MONSTER festival news

It's been a crazy couple of months for my short film MONSTER. Since being screened at the CineCity festival in Brighton it has now been accepted into the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival, the Flicker Film Festival in New York and the third Babelgum Online Film Festival otherwise known as BOFF3.



In both the Cambridge festival which takes place this month and the Babelgum Online festival Monster is being shown in competition which means it could win prizes!

In Cambridge this is in the hands of the jury where as for the Babelgum festival it is in the hands of the viewing public who can vote for the Audience Favourite award.











All you have to do is click on the BOFF picture above which will take you straight to the URL of Monster where you can vote by clicking on the little thumbs up icon on the left.

Once you've done that, why not join the Facebook group set up especially to track the fortunes of the film in this most exciting festival? To view the group, click here.

See the Cambridge Festival trailer featuring Monster below:


cambridge international Super 8 Film Festival - trailer
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Bamboozled? Video Footage

Here's some video footage taken on the night. Take a look if you managed to come along, you might see yourself on there. If you couldn't make it (like me) then take a look to see what went on.

It looks like it was a great night, well done to Kanoti for organising it all. Hopefully more of the same soon!

Robot at Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival

Another result for Robot.

This time it has been selected for screening at the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival on April 30th. The festival it's self runs from April 29th until May 2nd. Check it out if you can:

http://www.cambridge-super8.org/

There seems to be a lot of opportunity for films made on 8mm film, I guess with all the outlets for digital film these days its something a bit different. I think the look of the picture you get using an old camera and some super 8 stock has a lot to do with it, it's got a real quality to it that you just don't get with digital. That and the novelty of actually developing a reel of film before you can see whether what you have filmed has even come out!

That was my biggest worry when making Robot. It was my first attempt at using a Super 8 camera and although I received some top advice I can't believe it all came out so well.

Check Robot out here, enjoy:

http://www.getcloser.com/event/audioandvideo/straight+8/125/7410/

Robot in Shots Magazine

Robot, the film I made for Straight 8 08 (see earlier post) is still going strong. This month it was featured on a DVD accompanying trade magazine "Shots"!

I believe it is subscription only but you can get an idea at the website here:

http://www.shots.net/home_beta.asp

"Shots showcases cutting-edge creativity in global advertising." So it says on the website, so its a good thing to be in with. Thanks again to the Straight 8 folk for putting my film 'out there!'

Robot

ROBOT is the name of the short film I directed as my entry to the Straight 8 film competition. All films had to be filmed on one cartridge of super 8 with all editing done in camera. The soundtrack is then created separately. The first time you see your film is in a screening full of people!

But how do you know how it has turned out, I hear you say! You don't. Fortunatley for me it turned out very well and was selected for screeing at the Cannes Film Festival, The Cannes Lions, Soho Rushes Short Film Festival and Brighton CineCity Film Festival.