Yay! He Took His Skin Off For Me was awarded Runner Up for the Alexis award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival & ShortFest this Sunday. Yes I could have gone with a better picture from the night, but I thought that was the sort of face that summed it all up. Congratulations to the entire Skin team and all the other wonderful winning films at the festival. We have a tonne more exciting bits of news we're not allowed to announce yet, but keep your eyes glued, we're almost certainly coming to a city near you!
'Skin' to premiere at Palm Springs Shortest 2014
I'm proud to finally announce that 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' will premiere at the Palm Springs International Shortfest 2014 on on Friday, June 20 - 5:00 pm - Camelot Theatres as part of the 'Things We Do For Love' program. I will be there to do a QnA after the screening so if your anywhere in the area swing by and meet up! Palm Springs is an oscar and bafta qualifying festival and an awesome place to check out exciting shorts, including premieres from actors-turned director Chiwetel Ejiofor and Taylor Kitsch. Should be exciting!
Russian Roulette wins Jury Prize for Sundance London shorts competition
OH WOW. This is pretty amazing. 'Russian Roulette' won the Jury Prize for the Sundance London short competition... thingy. You can read about it here in ScreenDaily. The a theme of the competition was ‘Making a go of it’ which kind of sums up the whole film really! Writer Oli Fenton and I even found ourselves in the Evening Standard. All very odd indeed for a film we just made to let off some steam...
'Russian Roulette' premieres on 'Short of the Week'
So I went and made a little film while in extended pre-production on 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' which we just released online via Short of the Week. The film was written by mad genius Oli Fenton and stars comedian Bec Hill and the wonderful Stewart Lockwood as an astronaut on Chatroulette.com. We wanted to make something that was light and fun and that could test the water re. a fully online releases. Right now it seems to be doing pretty well!
You can read the lovely writeup by Ivan Kander here -http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/04/02/russian-roulette/
This is my second 'Short of the Week' release of 2014. They really are lovely.
The film only cost us £50 to make. You can check out the 'Making-of" video on the right hand side.
'He Took His Skin Off For Me' backers screening at Channel 4
We screened my new film 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' for cast, crew and kickstarter backers at the Channel 4 screening room yesterday. I'm so incredibly proud of our weird, wonderful film and it was a total delight to share it with all the people who made it happen. Time to start sharing it with the rest of the world...
Huh, I'm in the Beak Street Bugle
How lovely, just found out there was an article about me a few months back in in the 'Beak Street Bugle'. Apparently 'this student's not your typical layabout'. Neat.
'Dinner and a Movie' gets Vimeo Staff Pick
'Dinner and a Movie' premieres on 'Short of the Week'
As our extremely successful festival run has now come to an end with 'Dinner and a Movie', it is my absolute delight to be able to premiere the film online with the incredible team at Short of the Week. You can find a wonderful article about the film by the lovely Rob Munday here - http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/01/14/dinner-and-a-movie/
We're going to SPACE!
Currently in post production on both 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' and an additional shot short written by Oli Fenton called 'Russian Roulette'. The flick is about a lonely young woman (comedian Bec Hill) who meets a libidinous Russian astronaut (Stewart Lockwood) on chatroullette.com. We wanted to create something fun that could find its way online as soon as its finished. Can't wait to unleash it on you guys.
'Polygonn' gets Vimeo Staff Pick
First look at 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' Revealed!
Latest Music Video 'Polygonn' Released!
REALLY proud of this fun little video I directed with wild-man animator Nick Black for the Bishops new single 'Polygonn'-
The video is a hand drawn rotoscope animation composed of over 2,500 individual illustrations. Animator Nick Black spent over 6 months tracing each frame from the original live action footage onto paper in a technique called "rotoscoping" - with 12 drawings representing a second of footage. We then photographed these drawings and let them run in order to create the video you see here. We made a making-of here-
First Teaser Trailer for 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' released
It's a WRAP on 'He Took His Skin Off For Me'
After a long, intense and incredible shoot I am proud to announce that we have WRAPPED on principle photography for He Took His Skin Off For Me!!!
Sorry for going silent during the shoot, there was literally no time left in the day. A huge thank you to all our incredible backers and supporters. Without you guys this would never have happened. Expect a tonne of awesome and regular content as we now move forward into post-production!
Dinner and a Movie selected for Calgary, Bel-Air Film Festivals
Yay! Back-to-Back selections for 'Dinner and a Movie!' Good Times all round!
Interview with Critics Associated.com
Had a pretty lengthy interview with the lovely Katie-Jane Hall for Critics Associates about 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' and our Kickstarter Campaign. We go into some pretty cool stuff about the production and why we're doing this. Check it out!
'Dinner and a Movie' at the BAFTAs
Myself and 'Dinner and a Movie' co-writer Maria Hummer were invited to the BAFTAs for the Filmmakers market to screen our little film. It was a delight to hear people laugh so loudly in the theatre and the QnA afterwards was a blast! Best thing about the event? Free beer.
Hey Mum! I'm on the Radio!
I joined the lovely Brad Brevet and Leremy Legal of the Rope Of Silicon 'B&L' Podcast to talk about my new film 'He Took His Skin Off For Me'. They ask all the tough questions, like how much dubsteb will the soundtrack include. I've uploaded the extract above but you can check out the full podcast here- http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/podcast-pacific-rim-grown-ups-2-sharknado-fruitvale-station-review/
For more visit www.hetookhisskinoffforme.com
'He Took His Skin Off For Me' Kickstarter is LIVE!
'Dinner and a Movie' selected for Rhode Island International Film Festival
Fantastic news!
'Dinner and a Movie' continues its grande tour! We've been officially selected for 'Flickers: The Rhode Island International Film Festival'!
This marks our 2nd US screening and our 2nd Oscar qualifying festival- meaning that if we win an award, 'Dinner' can be submitted for an academy award nomination! All very ridiculous and exciting!
I've been told that this early acceptance is a direct result of their enthusiasm for the film. Hooray!
