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Devon filmmaker Robin Whenary's 1471 picks up award at Brno international film festival

By D&CFilm, on Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Devon filmmaker Robin Whenary picked up an award at the Brno short film festival for his film 1471, which premiered at the View from Here 2007

Confused about cinema in the digital age? We spoke to filmmaker, lecturer and PhD student Ben Sherriff to find out more

By D&CFilm, on Friday, October 23, 2009

Want to know about the impact of digital film? We asked filmmaker, digital film lecturer and PhD researcher Ben Sherriff about the role of modern technology in filmmakig

A visionary UK-based filmmaker Fangoria's Chris Alexander on Ashley Thorpe

By D&CFilm, on Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Ashley Thorpe speaks to Fangoria (again) about his British Horror and his next film the Dartmoor-based The Hairy Hands. And two of his films have been nominated for the Horror UK film festival

Cornish filmmaker Arran Hawkins wants to know about your beard

By D&CFilm, on Friday, August 14, 2009

Cornish filmmaker Arran Hawkins has interviewed 15 people about their beard growth for a new documentary about facial hair.

Arran told thisiscornwall: “It’s hair that comes out of your face. It’s just weird.”

Uh, ever heard of eyebrows, Arran?

Behind the scenes footage of Ashley Wing’s sci-fi drama Fracture

By D&CFilm, on Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Well, this behind the scenes footage of Paignton filmmaker Ashley Wing’s new sci-fi short Fracture looks like just the most amount of fun a D+Cineaste could ever hope to experience.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that even the biggest movies are actually put together by people like us – massive film fans.

One

See concept art for Ashley Wing's sci-fi drama Fracture

By D&CFilm, on Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Yesterday we promised you some concept art from Paignton filmmaker Ashley Wing’s new sci-fi short Fracture (nothing to do with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, we’re assured).

Before we have a look, let’s just remind ourselves of the synopsis, shall we?

On the bleak and unforgiving surface of a distant world a fragile mining base

Ashley Wing seeks artists to work on new sci-fi drama Fracture

By D&CFilm, on Monday, August 10, 2009

Paignton filmmaker Ashley Wing (he of Poppies, Hard Day’s Knight, and Between The Lines fame) has got in touch to tell us about an absolutely stonking opportunity for all you talented and arty D+Cineastes out there.

What is the opportunity? Here is the opportunity. (And yes, Ashley does speak in italics.)

Ashley Wing’s Poppies accepted by BBC Film Network website

By D&CFilm, on Thursday, July 30, 2009

Paignton filmmaker Ashley Wing’s rather excellent Poppies has finally been accepted by the BBC Film Network – some nine months after its completion.

Film Network is the BBC’s interactive showcase for new British filmmakers, screening three short films in broadband quality every week.

Regular D+CFilm readers will already be familiar with Poppies. Not

Sky Movies Premiere to show The Cottage by South Devon director Paul Andrew Williams

By D&CFilm, on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

We’re sure you’ve seen it already but Paul Andrew Williams’s The Cottage is certainly worth another viewing when it premieres on Sky Movies, erm, Premiere at 10.15pm on Saturday (that’s August 1).

After all, he’s one of us (gabba gabba hey). He has family in Combeinteignhead, and went to school in Teignmouth – he