Dropped: Heineken’s reality TV social experiment
Heineken’s Dropped campaign is part reality TV show and part social experiment as people become a legend of their own
Death pledge and mortality explored in Mort-Gage (video)
The short film Mort-Gage takes its title from the French, and means death pledge
Step into the surreal docu-drama of Dali in La Legende~Dali (video)
Tom Austin’s docu-drama about Salvador Dali, puts the artist on the canvass of a boxing ring
Tuesday 21st -a film that aims to be ‘credible in the way it might speak to those affected by loss and grief’
Tobit Emmens took on a mighty challenge with Tuesday 21st -to move away from stereotypes in the coverage of mental health and to offer a credible reflection of the grief and loss of people affected by suicide
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John Tomkins’ They’re Coming trailer makes its debut
Filmed in Torbay, directed by John Tomkins and starring Tom Menary and a host of Devon talent, They’re Coming is a dark thriller for our times. Watch the trailer here. Trailer edited and created by Ed Chappell.
Ray: A Life Underwater by Amanda Bluglass
Amanda Bluglass won Dartington’s Barn Cinema Shoot 2011 festival audience award
Ambitious filmmakers Realm Pictures are aiming for the stars and they’re flying high
Realm Pictures are set on making a noise in the film world, and their filmmaking matches their vision
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D&CFilm Directors Series: Ashley Wing (video)
In the first of the D&C Film Directors Series, reviewer Sean Wilson chats with filmmaker Ashley Wing about his new sci-fi short, Fracture.
Ben Howard’s video for single Keep Your Head Up shot at Dartington (music video)
Totnes singer-songwriter Ben Howard had the video for his single Keep Your Head Up filed at the Dartington Estate. Check it out!
Location, location, location: Sean Wilson takes a look at foreign films The Light Thief and In a Better World (audio)
Sean Wilson reviews In A Better World and The Light Thief – a riposte to faceless, smug Hollywood flicks
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Know your target market – Sean Wilson reviews Mr Popper’s Penguins and Zoo Keeper (audio)
Know your target audience, says Sean Wilson, as he reviews the family flicks of Mr Popper’s Penguins and Zoo Keeper
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Sean Wilson reviews Terrance Malick’s Tree of Life (audio)
It’s a rare occasion. A new Terence Malick film has rolled around in the form of the Tree of Life. This is then 5th film by Terence Malick, whose films go back to 1973 in Badlands. Terence Malick had directed Badlands, Days of Heaven and there was a 20 gap until the Thin Red Line the war film then there was the New Road and now we arrived at the Tree of Life. Terence Malick is a very interesting and provocative director, who works entirely on his own terms it’s very philosophical and astute directing.
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Sean Wilson reviews Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 (audio)
“It all ends,” reads the tag line for the last in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2, and it’s quite an apposite tag line, not just terms of the story, but for the whole franchise, says Sean Wilson.
Visual effects supervisor Sebastien Regert on making Fracture’s sci fi world feel real
The sci-fi short film Fracture has been through its special effects paces by visual effects supervisor Sebastien Regert to make the whole other-world experience to feel real
Actor Julian Boote on the potential psychosis of his character in the sci fi short Fracture
Actor Julian Boote talks about being attracted to the the role of Captain Michael Shepherd in the sci fi short Fracture.
Joshua Davies and Simon Jones of FXhome.com explain why they decided to produce sci fi short Fracture
Joshua Davies and Simon Jones of FXhome.com explain why they got involved in creating Fracture and the mistakes they made along the way
Chris Drysdale on developing the sci fi concept art for Fracture
Concept artist Chris Drysdale on his work on sci fi short film Fracture
Kate Madison explains how she created a tough, feminine character for sci fi short film Fracture
Actor Kate Madison talks about how she aimed to create a tough and feminine heroine in the sci fi short Fracture
Fracture composer Siddhartha Barnhoorn on the challenge of music for a short film
Each short film has a challenge of developing character and story quickly. Fracture composer Siddhartha Barnhoorn talks about how he created the themes and motifs for the sci fi short
Ashley Wing talks about the making of sci fi short Fracture, and networking event CINE
Director Ashley Wing talks about the making of sci fi short film Fracture with FHhome, and his South West filmmakers’ networking event CINE
