It’s less than two weeks until The Ealing 48 | 48-hour film competition! I’ve wanted to run a 48-hour film competition for years, and it’s finally happening! Teams will have just 48-hours to write, shoot, edit, and submit their short film. The films are 5-7 minutes (including credits), and must be in the genre we …
Tag Archives: action on the side
On the job hunt again
My previous two contracts ended, so I have spent July applying for new job opportunities. This involves daily checking of LinkedIn, regular updates to my CV, networking, and doing other film work in the background. I’m in an interesting situation because I can work in at least four different areas. I can continue teaching at …
Script Development Workshops
I think I got sick of not making movies, so I’ve given Action On The Side a kick up the rear! I’ve scheduled two projects this year: June and October. I’ve started running fortnightly script development workshops again. They’re running at the Curzon Soho bar* on Wednesdays, 18:30-20:30. The next one is on 26th April. …
AOTS: Back with a BANG!
Lots happening with AOTS this year. Check out the links.
AOTS Script Competition
More about the AOTS Short Screenplay Competition I’ve set up
Virtual Pub Quiz tonight
TONIGHT 7pm-9pm Join me for the first Action On The Side fundraising pub quiz Raising funds for ActionAid UK and Me Too, the short film I am co-producing with Aude Konan The questions were written by one of my students as part of their work experience. We are running a series of monthly pub quizzes. …
I broke a website
Recently I decided to jump in and fix something that had been bothering me for a while. The Action On The Side website had been hosted by the hosting site James uses (James who created AOTS). Each year I reimbursed James for hosting, an annual cost I had forgotten about. Over the years my ‘graphical …
Sign up for the June AOTS project
I broke the Action On The Side website. The project starts in four days. While I fix the page, if you haven’t signed up yet, sign up here. 1. Add yourself to the mailing list through Mailchimp at http://eepurl.com/bdpm5P 2. Pay the fee to take part in the project here: Today I learnt not to …
The vlogging journey
I’ve been all ‘heads-down, tails-up’ with my master’s studies, working 4 days a week, running the March 2016 AOTS project, running the business and doing general filmmaking stuff. In the lead-up to the June 2016 AOTS project — two weeks away! — I’ve started vlogging. Check out the first one below: In one of my …
London Film Communities
As part of my MA, I researched the London Film Communities currently available. Here is the list.
