The Triumph of Venus - First Results

With a great thank you to Jack Marshall I can announce that my short film The Triumph of Venus is launched on the film festival circuit. The world premiere will be at Cannes in the short film market place (Short Film Corner) and the first public showing will be in the USA at the Washougal International Film Festival.

My feature script The Pied Piper Killer has almost completed its proof reading stage and then I must decide how to proceed. One thought would be to go for crowd funding and produce the film myself... this would require around £80k (cash). If I could attract a crowd of around 300 then a contribution of little over £250 would get the film made. Of course my current health problems really mean that this could be just too much. However, my experience with other producers leads me to believe that if I want one of my scripts actually produced, then I need to take the short film approach and get on and do the job myself!

The Triumph of Venus

The Triumph of Venus is off and running, with Screeners sent to three film festivals; The Cannes Short Film Competition (France), The Washougal International Film Festival (USA) and The Norwich Film Festival (UK). Now is the time for lots of sustained finger crossing! Once I have a file in the recommended format (from our stalwart editor Jack Marshall) for the Cannes Short Film Corner then this market place will be the films premiere (unless we get into the Competition!!!!). The current screener has a small continuity error which hopefully Jack will be able to correct shortly. When this version is available then several other festivals may be hearing from brokenarrowfilms! Follow this blog for progress reports.

Finally, my new feature film script The Pied Piper Killer is currently being proof read so there’ll be more to say about this soon.

Shutter Island - Review

Yesterday I was luck enough to be sitting in a comfortable West End cinema seat at a preview showing of Shutter Island. If you are a film goer that likes to relax back and allow the film to wash over you; then Shutter Island has enough visual stimuli to satisfy you. However, if films make you think and you enjoy trying to solve a good mystery then I’d avoid this film. The mood music tries desperately to enhance the mystery but in reality the film is transparent and then it’s a long wait until the end, which is admittedly rather well done. To make a feature the plot needed so must more death, as a short film it would have been a winner!

The Pied Piper Killer

The Pied Piper Killer is the new name for my feature By Degrees. I’ve been fiddling with the script and I’m now very happy with its 103 pages. In any event it’s now printed and my dear wife will be proof reading and critiquing the work over the next week or so (wish me luck!).

My other feature The Bloodline is still stuck in the mud having obtained an almost non-existent priority with my Producers (Oh, if only we could do without them!).

However, there is good news about my short The Triumph of Venus…. It’s now officially entered into the Cannes 2010 Short Film Competition (lots of luck wishing here please!) and will shortly be entered into the Cannes 2010 Short Film Corner (which is the Cannes market and not a competition). Well done to Jack Marshall who edited the film!