not for long. Next stop Sunnyside
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, [...]
A Number 26
I know this is just a picture of a bus, a number 26 bus but it is just one of many, many sentimental reminders of my past connection with the city. I’m at EIFF in Edinburgh to take part in Doc Week – for interdoc and SDI. I’ll be pitching my film ORION in the [...]
What volcano? Next stop Hot Docs
After spending a nervous few weeks wondering whether my trip would actually happen – tentatively searching to make sure the online bookings company I used to book my flight haven’t gone bust in the post volcano fallout – I am happily installed on Air Canada and heading to Toronto for North America’s biggest documentary festival [...]
Big Sky ’10: Made it to NYC
A wee timelapse, shot from Hudson hotel room. NYC View from Jeanie Finlay on Vimeo.
Big Sky ’10: Goodbye with a Big Old Fire
Can’t believe Big Sky is over so soon, it’s been so good and the festival grows and gets better every year. The pitching event this year was fantastic, a real highlight and it has transformed my ideas of thinking about working with / applying to ITVS. Richard Saiz was a total inspiration. There’s been so [...]
Big Sky ‘10: Meeting the man from Disney
Apologies for the radio silence but signals have been hard to come by and it’s been such an action packed festival. The weather is crisp and bright and the mountains have never looked more breath taking. The landscape really is ‘the big sky’ and shapes the feel of the town and the films that are [...]
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