| Pennine Film Festival, promo trailer If you read my forum thread not so long ago you will have seen that I filmed the promo trailer for the Pennine Film Festival and posted up some screen grabs. |
| British Independent cinema – The Sky is Falling and the Natives are Getting Restless Concerns have been raised about how, despite large increases in the number of programme hours given over to films by the public service broadcasters, here too British films hardly seem to get a look in. Just what is going on? |
Shocking Facts: Who’s who on the UK Film Council Board of Directors Some people, such as British filmmakers, would look at the above with utter horror. They see it as a demonstration of Britain’s colonial status - that somehow the foxes have been put in charge of the hen-coop. Others have gone further and described it as putting paedophiles in charge of the children’s home. |
Operation Trojan This is something I've been working on for the last month. Operation Trojan which has been made in association with The Safer Travel Unit and Lancashire Police Constabulary. It's purely for internal use, but I've been given the go-ahead to put it online. And it was to document the kind of incident that the police and the Safer Travel Unit have to deal with regularly, using their covert vehicles which appear to be normal buses and taxi's. Usually they are out there to stop underage drinking and anti-social behavior. |
An Open Letter to North West Vision & Media about exhibition and distribution Doubtless North West Vision received much good feedback from Elizabeth Draper’s talk on distribution, 2nd February 2009. And this would be hardly surprising given Elizabeth’s more than 25 years experience working at the highest level with the distribution arms of both major American and French studios, together with Icon which substantially acts on behalf of the American (and French) majors in the UK and certain other English-speaking markets. |
Pennine Film Festival line up preview! As I'm helping run it this year, I thought I would give a shout out to the Pennine Film Festival. The Pennine Film Festival is formerly known as the East Lancashire Film Festival. |
| A bleak future for British indie cinemas & distributors, at least some filmmakers will find a future in cyberspaceIn 2007, according to the Film Council’s statistics, American distributors took more than 92% of the UK box office, with some of that accounted for by their ‘British’ product. Much of the rest was taken by a small handful of French companies; and 63 ‘other distributors’, i.e. overwhelmingly British, split a remaining 5.5% between them. The Film Council hailed this as a good year as this 5.5% was about double the average! |
