Very pleased to announced that Sons Of Atom will be playing at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

It feels like a long time since we finished the film, but I’m really glad to be having our American premiere in good ol’ Brooklyn. Dates and deets here.

Currently Listening To: Peter Howell – The Astronauts

Very pleased and surprised that Bradley Manning Had Secrets has won the award for Best Short Film at MIX Copenhagen 2012!

Annoyed I couldn’t be there to pick it up in person, but I’m told my statuette is in the post!

The judges’ statement was very kind, describing it as

an exciting example of contemporary filmmaking

with

palpable emotion and lingering questions.

You can read the whole thing here, if you really want.

Currently Watching: Hot Chip – Football?

Bradley Manning Had Secrets will be appearing in a few festivals in the next few months.

Check it out at the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival at their Radical Constitution programme of experimental shorts. March 26th!

Meanwhile – in Holland – the film’s already had a very successful screening at the Rotterdam International Film Festival last month. Plus, it’s in competition at the Holland Animation Film Festival, also playing at the end of March.

I’ll try and keep you updated with festival selections as they come in. Very nice seeing it on the big screen – big pixels!

Currently Watching: Ratatat – Drugs

Internet Story is playing in the East End Film Festival on April 30th as part of the East End Tales 2 Programme. Nice!

Plus, on May 2nd it will feature in Rich Pickings as part of a programme about “game structures in art and everyday life”. Double nice!

Then, between April 29th and May 5th, the film will be playing three times in the Brussels Short Film Festival as part of their International Competition. OK enough already!

Currently Watching: Angelo Badalamenti on Twin Peaks Theme

Internet Story will be playing at the London Short Film Festival on January 13th, over at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Really happy to be in this festival as well – it’s part of the interesting-sounding God’s Lonely Men programme. Should be good!

Book tickets here, if you’d like to.

Also forgot to mention: the film’s gone international! Got some nice responses from the interFilm Berlin Film Festival.

Expect more news on my next project in the New Year. Merry Christmash!

Currently Reading: Rice Boy

Have you heard the Good News? Internet Story will be playing at the BFI onedotzero Festival this November, down on London’s Southbank.

It’s an uber-cool digital/innovation event that I’m really proud to be a part of. The film is part of the New British Talent 10 programme which will be playing at the following times:

Wed 10 Nov | 16:00 | NFT3
Sat 13 Nov | 13:30 | NFT1
Sun 14 Nov | 20:30 | Studio

I’ll most likely be attending the Sunday showing but might go to the Saturday one as well. There’s loads of other cool things going on (see the programme) so it’d be great to see you there!

Tickets go on sale from the BFI for the general public on Oct 12th (or Oct 5th for sneaky BFI members).

Currently Watching: Strangley Moving BBC Promo

Several months ago, I was commissioned to produce an animated promo for the charity Breast Cancer UK. The trustees have been really happy with it and are currently touring it around various political conferences. It’s fun and informative, so you might like to check it out above! Full details here.

In other news, my thanks to those who attended probably the last public screening of Arcadia at the Portobello Film Festival. Thanks for laughing/semi-gasping at the right bits! There were also loads of neat films in the programme, so it was a great fest to be part of.

Currently Watching: LittleFoot

UPDATE: I put the wrong date down previously. Arcadia is screening on Monday the 7th of September. Not the 8th. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The Portobello Film Festival, London’s hippest and trendiest film event, is showcasing Arcadia! It will be showing on the 7th of September, from around 8pm. I really recommend coming to see the whole programme (from 6pm), as it’s sure to show a load of cool films, including Hip Hip Hooray by fellow director Lynsey Miller. It’s FREE entry and I’ll be there, so come and say “Hi!”

For the full details look here.

On a side note, I thought it was funny that Arcadia had been rated unsuitable for anyone below the age of 12. I’d always seen it as a film that a lot of kids might enjoy, even if it does have some scary, or at least unsettling, moments. I guess my childhood featured a lot more disturbing Czech stop-frame animations…

Currently Watching: The Cat Came Back

Arcadia will be shown at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival very soon. It’s part of the Long Shorts Programme on the 2nd of May. I’m very excited about seeing it on the big screen at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Circus. Perhaps I’ll see you there?

We’re making some great progress with Internet Story, having just finished recording the vocals. We went through the lines in almost microscopic detail but we got some great performances in the end, and still finished early! Rather unconventionally, we’re doing the visuals after the audio, so we’ll be filming very shortly.

I’ve also come back from Morocco quite recently, having been out there on a shoot for a gritty action film with Pure Grass Films. Filming and editing the official “Making Of” was great fun and I was happy with how it turned out. Very much looking forward to seeing the finished film.

Bye for now.

Currently watching: Channel 101