Very pleased to hear that Heavy Load Made 36 in Skys top 100 all time documentary list. I really enjoyed working as dialogue editor on this one and look forward to working on Jerry Rothwells next documentary next month. Watch this space for more info
Heavy Load Trailer viewable below
Following a prize winning run on the festival circuits and release in the USA, Simon Rumley’s critically acclaimed slacker revenge film gets a UK theatrical release on 30th September 2011
Sound Design and Mix- Vincent Watts
Sound Editor/Foley Artist- Stephen Goldsmith
For more information on prizes won, screenings and to rent or hire go to the film website.
Jerry Rothwell’s Donor Unknown continues to tour around the world getting critical acclaim. Those of you in the states can watch it on Independent Lens 20th October at 10pm. Otherwise there are details of up and coming screenings and links to download or purchase from the Film Site
A BBC interview with a outrageously candid stockbroker brought the press to wonder whether it was a genuine interview or another hoax by the Yes Men . See Link for More
I Enjoyed working with the Yes Men when we completed the mix and audio post for ‘The Yes Men Fix The World‘ from my studio. The World still feels decidedly broken at present but no reason not to try to do something about it. From a selfish perspective it is also pleasing when stuff you’ve worked on sinks into the public consious enough for it bubble up later down the line.
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival 2009
Audience Award, Berkshire International Film Festival 2009
Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival 2009
Audience Award, Planet Doc Festival, Warsaw, 2009
Finished shooting this short film, a pilot I co-wrote with Vincent Hazard. Many thanks to all the crew for their hard work. Follow This Link for More Information from Avalon Productions. Now here comes the post and the prospect of writing another 6 episodes.
Madame Naz and Tom
Cast And Crew (I’m the tool in the Flat Cap)
Starsuckers-(click for link to the Film Website) is a feature doc which looks at the corrosive effect of celebrity culture and the working practices of the celebrity press on mainstream news and politics.
The audio post was carried out by yours truly and Vincent watts (Vincent also wrote the score).
The film is getting a timely re-run on More4 starting 31st July 2011 at 11:10pm. Check it out if you get a chance. Should be an interesting watch in terms of what is happening with News International.
If you miss the terrestrial screenings and are really keen, you can use the following:
If you like your audio material disturbing, you could try out this radio play downloadable from “Tales Beyond The Pale” written and directed by film director Simon Rumley- a follow up gig from working on the Red White and Blue Movie. I ran the recording session and dialogue edit, Vincent Watts did the sound design and Mix.
The French Pilot I co-wrote has got a decent chunk of funding. Enough to schedule the shoot for this winter. It will be shot in the Bourgogne region (Burgundy). We are still looking into potential co-producers to develop the series. Good to get off to such a positive start so early. Now the hard work starts.
I did the mix and sound restoration for this South American film, its LA Spanish title is: Musica para un film Perdido. It has recently received a special award for restoration at the 21st International Festival of Short Films in Sao Paulo. (Other prizes that films I have been working on have won can be seen under the ‘Prizes’ Tab on the top of this site.) The film will be released for distribution via the BFI on the first of November. The information below is from the director Luciano Zubillaga’s website.
El Huerco (which means death, abandonment and hell) was the first experimental film made in Venezuela*. The film has since been lost. All that remains is the original music, the film script, discarded footage, and the memories of those who saw the film over forty years ago.
Music For A Missing Film traces the spiritual and material remnants of the lost film, exploring the aesthetics of film restoration, reconstruction and montage in the context of fading collective cultural memory.
“Such greatness! can you believe it? it’s lost. The most glorious piece of Venezuelan filmmaking and it doesn’t exist. We’re inventing it, making it, reassembling it…based upon three things: a script, its music and some lost memories. Memories of an old world, that lost its memory.”
Rodolfo Izaguirre
Writer and Film Critic
Just back from Paris where I signed up script for ‘Nouvelle Cuisine’ a 26 minute long pilot for a TV series which I co-wrote with Vincent Hazard . Avalon Films. have taken us under their wings and we are now securing funding for the pilot, beginning to talk to TV channels etc. Nice to get out of the studio.