BAFTA Spotlight: Interview with Bafta Nominated Crab Day directed by Ross Stringer
What drew you to start a career in animation? I never planned it really, but I’d started playing around with animation as a hobby in college, and then I tried my luck at a university course, and then I tried my luck at an MA, and then I was an animator. I think it had something to do with being exposed to independent short films … Continue reading BAFTA Spotlight: Interview with Bafta Nominated Crab Day directed by Ross Stringer
Festival spotlight: important new Italian documentaries screen in London during second bi-annual Italian Doc Season
Following the inaugural season in June 2023, the second ITALIAN DOC SEASON returns to London’s Bertha DocHouse 27 – 28 January 2024. This two-day celebration of Italian film will present three relevant and acclaimed documentaries to London audiences. The films in this season focus sharply on topics that resonate in Italy and around the world: the current migrant crisis, the impact that automation and artificial intelligence may have … Continue reading Festival spotlight: important new Italian documentaries screen in London during second bi-annual Italian Doc Season
OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted An Avocado Pit directed by Ary Zara executive produced by Elliot Page and Pageboy Productions
A transgender (Gaya Medeiros) very comfortable with who they are, an acceptance and confidence that radiates to the world. Director Ary Zara has woven a complex storyline of two taboos into a theme that stereotypes the lives of everyday people being everyday people; there is no cheap sex and nudity, no mindless violence and certainly no vulgar language punched with sexual innuendos. Two individuals, one … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted An Avocado Pit directed by Ary Zara executive produced by Elliot Page and Pageboy Productions
OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Good Boy directed by Tom Stuart and starring Ben Whishaw and Marion Bailey
An off-beat short film by first-time director Tom Stuart looks at relationships in grief, love, and life. The script is minimalist in its content; however, the true essence is in the lead actor’s performance and both Whishaw and Bailey, deliver excellent executions. Accepting the present, tormented by the pain of the past, living with relations of varying nature and out of all this not letting … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar Shortlisted Good Boy directed by Tom Stuart and starring Ben Whishaw and Marion Bailey
OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar and BAFTA Shortlisted The One Note Man directed by George Siougas and narrated by Ian McKellen starring Jason Watkins
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/user34233313/review/863374951/a6d4d71075 Writer and director George C Siougas has turned a ‘ground hog day,’ existence in the life of a scrupulously meticulous musician into a truly, madly, wonderful adventure of true love with a sprinkling of comedy. Narration by Ian McKellen gives the film the flavour of an old-fashioned fairy tale, prompting the viewer to snuggle into their couch, curl up and watch the magic … Continue reading OSCAR SPOTLIGHT: Oscar and BAFTA Shortlisted The One Note Man directed by George Siougas and narrated by Ian McKellen starring Jason Watkins
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