The splendid 7 Inch Cinema folk have announced the return of the Flatpack Festival which took a year off this year. The dates for Flatpack 3 will be 11-15 March 2009. The website for 2007’s festival is still up including this description of what it’s all about: The festival remains fiendishly difficult to summarise, but … [Read more…]
The Birmingham International Film Society (who continue to infuriate with no web presence save for a Facebook Group) have issued their October programme. Click on the pics to make them legible. Page 1: Page 2: PS – seriously, a free little website can be set up in no time at all. I set up the … [Read more…]
Lots of goodness at the next 7 Inch Cinema event: Launch of Pram‘s DVD ‘Shadow Shows of the Phantascope’ Airings of some of Pram’s inspirations Brian Duffy and Grandmaster Gareth playing choons and in a more tradtional 7 Inch vein earlier in the evening there’ll be plenty of shorts including: Rachael (Rill) Marchant – ‘Untitled … [Read more…]
There’s a flurry of good film-related stuff going on at the moment and now Screen WM have just launched this year’s digishorts too: the annual short film production scheme that offers new and emerging filmmaking talent the chance to develop and produce a short film with support and a budget from Screen WM You’ve got … [Read more…]
Bit late notice this one, but tomorrow night at the Library Theatre there’s a night dedicated to Birmingham film maker, Steve Rainbow who recently had a film chosen to appear at Palm Springs International ShortFest. As the info on the Film Birmingham site says: come and see a collection of his short work culminating with … [Read more…]
In October VIVID present three film programmes from ICO Essentials (a series of national touring programmes) around the themes of play, pop and modernity. Here, via some copy and paste magic, is what’s going on: Wed 08 Oct Essentials: Play honours the irreverent, impudent, subversive and fun in artists’ film. Featuring work by Hans Richter, John … [Read more…]
Ipso Facto Films are filming big outdoor scenes in Birmingham this weekend (Fri 12th and Sat 13th) and they’re after extras. If you fancy getting involved then click the link to register as an extra. No cash will change hands but you’ll be fed. There’s no mention of talcum powder or amphetamines.
Film Dash is a 48-hour challenge I’m organising for Birmingham’s film makers. The essence of the idea is this: On Friday 17 October film makers will be told the criteria for their short film Teams (or individuals) will have 48 hours to script/shoot/edit/whatever their films On Sunday 19 October the films that make the deadline … [Read more…]