Award winning filmaker Paul D - Director & Producer of Music Videos, Feature Films & Documentaries.

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RIP Ken Russell

British cinema has just lost one of its true visionaries, director Ken Russell.

We crossed paths once, at Pineapple dance studios in London. At the time I had a huge beard and as we passed, on a staircase, like two directors in the night, he gave me a very warm inviting smile. Later on I discovered he had been holding auditions there for a production of Treasure Island and concluded he must have mistaken me for an aspiring pirate.

RIP

The Muppets

I’m delighted to see that, after a 12 year absence, The Muppets are finally back with a brand new movie. I’m even more delighted that it is a film which my friend Mike Quinn had a hand in…quite literally. Though it was touch and go, so to speak, as the day before he was due to fly off to LA to start work on ‘The Muppets’, he was still putting the finishing touches to the puppetry for The Toadlickers – the promo I directed for Thomas Dolby. Continue reading “The Muppets”

Recently I got up close and personal with Canon’s new Pixma Pro-1 printer, at the Canon Pro Solutions Show 2011. Now that I have discussed the Canon EOS 1D X HDSLR, Canon EOS C300 & Red Scarlet X digital cinema cameras, Canon EOS 5D Mark III, et al, it’s time to take a look at this new printer. Continue reading “Canon Pixma Pro-1 Printer”