Devon and Cornwall Film

The Don Letts’ will close the Flipside Film Festival tonight at 6pm at Plymouth Arts Centre, with a talk, readings and a panel discussion followed by the events closing party, where the legendary Letts himself will be DJ-ing.
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Today we start the series about the importance of screen acting, with Josephine Larsen, of the Advanced Acting Workouts. Here she introduces herself with a rundown of the who, what, where, when and how about where she’s at.

Tune in next week for more.

Or download it here.

The Blue Walnut, on Torquay’s Walnut Street, would you believe, is really starting to get recognised for the venue it is. Yesterday the big boys of ITV Westcountry popped along to the cafe to film some tidbits for tonight’s Spotlight show.

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Check out the late show at the Appledore Visual Arts Festival.

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The Appledore Visual Arts Festival kicks off today on the North Devon shoreline. And of course, there’s films afoot. In the first of our programme busting bits of a news, here’s the running order, and down the page there’s a link to see one of the funky stein films. But, if what we hear is correct, the Appledorers put on a grand display, so take the trip.

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It’s MA Littler day at the Flipside Film Festival today. There’s a showing of the documentary ZOWNIR Radical Man at PCAD cinema at 5.30pm. Zownir is one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime writers of our time. Zownir film’s, photography and writing has focused on the fringes of society. Check his site for more of his work. And don’t be deceived by the trailer, there are subtitles.

It’s followed by Littler’s THE DEAD BROTHERS – Death is not the end, at 7pm. A documentary about the cult band which reflects the members as well as the music and is ‘a paradoxical film, a balancing act between melancholy and exuberance. as well as existential questions and black slapstick humour’.

And us enterprising spirits at D+CFilm have come across a Q&A with Littler about the film and his influences and ideas. And you know how much we like Q&As. It’s well worth a read and you should check out Slowboat films, his production company too.

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Remember the romance of flickery images of cities caught on Super8? You can sample them again with Super-8 Cities, part of the Flipside Film Festival, at the PCAD cinema at 6pm.

Touching and immediate the Super8 films are a breath of fresh air in the mass of digital sameness that we’re all drowning in (not that there’s anything wrong with that…).

“The Super-8 Cities project has brought together independent talent from across the globe in a personal collection of films created according to a set of rules what stated no on-camera interviews, no flashy post-production effects, no pans and which required a voiceover written and directed by the directors themselves,” as it says in the programme.

Check out the interview with director/facilitor/organiser Nathan Coombs on Shooting People.

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The Flipside Film Festival continues today with the work of Tony Hill’s Our Sufferings in This Land at 5pm at PCAD cinema, and the documentary that steps behind the mask of animal activism (which is called Behind the Mask), which is on at 7pm at PCAD cinema.

Tony Hill documented his trip to Palestine in an attempt to gain understanding in the what life is like in an occupied Middle East.

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We reckon the art of onscreen acting is often overlooked. And let’s be honest, the quality of onscreen talent can often make or break a film. So we thought we’d offer a little more on actors and acting.

Today is the first of our acting Q&As and on Saturday we begin our series of onscreen tips from Josephine Larsen, whose Advanced Acting Workouts will focus on On Camera and Casting skills on (June 30, July 7 and July 14)

Part of building a skill base and a community is the accessibility to experience. If you want to join in, contact info@dandcfilm.co.uk

We spoke to Hannah Mulder about her acting career.

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We reckon the art of onscreen acting is often overlooked. And let’s be honest, the quality of onscreen talent can often make or break a film. So we thought we’d offer a little more on actors and acting.

Today is the first of our acting Q&As and on Saturday we begin our series of onscreen tips from Josephine Larsen, whose Advanced Acting Workouts will focus on On Camera and Casting skills on (June 30, July 7 and July 14)

Part of building a skill base and a community is the accessibility to experience. If you want to join in, contact info@dandcfilm.co.uk

We spoke to Lynette Reade about her acting career.

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There are so fraternities of assassins that it’s worth bearing in mind Groucho Marx’s quote ‘I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members’. It may well have been something Wesely Gibson (James McAvoy) should have been considered when approached by Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman in Wanted, which opens on June 25.

All you guys need to do to watch the trailer is click on the link below, and gaze in wonder at a few snippets of Timur Bekmambetov’s (him of the Night Watch series) take on Mark Millar’s graphic novel.

The trailer is here.

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Plymouth Arts Centre is playing host to the Exeter Phoenix’s bursary winning films tonight, as well as last year’s Green Light funded films. Animation, imagination and technical skill run riot in this selection of some of the best short films from the South West. (But of course we may be biased as some of the films have picked up special D+CFilm trophies, designed by Helen Snell with additional electronics by George Lazenbleep.)

The evening kicks off at 8.30pm and tickets are £6 (or £4.75)

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…but yourself is being shown tonight at PCAD, Plymouth, as part of the Flipside Film Festival.

This documentary about a truely anarchist punk band from the ’70s (the two front men, now live in a communce just outside London, as opposed to, err, let’s say Hollywood), premiered at the Raindance Film Festival, London in October 2006, where it was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Jury Prize.

Also, according to the blurb in the programme, director Alexander Oey is a Dutch film director who has directed numerous documentaries for Dutch TV including the controversial Euro-Islam According to Tariq Ramadan and My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein.

You can check out some more of the film at the mini-movie site, or take a dip into the producer’s Submarine Channel on youtube.

There is no authority but yourself is on at PCAD Cinema tonight (Friday May 23) at 7.30pm

• also on today is She’s a Punk Rocker UK. PCAD Cinema, at 5pm.

More Flipside Stories on D+CFilm.

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Soon the Butler Brothers will be as familiar to you as the Coens or Wachowskis, if the hype is anything to go by. Described alternately Linklaker-like and Soderbergh-esque, their film Confusions of an Unmarried Couple is screening this evening (5pm) at PCAD cinema as part of the Flipside Film Festival, where you can go and decide yourself.

And have a look at the trailer on their site.

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The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that we’ve included a youtube offering of Tarsem Singh’s The Cell. Visually stunning, to be sure, and at least part of those visual effects are down to Tony Hill, who made special camera rig shots for the movie. Tony Hill’s work can also be seen in music video, Peter Greenaway’s stuff and his own films. He’s talking tonight at Plymouth Arts Centre in Laws of Nature/Downside Up at 8pm. It’s part of the Flipside Film Festival, which runs in Plymouth until May 31.

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