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. …
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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
Guerilla Filmmakers Masterclass
I spent yesterday at Regent’s College, sitting in a lecture theatre, being inspired about filmmaking by Chris Jones, scribbling pages and pages of notes. It was the Guerilla Filmmakers Masterclass. I tried to tweet tidbits during the presentations, but my phone decided I can’t connect to the internet with it (gee, thanks, phone). I can …
Adelaide Screenwriter – new interview
Adelaide Screenwriter – new interview Henry at Adelaide Screenwriter has uploaded a new interview with me, an update from our interview last year. Check it out. And, while you’re there, check out the rest of his site too. There are interviews and tips and shorts (oh my!)
Scriptwriting – a lesson
I’m supervising an Independent Study at the moment, on Scriptwriting. The student has a novel that he is adapting to screen. We spent an hour today talking about compulsion and goals, propelling the audience, forward momentum and the three-act structure, and more conversations on the differences between writing novels and writing for screen. It was …
