The government’s recently published report: “A Future For British Film: It begins with the audience...” is pretty good when it comes to identifying the problems, but sadly not so hot when it comes to proposing solutions.
Right from the start it outlines a key conundrum: if the public want to...
Data on UK no/micro-budget film-making is very hard to come by. A UK Film Council report from June 2008 gives some idea as to the numbers being made, the quality, and the problems they face. Unfortunately the UKFC and the Regional Screen Agencies seemed to totally ignore their own findings.
The...
Only Quotas can make British Cinema Great Again
This article first appeared in The Guardian online edition, 7.12.10. It's now nearly 30 years since Thatcher scrapped, along with much else that had supported British cinema since 1928, so now most people weren't around to remember what it was...
This article first appeared on Mac Harwood's blog, “The Boring Stuff” where he deals with what he calls, the “unglamorous parts of the film industry”.
Plenty of distributors talk about putting your independent film onto iTunes. They wax lyrical about how good they are at it, give estimated...
The DCMS has requested comments and suggestions about what should be the country's future film policy, to be sent to them by 9 September. This is a draft of what I will be sending. If you are a film producer or director with feature film credits, or with a feature in pre-production; or if you...
Diary of a Bad Lad's erstwhile executive producer Tommy Morghen recently published this comment piece on 'crowdsourcing/crowdfunding' on his facebook page. And because this is something which people are becoming increasingly interested in, I've taken the liberty of reprinting it here without his...
The Video Recordings Act (1984) requires DVDs to be classified by the BBFC, even if they are only sold to 18+ aged credit card holders over the internet.
Times have changed now people can make films on no-budget for niche audiences, they can produce compilations of short films, and they can...
F*ck me! I've just been checking out
http://www.dailymotion.com/renderyardchannel
Three days ago the trailer had been viewed about 400 times. And it's now gone to, wait for it, 87,745 views!
WOW!!!
Just how far is this going to go?
The Video Recordings Act (1984) requires DVDs to be classified by the BBFC, even if they are only sold to 18+ aged credit card holders over the internet.
Times have changed now people can make films on no-budget for niche audiences, they can produce compilations of short films, and they can...
Today Pleased Sheep Films finalised a contract with the Swiss company, DIVA.ag who will be representing Diary of a Bad Lad in the global video-on-demand/download/pay-tv markets.
DIVA are a major international company with offices world-wide. They were very keen to represent Bad Lad because...
Right now the House of Lords Communications Committee is holding an inquiry into the future of the British Film Industry. Jon found out at the last moment when local short film maker and good guy Faisal Qureshi contacted him suggesting he should make a written submission. You can read it on...
A number of this forum's contributors have been pointing out how there are many things rotten with the UK Film Council and its Regional Screen Agencies. And we're not alone. More and more are, like Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Brian Cox, Jonathan Gems and many others, standing up and being...
The biggest issue is exhibition. Over the past decade quite a few features have been made in the North West - but they've hardly been screened. And it's also the case with shorts too. This thread is dedicated to doing something about it.
Our films aren't going to be on in the multiplexes except...
Respected Indiewire film web-zine blogger, Michael Tully, is so impressed with Bad Lad that he says he'll be putting his weight behind it as soon as it comes out in the States. Michael sent us a pretty long email about the film.
Here's just some of what he said:
"I was VERY impressed by...
With Diary of a Bad Lad Pleased Sheep Films set out to prove that uncompromising films could be made on no money. We didn't set out to blaze a trail, but as soon as we'd finished shooting, Bad Lad star and Bolton resident Joe O'Byrne set about developing the now virtually completed, no-budget...
DIARY OF A BAD LAD double disc special edition is going to be available just as soon as we've got, and checked the samples from the manufacturer. And it's no ordinary special edition.
Besides two hours of extras there's also an interactive section where you can edit your own version of one...
There's been an increasing amount of Bad Lad traffic on the net recently, and I was doing some checking on Google. For quite some time there's been a couple of Chinese sites listed for Bad Lad. The first is a listings site - like a Chinese imdb, but I'd never clicked on the second, assuming that...
It's Wednesday 22 January. I've just watched the first screening of the complete rough cut, and I'm suffused by the sort of warm rosy glow that usually only follows really good sex - or maybe even childbirth.
Throughout the whole process Bad Lad, and the experience of making it, has just got...
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