Ashley Thorpe triptych at National Media Museum's Fantastic Films Weekend

Fantastic Film weekend

Exeter filmmaker Ashley Thorpe is having three of his films screened in British Horror Revival triptych at the National Media Museum’s Fanstastic Films Weekend

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Ever felt you were destined for something big? Megamind movie launched.

mega-mind

Ever wanted something different from your destiny? To be a Megamind maybe? Well that’s what happened at the Megamind launch in Leicester Square

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Exeter filmmaker Ashley Thorpe to contribute to New York horror radio show Tales from Beyond the Pale

Tales from Beyond the Pale

Exeter-based writer/director Ashley Thorpe has contributed to the New York-based Horror Factory Glass Eye Pix macabre radio project Tales from Beyond the Pale

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Alice in Wonderland interview: Mia Wasikowska

Mia Wasikowska stars as Alice in Walt Disney Pictures' epic 3D fantasy adventure ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Mia Wasikowska, who plays Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, interview. In advance of the Alice in Wonderland DVD release we got our hands on interviews with cast and crew from the film, what with the movie’s connection to the D+CFilm stomping ground

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Volunteer film co-ordinater needed for Open Cinema project in Exeter

Open Cinema

An Exeter cinema project with Open Cinema needs a film enthusiast or filmmaker as a coordinator for a free community cinema project in Exeter for socially marginalised people

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Truro director James Marsh's Man On Wire appears in Observer Best British Films 1984-2009 poll

Oscar- and BAFTA-winning documentary Man On Wire, directed by Cornwall’s James Marsh, has come in at number 22 in the Observer Film Magazine’s Best British Films 1984-2009 poll.

The list was compiled from the opinions of more than 60 experts – directors, screenwriters, actors, critics – and a few smart ‘outsiders’ (eg, novelist Jonathan

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Crediton’s Harry Treadaway stars in Andrea Arnold’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Fish Tank

Crediton’s Harry Treadaway stars in Red Road director Andrea Arnold’s latest movie, Fish Tank, next month.

Harry, who went to Sandford School and Crediton’s Queen Elizabeth’s Community College, appears alongside Inglourious Basterds’ Michael Fassbender and 17-year-old newcomer Katie Jarvis, who was apparently cast after being spotted arguing with her boyfriend in a train station!

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Watch five-minute redband teaser for Scott Stewart’s Legion

Holy cow – now this looks like a movie! Yes, the extended redband teaser gubbins for Scott Stewart’s Legion has hit the interweb, and it rocks.

The story sees God sending a legion of avenging angels to Earth to bring about the Apocalypse – imagine him shaking a big celestial Etch-A-Sketch…

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Enter this year’s Royal Television Society Craft and Design Awards

The Royal Television Society is accepting submissions towards its Craft and Design Awards 2008/2009.

The gongs recognise the variety of skills and processes involved in programme production – from costume design and digital effects to editing and lighting.

Paul Jackson, CEO of Eyeworks and former ITV director of entertainment and comedy, is

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