Could all those who wanna help out at this year’s Animated Exeter raise their crayons in the air, please? As a volunteer you are GUARANTEED (terms and conditions apply) a fab time, an opportunity to get experience of festival organisation, to learn something about animation, to meet other like minded enthusiasts and a buncha other benefits, like T-shirts, lunch money and…
More exciting news from the Bethemoviestar website, which claims to be the world’s biggest open casting call. If you missed the original stories on D+CFilm, click here and here to have a look. Apparently, the movie in question has been saddled with the title ‘Street Voodoo’ and the filmmakers will be writing the script as…
This year’s Bafta nominees were announced today, bringing fantastic news for a Teignmouth filmmaker. Paul Andrew Williams, writer and director of the zero-budget thriller London To Brighton, is up for The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film. This recognition is particularly noteworthy as…
Appledore Arts wants filmmakers from D+C to submit shorts to be shown at their 10th annual Visual Arts Festival in Devon. Films can be submitted for various categories, including, bizarrely, ‘Wide River’ (which is apparently the theme of this year’s fest); films produced by young people aged 11-21; films produced by local filmmakers; films based on local subject matter; and films on…
Forget all those Daily Mail headlines about tomatoes/immigrants/Princess Diana causing cancer, cos starting tomorrow, BBC2 will finally reveal The Truth About Food. Well, thank heavens for that, eh? Using original tests on volunteers, the six-part series apparently reveals the ‘real science’ behind the food we eat and what it does to our bodies. But what’s all this got to…
As part of their commitment to nurture new and existing talent, Touch Films has established a rather beezer Writer Development Programme, in partnership with those lovely folk at South West Screen. The scheme aims to help scribblers in D+C by supporting the ‘growth of joint ventures’, whatever the hell that means. Either way, Touch Films wants to get its mitts on single…
A former student from Plymouth is making waves in Hollywood – even snagging Quentin Tarantino as producer of her latest documentary. Megan Raney left Plymstock School’s sixth form in 1995 and, after attending university in London and working in North America, developed a passion for filmmaking. Now living and working in California, she and her…
Okay, we admit it. We’ve been completely obsessed with the latest single by Charlotte Hatherley for about, ooh, the last month or so. Called Behave, it’s a bastard mindworm of a tune which stomps round and round your head in clomping great red DMs. Yup, it’s really that good. The accompanying video is pretty ace too. It’s directed…
The UK’s first broadband TV channel run by and for young people is looking for fresh ideas from upcoming talent in D+C. Chew TV is after subject matter that will stir up a bit of debate. The form of your idea could be anything from an animation, film, documentary, music video, audio or even, it says here, a game. How…
Dorset-based indie, Cranbrook Films, is celebrating a second consecutive year of accolades for the excellence of its DVD production. The company’s Space For Sport And Arts DVD has been given the big thumbs up by Televisual Magazine (no, us neither). This apparently follows hot on the heels of the same award in 2005 for its Greenspaces DVD. The Space…
We at D+CFilm are big fans of the filmmaker cum harpist (no, not ‘cum harpist’ – that’d be disgusting!) Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. In fact, she’s not only the coolest and best harpist we’ve ever met (shh, don’t tell her she’s the only one), but she’s also a bit of an expert on folk tales. Indeed, her latest film, Childe Rowland, is…