Archive for the ‘CiR09’ Category
Vera Bohl New Website
Wed
03
Check out the new website of Vera Bohl, creative in resident 09
Free track to download on there:
www.verabohl.com
www.myspace.com/verabohl
The website and myspace was designed by Jayne Helliwell, applicant of CIR 09
A+Z on our lobby wall
Sat
30
Lisa Spirling’s career is kicking off!!
Sat
30
Lisa has recently been made the Associate Director on Headlong’s hit production of ENRON for the West End and National Tour. She has also been invited to Houston Texas by the Alley Theatre to direct the farce Boeing Boeing in May this year. After which she becomes a Staff Director at the National Theatre working with Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Grandage on his first NT production Danton’s Death.
Alongside this her award winning theatre company Buckle for Dust which she runs with producer Claire Birch have scheduled a spring tour of Lou Ramsden’s play Hundreds and Thousands for 2011. Buckle for Dust and this exceptional play were developed throughout her time as a Creative Resident at The Hospital Club. They now have the additional support of the renowned English Touring Theatre Company (ETT) who have provided Claire with a producers bursary and full support to guide the play to a full production.
WOWWWW!
Roxane Borujerdi
Tue
26
Stills from ‘A Squirrel Eating A Nut’, filmed in The Hospital Club’s Forest Room…
Silent Musical Film – Simon Burrill
Tue
17
Sounds like a contradiction
My fellow Creative in Residence, the prodigious Alex Nikiporenko, is doing the score, which we’re working on right now
An early 2-minute cut of this played at BFI SouthBank during the London Film Festival
Think Shoot Distribute – Simon Burrell
Wed
11
Think Shoot Distribute
Late last month, I was fortunate to be accepted onto the ‘Think Shoot Distribute’ programme, hosted by Atlantic FIlm Group, and was asked to write about the experience.
Inspiring. This was an intense week looking at all aspects of film production,
There were 25 attendees, split 50/50 Directors and Producers, the connection being that we’re all in the process of getting first features off the ground.
It was packed. First-time feature filmmakers shared their experiences, there were discussions with sales agents, distributors, financiers, UK Film Council development execs, story editors, discussions on audiences, line producing, production design, Casting Directors, Marketing, Legal and intellectual property. That’s about a third of it anyway…
There was always open discussion, and besides the seminars, it was fantastic being amongst such an eclectic, exciting bunch of contemporaries, from all backgrounds, tastes and approaches to film-making.
The best bits? For me, the things one doesn’t want to hear… the truths!!! The realities of getting your personal, cherished projects financed, distributed and marketed, from the people who do it. Disheartening facts and figures about the state of the industry, audience tastes, the business, all the dirty stuff. Doesn’t have to affect the creative of what you’re doing, but If you want to show the world something different, it helps to understand how it thinks first. helps you learn how to be more devious…
I’ll update this with some pics and other thoughts soon
Starving Artists – Alex Nikiporenko
Wed
14
Starving Artists
Played a small improvisation as part of the Starving Artists dinner at the Bistrotheque – a monthly event ran by Matthew Stone, featuring a talk by art broadcaster Matthew Collings and a short performance!
Alex Nikiporenko
Tue
13
Simon Oldfield Gallery
Today I played at the launch of the exhibition by Ben Ashton at Simon Oldfield Gallery.
I played an improvisation with Jordan, the violinist I played with at the Bistrotheque last month.
