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| Diary of a Bad Lad 'Special Edition' DVD out now! The Diary of a Bad Lad DVD was released today to coincide with the Salford Film Festival showing on Saturday at 4pm. You can buy a copy at www.bad-lad.com. This article will be updated with more details soon and we will also add a buy page on this site as well. Discuss this in the forum. |
| Finchy & the Girls - Chris Finch video blog Chris Finch blogs from the set of Bar Stewards, our forthcoming feature film. Dancing, kissing and information in a fast paced video blog. |
| Sat. Jon features in Film24 (Sky 157) documentary: "The Great British Film Industry" This Saturday, 8pm, Jon Williams is featuring in Film24's documentary: "The Great British Film Industry", along with such as Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. Film24 contacted him quite some time ago because of what he'd said in an article in MovieScope magazine, and he ended up being one of the programme's consultants. If you don't get Sky we very much suspect that it will end up on Youtube... |
| Mike and Cop on Radio Lancashire 10.15pm tonight (Sept 1st 09) Michael Booth will be on BBC Radio Lancashire tonight around 10.15pm talking about his films and how he got into filmmaking. He'll be joined by Paul Coppack. You can tune in via 103.9FM, 95.5FM, 104.5FM & DAB. |
| PSF at Future Artists tonight! (July 11th 09) It's the night of the Future Artists event at Urbis in Manchester which is now sold out. Pleased Sheep films will be there in force. Jonathan Williams (producer/writer/actor Diary of a Bad Lad) will be providing the keynote speech. And later on there will be a panel discussion which will include Jon, Paul Coppack (producer Bar Stewards), Michael Booth (dir Bad Lad & Bar Stewards) & Bad Lad actor Joe O'Byrne (also writer Lookin' For Lucky). Simeon Halligan (dir: Splintered) will also be on the panel. Also at the event will be a short films compilation courtesy of Kinofilm, an actors masterclass and much more. For full programme details go here: http://www.futureartists.co.uk/notpartof.php |
| Just Because We’re British Doesn't Mean We Have To Be Mediocre An article by Salford Film Festival Director Steve Balshaw about the state of British Cinema and the rise of micro-budget filmmaking. This is included on our site because Diary of a Bad Lad and Pleased Sheep Films get a prominent mention. |
| A Radical New Approach for Watching and Making Films... "Asha Media" & “Future Artists” present: A RADICAL NEW APPROACH FOR WATCHING AND MAKING FILMS... This is quite probably the most important independent film event to be held in Manchester so far this century. The old models for making, distributing and watching independent films are crumbling. |
