As a Lutonian and a devoted film fanatic, I rarely get excited about the choice of films I get to view in my hometown. However, once a year I get 11 days to get truly excited about, the Filmstock festival. For those of you that don’t know what Filmstock is…shame on you!
As part of the warm up for the Filmstock Film Festival (which starts today - Thursday 1st November), its originators Neil Fox and Justin Doherty have been running a series of screenings and events under the name of Filmelab. It was at one of these events on a recent Friday night, I had the pleasure [...]
This week’s guest director Jesse Lawrence is one of the founding members of La Famiglia, a self confessed mobile guerrilla film unit who are well versed in the advantages of keeping crew to an essential core and shooting at speed to produce impressively ambitious and successful films such as Mash Up a dark supernatural urban [...]
Today I’m joined by director Stathis Athanasiou who’s racked up an impressive list of films, including shorts and a couple features, one of which was based on Chekhov’s play The Three Sisters. His experimental piece LIEBESTOD - Four Acts, continues the theatre link, for which it was originally created as part of an experimental play [...]