Future Shorts is again rolling up its sleeves at the Exeter Phoenix tonight (Wednesday May 21). This month it’s apparently gone a bit Cannes with Ver Llover, a winner from Mexico at last year’s festival.
There’s also the Euorpean Premier of Pa Bailar Con Julieta, and a German thriller called Between the Walls, as well as REM’s music vide from Son of Rambow, directed by Garth Jennings.
The most savvy of the cinematic scribes have been scurrying back from Cannes early this week for the launch of the Flipside Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow (May 21) at 6pm at PCAD’s renown Viewpoint gallery with ‘a private view and cinema preview screening of a programme of films made by emerging film artists’.
‘The programme is entitled ‘Tempus’ and all films featured in this programme explore the theme of time in wonderfully imaginative and diverse ways.’
The festival continues for 10 days with all kinds of wonderful stuff (check out our Flipside page, our archives, and the official Flipside site for more details), until the culmination on May 31.
Two Shorts Nights and D+CFilm are calling for your visions of the future to design the prize for the next Two Short Nights short film festival, which takes place at the Exeter Phoenix, on November 28 and 29.
Whenever the Picturehouse cinema network announces Q&As you suspect a multi-media event throughout its national - or even international – network, which is why the live tour of former Stangler Hugh Cornwell is such a big thing.
This weekend’s mainstream offering is from The Happening, ‘a paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity’, according to the blurb. We suspect it’s another frolicking mess from M Night Shyamalan, but watch the trailer and tell us what you think. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo, and opens on Friday June 13.
Virgin is after budding filmmakers. Not only could you get you film shown for a whole year in 211 cinemas, as well as the whole boodle of online, TV and mobile internet, but you could win up to £30,000.
The exciting name for this exciting opportunity (for surely it is thus) is Virgin Media Shorts.
The first thing you need to do is make your film (up to 2.5 minutes/150 seconds) and then get it to them before June 30.
If any of you guys have a Bristol connection, you may be interested to know about the forthcoming Bristol Filmmakers Festival.
On June 14-15, that up country bunch will host an event that celebrates independent film with special screenings and what not.
The call has gone out to all independent filmmakers of Bristol to submit a film on DVD. Submission forms can be obtained from bfmf2008@yahoo.com. Which is also the address to send any questions. The deadline is Monday May 26.
We think it’s great when Devon and Cornwall come together, just check out our name if you don’t believe us. That’s why it’s grand when this corner of the South West attracts foreign filming crews.
According to reports, a German filmcrew has been kicking around Dartmouth in search of authentic settings for the filmed versions of Cornish author’s Rosamunde Pilcher’s books. But it’s not only Dartmouth – Totnes and Berry Pomeroy have also featured.
Free shopping bags, says the Plymouth Environment Centre, for those attending the free screening Message in the Water and Plastic Planet: the curse of the plastic bag.
The bags have been made by environment centre volunteers and available while stocks last.
Reel Ride organiser Caroline got in touch with some more info about the new film night in Plymouth.
“This month at Reel Ride we screened a collection of films submitted by students studying film, animation and fine art at Plymouth College of Art and Design and Plymouth University,” she told D+CFilm.
The increasingly famous Smash Edo film On The Verge is screening tomorrow, Wednesday May 14, at 7pm in the Devonport Lecture Theatre at the University of Plymouth.
The story so far… “In 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into the Smash EDO campaign, which has cost the company millions, been the subject of large scale police operations and has tested the right to protest in the UK.
My Devon TV is to be launched at the Devon County Show on Thursday (May 15).
The scheme is a pilot for a new web-based video bulletin, which will cover issues (”the first edition celebrates local food and the importance of buying local as well as looking at the behind the scenes story of how school meals are produced and projects to encourage more of us to take up cycling”), as well as news and views from throughout the county.
Council Leader Brian Greenslade told D+CFilm: “We are launching Devon TV as a small pilot but if people like it and it proves to be a success this could become an important new part of the way we engage with people and communities more in the future.”
Don’t call him Pacey, Dawson’s Creek finished in 2003, and there’s been loads of films too, including Apt Pupil, Urban Legend, Cruel Intentions (see above), The Skulls, err, Battle in Seattle, and now Shutter.
We heard that, “looking handsome in jeans, a gray tee shirt and black jacket, the actor sat down for the following interview in a dark corner of Hollywood’s famous Pantages Theatre, once owned by billionaire Howard Hughes.” The theater is reportedly haunted by the ghost of the Spruce Goose himself - that’s Hughes to you.
Australian actress Rachael Taylor went along to the supposedly haunted Pantages Theatre in Hollywood to talk about the shocker Shutter, which is released on May 16. We’ve got words and pictures and the two aren’t necessarily linked.
She was in Transformers and her next film is the independent drama Bottle Shock. And the other information we have is that she grew up in Tasmania and studied politics and history at the University of Sydney. And she was in the Aussi television show, Headland.
And according to our source: “Articulate, intelligent and beautiful, the actress, who has long blonde hair, was wearing a green chiffon Matthew Williamson top, with graphic sequin patterns and a short, black, Armani pencil skirt.” Now you know as much as we do.
Don’t you just hate it – you set up for a shoot and some errant spectre stumbles into frame. It’s been going on since cameras were invented, and it’s the kinda premise behind Shutter, which is released on Friday May 16. Although in this spooky tale, there isn’t anything random about the ghostly apparitions.
The director, Masayuki Ochiai, sat down for the following interview in Los Angeles, and we just happened to pick it up. He previously directed Infection and Hynosis. Shutter is his directing debut on an American film.
