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 […]
