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Sharing very valuable stories / Amanda McCormack and NDMI
Amanda McCormack is stepping down from North Devon Moving Image after seven years at the helm of the ground-breaking community film organisation
SW Filmathon Thing: week #8 Music Videos
Time to cut a rug and keep your eyes on these stunning music videos in this week of the South West Filmathon Thing. Watch the vid, enjoy and vote!
Spiral / “Life is vulnerable, transparent and stripped bare”
Spiral, written by and featuring Camilla Joyce is a lockdown film that could be about everyone facing up to their own life made lonely.
Drive-in Cornish clifftop cinema this summer
Cult classic films on a Cornish clifftop cinema from the comfort of your car atop Watergate Bay, as part of The Wavelength Drive-In Cinema Series
SW Filmathon Thing: week #7 films Documentary
It’s a Documentary week here at the South West Filmathon thing, with a selection of fascinating docs for you to enjoy, be enlightened by and vote on
Gameportal / Jacob Housego paints a dark future
Jacob Housego captures the essence of a dark future in his sci fi thriller Gameportal shot entirely in Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor
Somerset Film Junction live-stream screenings and meet up
Somerset Film Junction will be an evening of informal networking and live-streamed film-screenings from the Somerset Film team at The Engine Room
SW Filmathon Thing: week #6 films Comedy
Unfix that stare and prime your chuckle chops, this week’s South West Filmathon Thing turns its steely gaze to comedy shorts. Watch, enjoy, vote!
Plymouth Arts Cinema builds resilience during shutdown
Plymouth Arts Cinema builds resilience during shutdown, with emergency funding from the BFI Film Audience Network, and a Crowdfunder for Key Workers
Best British Films To Stream In 2020
With so much out there, knowing what to watch can be a bit of a maze. Here’s a quick list of the Best British Films To Stream In 2020
Cinema tickets for Plymouth’s key workers
Plymouth Arts Cinema is looking to offer tickets for Plymouth’s Key Workers. It needs your help to do it and to secure the future of the city’s indie cinema
Feminist Flix – Women Make Movies / 4 workshops
Feminist Flix – Women Make Movies is a series of four workshops looking at the influence of women in the world of cinema from groundbreaking firsts to now
PCA costume graduate works with Netflix and Marvel
Plymouth College of Art costume graduate Elise Phillimore, works on original Netflix film and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home
Charlotte Linn / energies, entities and film
Charlotte Linn was always interested in cinematography, videography, and watching films. She started loving making movies at college in Exeter
Super-8 City / Andy Carr searches for inner peace
Andy Carr explores the city in Super 8 in a search for inner peace in his film Super-8 City, shot in an around Plymouth with a trippy aesthetic
SW Filmathon Thing: week #5 films Drama (set 2 of 3)
Drama, the unusual and the everyday, are all caught by the camera in the second instalment of drama shorts in the South West Filmathon Thing. Watch and vote
A Dark Tale / John Tomkins releases enhanced edit
Originally released in 2013, director John Tomkins has released an enhanced directors edit of Dark Tale to celebrate the film, the talent and the location
SW Filmathon Thing: wk #4 Animated/ Experimental/ Other (1 of 2)
Hold onto your hat and open your mind! Week four of the South West Filmathon Thing is taking you into the realm of animated, experimental and ‘other’
Cheltenham film fest in your front room with Exeter Phoenix
Cheltenham film fest is going online, and the Exeter Phoenix is bring the international film festival to your front room. (Plus there’s a discount code!)
The fashion sense of James Bond villains
Think Bond and clothes and you’re going to focus on 007, but take a new look James Bond villains and their own special sartorial elegance
Taker by Alexander Blackwood / inspired by nightmares study
Taker is a short horror by Alexander Blackwood inspired by a study into the blind people and nightmares. It was filmed at Burrator Reservoir in Devon
SW Filmathon Thing: week #3 films Documentary
It’s time for the Documentary strand of our South West Filmathon Thing. Take a looking into the world around you with this fabulous selection of short docs
Pyro / Booshka music video inpired by visual poetry
Pyro, the video of the latest single for Booshka, was directed by band member Lara Fullalove, and takes some cues from the visual poetry of Andrei Tarkovsky
Split Focus Films puts eyes on Cornwall’s amazing music scene
Split Focus Films is ‘a community focused video production company to cater to Cornwall’s amazing music scene,’ says co-founder Andrew Nile
The True Cost of James Bond’s Recklessness and Whether it Paid Off with the Fans
Going around saving the world as the world’s most obvious secret agent comes at a cost. But does the cost the James Bond notches up pay off with the fans?
Red Handed / dry humour and domestic duties in comedy short
Catch the comedy short Red Handed, which combines domestic duties with interrogation. Creators Milly Phillips, Celia Hackford and Lily Thetford tell us more
‘The intimacy that the camera brings’ | Lois Norman
Filmmaker Lois Norman is inspired by bravery and excited by risk. We chatted to Lois about the intimate film Swivel and asked about the importance of trust
South West Filmathon thing!
The South West Filmathon thing is a new, let’s call it an online film festival, for South West filmmakers to showcase and share their flicks. Read on…!
Cornish Public Service Media | cultural and creative impact
The call for Cornish public service media continues with a new report making the case for the cultural and creative significance that it would bring
Isolation films winner – a candid peep behind the curtain
The votes are in for the submissions to our isolation film fun competition. The fantastically creative flicks through up a winner to reflect the times…
Film knowledge base captured in ERFF interviews
A film knowledge base for indie filmmakers is being complied by John Tomkins of the English Riviera Film Festival as a morale booster during lockdown
Covid 19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund
Film + TV Charity has launched the Covid-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund, in partnership with the BFI for those affected by the current environment
Goodies, baddies and the lockdown: Isolation films part 1
The challenge to keep making films during this period of ‘lockdown’ has been picked up by a number of filmmakers. Here is the first set of isolation films
The making of: Circle EP and videos by John Tomkins
John Tomkins has released his Circle EP and three new music videos, each with a different style, all in one swoop. He explains why
Where The Trade Buys Launches ‘Together We Are Stronger’ Poster Campaign to Support NHS Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
The Together We Art Stronger poster campaign has been launched by Where The Trade Buys to download, colour in and show your support for the NHS
7 of the Most Unusual Fertility Rituals from Around the World
Katy Perry and Orland Bloom are expecting the pitter patter of tiny feet. With that in mind, here’s a run down of some fertility rituals
Patrick: intimacy and distance in charged short
In the micro short film Patrick a clandestine photo shoot takes a look at the relationship between two girls and the images that surround them
The Importance of Product Placement
Product placement has an important role to play in getting those brands in front of eyeballs. And it works best when tied to successful shows and movies
Creative isolation: keep filmmaking while keeping your distance
Creative isolation means you don’t have to stop your filmmaking while projects are postponed and shutdown. Try this to connect and keep creative
Vivien Leigh |South West links in major new study
The South West film heritage of Vivien Leigh has been recorded and is available on a new interactive website. Here’s what to expect and how it came about
Melmaridè: individual and collective courage for change
Melmaridè is a documentary about the collective action of women in Piacenza in the 70s. Directors Elisa Bozzarelli and Alice Daneluzzo describe its impact