Come along to this special screening of ‘EXAM’ on Sunday January 10th at 2.15pm, Odeon Panton Street, Leicester Square where we first screen the movie, then the film makers reveal just how they made this low budget Brit psycho-thriller, got it into theatres and ended up with four star reviews from both ‘Total Film’ and […]
It’s a been bit of a frantic weekend – I am prepping for the Chetenham Screenwriters Festival which kicks off on Monday, where I am the opening speaker! I have a couple of other sessions on Monday and Tuesday too, so I hope to see you there. Yesterday, I spent the afternoon and evening with […]
After a week of shooting, we have wrapped the UK end of our large scale corporate job and sent a camera team off to the USA for another week of filming. It’s been a tough shoot so far as there have been so many locations and actors. In fact, more locations and actors than your […]
The online Making Your World Class Short Film workshop is going from strength to strength. Over the next month or so we are going to be adding two further modules (once you sign up you get all the new modules for free). But I thought I would just share the feedback I just got from […]
When I decided to make ‘Gone Fishing’, I knew it would open doors. But I didn’t realize just how many it would open, and how many of those doors would be in Hollywood. I am working flat out with Judy Goldberg right now, penning a feature script for a major Hollywood studio – and it’s […]
I wanted to share an extraordinary email I just got, all the way from LA… I just wanted to send you a quick email about my experience with the Gone Fishing Online Seminar. I was quite literally stunned by not just the amount of information in the seminar but by the outstanding quality. As a […]
Wow. What a day. Last week I worked relentlessly to prepare the Delivering Your Film To The Sales Agent workshop. It was based on a ‘sales schedule’ I had been handed on a real ‘low budget’ feature film I had been consulting on only six weeks ago, so it was very fresh in my mind. […]
I am doing the final prep for tomorrows Delivering Your Film Seminar and I am delighted that we will have a packed house. I was afraid that as this is a stage at the end of production, most people would say ‘we will deal with that when we get to it…’ But it seems there […]
I am putting together a fascinating workshop for the corporate sector, about using video webisodes as a way to promote your business and brand. I was asked to do it by Actix, who had previously sponsored Gone Fishing. They had seen the extraordinary responses I had been getting from the webisodes at the festivals and […]
I have spent the last day putting together a one day seminar about film sales, and specifically how to make final delivery to a sales agent or distributor. I have sat in on several sales meetings recently and have been surprised at how much stuff these guys need or want, and also how technical it […]
![Stars5[1]](/images/old/6a00d8341e322053ef01287698abd1970c-pi.jpg "Final 2 hours added to Online Masterclass, with many extra hours of bonus material added, including Alex Fazeli!")
When I was in LA, I met with film maker Alex Fazeli, shot an interview, and I wrote about it on the blog at the time. His interview is a bonus feature of the now, 14 hour Guerilla Masterclass: Making The World Class Short Film, that is delivered totally online. His interview is about his […]
Less than 24 hours after flying into Australia, I was lined up for my two day Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass. I can tell you I was quite nervous as among the group were film makers who had been cameramen for 40 years, actors with over 50 features under the belt and a director searching for […]
I am about to get onto a plane and risk life and limb in Gympie, Australia, where I am running a two day seminar at the Heart Of Gold Film Festival. Pictured to the right is head of PR, Angela Vogt, with two of the BIG newspaper articles she placed for the seminar and the […]
I just did a great interview with Stacey Parks here in LA. Stacey is a distribution guru who runs her own site called FilmSpecific.com. We have been in touch for a few years, and last year I did a seminar at Ealing Studios with her, when her latest book was released. You can listen to […]
We just got a write up in one of Australia’s (East Coast anyway) more important news papers. It’s about the Heart Of Gold Festival, north of Brisbane, in a couple of weeks time. You may know I am flying out there to hold a new two day Guerilla Masterclass and I am really looking forward […]
The Online Guerilla Masterclass about the making of Gone Fishing is currently being updated with the extra new sections on festivals, sales, marketing, awards and beyond. Anyone who enrols now for £69.99 will get these extra sessions for free (after these new sessions are live, the price will go up). I just wanted to share […]
Yesterday I ran the final part of the Gone Fishing Masterclass at Ealing Studios. The first seminar we ran, at BAFTA last year, was all about how we made the film. This second was about how we exploited the film. The first seminar is online now, and this second one will be edited and uploaded […]
As you know I am running the final part of the Gone Fishing seminar this weekend coming. If you buy the online seminar now, you can also come to the live seminar on Saturday too (or watch online when it’s uploaded). You can read more about the online seminar here… I just wanted to share […]
No other film award creates careers overnight like an Academy Award… As you may know, some time ago we set out to make an Oscar contender with our 35mm film ‘Gone Fishing’… Last December we got the email from Academy to let us know we were in the official shortlist of ten movies, and the […]
I am delighted to announce that the Gone Fishing seminar that we shot at BAFTA, at the premiere, is now live on the internet. It’s taken us some time to get it all constructed because it’s so detailed and dense with information. We also went back and reshot some inserts too. But the big reason, […]
I have spent the last few days working very hard on the Gone Fishing seminar that we shot at BAFTA last January – I want to be able to launch this seminar on the anniversary of the premiere when it was recorded. I always knew it was going to be a big job, but it […]
The last few days have been immersed in script development on Project Nightwatcher. It’s been an intense and demanding process, and I hope in the next few days, to report on what is actually happening and what is about to take place. I have also been completing the Gone Fishing Seminar Video that we shot […]
