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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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Cornish filmmaker Arran Hawkins wants to know about your beard

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?

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

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 thing’s for sure, [...]

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

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 stands isolated, [...]

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

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.)

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Ashley Wing’s Poppies accepted by BBC Film Network website

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 only was the [...]

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

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 even made [...]

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Still time to enter the Big Lunch Young Filmmaker’s competition

D+Cineastes have got about a month to get something together for the Big Lunch Young Filmmaker’s competition.

Why bother? Well, the winner gets a big old cheque for £1,000 and their film could be shown on Channel Four.

Run in association with the National Young Volunteering Service, Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, Shooting People and BOOM!, the [...]