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60 Best Blogs for Aspiring Screenwriters
If there’s a single filmmaking fact we can all agree on it’s that this isn’t a career for the faint of heart. Even with talent and determination it can often be an uphill slog so you can never have too many resources to help you on your way. With this in mind bachelorsdegree.org have collated [...]
Grimm Up North Preview
From October 28th to 31st October, independent horror films come to Manchester to have their UK debut at the second Grimm Up North film festival. DN caught up with lovely festival director Simeon Halligan and had a history lesson. Last year Simeon was promoting his directorial feature length debut, low budget shocker Splintered and wanted [...]
The Jarman Award
Last month Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill were named as the four nominees with a chance of scooping Film London’s prestigious Jarman Award; which comes with a handy £10,000 cash prize and commission for Channel 4’s Three Minute Wonder strand. The winner won’t be revealed until the 5th October at the [...]
Endgame In Afghanistan
Films such as the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker are gruelling, brutal and detailed looks at life on the frontline of modern warfare in the Far East, but they aren’t reality. Filmmaker for The Guardian, Sean Smith’s short documentary Endgame In Afghanistan, is closer to reality. He spent five weeks in Afghanistan documenting and reporting and [...]
Help Build The 10th Lego Master
Seems that all of DN’s nearest and dearest are getting busy with the work of filmmaking – which is just as it should be! The freakishly tall and talented Jan Bednarz is kicking off a new Buzz Films feature documentary, The 10th Lego Master and you can give him a helping hand: There are only [...]
Life Just Is: Getting Out There and Doing It
Award winning short filmmaker Alex Barrett, cinephile and sometime DN contributor is nearing production on his debut feature Life Just Is. His cast has just been announced and it’s a belter, including Paul Nicholls and Jayne Wisener who played Johanna in the Burton/Depp Sweeney Todd. Presumably they’ve been drawn in by the calibre of the [...]
Indie Film’s 25 New Faces Revealed
If lists and the freshest talent in film are your thing – they are ours – then, like us, you’ll be poring over Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list with interest. These are the folks likely to be rocking our screens in the near future so take note.
Vimeo Lets Users Get Their Remix On with Creative Commons
The fine folks over at Vimeo have decided it’s time to officially support the remix, resample and reimagination culture that goes hand in hand with filmmaking by allowing users to tag their uploads with one of several Creative Commons licenses. From the blog post: Sharing videos on Vimeo has always gone beyond passively viewing the [...]
The Kickstarter Film Festival
It great to see a site that’s enabled filmmamkers to fund their visions, by directly connecting them with the people willing to support their work has decided to showcase some of those projects. Friday, 9th July will see Kickstarter and Rooftop Films launch the inaugural Kickstarter Film Festival, on the roof of the Old American [...]
LYNCHthree Wants You!
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 [...]
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