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15/03/2010
0 Commentsadd commentRushes Soho Shorts Search For A Cover The Future of Advertising ... In an afternoon ... In a paragraph ... Adobe and Human Rights Watch Showcase Young Filmmakers Now That's One Big Agency! Rhiannon Evans Tugs Partizan's Heartstrings Martha Delap's Dahlightful Dinners Levi Joins Velocity And Another Thing - Damien O’Donnell And Finally… Rushes Soho Shorts Search For A C..- Another Film Company director Martha Delap has directed a new series featuring grandaughter-of-our-favourite-childrens-author and wife-of-our-favourite-jazz-pixie Sophie Dahl making yumptious looking grub. And now, for pudding, a tasty Q&A: How much of the programme was influenced by Sophie’s book? There are a few recipes from the book in the series, but only a few. Sophie’s book had been published quite a while before we started making the series, and so the BBC’s rules wouldn’t allow us to do anything that could be seen..
Levi Joins Velocity
15/03/2010
0 Commentsadd commentExciting director Daniel Levi has joined Velocity’s hit roster. Daniel is based in Cape Town and has been hailed by Creative Review as the next Gondry. His background in creative design and his experience in visual arts, music and multi media lend a distinct edge to his work. He has recently directed an award winning spot for Volkswagen out of DDB London titled “ Bags”. According to Barry Munchick of Velocity, “The attraction for us was his good taste in film and coffee and his innate ability to do good work anywhere” We featured a wicked promo for Plan B from Daniel a little while ago, but as your brains have aged since then here it is again: ..- Top London production company Partizan have just signed talented young animator Rhiannon Evans to their roster. Raised in the South Wales town of Caerphilly (home to a type of cheese and a 13th century castle) Rhiannon Evans decided she wanted to be a Disney animator when she was 8. However, she grew up following a more academic course studying sciences at school and beginning a degree in Biology. It was at this time she returned to the idea of a career in the arts when she was asked to draw a diagram of a starfish and was criticised for making it look too artistic after adding some shading. Rhiannon studied a Foundation degree in Art and Design at GCADT in Pontypridd whilst working part time in a cinema to feed her lifelong love of film. In 2006 she began a BA(Hons) in Animation at the International Film School Wales in Newport. Her first short, the 35 second long Into The Inkwe..
- This Friday the Adobe funded programme ‘Youth Producing Change’ and independent organisation ‘Human Rights Watch’ are premiering 10 short films by young filmmakers at the Brixton Ritzy and London’s ICA. Selected from over 250 international submissions – the Human Rights Watch Film Festival aims to focus on the many children that are experiencing human rights crises on their doorstep (a rarely documented or heard perspective). Nine of the teen filmmakers from London, Mozambique and New York will be present to participate in discussion following the screenings attending both screenings at the Ritzy on March 19 and ICA on March 20. Attending are: Fiona Whelan, Samantha Williams and Arran Walker for Just a Normal Day (UK 2008) Alcides S..
