Peter Peel doesn't win something

I forgot to write anything about the Encounters Film Festival that was a couple of weeks ago. It was another good one. I had a slightly cut down version of The ongoing life of Peter Peel in DepicT! this year which was nice. All the filmakers did a little Q&A which was quite fun too. Sadly I didn't win but there were some nice comments about Peter on the DepicT! website though...

Sam Moore says:

I like the design and structure of this.

It’s also a really beautiful sentiment – I love the idea that by doing a really badly paid inconsequential job you could also do something extraordinary and amazing (or not).

The perfect expression of animation in fact …

and

William Westaway says:

Just watched all the films – this is the winner. Yes I also agreed with some of Billy’s comments however this film combines the weird and beautiful. Unique animation with touching sentiment – that white blob thing is the dreamer in all of us.

In theory we will all get what we want, but in life it never always works out that way.

Nailed Felix!

I know it's only a silly little film but I like it when people have thoughtful reactions to things I make like that.

This one is the best of them all though...

JJ Pierre says:

This is VERY appeeling.

Nice mention of Francis Cooper from Atlanta

Came across a nice little mention of The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother by Mark Flindall, the programming co-ordinator of Atlantic Film Festival...

A movie I recently programmed that I consider to be a great personal discovery: We definitely didn’t premiere it, not even close, but I really loved the short The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother. It really felt like something special, and it’s also a pretty good distillation of my personal taste in film. It’s deeply weird, animated, has cats in it, perfect narration, and the suggestion that life goes on no matter how stupid, insane or unsuitable for life we may be. Which is actually kind of an amazing statement. Did I mention it has cats?

http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com/2010/06/programmer-profile-mark-flindall-atlantic-film-festival/

Mother of Many by Emma Lazenby online for a little bit

Mother of Many, Emma Lazenby's BAFTA winning short film I worked on at Arthur Cox last year is online for a little bit for the NFBC Film Festival online competition.

Watch is quick before it's too late (and if you like it click the thumbs up button on the YouTube page here to vote for it to win!)...



Some more reviews ranging from:

Stunning. Beautiful. I love it.

Truly amazing!!

Slightly difficult to watch but so are many great things. Beautiful sound and animation.

to:

Disgusting.

:o

Sigur Ros/Music Matters reviews

The Music Matters thing seemed to go down quite well. Mine got over 35,000 views from the video counts I saw so that's nice. Reviews ranged from,

"you combine the music with awesome vidoe,footage. thks greets from germany =)"

to

"I think we can all agree that this video was a letdown which made little sense."

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