The London Screenwriters’ Festival is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund This award ensures that the festival will not just survive beyond the pandemic, but will thrive in these uncertain times. The London Screenwriters’ Festival is delighted to announce that it […]
Last night the team behind Meet The Nativity took the stage to accept their award for their hard work in making the time travelling Christmas rom-com that went viral last Christmas. The four part webisode series took the offbeat premise of ‘what would happen if you discovered the actual first century nativity taking place the […]
Charles Gant of the Guardian and first stop for all industry players looking for last weekends box office analysis just wrote in his piece on the UK box office figures… ‘Showing in a one-off screening the day before Valentine’s Day, 50 Kisses achieved a robust £9,435 at east London’s Genesis cinema. Billed as the world’s […]
We are visual storytellers after all, so I thought I would create this video post card of some of the most extraordinary memories from the 50 Kisses World Premiere. For me, it’s really sinking in now – we made a feature film, a damn good one at that. A quirky one that makes you laugh, […]
Note – this is the introduction video to the workshop (clip from the actual course below) I am running a special offer to help get your film made now… and not just made, but made to world class, career launching heights. You may know that a few years back my short film ‘Gone Fishing’ was […]
It's been a great year for EXAM, prize-wise. First we got a BIFA nomination, then a BAFTA nomination, then we won the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and recently we scooped the Golden Hitchcock Award at the Dinard Film Festival. You might think our eligibility cycle would be over by now… but you'd be wrong. There […]
Almost as a light tonic to offset the days shenanigans, I just got AMAZING NEWS! Just moments ago, the Virgin Shorts 2010 Award was won by our friends Oscar Sharpe (director) and Stephen Follows (writer) for their film SIGN LANGUAGE. You may recall Oscar was our very first guest on the Production Office (watch here). […]
Even though we have ramped down the Gone Fishing festival push, we still, on occasion, submit the film to some festivals, especially if invited. And this week two very wonderful and very different awards arrived for us. First and rather dramatically, I was summoned to the Foreign office where a grand, shiny and amazingly heavy […]
Date: Sunday March 28th. Time: 12.00pm Place: Odeon Panton Street, London. (Seating is limited) Tickets £19 (plus booking fee and inc VAT) Meet Eran Creevy, one of this years BAFTA nominated film makers, for ‘Shifty’ (in the category of best first feature). We interviewed him for the new ‘Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook’, and were […]
Those of you who came to the special screening of EXAM, a movie I produced last year, got the chance to see the film on the big screen, then meet the film makers… And now there is more exciting news! The Oscars may be the biggest movie awards show of the year and the BAFTAs […]
Late last week I found out that EXAM has been nominated for a BAFTA! WOW! Writer and director Stuart Hazeldine, who was gracious enough to share all his knowledge and experiences while making EXAM at our special screening last week, was nominated for the Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer award. You […]
I just received an incredible email from Iran…! Here’s what it said… ‘Congratulation. This is to inform you that the film "Gone fishing'' has received silver prize of the festival. It contains 5 Golden coins plus silver statue of the festival. I will send the prize to the embassy of your country in Iran…Mahshid Karimi, […]
I am in the deepest darkest depths of this corporate job and slowly losing my mind, as one does during production. But a little ray of sunlight glimmered last night when I got word from the Indianapolis International Film Festival that ‘Gone Fishing’ won the Best World Cinema short award. WOW! We have won a […]
I got a message yesterday from the organizer of a festival to say… ‘what are you doing in two weeks time… do you want to come to our festival because, well, er, you have won?!’ WOW! But… as I am shooting right now, sadly, I can’t attend the festival (or reveal the festival just now). […]
What a bumper day for the FedEx man. I came back from our shoot to find two trophies for ‘Gone Fishing’, waiting patiently at the studios. First was from the Indie Fest USA awards a few weeks back, and second was from the Newport Beach Film Festival in LA where we won Best Screenplay a […]
A bunch of awards turned up in the post today, namely the three we won at Ballston Spa a few weeks back. One for Best Picture, one for Best Sound (Bernard O’Reilly) and one for Best Editing (Eddie Hamilton). I will be giving them their awards when I see them next! I was gutted I […]
Gone Fishing picked up it’s 31st award for Best Short Film at the IndieFest USA Awards at Disney last night. Associate Producer and LA resident Kerry Finlayson went on our behalf to accept the award – I think that makes about 15 awards she has collected for us now! She is becoming a bit of […]
We have just won the Ballston Spa Film Festival in New York State, USA… What a way to start Monday Morning! And it gets better, we also won Best Editing and Best Sound! I am gutted I was unable to attend as it was an open air festival and to see ‘Gone Fishing’ in such […]
I got an email yesterday from fellow film maker Jim Webber who had made a short film, which won an award at the IAC awards. After looking closely at the trophy, he noticed that in 1989, someone called Chris Jones had also won it for a film called ‘The Thing From Beneath The Bed’, and […]
For the last few days I have been hunkered down, going through endless Sales and Distribution delivery contracts for the Delivering Your Film to The Sales Agent workshop this weekend. It’s been a mammoth task, unravelling ALL the DETAIL from the reams of documents and contracts I have been sifting through… and as we all […]
Day 2 of the Producers Guild Of America Conference had many highlights, meeting Clint Eastwood, seeing some of the original Star Wars films ‘dimensionalised’ into 3D, watching a side by side test of all the top digital cinema cameras…. But all the will have to wait as in the evening was the awards… And yes, […]
Jet lag gets me up at 5.45am, and I prepare for the PGA conference. At 8am, Andrew, who I am staying with drops me off at the Sony Studios where I collect my badge to get me into the conference, which is across the road in the main studio complex. As I walk down the […]
So I now have my itinerary for the conference, and I am loaded up with business cards and DVD screeners, ready to work that room! Here’s what I am up to during the conference, and of course in the breaks, I will be networking like crazy… Saturday PBC Kick-Off Party on the Paramount Pictures Lot […]
So it now looks like I am going to LA on Thursday! It will be a whistle stop tour as I need to come back for a minor operation on my tooth next week, but for now it looks like I am going to the Producers Guild Of America’s conference which culminates on Sunday night […]
I just got this email! Congratulations! Your film is a finalist in the Producers Guild of America Producers Challenge! The finalists will screen at the Sony Pictures Studios Cary Grant Theater in Culver City, CA, at 6:45PM Sunday June 7. Tomorrow I will send you all the information you need, but be aware that we will […]
