I am in Week 2 at a new job. I have left teaching, and am now a Data Operator at Vice UK. That means that I work in the Postproduction Team. As the first step in Postproduction, the Data Ops team ingests footage from Production, uploads it to central servers, and creates proxies for the …
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I won a teaching award
I forgot to say at the time (because I have been swamped and didn’t update this site), but I won a teaching award. I was nominated by at least one student for supporting students during lockdown.
Best television shows
Recently I’ve been thinking about what would be on my top 5 list of TV shows If you’re asked objectively “what are the best TV shows of all time?”, then surely you are talking about which shows were seminal and changed the landscape of television for all time… Let’s see Happy Days Star Trek Doctor …
Hiding
Hiding A short thriller Directed by Nirusha Wijayamohan. Written by Andrew Pennington, based on a story by Randa Elobeid & Nirusha Wijayamohan. Starring Jey Jey I was the First AD and Co-Producer for this short film. The film has nearly finished postproduction. We are now looking for someone to design a poster for the film. …
AOTS Time
Tomorrow the November Action On The Side project starts. We have a good group, and I’m looking forward to working with them. We have an 80% female team. It’s the first time I’ve had two of my students be my interns. It’s the first AOTS I’ve run since I started teaching full-time at Raindance. What …
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 …
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 …
‘Copper’ playing at Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival – this weekend
Copper has been selected and will be screened at the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival this weekend
August Action On The Side
Hi guys, We’re running Action On The Side again this August 2014. Sign-up at http://www.actionontheside.tv This time around though, we are developing some scripts in July. The scripts will be pitched to the group to select for production. This should lead to stronger scripts and more pre-production time. So, if you have a script idea …
KinoLondon #61
Here I am, presenting Facetracker at the KinoLondon #61 event (09 April 2014) And here are some other photos from the night
