Well there is nothing official yet, but I am pretty sure there will be one.
Starting last year, we had our first inaugural Easter Film Festival called “Art from the Heart”. Yours truly put in a killa film, amongst some other greats from the film making community including Glenn Stewart [I-Heart] , Ben Field [Home & Away] , Annette Sicari [Bruno] to name a few.
In any case, if any of you out there is thinking about making a film for the Easter Festival, now is the time to start! One of the things that helped me get started on making the film is pretty much writing everything and any idea down no matter how good or bad the idea was. Ideas ranged from a Jesus style anime, to romantic comedies, dark dramas to scifi.
IDEAS ARE FREE!
I think as filmmakers we should always have a bank of ideas ready to go, cause the reality is you’re going to run out eventually and there are going to be days when you are just not inspired. So if you any idea, no matter how you feel about, you should write it down, grab that PDA or iphone or crackberry or post it or napkin and jot it down. I promise you won’t regret it!
And with that I’ll leave you with a video my friend/colleague/guru Glenn Stewart made for the Art for the Heart Festival last year. It’s pretty kick arse so I hope you guys enjoy it!
PS. for all the Twilight fans out there, New Moon was hilariously bad, but I can see why girls like it. Shirts off anyone? And yeah Team-Jacob all the way!
Well the film was shown and my mate Glenn Stewart’s amazing film “Immolation” picked up first place. Congrats Glenn!!! I would like to thank everyone involved in this film, it was a tremendous blessing to me personally and it was great to work with such a talented team!
For everyone else who wasn’t there, you can check out the film here:
The film has been made and has been submitted, but I dunno, I always felt like something was missing. Actually I was more concerned that the ending didn’t come across strong enough and that people will end up going “huh? I don’t understand what is going on here?”
Shooting went extremely well and I feel pretty confident that the message of the film will come across strong
I also found that storyboarding the film helped bring my directing skills into focus as it allowed me to focus on what was happening in the scene rather than thinking about what shot I would need next. I also find it invaluable because it allows to me to efficiently shoot things out of order and not have to redo setups.
I was actually reminded the other day that the new star trek movie is coming out!!! woohoo and directed by none other than the legendary J J Abrams (LOST, ALIAS, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III). Does anyone know if this is an odd one or even one?
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As of this year, our church announced that they were having an annual Easter Film festival which to me is somewhat of a dream come true ( I honestly have been waiting for ages to get a reason to make a film for church!). Sufficed to say I was pretty excited.
