Working with Cameras and Children

I have a new arrangement with Nicci Topping, the casting director who runs Topps Casting, in which I record her casting sessions for the clients. On Tuesday I worked with the director of the Iceland ads, and on Thursday I worked with the director of The Full Monty, and I found both to be charming. [...]

Good response for Duty Calls

It was Salford film festival tonight, followed by a few drinks back home. Duty Calls went down pretty well with the audience, and I have to say it looked pretty good up on the big screen. Everyone laughed in the right places, which is always a relief, although it was a good audience. Sometimes a [...]

Duty Calls at Salford Film Festival

Duty Calls, a short film from Ultimatum Films, is to be shown at Salford Film Festival this evening as part of the Caught Short programme. In Duty Calls, a dieting security guard confronts his nemesis – a snack vending machine. It was shot over a weekend in March 2008, on location in Bolton, mainly at [...]

Paul Anderton becomes VP of PP at Shadowhawk

Shadowhawk Films (EIRE) International has made the following announcement: NEW SVP OF POST PRODUCTION APPOINTED Thursday, 20th of November, 2008. Shadowhawk Films (Eire) International (SHFI) have announced that Paul Anderton has been appointed Senior Vice President of Post Production. The announcement was made yesterday, and Mr. Anderton will begin his new role from Monday the [...]

Transmogrification

Change is a funny thing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. A change is as good as a rest. Spare some change for a cup of tea, mate? Change overtakes me once again, and I find myself moving house, building a new website, printing business cards, and hunting for a job. Inevitably, however, things [...]