Mixed Reality Film Tourism Conference, Ystad
So I’ve arrived in the impossibly picture perfect Ystad, in southern Sweden, for the Mixed Reality Film Tourism conference. Here, in the Wallander heartland, I’ll be giving a broad-strokes overview of...
View ArticleMedieval Land Fun-Time World
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, except that it’s genius funny: a faux-trailer that bad lip-sync’s Game of Thrones. (Watching without my headphones at ORT, I just snorted aloud….)
View ArticleAlan Partridge Alpha Papa
Although he’s been around for about two decades, I didn’t really know much about Alan Partridge, the radio dj invented and played with conviction by Steve Coogan. I only knew he was crassly smug and...
View Article2013 Year in Review
To close out this “interesting” year, Here’s my Top Ten of the Films I’ve seen in 2013: 10. Gravity 9. The World’s End 8. This is 40 7. Argo 6. Zero Dark 30 5. The Descendants 4. The Way, Way Back 3....
View ArticleCannes 2014
I’m off to Cannes. It’s going to be lovely. Grace of Monaco is the opening pic; it’s been thoroughly rubbished by the Grimaldis (no surprise there.) But could someone please explain that really odd...
View ArticleFilm in Serbia
So this was the culmination of my last few weeks in beloved Belgrade – devising and presenting a conference on preparing the Danube as a filming destination of choice. You can read about it here...
View ArticleTwelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave tells the true tale of Solomon Northrop, a freeman from New York who is drugged and betrayed and illegally sold into slavery in Louisiana of the 1850’s. There, stripped of his...
View ArticleThe Normal Heart
Growing up, coming of age and coming out at the tail-end of the AIDS crisis was a total mind-fuck of terrifying, confusing, emotionally-scarring proportions. (Run that “Pride” meme round your head why...
View ArticleMontenegro Film Forum
In Podgarica, Montenegro as keynote speaker for the 3rd Annual Montenegro Film Forum. I spoke about the economic potential of a successful film sector, what international producers are looking for...
View ArticleMixed Reality Film Tourism Conference, Ystad
So I’ve arrived in the impossibly picture perfect Ystad, in southern Sweden, for the Mixed Reality Film Tourism conference. Here, in the Wallander heartland, I’ll be giving a broad-strokes overview of...
View ArticleMedieval Land Fun-Time World
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, except that it’s genius funny: a faux-trailer that bad lip-sync’s Game of Thrones. (Watching without my headphones at ORT, I just snorted aloud….)
View ArticleAlan Partridge Alpha Papa
Although he’s been around for about two decades, I didn’t really know much about Alan Partridge, the radio dj invented and played with conviction by Steve Coogan. I only knew he was crassly smug and...
View Article2013 Year in Review
To close out this “interesting” year, Here’s my Top Ten of the Films I’ve seen in 2013: 10. Gravity 9. The World’s End 8. This is 40 7. Argo 6. Zero Dark 30 5. The Descendants 4. The Way, Way Back 3....
View ArticleCannes 2014
I’m off to Cannes. It’s going to be lovely. Grace of Monaco is the opening pic; it’s been thoroughly rubbished by the Grimaldis (no surprise there.) But could someone please explain that really odd...
View ArticleFilm in Serbia
So this was the culmination of my last few weeks in beloved Belgrade – devising and presenting a conference on preparing the Danube as a filming destination of choice. You can read about it here...
View ArticleTblisi Georgia
This week I’m back in Tblisi, Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe. I’m working with the East European Cultural Partnership, advising Tblisi City Hall on the elements required to develop...
View ArticleCape Town
Amazing Cape Town – South Africa from BeemDesign on Vimeo. A beautiful Tourism vid by Bas and Sander Mustaards – reminded me of marginally better, happier weather.
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