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Selected by St Albans Film Festival (again).

I’m delighted to announce that ‘The Toadlickers’ – the music video I directed & produced for 5 times Grammy Award nominated electronic music icon, inventor of the polyphonic ringtone synthesiser, Musical Director of the TED Conference and first Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, Thomas Dolby, has been selected by the St Albans International Film Festival.

This is the second time that St Albans International Film Festival has selected one of my music videos. Last year they screened ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’ – the video I directed & produced for B.E.F. featuring Kim Wilde.

‘The Toadlickers’ will be shown at a 71 minute screening with the 14 other selected promos. The exact date & time of this screening will be announced on the festival’s web site as soon as their programme is finalised.

St Albans International Film Festival takes place 1st-3rd May 2015 in St Albans and, having attended last year, it’s a festival I highly recommend.

The Meaning of LIFF

More film festival news! The ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’ promo that I directed & produced for B.E.F., featuring Kim Wilde, has just been selected by the 11th London Independent Film Festival (LIFF). It will be screened 6pm, Saturday 12th April, at Shortwave Cinema, as part of their music video & sci-fi evening. Tickets for this event (and for the rest of the festival, which runs from 10-24 April) are available now, via their web site.

Rincon International Film Festival Select Kim Wilde B.E.F. Promo

Hot on the heels of the announcement that my ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’ B.E.F. Kim Wilde music video has been selected by the St. Albans International Film Festival, comes the news that it has just been selected by the Rincon International Film Festival (RIFF).

RIFF, “the most celebrated film festival in Puerto Rico,” takes place at the resort of Rincon, between 7th & 13th April and includes screenings on the beech front during the day and amongst the palm trees at night. Tempted to go is an understatement.

SENE Festival Screening at Rhode Island Comic Con

Hot on the heels of last week’s Davey Award announcement and just in time for Halloween, comes news that my B.E.F. Kim Wilde promo – ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’, will be screened by the SENE Film Music & Arts Festival, as part of their short film programme, at Rhode Island Comic Con. The screening takes place at 4pm, on Saturday November 2nd, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Other headline attractions at the event include Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Nicholas Brendon, Nichelle Nichols, Gil Gerard, Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Danny Glover, Bill Dee Williams, Ernie Hudson, and…Marky Ramone!?

Full details of the event can be found here.

A Letter to Kodak

Dear Kodak,

In Act 1 you were the undisputed king of film. From Hollywood to Bollywood, some of the greatest movies ever made were captured on Kodak film. So too were some of the worst atrocities committed against humanity. You gave us the escape we needed during the worst of times, pricked our consciousnesses and changed the policies of governments during the best of times. Rock stars wrote songs about you. You shared our most cherished memories. Continue reading “A Letter to Kodak”