About 80 people turned out to enjoy six short films in the cosy comfort of the Chambers last night. First up was the epic, effects laden extravaganza that is Secret Thoughts of Angels. Nuff said about that already… Then came ‘Petals Fall’, by Michelle Goessen (dir) and Lisa Newman (dp). Through the clever intercutting of …

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Next monday evening (25th) sees the return of DigiFest, the second evening of short films held at the Chambers in Folkestone. For all you filmmakers and screenwriters in Kent, this is a great place to network and see what other filmmakers are up to. Monday’s event includes Mis-happy by Zachary Cooke and The Crusader by …

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I spent the evening attempting to tidy my study and ejecting some of the dross that’s been hogging space on my bookshelves. My filing system now goes something like this: Top Shelf – Religion and Philosophy – more a hangover from my college days than anything else. I keep whittling this section down so it’s …

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I thought I’d have a go at starting up a weekly poll to garner general attitudes about films and stories, and generally what people like to see. I wanted to do it so that the poll would come out as a new blog entry so you clever people who read this through their RSS readers …

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Via Shooting People I found out about a really good new magazine out there about filmmaking – MovieScope purports to deliver articles on ‘Movies from the insiders point of view’. The thing I really like about it is the breadth of topics covered; directing, producing, writing, and acting all genres and budgets – all covered …

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Being the good scriptwriter I am and attempting to live the good life as defined by Tim… …tonight I had a Blue evening. Miscommunications meant a significant foreshortening of this evening’s scheduled FTV meeting, so I spent the rest of the evening chewing the cud with Chris, David and Gabby about all things film. Chris, …

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Just popped home for lunch and was excited to find the latest copy of Scr(i)pt magazine laying on the doormat. My eye’s lit up even more when I saw the headline promising an article about how fellow Screenblogger, Josh Friedman, adapted The Black Dahlia. Having followed his blog since the early days I’ve often wondered …

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Got a big fat NO from Raindance today, which I’m a bit disappointed about. It makes me laugh, they try to make you feel better by saying things like, ‘the competition was tough, this is no reflection on the quality of your film’. No? If it’s good, blinking well show it! Ho hum. Met up …

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The nice people at Propeller TV e-mailed me yesterday to say that they will be broadcasting Secret Thought Of Angels on SKY Channel 195 on Thursday 7th September at 20.21. If you can’t wait until then, and don’t mind watching it is all it’s webby small screen glory, you can see it at the SToA …

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