Accounts of filmmaking from filmmakers
Gorilla talks to Jimmy Dean and Ellie Gocher about their short film about a young traveller girl, Charity, and what it was like shooting on celluloid with just £3,000.
Acting isn’t all Oscars and perfume endorsements. For the aspiring actor the world of film and stage is a tough, often demoralising, gauntlet.
CornerHart is a short film that sees director Eddie Saint-Jean try out a technique used by Ingmar Bergman in The Passion of Anna.
Director Mark Warren recounts the pleasure of working with an established actor, the risk with buying old equipment and approaching the big one; animation.
AK is a short drama about a young Sierra Leonean man trying to survive as a student in London. Guerilla filmmaker Michael Chandler tells us about his experience making the film.
Italian photographer, Massimo Nolletti, writes about his experience filming the short documentary Cairo Diary, during the Egyptian revolution.
Writer and Director Stelana Kiliris tells us what life was like making the comedy film, Committed, on a shoestring budget in Cyprus.
Ben Woodiwiss, head of independent film company Look/Think Films, talks about film stuff, including their first feature, Benny Loves Killing.
Filmmaker Sophie Black talks about how she created a narrative about a close relationship without relying on dialogue in her film, Ashes.
In part three of Mark Warren’s short filmmaking account he records his first actors and reveals the moment when the idea for the film first came to him.