Interview With Elliott Reeves, Director of Award-Winning Short Film ‘Osiris’ Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress wins at London’s Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest Surreal short film Osiris wowed the audience at the recent Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest, a celebration of surreal experimentation in independent filmmaking. The London film festival, now in […]
How do you ‘view’ or ‘watch’ a video installation in an exhibition? Of course, you don’t ‘watch’ it like you watch TV and you don’t view it as you would a painting or a sculpture. The time-based element of the medium sets it apart from the latter and the typically, non-narrative nature of the content […]
Sundance Film Festival: London 2023 opens today, July 6, with a cultured selection of features, shorts and UK premieres, directed by exceptional international talent. The festival gets its name from founder Robert Redford’s most famous film, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. The film’s Oscar-winning cinematography owes much to the soft-focused, rich-hued aesthetic of 35mm […]
Women Filmmakers Triumph At Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest, London At the first-ever UK festival dedicated to the surreal and uncanny, filmmaker Rocio Rocha from Argentina wins the trophy for Best Film as her experimental short The Inhabitants Of Me wows the judges. Lisa Battocchio from Italy wins the coveted Best Director category for her […]
Rock Musician and Film Composer Danny Jackson Tackles a ‘Blackout’ Thriller! SOUND MAESTRO Danny Jackson is more used to taking the stage at rock gigs as lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for experimental rock band Vali Ohm but in recent years he has switched his sound and music skills to the film industry as […]
We examine Covid 19’s impact on London film and how taken-for-granted practices have changed in the face of the pandemic. What is the future for the capital’s actors, filmmakers, distributors, cinemas and festivals? Covid 19 and London film clashed Hollywood-style back in December 2020 when movie star Tom Cruise chastised his crew for breaking Covid […]
Lewisham-based director Tianna Banton started writing scripts aged 11 and made her first short film at 17. She was inspired to start her own production company after watching a fascinating existential short film called Stray Dog by upcoming director Bertie Gilbert. So far, she has made 10 shorts and two features: Just Remember and Trial […]
The 27th French Film Festival UK (Nov-Dec 2019) comes to 33 cities in the UK with 240 screenings and 60 films across the genres. The Cine Lumiere, South Kensington will be screening French classics starring the likes of Catherine Deneuve. But we’ve come to this magnificent art deco building in search of the new […]
Film producer Amar Adatia has strong ties to London’s East End and Essex and was recently ranked at No.52 in a list of Essex’s top influencers. Living up to his reputation as an emerging movie mogul, for this latest film he secured the efforts of Superman actor Dean Cain (Lois & Clark, 1993-1997) as both […]
The title translates as ‘weeping woman’ which may well be a metaphor for a weeping nation in Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante’s haunting political drama which captures the trial of an ageing General Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz) accused of genocide. There are parallels with Guatemalan dictator José Efraín Rios Montt, who went from general to absolute […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
