The Bristol Radical Film Festival returns for its fourth edition. It has partnered up with the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first ever Festival of Independent British Cinema. The festival, a milestone in (…) Continue Reading »

Director Oliver Nias’s first feature The Return premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London, where it was nominated for Best UK Feature. A sober, atmospheric atmospheric psychological thriller, the black and white production is an impressive first film and augurs well for Oliver’s next projects... How would you describe the genre of the film? Where did the idea come from? The (…) Continue Reading »

We caught up with director Jordan Schiele at this year’s Encounters festival in Bristol. His funny, off-beat short The Turtle was screened and made our very own Mydy awards list! How did you get into filmmaking? Going to the movies or the videostore was a hobby that my parentsshared with my sister and me. We both became filmmakers. I never thought of it as a career, but just something to (…) Continue Reading »

No. 27 Dir Lola Peploe France 2015 21 mins Fr Lilly Page est une jeune Anglaise partie vivre son rêve d’aspirante romancière dans la Ville Lumière. Dans ce Paris fantasmé, tout peut arriver. C’est donc sans trop de surprise que dans une librairie, Lilly trouve une annonce déposée par un homme qui fait commerce des rêves que l’on veut bien lui vendre. Le premier court métrage de Lola (…) Continue Reading »

We caught up with writer/director Dan Hodgson at Encounters in Bristol. His second film LOVE IS BLIND was screened at Encounters and has been shortlisted for a short film Palme d’or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Can you tell us a bit about how your first short-Are You Albert-came about? In the final few years of her life my grandma was in a care home with dementia and the idea grew (…) Continue Reading »

As we were up in Bristol for Encounters, we caught up with Elizabeth Mizon, programmer for the Radical Film Festival, which will take place on 9-11 October, just opposite the Watershed, the current home of Encounters, at the Arnolfini. We had a chat about funding, this year’s programme and whether the political environment in Britain has led to an increase in interest. More info at: (…) Continue Reading »

It’s a busy time in festival world and the Mydy team has been spreading itself thin trying to cover screenings and events. High-up on our list of not-to-be-missed fests is the unfailingly excellent Bristol-based Encounters Short Film Festival. Our two-people strong delegation was sent, and after having worked our way through the entire Watershed men and the 9 series of competitive shorts, we (…) Continue Reading »

Signe Baumane’s Rocks in My Pockets is a magic realist cartoon, revelatory in its examination of the repercussions and repetitions of mental illness within a genealogy. The hand-drawn animation is flat, jerky and superimposed onto footage of (…) Continue Reading »

Your previous documentaries are all about widely varying subjects. What inspired you to make one about Greenpeace? I try and do something different from one film to the next. I like looking at new subject matter and trying new approaches. This one emerged from the realisation that there was all this footage, all the original rushes used in Greenpeace’s campaigning films in the 1970s that (…) Continue Reading »

Now in its tenth year, the British Urban Film Festival aims to celebrate and promote independent, urban cinema in the UK. This year BUFF will have free masterclasses (in addition to its usual lineup for all the budding filmmakers hoping to be selected for future festivals) and short films online. BUFF Previews: Still Water (2014) isn’t at all urban but brings a bit of fantasy to the (…) Continue Reading »