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 […]
Over the last few days, there has been a flurry of Gone Fishing activity. I can confirm that we have indeed sold the film to a major TV broadcaster! Can’t say who yet, but it’s very exciting. Also some more awards will be announced soon, again, can’t say what just now but will do in […]
Last month we sold our 1,000th copy of Gone Fishing on DVD (trailer here). So I asked Nick, the buyer to share his thoughts on the film, and his own film making journey. I first became aware of Chris Jones when I purchased the 2nd edition of “The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook. I was 23 […]
Watch… and enter a parallel universe… I really wish I knew what these guys were saying! Last year we played as part of a big Korean film festival, and after that event, we were approached by a Korean Fishing TV channel to show clips, and presumably, get some fishing experts to talk about the film, […]
Gone Fishing played at the Prince Charles in Leicester Square twice this weekend, Friday supporting ‘Jaws’, and Saturday supporting ‘The Shark Still Works’, an awesome feature length doc about ‘Jaws’, and the legacy it has left (my original post here where you can watch the trailer). This was part of The United Film Festival, which […]
Last week we received more orders for Gone Fishing on BluRay than we had in all the moths since it was released (and I just put them all in mailers today – see pic)! About half were from the USA, and the others from the UK. Could this signify that BluRay has finally got a […]
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, […]
Well it’s nearly complete. The problem is that I keep getting invites to more festivals, and so, like the making and selling of a film itself, it just keeps going on and on. I am not complaining as it is a fabulous distraction to be invited to wonderful festivals around the world, but it’s not […]
A couple of weeks ago, editor and Eddie Hamilton and myself sat down and spent a whole Saturday recording a chat track over the rushes for Gone Fishing – that’s nearly three hours of unedited 35mm footage, including main unit with sync sound, second unit, pickups days and of course the high speed Phantom slow […]
I JUST THIS MOMENT FOUND OUT! On Saturday December 5th, 9pm, at the Prince Charles Theatre in Leicester Sq., ‘Gone Fishing’ is playing (on 35mm) as the support to a feature film as part of the United Film Festival. We have played many times as support for features, but this is the first time I […]
A quick update before the TV premiere of Urban Ghost Story tonight, BBC1 just after midnight… We just got word that last weekend, ‘Gone Fishing’ won the Secret City Film Festival 2009 in Tennessee USA. Fantastic! That makes, er… thirty something wins now! (there is a complete list on our press website here) Onwards and […]
Boy was it hurling it down like cats and dogs last night – so, to see a packed audience at the iMax theatre, with so many faces I recognised, was really wonderful. This screening of ‘Gone Fishing’ and Q and A session was part of DropShot 3, a kind of micro festival for film makers. […]
Whoaaaah! Imax! I KNOW! First off, we are not on the BIG BIG screen, we are on the smaller BIG Screen upstairs – I will be there doing an hour long Q and A with Stephen Follows asking the questions on stage (Stephen ran the London based Super Shorts Film Festival when ‘Gone Fishing’ played […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The last few weeks have been quite intense from a festival view, and we have been accepted into a bunch of VERY exciting events. Probably the most exciting is the Roshd International film festival in Tehran, Iran – the oldest film festival in the region and has been running since the sixties. We are actually […]
Gone Fishing is now on BluRay! Yes, you can buy your own BluRay disk of Gone Fishing now, with stunning HD pictures in 1080P and uncompressed 5.1 audio, made from the HDCamSR master of the film. We are packaging it with the DVD which has all the bonus features (if you previously bought Gone Fishing […]
How did my short film Gone Fishing actually perform, and download the spreadsheet to use on your film You can see from the rough ratios from the chart here – ‘Win’ means a festival we attended and collected award(s), ‘Loose’ means we attended but did not win an award (though around 15% of these are […]
The last week has been a little hectic as I have been pursuing a book from a writer to develop into a feature film – can’t say what just yet, but we hope to close a deal very soon and then I can announce it. And so I have been knee deep in reading, negotiating […]
When I am at film festivals, I am often asked what was the inspiration for ‘Gone Fishing’. There are lot’s of different answers to that question, but one big component was the death of my father a year or so before we made the film. While the story of ‘Gone Fishing’ is not directly about […]
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 […]
So it looks like I am going to Japan! I just got word from the Short Shorts film festival in Tokyo…. Here’s what they said… Hello!! Hope this finds you well. We finally would like to offer you the invitation to attend to the festival. We will offer your flight from London to Tokyo (two […]
We have had a very busy weekend. Those of you following me on Twitter will know that I spent it running around like a blue arsed fly, shooting a wedding video with my good buddy Simon Cox, for my girlfriends sister – it’s the blessing / curse of being the film maker in the family. […]
YES! This is my 500th blog entry! Can you believe? 500 entries… Just check out blog number 1 (and what a funny co-incidence too as we are going out with Summer Scars in June – and this really does show how long and indie film can take to go from idea to theatrical release). Note […]
