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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”

Sex & Docs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

With a lineup boasting Albert Maysles, Nick Broomfield, Morgan Spurlock, Molly Dineen, Bruce Parry, Adam Curtis, Danfung Dennis and more commissioners, exec producers and distributors than you could shake a begging bowl at, it’s easy to see why this year’s Sheffield Documentary Festival (which took place earlier this month) attracted over 2000 delegates from across the globe. Staged at venues across Sheffield’s city centre, it was a heady mix of film festival, programme market, seminars, masterclasses, roundtable discussions, pitching sessions and educational opportunities, that offered something to everyone who is or aspires to be part of the documentary world. Continue reading “Sex & Docs & Rock ‘n’ Roll”

The Great Camera Shootout 2011

Last month, Zacuto invited me to the London Screening of their Single Chip Camera Evaluation, in which Robert Primes ASC put 12 cameras through 15 tests. The results were shown to industry audiences around the world and the discussions that followed were filmed, edited and combined with Primes’ test footage, to create ‘The Great Camera Shootout 2011’. Like the 2010 Shootout, this latest documentary is being released in three monthly instalments, the first of which is available now on Zacuto’s web site. Continue reading “The Great Camera Shootout 2011”