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New Independent Digital Filmmaking Site

Posted in Film, Technology, Video, tagged , , , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Filmaka.com is a new site for aspiring filmmakers all over the world. You
can submit your high quality 3-minute short, have it evaluated, enter competitions
to win funding to help make a feature film, a documentary or a TV comedy series.
Its the brainchild of Deepak Nayar, who was behind such films as “Buena Vista Social Club” and [...]

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Ex-Mental Patient writes Hit Novel

Posted in Books, Film, Health, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Clare Allan spent 10-years in the UK mental health system, was diagnosed with virtually every mental illness and spent years taking a cocktail of pills everyday, now, having left this old life behind, she used it as the inspiration for the novel Poppy Shakespeare: a patients notes, which takes a humourous satirical view of life [...]

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The Gallery: A very short documentary

Posted in Film, Video, tagged , , , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What a great short documentary from Four Docs and such a simple but
brilliant idea. A gallery of kids pictures, changed utterly when you find
out where and when they were done.
Definitely worth a minute of your time.

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Lark: Philosophy and Dance

Posted in Art, Books, Film, Philsophy, tagged , , , on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This documentary from Channel Four Docs is a strange, mysterious and intimate portrait of a woman who is a philosophy student and stripper. The juxtaposition of philosophy books, photos in a bed-sit flat and an exotic dance (in a bunny suit) to the sound of classical guitar, makes a surreal and compelling short film.
This film [...]

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Killing Floyd

Posted in Film, Video, tagged , , , , on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This short documentary from Channel Four Docs shows a Longhorn being brought to the slaughterhouse. Suddenly the vegetarian option seems more appetizing, when you see how animals are actually killed. An air pressure bolt gun, similar to the one used by the psychopath in the film “No Country for Old Men”, is used [...]

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Filmmakers and Art Galleries

Posted in Art, Film, tagged , , , on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Andrew Pulver blogs in the Guardian why art galleries are so attractive to filmmakers, providing a backdrop for DaVinci Code, Manhatten, Small Time Crooks, and lots more. Get the full article here.

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Spanish Film Festival: The Orphanage

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , , on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

El Orfanato directed by Juan Antonio Bayona is being shown on Friday 21st March in the Irish Film Institute as part of the Spanish Film Festival. This film was also shown recently in the Dublin International Film Festival and is excellent ghost story which draws on some of the ideas in The Others. It [...]

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