This is The Good North, a short film shot on a Canon 7d by director Jonathan Entwistle and cinematographer Justin Brown. It was won a multitude of award nominations, and combines a tight script about racism, some wonderful location shooting in the north of England, and great acting performances. … Continue Reading
Lizzie Oxby is a London-based filmmaker, photographer and illustrator. Her recent work includes Late Noon Sun for the UK Arts Council (see extracts here), and the Daydreams series of animated shorts. One of these, Manhattan 4.33pm, was recently selected as a finalist in Raindance‘s Welcome to the Extraordinary short film competition.
PCN got in touch to ask Lizzie about her journey through photography, into filmmaking, and eventual transition to DSLR techniques using a Canon 500D, and more recently a 5D.
We started off asking Lizzie to explain her choices of filmmaking equipment, and to our surprise and delight got a detailed history of her changing creative techniques.
This delightful video tells the story of Liverpudlian Spike Kane, a music obsessive who learned to love being right at the front of every gig he went to – until a cycling accident left him paralysed from the waist down, and confined to a wheelchair.
The film tells how Spike’s friends have got together and helped him; how they clubbed together to buy him a laptop; and how they worked together to take him to the Sasquatch music festival near Seattle. Heart-warming stuff.
Robin Schmidt is a very, very happy man.
More happy than someone who got the chance to go and make a movie in the Bahamas ought to be. I mean, we’d all be happy after that.
But the 32-year-old British filmmaker is happy for another reason.
His delightful musical number Open Your Eyes won the 14 Islands Film Challenge – a contest set up by the Bahamas tourism office to get something new, something different as a promotional tool. His prize? A fat check, an official Ambassadorship for Canon and its digital imaging products, and recognition from all over the world for his work.
If Schmidt’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s made a bit of a splash in recent months, before he starting winning awards for things.
His forthright and hilarious weblog, on which he has posted numerous scathing comments about the Canon 7D DSLR, has become one of the best places for others to learn about its quirks. We’ve mentioned his blogging at Photocine News before.
In the light of his 14 Islands Challenge success, I spoke to Schmidt during a break in the middle of “a nasty edit”, and started by asking him why, out of all the things he could have done, he made a comic musical for the competition?
Jobaya is a self-funded startup based in Cardiff, South Wales, that aims to offer a pay-per-view streaming video-on-demand service in the UK later this summer.
It’s a little different from video streaming services you may have encountered elsewhere.
Jobaya’s target audience is people on the move, who wish to watch video content on a whim and in bite-sized chunks.
