Deaffest 2008, the tenth annual deaf-led film and TV festival will be held in Wolverhampton at the Light House 28-30 November. The weekend of festivities will include screenings of films produced by UK and International Deaf filmmakers; Young Deaffest, which showcases work produced by young Deaf filmmakers; and a conference on Opportunities for Deaf Filmmakers, … [Read more…]
The next instalment from the peope behind the speak-easy cinema takes place on Sat 6 December and this month they promise: science fiction treats culled from the Outer Spaceways. Our Prime Directive will be, as ever, Lost Movies, Cult Obscurities and Films You Probably Shouldn’t Be Watching! and SubAtomic Sounds by TWIGGY AND THE K-MESONS … [Read more…]
The website for the Film Forum West Midlands, which I mentioned just the other day, has been spruced up and is looking very nice indeed. The domain name is now filmforumwm.co.uk and if you subscribed to the earlier version of the blog you’ll need to update to this new one. With all that said, they … [Read more…]
Film Forum West Midlands has been set up following a conversation at the last Birmingham Film Makers meet organised via Facebook. Taking its cue from the Animation Forum WM: The focus of this blog is to expose opportunities and bring people together from different disciplines of filmmaking, with the aim that these lovely people will mingle, learn and thrive … [Read more…]
Via 7 Inch Cinema
Rill Marchant (who was part of the team behind the winning Film Dash entry) is organising regular meet-ups for film makers. There’s a Facebook group and here’s the info about the next event: After a chat with some filmys at the 48hr film challenge were going for a relaxed post Sunday lunch vibe for Novembers … [Read more…]
I obviously had too much time on my hands back in August because I volunteered to run a 48-hour film competition. From humble origins Film Dash (as I called it) it gathered pace, got bundled into Hello Digital and culminated in 11 films being produced over a single weekend with one being shown at the … [Read more…]
From the people that brought us The Outsider, we now have Max Fitness: After a failed career as Britain’s second-favourite celebrity fitness coach, Max Fitness turns to German morning television for a final shot at cellulite-busting stardom. Available on VHS, audio cassette and minidisc!