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Posted on 13 January 2017
Q&A with Treasa O’Brien, director of Noor at Mytlini Port - LSFF2017
by Anne-Sophie Marie, Mydylarama teamTreasa O’Brien is a Ireland and London-based filmmaker whose works (doc and narrative) ‘explore art politics, poetry, social change, the individual and the collective, ecstatic truth, storytelling, reality, the usual.’ Her film Noor at Mytlini Port screened as part of LSFF’s Global Movements at the Hackney Picturehouse last night, where I had the chance to chat with her about the refugee situation, Noor, filmmaking and activism just before the event.
Mydylarama: Your film seems like quite a (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 9 January 2017
SWISS 2016 OSCARS ENTRY SPECIAL SCREENING: IRAQI ODYSSEY
by Abla Kandalaft“A personal, insightful and beautifully made film” Huffington Post
“One of the most breathless documentaries in recent memory” The Village Voice
The film will be presented for the first time in the UK at a special screening in partnership with the Iraqi Association on Thursday, January 12th 2017 at Rivercourt Methodist Church at 6:30pm. A UK digital release will follow, date TBC.
Press release below!
Tracing the emigrations of his family over a century, this riveting documentary epic from (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 23 December 2016
LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2017 PROGRAMME
by Abla Kandalaft‘THIS IS HAPPENING WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION’ (“Her Jazz”, Huggy Bear, 1992)
London Short Film Festival (LSFF) - 6-15 January - has announced its 2017 programme. According to the organisers: "This year’s festival mantra comes from Huggy Bear’s 1992 single Her Jazz, one of the rare UK representatives of riot grrrl in the early nineties. Based on the song’s ethos ‘this is happening without your permission’, LSFF 2017 has embraced this ideology, showing a huge wealth of diverse and challenging content, (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 21 octobre 2016
La Sociale
par Clotilde« La Sociale » est un film à ne pas manquer, pour les questions qu’il pose comme pour les vérités qu’il nous fait connaître, mais aussi pour sa ferveur envers ce qui est l’une de nos plus belles réussites dans le sens où elle allie la sécurité de tous avec la solidarité de chacun : la Sécurité Sociale, notre assurance du droit à vivre dignement. Continue Reading »
Posted on 5 October 2016
Q&A with Roger Carvalho, Founder of Snoovies
by Anne-Sophie MarieSnack Movies and Life Online
If you make or watch short films, you should be familiar with Snoovies by now. Created in 2013 by three London actors (Roger Carvalho, Karsten Huttenhain and Viana Maya), this free App showcases quality short films (aka “Snoovies”) on all mobile devices, tablets and smartphone alike. With a gorgeous homepage that puts short films in handy “make me... (smile, laugh, cry, think, tremble)” categories, the trio recently won the Platinum Award for Best Designed Mobile (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 24 septembre 2016
Rencontre avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice de Uzak mı...
par ClotildeClotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film "Uzak mı ..." ("Dûr e..." / "Distant...").
"Uzak mı..." a reçu la « Mention Spéciale du Jury » en Compétition Internationale au Festival de Clermont-Ferrand 2016.
Clotilde Couturier, correspondante au festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, échange avec Leyla Toprak, réalisatrice et chorégraphe du film Uzak mı... . La (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 3 July 2016
Short of the Week - GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT - Filmic Pro Winner
by Abla KandalaftThis week’s short comes to us courtesy of film collective Reframed, whose eerily beautiful GIRL.LONDON.NIGHT, written by and starring Reframed member Claire Gordon-Webster, has just won the Best Female Filmmaker award at the Filmic Pro Tangerine Dreams Contest competition.
The contest, now in its second year and named after feature film Tangerine, that was shot entirely on an iPhone, requires participants to make a short film using the FiLMiC Pro phone (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 1 July 2016
Q&A with Yony Leyser, dir. of Desire Will Set You Free, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieWhat drew you to filmmaking?
I got into a lot of trouble as a teenager. A counsellor suggested that my mom find me a creative outlet so I started practising theatre and photography. Then after a couple of years, I combined the two to make films. I made my first documentary when I was 16.
...and what led you to Berlin and its underground scene?
I came to Berlin for a semester when I was at university. It was the opposite of where I was living (NYC). There is common sense in politics. (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 30 June 2016
Q&A with Adrian Tanner, dir. of Redistributors, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieWhat was your background in film prior to Redistributors?
I started out as an editor and got indulgently trained at the BBC in Bristol on wildlife shows with David Attenborough. Then moved to London and cut a lot of TV.
What sparked the idea behind the film? Do you have a background in PR? I worked for some years filming corporate CEO interviews where people talked utter drivel. I kept wondering ‘What if one day someone told the truth?’ - this gave me the idea for the inciting incident of (...) Continue Reading »
Posted on 30 June 2016
Q&A with Daniel Fitzsimmons, dir. of Native, at the East End Film Fest
by Anne-Sophie MarieI gather your background is a mix of Liverpool and California? How have both environments influenced you and your work on Native? (And does Liverpool produce better alien beaches than LA?)
In my experience Los Angeles and Liverpool are generally open and welcoming to outside influences and people, but on this movie that is not the sort of environment we needed the characters to inhabit. I wanted to burden Cane and Eva with an insidious social claustrophobia that can either be a help or a (...) Continue Reading »
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