Snack Movies and Life Online If you make or watch short films, you should be familiar with Snoovies by now. Created in 2013 by three London actors (Roger Carvalho, Karsten Huttenhain and Viana Maya), this free App showcases quality short films (…) Continue Reading »

Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film "Uzak mı ..." ("Dûr e..." / "Distant..."). "Uzak mı..." a reçu la « Mention Spéciale du Jury » en Compétition Internationale au Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2016. Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du (…) Lire la suite »

This week’s short comes to us courtesy of film collective Reframed, whose eerily beautiful GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT, written by and starring Reframed member Claire Gordon-Webster, has just won the Best Female Filmmaker award at the Filmic Pro Tangerine Dreams Contest competition. The contest, now in its second year and named after feature film Tangerine, that was shot entirely on an iPhone, (…) Continue Reading »

What drew you to filmmaking? I got into a lot of trouble as a teenager. A counsellor suggested that my mom find me a creative outlet so I started practising theatre and photography. Then after a couple of years, I combined the two to make (…) Continue Reading »

What was your background in film prior to Redistributors? I started out as an editor and got indulgently trained at the BBC in Bristol on wildlife shows with David Attenborough. Then moved to London and cut a lot of TV. What sparked the idea (…) Continue Reading »

I gather your background is a mix of Liverpool and California? How have both environments influenced you and your work on Native? (And does Liverpool produce better alien beaches than LA?) In my experience Los Angeles and Liverpool are (…) Continue Reading »

Following a BAFTA nomination for their first feature film (Black Pond), Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe return with an atmospheric story of troubled sibling relationships and mysterious canals. Though very different from the world created in Flowers (Sharpe’s TV series, currently available on Channel 4), the characters here are as eccentric as the relationships are dysfunctional. When the (…) Continue Reading »

Lara has always lived in the shadow of her mother. That is, until the morning of one life-changing decision that Lara knows must be made alone. This week’s pick is Marc Hardman’s Mother, starring Jumaan Short & Miriam Margolyes, a moving, well-paced 10 minute drama. The film is one of many entries in this year’s Women’s Voices Now festival. To view it and vote, click here. Voting is (…) Continue Reading »

Based on its landlord’s memoirs (Tales From The Two Puddings by Eddie Johnson), Rob West’s documentary focuses on the iconic East End pub’s trend-setting quirks, its links to 1960s legendary characters such as the Kray twins, Harry Redknapp and David Essex, and its influence on the Barry Keefe classic The Long Good Friday. Between super 8 footage and 60s tunes, the film ignites a common (…) Continue Reading »

This international production directed by Daniel Florenico follows David Pillard, a once talented photographer, now broken down paparazzi, as he himself chases a tabloid story. Before the film ends, David will find something quite different from what he was initially looking for. Gudmundur Thorvaldsson is grippingly believable as the grieving and ailing photographer, as is Patrick Baladi who (…) Continue Reading »