This is the closest I've come to winning an International Award. Am pleased.
Am also pleased because, thanks to the British Council, I was able to go to the 44th Chicago International Film Festival which was great. Favourite features I saw were 'The Noise In My Head', 'Family Values', 'Gomorrah', 'Pressure Cooker' and 'I've Loved You So Long'. Was also able to see all the shorts with my favourites being 'Eyelids' by Brad Bischoff, 'Sugar' by Alex Beh, 'Standup' by Joseph Pierce, 'John and Karen' by Matthew Walker, 'The Business Trip' by Sean Ellis, 'Jerrycan' by Julius Avery, 'From Head To Toe' by Josie-Anne Lemieux, 'Self-Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works - A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy' by Rebecca Dreyfus, 'Peter and Ben' by Pinny Grylls, and 'Sick Sex' by Justin Nowell. Sorry - that was a long list. Here are some pictures...
Will make an effort to go to more festivals from now on.
The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother has another screening on December the 3rd at the Northern Lights Film Festival in Newcastle and Gateshead. There is still no preview online anywhere but, in case you missed it, there is a screenshot above this paragraph.
Francis Cooper will have it's World premiere at Encounters Film Festival in Bristol in November. It's part of the U.K. Film Council: Digital Generation 2 screening (Fri 21 Nov 16.30 Watershed Cinema 1).
Keith Reynolds is in two screenings: Emerging Talent 2 (Wednesday 19 November 10.00 Watershed Cinema 3 and Sunday 23 November 16.00 Watershed Cinema 1) and Best of British: Made in the South West (Tuesday 18 November 20.30 Watershed Cinema 3, Thursday 20 November 10.15 Watershed Cinema 1 and Saturday 21 November 14.45 Watershed Cinema 1).
I'll hopefully have a little preview of Francis up soon along with some promotional stills.
Over summer I animated a farting chipmunk (among other creatures) for some short films for a chewing gum brand in Italy (Air Action Vigorsol I think). You can watch most of them at www.cippi.net (more added every so often) or one of the episodes I worked on (in quite bad quality - sorry, not my upload) below.
After completing his graduate film, Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight, Felix Massie moved to Bristol where he now works as an animator and director at Arthur Cox Ltd.
