An exhibition featuring the original set of Suzie Templeton’s animated adaptation of Peter and the Wolf started yesterday at the Exeter
Phoenix Gallery.
The show includes puppets, working drawings, documentary photographs and footage from the flick, which took five years to complete and was made using large-scale, life-like models.
If the name Suzie Templeton rings a bell, it could be because we were talking about her Animated Exeter appearance this time last year. Or it could be because she’s, yknow, a BAFTA and British Animation Award-winning animator. One of the two.
The exhibition runs until February 24. Here’s the first 10 minutes of
Suzie’s Peter And The Wolf to give you an idea of what you can expect
to see at the exhibition.
The founder and director of Dartington’s Schumacher College is set to feature in a BBC documentary tonight (that’s Friday, diary frotters).
Indian-born Satish Kumar, who’s been a Jain monk since he was nine years old, has lived in Devon since 1973.
The programme, which will be screened at 8pm and repeated on Sunday (bloody repeats, etc), is about his walks across Dartmoor.
But Satish isn’t just a monk-cum-telly-star - he’s also an author. Look out for him signing and yapping about his latest tome at the Totnes Book Shop in Totnes High Street on February 12.
Blimey, getting up to ‘monk-y business’ must be something of a ‘habit’ for…. sniiiiiiiiiiiiip!!! That’s quite enough of that.
A spanky-new film club is holding its first monthly screening tomorrow
(that’s Friday, folks).
The Teignmouth society kicks off with a screening of ace Britcom, Starter For Ten, featuring the ubiquitous James McAvoy. Click below to watch the trailer.
The fun begins at Teignmouth Community College Arts Centre at 8pm. Admission is free to members and Teignmouth Community College students. It costs £5 for non-members and £4 concessions. Annual membership is also available.
Hey, the film has started, so it’ll finish…. Oh, please yourselves.
Call them Ishmail… we’re talking, of course, about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) who have been campaigning against the destruction and slaughter of the world’s oceans and wildlife since 1977.
You’ll be able to catch up with these slew of Anti-Ahabs with a film night organised by the Plymouth Environment Centre tomorrow night (that’s January 18), in the Devonport Lecture Theatre at Plymouth University. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Presented by a volunteer from Sea Shepherd there will be a slide show from 1977 to 2005 as well as two short films, Antarctica 2007 - Preparing for, Finding and Disabling the Japanese Whaling Fleet and Blood on the Ice - 2005 campaign against seal slaughter, for a 45 minute show.
The threat to merge ITV Westcountry in Plymouth and ITV West in Bristol will hit the media economy in the South West, and undermine coverage of the communities.
Westcountry’s defence correspondent John Andrews said of the proposals: ‘We’d have the same time to cover twice as much news. If news is about providing people with information so they can make democratic choices, then this is an invitation to fail.
‘The stories that would get covered would be those coming from the region’s urban centres, not from rural communities. How can we serve these – or any – communities effectively when we’d be covering a region in which it takes longer to travel from one end to another than it does to drive from London to Carlisle?’
This year’s Animated Exeter festival kicks off today (that’s Wednesday, folks) with a programme of family-friendly Future Shorts fare.
One of the most innovative short film labels, the Future Shorts bods will present a bunch of animated delights to whet your appetite for the forthcoming festival (which runs from February 15-23).
The fun begins at the Exeter Phoenix at 6.15pm and will cost you a
measly £3.50.
Stay tuned to D+CFilm over the coming weeks for loads more Animated
Exeter bumf.
Those Reel Indi chaps in North Devon have been a bit quiet lately, haven’t they, viewers?
Perhaps they too were knocked sideways by ex-MI5 whistleblower and Reel Indi stalwart David Shayler’s, ahem, ‘Jesus revelation’.
Nevertheless, the youth-run cinema club is back next month (February 6, to be exact), supporting and screening local films at Tapeley Park, while rousing some political rabble in the process.
Expect a showing of The End Of Suburbia (click below to watch the trailer)
and a special guest - Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler and author of How To Be Free.
Scary-faced scribe Patricia Cornwell has asked fans to create a telly advert for her latest best-seller.
The winning promo for Book Of The Dead (hmm, that’s an original title), will have the dubious honour of being broadcast on Five when the paperback is launched in April.
To enter, D+Cineastes should either submit a 20 second short film advert or come up with a script/storyboard for a 20 second ad promoting Book Of The Dead.
A panel of judges will shortlist three short film entries, and three script/storyboard entries. Patricia Cornwell her-bloody-self will select a final winner from the shortlist.
If a script or storyboard is selected, the winning entry will be filmed and produced. If a short film is selected, the winner will receive £2,500. Hooray!
Click here to find out more - Sam Raimi need not apply.
You’ve got until January 28 to see all the films in each regional section, before they are whittled down to five (tops) for the voting to begin. We’re guessing that part of the selection process may have something to do with the short comments from your aspiring Barry Norman, so get set to sharpen your critical appraisal.
Each one of the 15 regional finalists will get a VIP trip to London with an evening at the Orange British Academy Film Awards, and for everyone else there’s loads of tips on what not on the site.
Youngling filmmakers in the region have only a few days left to apply for the Studio Award from First Light Movies.
If you get your heads together and apply before Tuesday, January 15, you could get yer mitts on £25,000 to make between two and four films of up to 10 minutes long.
Of course, that’s the maximum grant, match funding is needed and a track-record of making films needs to be in place, yada, yada, yada, but it’s up for grabs and the deadline is fast approaching.
Check out the First Light Funding pages to find out what’s it’s all about, and you could even apply for the Pilot Award, for £5,000 – ideal for first time filmmakers.
The glamorous town of Dawlish is to feature in a telly documentary about the controversy surrounding speed and spy cameras.
Trigger Happy TV ’star’ Dom Joly recently rolled into town to film two episodes for a Channel Five current affairs series. Was he dressed as a dog and talking on a giant mobile phone? Probably.
Anyway, the first programme looks at a notorious (it says here) speed camera in the neighbouring village of Starcross, which resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of drivers.
Their penalties were overturned when it was proved the 30mph limit on the road was inadequately signed.
The second programme looks at the controversy surrounding the installation of surveillance cameras in Dawlish at a cost of £60,000.
Film crews were in Devon shortly before Christmas to record material for the series which will be aired in the spring.
Hello?! I’m making a programme for Channel Five. No, it’s rubbish…
There we were, wittering on about Loose Change: The Final Cut last week, and we forgot to tell you that the Exeter Picturehouse would be hosting a one-off screening of the flick this Wednesday (January 9). Egg and our face were in complete alignment.
So, what more is there to add? Basically, the Final Cut is the official cinematic release of Loose Change 1 and Loose Change 2, which have been viewed online by millions worldwide.
It incorporates a load of incendiary new material and will be preceded by a live talk by truth campaigner Ian Crane.
Tickets for the film, showing at 9pm are available on 0871 704 2057 or online (see D+CFilm’s Arthouse Roundup for booking details).
Here’s the Loose Change: Final Cut trailer to whet your appetite.
Plymouth’s Twofour continues to go from strength to strength after a coupla high-profile commissions.
First up, they’ve helped the University of Leicester create a web-based ‘educational island’ as part of Second Life.
The uni is hoping to provide real online learning in the ‘virtual university’ within five years with virtual lectures becoming the norm for many students.
Some hope - the students will probably be hanging out in a virtual pub instead, playing virtual pool and drinking virtual cider.
Twofour has also created a new MySpace-style site for CBBC, which will allow brats to design a ‘virtual den’ with different furniture, wallpaper, flooring, posters and things.
Kids will be able to build their own profiles, add a limited personal address book of chums and incorporate a CBBC avatar (but of course!).
The days of ’networking’ in a park, running round with coats for capes seem a very long time ago. Heck, the way Twofour is going, soon even conversations between mother and child will be conducted in cyberspace.
