Found on Vimeo: A Cute Love Story Short


Here’s a fun little three-minute love story called RED, shot in the English town of Nottingham (a place not famous for romance).


Here’s a fun little three-minute love story called RED, shot in the English town of Nottingham (a place not famous for romance).


Her Method of Loci is an atmospheric, mood-tinged six minute short from young British film student Nathan Coetzee, shot on a Canon 7D.
Back in January, we reported on the winner of the inaugural Open Shutter award for HDSLR filmmaking in the UK, a first-time filmmaker called CJ Clarke.
Clarke is one of several contest entrants interviewed by organisers (the British Journal of Photography in a free online e-zine which you can read here.


Finding Johnny Depp is a delightful eight minute short created by a group of young British filmmakers. It won the Delabole Slate Audience Award at the 2010 Cornwall Film Festival.
It shows their haphazard and occasionally misguided efforts to follow up persistent rumours that megastar Johnny Depp lives in a luxury house somewhere in rural Cornwall, the south-western extremity of England that juts out into the Atlantic ocean, and is host to some of the country’s most spectacular coastal scenery and surfing beaches.


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.