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What's particularly interesting is that the report also finds that British films hardly get a look in on broadcast television either, which is pretty obvious. But here they not only demand action, but also threaten legislation if the broadcasters fail to do anything about it: 32. The Panel...

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...

Kickstarter and Indiegogo – Is this David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ in action? Much as I agree with most of what Tommy says being a one-time academic I’m interested in a bit more detail. Crowdsourcing/crowdfunding is dominated by Kickstarter, and it’s smaller rival, Indiegogo. With Kickstarter...

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...

We. not in an advertised sort of way....

Hi Strawbs, You should have said! If you can send me a cheque, then I'll send you a signed copy of the Special Edition by return of post. Send me a private message.

Just found another nugget: Thursday, January 28, 2010 Diary Of A Bad Lad is... squeamish, greasy, funny and thought-provoking. Better than Blair Witch. Posted at 12:02 am by winstonsmith It's on http://madeupstuff.blogdrive.com/ Every review on this site is ten words long.

By the time you read this it'll be 177,250. How long before it goes pas the 200,000 mark? And, by way of comparison, the Paranormal Activity trailer on dailymotion.com has had only 31,000 views... Watch the Bad Lad trailer here...

Now heading towards 175,000!

Not a fantastically good turn out at the ACE, but a pretty good night. Being free went against us a bit; they said they'd had quite a few people wanting to make telephone bookings, who found out that all they had to do was turn up on the night. But at 7pm? That's a bit early. And on a Thursday...

Here's to the New Year!

Which great piece was that, Chris? BTW, bleedin' great to hear from you, mate!

Where are the links? Where are the links? Here they are: http://www.dailymotion.com/renderyardchannel http://www.vimeo.com/7774669 Comment by Guest 24th November 2009 Full agreement, this film is a cracker and I saw it first in Salford. Joe O' Byrne is terrific as is the rest of the cast...

2,000 more whilst I was having my tea. Current rate is at least 2,500 per hour...and climbing!

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?