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.

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Ready for Cannes with my new Business Cards

If you’re at the event, check out Dead Letter in the Short Film Corner, and look me up.

If you’re not at the event, follow me on twitter and instagram for live updates.

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)

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  • Rice crackers: hmmm … with dip
    • edit: you can get these in some supermarkets
  • Sweet Chilli Philly
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Sweet Chilli Philly: a soft cheese covered with sweet thai chilli sauce
  • Tim Tams: these were available at the Kiwi/Aussie/SAFA/Canadian store – Penguins are an alternative, but they don’t work for the Tim Tam Slam.
  • Lamingtons: although I did find a cafe in Shoreditch that had them
  • A proper really good flat white: being from Wellington, I’m a snob about my coffee. Sacred cafes do the best in London.
    • edit: there are some good flat whites now…
  • Reduced Cream: mixed with soup mixtures (Onion) for amazing dips

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  • Sugarfree V: although you can get regular V in some dairies / stores, if you don’t want the massive sugar hit, you can’t get sugarfree.
  • Grain Waves
  • Spirulina smoothies: seriously, getting a 1L smoothie with spirulina in it … I haven’t found that in London. You can get other green smoothies, but not with spirulina.

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  • Pineapple Lumps
  • Chocolate fish: give that man a chocolate fish!

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The moral of the story: bring me these things!

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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

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 The Side script development sessions.

Here are some images from AOTS Weekend 1

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 things are always learning opportunities. Crew will be sent a link soon.

Swipe Match

I just got home from a 16-and-a-half hour film shoot, where I was a mixture of 1st AC, gaffer, 2nd AC, hair & make-up, and Continuity. I got to work with the Blackmagic.

It was an amazing and wonderful experience. It’s days like this that reinforce my love of film and filmmaking. Thank you to Director Andrew, Actors/Producers James and Drew, Producer Dione, DP Michael, and the rest if the crew. I look forward to working with you guys on Wednesday.

I can’t share photos from the shoot yet (as it hasn’t been cleared by the Producers), but will show a couple as soon as I can.

Exhausted!

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Action On The Side

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This month’s Action On The Side is drawing to a close. We produced one short film: ‘Life Lines’, written and directed by Tunbi Oluyede.

The film is screening this Sunday, 24 August, 6pm at Hult House (37-38 John Street, London WC1B 2AT).

We are also screening ‘Escape’, recut from the February 2014 Action On The Side.

Above are a few behind-the-scene shots from the Life Lines shoot.