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July 31, 2007
Hallam Foe triumphs with the Fipresci in Motovun
As the more adventurous readers of our blog have noted, helegis I'm looking at you, Hallam Foe picked up the FIPRESCI award at Motovun. Essentially being the film which the critics in attendance decided to award as their best in show.
From Motovun's site, a description of the Fipresci's organisation:
Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique – the oldest and most prestigious association of film critics with members from around 50 countries of the world. The association's award, given by its international film critics juries, gained exceptional popularity among film authors.
The night was sultry. Here producer Gillian Berrie, Jamie Bell and David Mackenzie took to the stage to collect the award.
Image courtesy of the Motovun Film Festival.
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You're Filming Me? Who's Filming You?
A lot of Motovun's charm derives from it's location and the centrality of it's events. Everything occurs within a few streets and, near all, exterior spaces. Audience members chat with filmmakers, revelers gyrate past audience members and those with camera's almost constantly end up filming or taking photos of others filming or taking photos.
Witness: Annabel Sexton joins us again to interview Colin... and his camera... Dougal. It's a not so long story.
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July 30, 2007
Hallam Foe's latest guest blogger... is 4!
You'll be glad to know that we weren't always derelict from duty. As soon as we've had a chance to anti red eye some photos they'll be up here too.
In the meantime possibly the worlds youngest video blogger, Annabel Sexton at 4 years old, joined us in Croatia for a small interview with David Mackenzie prior to the screening of Hallam Foe. I think Colin and I have a lot to learn.
Thanks to Sue, there are indeed some family foe photos over on the Motovun Film Festivals site here.
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July 27, 2007
3 Days in...
... and this is my first bog.
It's half past one ib tge morning and you giessed it, I'm drink.
Now the astute amongst you weill understanf that far from neglecting my duties ad imbibing the local fire water I have axtually been working on greater hings. I kid you not.
Small triumphs have been akieved. Not least, I have secured great iterviews with the leading lights of the Family Foe and they wil shortly be available for your viewing pleasure here and on the Flim Four Channel website, BIV's film factory and elsewhere on the web.
I sign off from my druken blurb for now but pronise good things for the futire.
ck xxxo
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July 25, 2007
Croatia, Motovun, the filth and the fury...
Good evening meine freunde. A lot has transpired since we set foot in Motovun, Croatia. Colin is busying himself shooting footage that will be released soon as podcasts/vodcasts. As a purveyor of every single dvd extra feature i can tell you that you will not be let down. His work is exemplary.
Last night the Motovun Film festival played host to another of Sigma Films's projects Red Road and the audience response was amazing. It's very odd to see a film shot in Glasgow and in the English language, subtitled into the native language. Often the idiosyncrasies of the dialogue can appear to be lost in translation, however such is the strength of the picture that every beat and every cut was welcomed by the warmest of responses, by both the cinéphiles and residents of Motovun (for whom this invasion of thousands must be very strange indeed).
I leave you with my view from the terrace as i sip a cold beer and look forward to a hearty meal (truffles are big in these parts) and a screening of Audition at 01:30. For anyone that's seen it, i'll be coming back at 02:45 for the audience reaction.
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July 23, 2007
Ich heiße Hallam Foe!
Prokino, our German distributor, have released the German version of the Hallam Foe trailer. And in the true spirit of the global conversation herewith...
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Only 766 Miles to go...
The most troublesome and exciting thing about blogging is just how reactionary you can be with it. I mean you can take a photo and have it uploaded within minutes. Hopefully I'll be bringing some of that to our blog.
In the main everything will be going here. With the best bits finely honed and delivered here at getyourpeople.
I'll also have a video channel running here. Viddler is just like YouTube except I'll be able to tag moments and people in the video, it's a little like a DVD commentary apart from you won't be able to hear me drone on. Let's hope the broadband connection at the top of Motovun is ready for team Hallam.
Image courtesy of bokutarik.
More here.
So where are we heading? The Motovun Film Festival. I first came here a few years ago with a film called Guy X when i was working at another production company F&ME. Mike Downey is the festival's Council of Advisors President, a man i used to work for and a throughly likable chap, therefore me and Colin hope we may get a lot of favours in meeting and bringing to you, lots of faces from the festival.
In the meantime I'm also working on walking the land (the web) connecting every single mention of Hallam Foe! Have a look at how far I've got over at del.icio.us. Not very far admittedly, but feel free send me you links at londonfilmgeek {a} gmail.com or tag links getyourpeople on your own del.icio.us accounts and leave me a comment below.
And if it's all just a bit too sunny for you here in Croatia. Edinburgh's Just around the corner, where we might have some more interesting things afoot.
Image courtesy of freekorps.
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July 18, 2007
Introducing...
...the one and only Mr. Lee Thomas, the London Film Geek.
Lee is going to be accompanying myself, David Mackenzie, Jamie Bell, Gillian Berrie and Matthew Justice to the Motovun film festival to do a kind of blog mash-up with them and the whole thing will take place here on Get Your People.
Lee Thomas
Lee works at Lunar films and is a blog fanatic, he writes the Lunar blog and also the Album Chart Show blog as well as having a big hand in the Sugarhouse Lane blog. Take a look.
So keep an eye on the blog for the next week or so because it's going to be a busy place as the Family Foe head to Croatia with their movie.
PS Sigma Films are particularly well represented at this festival with Hallam Foe, Red Road and After the Wedding all playing. It should be an exciting week and we will be bringing you interviews and stories from all the players (including Stephen Daldry of Billy Elliot and The Hours fame) taking part. I can't wait.
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Hallam Foe Facebook stuff
The whole Facebook thing is becoming increasingly fun. There's a new application on there for sharing blogs which I am trying out at the moment - Blog Friends.
I'm not that far into the whole thing yet though so I don't have a great deal to say, but I do like the implication that you can share info with people that are potentially directly interested in what you are writing about but with quite a broad spectrum of motive - it could start out because they're friends of yours and then the more distant that relationship becomes, as the degrees of separation become greater then you should be finding an audience whose interests become more concentrated towards the content of ones witterings. Now it strikes me that this is a particularly interesting model because the act of finding your readership is kind of reversed. People aren't searching for the stuff you're writing about but more being introduced. This is of course the same viral thing that is talked about so much elsewhere on the net - the secret behind all big web phenomena.
Basically, this is one of the better examples of sharing what you love. I think that's really all I wanted to say.
Here's a particularly good shot Jamie Bell that the public haven't seen yet - feel free to share it with whomever you like (and don't forget to tell them which film it comes from).
Enjoy x
Jamie Bell as Hallam Foe
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July 12, 2007
Hallam Foe trailer
Just realised I haven't posted the Hallam Foe trailer - pretty damn remiss of me but better late than never.
Ya gotta love that feral kid of ours...
Out in the UK on the 31st August
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Ed Film Fest '07
You all know that Hallam Foe will open the 61st Edinburgh Film Festival. Yesterday was the press launch for the whole thing so I went along to watch David (Mackenzie) and Sophia (Myles) strut their stuff and also grab a couple of interviews of my own.
It was a great day and we are all very excited about going the whole thing.
Here's a vid of Hannah McGill (Artistic Director of the festival) talking about this year's festival: EIFF TV
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The spirit of sharing...
...is central to this medium, so I am posting this Sunshine widget that I saw on Facebook and that Gia is sharing with the world. I also really like the idea of collaborating with other people in the film world that are trying to garner an audience for their movies and supporting them. So here it is...
Similarly, if anyone out there has a movie that they's like to plug on this site then get in touch and I'll have a look.
Share what you love...
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Bloggers screening Pt 3
Hands up for the final part in the bloggers screening Q&A and a wee surprise twist at the end for all concerned...
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Blogger screening Q&A Pt 2
Here's the second part of the Q&A from the bloggers screening...
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Q&A and, of course, if you have any questions of your own I am as ever happy to put them to those in the know if I can't answer them myself.
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July 11, 2007
Blogger Screening Q&A
Finally I have the Q&A from the bloggers screening, apologies for the delay.
This is part 1
Enjoy x
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July 5, 2007
Jamie Bell, funny as ever
Great little quote from Jamie on the Starpulse entertainment news blog...
"After this I'll be called the nipple-circling dress-wearer or Rat Boy." read the rest of the article
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