Day Three of Festival de Cannes – Page Officielle — the stress of dressing for the red carpet and packing a bag with spare shoes and minimal extras led to missioning to Cannes to collect the ticket for ‘Youth’. Managed to miss the 10am deadline but eventually found where to collect tickets and got it …
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Day One of Cannes
Amazing first day at Festival de Cannes – Page Officielle . Made it to Nice, then got to Cannes to collect accreditation about 5pm. Phone died many times during the day so very few photos. Found the UK Film Pavilion to volunteer at the WFTV Reception (masses of awesome networking). Then headed out to dinner, …
Day Two of Cannes
Day Two of Festival de Cannes – Page Officielle : volunteered with Show Me the F£&%ing money, a web site that interviews movers and shakers about film financing. Had a lovely day shooting at La Plage Royale. Kira, Andrew, and I went to the NZFC Offices. Had a meeting at the Canadian Pavilion, went through …
Action On The Side: inspiration
Action On The Side has expanded to include regular inspiration, tips, tricks, and reminders for writers and filmmakers. Follow the posts on Facebook and on Twitter. The next Action On The Side project is July 2015. Sign up at Action On The Side Upcoming Script Development meetings Do you have a script? Do you have …
Getting Ready for Cannes
Next week, the Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival and Sales Market) kicks off. I’m heading to the Festival with two of my co-Producers, Andrew Montague and Kira Fitzpatrick of This Big Productions. We’ll be there Monday 18th to Friday 22nd. If you’re at the event, check out Dead Letter in the Short Film Corner, and …
NZ things I can’t get in London
This blog post was sitting in my drafts folder for years. I decided to post it retrospectively, with a few amendments. Proper Marmite: the Marmite in the UK is brown, rather than black. It just doesn’t taste as good (to me) Rice crackers: hmmm … with dip edit: you can get these in some supermarkets …
Copper – European Premiere
We are pleased to announce that COPPER has been selected for the CINEDEAF International Deaf Film Festival CINEDEAF is held in Rome, Italy, 5-7 June 2015. This will be Copper’s European Premiere.
On the set of Arms Trade
We’re on set for the latest Action On The Side shoot, ARMS TRADE View this post on Instagram A post shared by CONFIDENT COACH (@francescaioppolo_life_coach) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Patricia Hetherington (@phetheringtonnz) Come see the finished film, Saturday 28 February. Sign up at http://www.actionontheside.tv/make-it-happen
Action On The Side — February 2015
The next Action On The Side project kicked off on Saturday 07 February 2015. The selected short is ARMS TRADE After a heavy night of drinking, best friends Troy and Sean awake to find they have mysteriously swapped arms. The script was developed by Josh Pappenheim, Chris Parker, & James Morgan through the Action On …
Dead Letter – finished!
I am about to head off to the first Script Development meeting for November’s Action On The Side project, but would like to officially announce the completion of ‘Dead Letter‘. Now onto entering it into film festivals, submitting to IMDb, and getting the film out there There were unfortunately severe delays with post-production. However, these …
Busy Times 