The silver Mikeldi (I hope they'll post it over 
After going to over 25 festivals, Radiostan has won its first very own prize: the SILVER MIKELDI at Bilbao’s 53rd ZiNEBI International Film Festival!
We are so pleased and flattered that such a prestigious and long-running festival would give recognition to our little short but there you go!!!
Special Thanks go out to Guillaume and Tanya Petrk who made cinetrain (and consequently Radiostan) happen, to Joona Pettersson (camera), Elena Petrosyan (sound) and Timur Yuldashev (production manager) for being the amazing Kinomadi crew and of course to all the Cinetrain Easy-cool gang who made that experience even more special!!!
Int6: Home Ground on Thursday 17th November 9:00pm, Watershed Cinema 3
Int3: Home Ground on Friday 18th November 12:00pm, Watershed Cinema 1
Babytrapped, my latest Doc will be screening on Current TV (Sky183/Virgin155) at 10pm on the 14th of November and at 9pm on the 21st (and we’ll hopefully have an Edinburgh venue sorted for the second broadcast with the documentary’s characters present for a Q&A session). Current TV have their super-TV trailer up online already! Check it out here.
We are doing a wee happy dance in the PoliFilm office today after finding out that Why Poverty? an international campaign involving dozens of filmmakers and broadcasters, has decided to back us for Finding Josephine a short film about charity, what it does for those receiving, what it does for those giving and what it’s all about anyway.
I’m happy to team up with amazing Lili Sanderlin from North Isle Productions with whom I’ve wanted to work for years and I’m looking forward to the family trip (and film shoot) to Uganda in February and to actually meet Josephine, the 5-year old girl we’ve been exchanging letters with for the past 2 years!!!
Radiostan’s latest splash comes from “across the pond”: judges at Syracuse Film Festival in the US (www.syrfilmfest.com) felt a special mention was called for in the experimental category and awarded a citation to Radiostan.
Happy days!
PS: I know they wrote I’m from England in the winner’s list… they’ll correct that asap I’m sure… I didn’t hesitate to point the error out in my thank you email.
Check out Radiostan’s screening details at Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival here.
Watershed 3: 9pm Nov17th
Watershed 1: 12pm Nov18th
TOMMY’S and POLIFILM’s FIRST EVER BROADCAST!!!
How exciting! After the great news of Radiostan being bought by Canal+ in April Current TV got in there and in record time got us to finish the post-production for When Life Thrown Lemons (now Babytrapped)… and get in Polifilm’s (and my) first ever broadcast.
So, it’s now official: Babytrapped will on November 21st @ 22:00 on Current TV 183 on Sky and 155 on Virgin Media (only in the UK I’m afraid). Anyone without cable TV or living elsewhere WILL get a chance to see it in the near future.
What an honour… even a great documentary-watching nation like Finland has picked Radiostan for their official selection. Radiostan will go on to tour up to 7 cities in Finland throughout 2012. Hurray!!! I hope to get a chance to go visit… not sure though. Busy-busy here making films.
The Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol is the largest of its kind n the UK. We are very pleased to have been selected for the 2011 edition of this great festival!
If you’re in or around Bristol between the 16th and the 20th of November come check out this cracking wee short at it’s 23rd Festival!
I’m always pleased when my work gets seen in Italy, which I realise now, is really my country. So I was very pleased when Concorto (who’s organisers I met at clermont Ferrand) sent me an email stating that Radiostan is one of the finalists of their festival.
The Festival will run from the 20th to the 27th of August in Pontenure near Piacenza Italy. Check this link out if you think you might attend.
