Author: Ric

Back in April I did some doc filming for the Northern Net 4 hour film challenge. Taking place in three cities simultaneously, a bunch of film making teams had just, yep, you guessed it, 4 hours to make short films from concept to handing over the finished edit.

A few months back I was asked if I'd join a writer/producer team as director, in a bid to secure funding from Vision + Media for a short film. Liking the script, I signed up, wrote my directors notes and we submitted the bid. Unfortunately, we didn't get the funding, but I persuaded the rest of the team that we should go ahead and try to make the film anyway.   The project is titled 'Thinking Straight'.

Received an email from Chris Jones, author of the Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook, with a link to his guide to the Cannes Film Festival. (If you've not seen this, check it out here). After seeing it, I realised that I needed to go this year. Just one problem - to get festival accreditation (in order to see movies, attend events etc) at a reasonable price, I would need to enter a short film into the Cannes Short Film Corner.