Industry News
We like this Competition!
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Last month, we cheered on our partners over at Shooting People as they pulled out all the stops to encourage their filmmakers to enter Mofilm's Barcelona Ad Competition. It paid off, with eight Shooting People members winning prizes, two coming top and one winning the Grand Prize. And as one competition ends, another opens - and this time, winners will be flown to New York for Tribeca Film Festival and pick up a host of cash prizes. To enter, filmmakers must make an ad of less than 90 seconds for one of six brands. Sounds like a deal to us!
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Articles
We always knew Bigelow's Hurt Locker would do it!
We couldn't have been more thrilled to see Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s The Hurt Locker clean up at the Oscars on Sunday night as they did at the BAFTAs last month. As a result of some string-pulling from distributor’s Optimum, The Script Factory was delighted to stage a preview of the film late last summer together with on-stage conversation with Bigelow and Boal. As the film's awards collection threatens to burst at the seams, you can read extracts of our illuminating conversation here.
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Reviews
AVATAR
It may not have quite hit the BAFTA/Oscar jackpot, but it’s no understatement to say that audiences are responding to James Cameron’s Avatar - but are they entranced by the storytelling or simply wowed by the high-tech spectacle? Trevor Johnston, our man in the 3-D glasses, reveals how the script blends quest narrative, dramatic choices, love story and not a little topicality in a killer combination which has hit home at the global box-office.
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