19.04.2012. Back in September last year Nic and I shot a gig with my mates band The dissociates. Due to millions of non stop work commitments its taken me ages to get edited. It is now and here it is...
its also been on NME online for the new videos! yeay!
01.02.2012. So. Its Women in Horror Month. Something that is slowly getting bigger each year and I am proud to say SWITCH was one of the first UK films to kick it off a few years back at Ghouls on Film.
Also, this was a while ago but a small article about me and filming ESCAPE.
check the link -> http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/film-forum/speak-of-the-dead-interview-series-women-screenwriters-shriekfest-melanie-light%C2%A0
25.11.2011. SWITCH goes to Italy! Italian TV channel Popcorn requested some short horrors a while ago in association with the Viscera Festival and SWITCH made it through, we added subtitles to the film and off it went . Go team SWITCH! going global.
Heres the link : http://www.popcorntv.it/?f=2862&c=164&social=facebook&rnd=2640169723
17.11.2011. ADR for Escape was a blast, Thank you Darri, Julia and Sandy! great reactions from the cast on the film too. The final stages of Escape are slowly getting together and as I am busy working on a feature around London called ' All Things to All Men ' with an amazing cast including Gabrial Byrne, Toby Stephens, Julian Sands and many more its a struggle to have time for Escape! I do have a picture of it in the composers studio tho:
Also SKET which i Production Designed at the beginning of the year has been released and was even playing in my home town cinema! Here is a picture of me with the poster with my name on it! Screw you people from school who thought i was a weirdo useless goth!
Also when i wrap on ATTAM I will be finishing a feature film script which has been on the go for nearly a year now. I still havn't got a name but i will let you know that its about a serial killer. I will be starting the look for financing and all els at the start of 2012.
04.10.2011. Its been busy busy and busy! I have finished some Art Department work on a Feature Called My Brother the Devil ( East London Gang Film ) I will be so happy to get off this genre, but hey I need to pay the bills and afford to make my own films!
Behind the Scenes of SWITCH is now online, check it out on my Director page.
Nic and I are back to LA tomo for some Halloween fun and also to get some ADR for Escape. This is now slowly in post and the VFX shots looks so super awesome it'll blow you away! The music is getting there and I am trying to nail down a Sound Designer that's not so bloody busy.
I am still trying to finish the first draft of a big picture and have a sweet little collaboration on the go too.
I start on another feature for someone els in a few weeks and so I am trying to get as much personal work done as possible, I am on art stand-by til December!
So busy in my fav month of the Year HALLOWEEN! Which means I have to work thus going to Universal Studios Hollywood to have a real Horror fun Night and get properly scared un like the UK's poor attempt, although I did participate in some Horror nights here in Kent and scared the crap out of the public for a week! I still shit myself up at these things! Wish me fun time luck!
15.07.2011. I am just recovering from a brilliant weekend at the Sonisphere metal festival held here at Knebworth House. It was a last minute thing as I was invited to help a DOP friend Stuart White film a mini docu of the awesome horror metal band The Defiled! what a rush filming them play live on stage and such a great band to film as they have great music and a great look. Here's a picture of me loving it!!
26.05.2011. Finally I have sat down and had a break, well kinda, I recently just got back from a short visit to LA where I just directed and Produced my second short film. ESCAPE. It was a huge mission but it happened and we are cutting a first rough right now. In the meantime here is a still of the great Julia Sandberg Hansson the wonderfully talented lead actress...
30.04.2011. Sooo heres a catch up as i've just wrapped out on Cockney's vs Zombies...an interesting job on many levels.
The last of the Birds Eye View updates and links, the Podcast, youtube Horror Epiphany and Horror Channel's Bloody Women trailer..
PODCAST LINK : http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/6318
BLOODY WOMEN TRAILER:
HORROR EPIPHANY . HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
10.03.2011. With all the amazing press going on for BLOODY WOMEN at the BIRDS EYE VIEW festival it has been picked up by the BBC and the on-line article includes a picture from SWITCH, hell we even made the festival horror trailer which has been all over the HORROR CHANNEL this week, imagine how chuffed I was to see that!!!
heres the link for the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12665443
27.02.2011.
The Birds Eye View Festival held in London this year are doing a stint on Horror Shorts made by Women and Switch has got itself in there...of course!
I shall be on a panel Q and A held on March 12th at the ICA and on the opening festival day I shall be on Resonance FM talking about Switch, I think it's a Podcast so I shall link up here when its done. http://resonancefm.com/
Do try and Get to the Horror shorts on the 12th!
This month has also been Women in Horror month but as I have been so busy its been hard to be involved The Viscera deadline is this monday and Nic is working away on a project which just seems to drag on with loads of After Effects, this will be sent to Viscera for this year around, I am also looking into shooting another short after Cockneys, fingers crossed we make it to LA to shoot in the Desert and can wrap it up for FrightFests deadline!
Its been really hard trying to keep onto of my directing and personal projects whilst working and earning a living making other peoples films come alive!
26.02.2011. Where do I start? This year has been mad already, started by doing Scenic on a film which had Bob Hoskins in it Called 'Weighing In' Then I have been mostly consumed by Production Designing a feature about a a urban girl gang called Sket, for new Production Company that put out the likes of Adulthood and Kidulthood and now the new comedy Anuvahood. I have been so tied up with this and now I have a little break before I go onto Stand-by Art Director the long awaited ' Cockneys v's Zombies' written by James Moran who wrote the hit British Comedy Serverance. I'm so looking forward to this film as its such a fun script and so many of my film making buddies are in the crew and of course I know and am friends with the Director m
Matthias Hoene from our Beyond the Rave days.
http://www.facebook.com/SKETmovie?v=photos
Here's a picture of a fake wall we spent a few days doing for Sket.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1362058/
22.11.2010. Due to the recent success of Switch and the lovely Ladies of the Viscera Film Festival they now have a amazing new website and a trailer for the festival, including some Switch clips and on the websites trailer page is a jpeg from Switch! Its amazing how well received it has been this year.
http://www.viscerafilmfestival.com/
17.10.2010. Today i did an interview for a grassroots horror documentary via skype to New York, its for a lovely couple of film makers called Paul and Julie, their trailer for the doc will be online soon, in the meantime here is a still from the interview on their end.
here is a link to their facebook page too..http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grassroots-Horror-Documentary/146474625390724?ref=ts
06.09.2010.
I have just wrapped Production Designing the feature film Inbred for director Alex Chandon, it was a hardcore 6 weeks out in North Yorkshire but i think we got what we wanted ! I will add set pictures when all is cleared.
Right now I am doing stand-by Props on a feature film called Anuvahood being shot around West london. Its a urban gangster comedy with lots of names check it out
http://www.anuvahood.com/
Also my short film Switch looked great on the big screen at the Empire cinema in london last weekend as part of the Frightfest film Festival, it was scary on that stage in front of the die hard fans and now we must make another to try for next years!
well done everyone who helped out on the movie!
i am all proud!
17.07.2010. Viscera Film festival LA. My short film Switch film be in LA next week, I am gutted I can't make it as I am away working on a horror film for director Alex Chandon. The festival is a celebration of female horror film makers too!
www.viscerafilmfestival.com
13.07.2010. Ax Wound radio podcast, as apart of the Viscera Film festival I am making my voice heard on Hannah Neurotica's podcast in line with the festival, hannah runs Ax Wound a feminist horror fanzine.
http://axwoundzine.com/?p=568
02.07.2010. Switch gets Accepted into FrightFest's international short horror film festival.
The showcase will take place at The Empire Cinema, Leicester Square screen One - the largest cinema screen in the UK with an audience capacity of 1300 people.
The event will be included with a celebrity hosted Film Quiz and will take place at 1.00pm on Sunday 29th August.
I'm so excited about this as FrightFest was one of the festivals I wanted to be apart of the most!
06.05.2010. The Gureilla Film Makers Pocketbook Launch party was held in London with the books launch and if you purchase one, you shall find me in there with some bits of advice for making the art department work in your favour with not a lot of money!
http://www.guerillafilm.com/
