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May 25, 2007
Frivolous Writing
I am very aware that my writing of the blog from Cannes has been nothing short of frivolous and far from illuminating. There is cause for this.
Frivolous video from Rue d'Antibes
While Cannes is stuffed to the gunwhales with parties and events and publicity stunts of all kinds from scantily clad babes emblazoned with promo to mobile techno clubs on pick up trucks, the bulk of what is done here is firmly rooted in deep seriousness.
The reason we have been here is to meet people, get their reactions on various projects and strike up relationships for a variety of aspects of the film making process from funding for development to sales and distribution and everything in between. The act of reporting on our progress on an individual project basis is not a tenable idea.
As readers of this blog will know I have often spoken of the fragility of the business of putting the enormous jigsaw of components together for a film. This problem is at its most true in the early stages of a films life. So it has not been practical for me to speak about who we have been meeting with and what we have been discussing. What I can say is that we have had a lot of very interesting meetings and discussed a number of projects with some very interesting people. So there you go, once again, not very illuminating but at least explained. This also points to us bringing you some exciting stuff in the near future.
Hallam Foe is released on the 31st August in the UK and as we all know there is always a lot of fuss surrounding the opening of a film and I can tell you this will be no different. Although the details of how all this is going to manifest itself are still to be decided the BVI gang have some cool ideas that will unfold over the summer.
For those of you in the States you know we had a great meeting with the gang from Magnolia so we expect good things from them. I will try and find out more from the other territories that have sold about what is planned for the rest of the world.
As the fruits of the Cannes labour become apparent I'll fill you in. In the meantime, I'm afraid my lips are sealed.
Posted by colin kennedy at May 25, 2007 7:50 PM
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hey Col! just had to say i'm loving the channel 4 ads by the way!did you know they were floating around?
CK
It's looks good on the TV I think and great to be getting the coverage too.
Posted by: Joanna at May 28, 2007 11:22 PM
Colin, The Herald is reporting that David's next project will be Swung, based on a book by Ewan Morrison, about the underground "swinging" scene in Glasgow (sounds interesting!). Any chance you can confirm (or deny) or give details about this? If you can't, feel free to delete my post. I don't want to reinforce the rumour mill.
Posted by: Laura at June 1, 2007 6:48 PM
I had a great cannes as well. It was good to churn things up with Circumference. Most other people were looking for distributors and funders. But as its a film funded by adverts I wasn't. In fact we had a good negative campaign around that fact. All tongue-in-cheek obviously. Best bit of Cannes for me was meeting so many people on the fringes of film - mobile film makers, super8 film makers, web film makers. The mainstream is so mainstream you need to talk to these guys to recapture the spirit of the maverick film maker.
www.circumferencefilm.com
CK
I see you are on the list of people invited to the screening next week. I hope you can make it up to London and we can catch up.
Posted by: Tim Clague at June 4, 2007 1:49 PM
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