from the London River's publicist Set against the backdrop of the 7th July 2005 bombings, London River tells the story of a friendship which develops between two seemingly unconnected people - Elizabeth (Brenda Bleythn) and Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyate).  Both of them have come to London to search for their children who are missing in the aftermath of the bombings. Although they come from di…

from Hush Your Mouth's publicist Stars Jason Maza, Samuel Oatley, Jay Simpson, Jade Williams, Ruth Sheen, Coshti Dowden | Written byTom Tyrwhitt UK certification 15 | UK RRP £19.99 | DVD Region 2 | Runtime 98 minutes | Directed byTom Tyrwhitt When Darren decides that enough is enough and threatens to speak out against what his fellow gang members are doing, he is killed. His younger brother L…

The coming of age drama is the Short Film Palme D’Or nominee’s first feature length film. Shooting is underway on British director Ben Crowe’s debut feature Verity’s Summer, a coming of age drama set in the North East of England. Crowe, who was nominated for the Cannes Short Film Palme D’Or for The Man Who Met Himself in 2005, also wrote the script for the feature about a young woman’s journey…

Whilst the recent history of modern cinema and filmmaking has been dominated by new technologies and innovative ways of production and distribution, filmmakers are still making productive use of more archaic modes of technology. Filmmaking collectives such as EXP24 celebrate the sheer physicality of actual celluloid whilst the artistic aesthetics of such people as the artist / filmmaker Ben River…

An Ipsos MORI survey commissioned by the organisation FILMCLUB has found that people who watched films regularly as children visit the cinema more often as adults than those that did not. Respondents who went to the cinema at least once every few months as a child or teenager are three times as likely to go to the cinema at least once every few months now than those who did not. Results show tha…

WHITBY COLISEUM (contact tel: 01947 825000 - email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) Friday 22nd May 2009, 7.30pm Fifth in the monthly series of locally made short-films, "WHITBY IN SHORTS[5]" follows the hugely successful previous events with another entertaining and diverting programme, plus a special guest appearance of Dominic Win…

At WHITBY COLISEUM (contact tel: 01947 825000 - email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) Friday 17th April 2009, 7.30pm £5, Under18s £2.50 Fourth in the monthly series of locally made short-films, "WHITBY IN SHORTS[4]" follows the hugely successful previous events with another excellent and engaging programme. (Visit www.whitby-in-shor…

"Marathon displays the resolve, discipline and courage of two human beings running for their lives, qualities that can sustain us all in life's marathon." Acclaimed director, Biju Viswanath, featured previously here on Netribution, writes in with news of his adaptation of Richard Harteis' non-fiction work, Marathon. With a screenplay by Celia de Fréine, Marathon is a t…

From Rachel Devenport: A new viral from the makers of British gangster film Daylight Robbery has been launched online  at www.70millionquid.co.uk The cast and crew of the film teamed up with creative digital agency Silence to produce a personalised short which asks for viewers to sign up their friends to take part in the criminal gangs' next bank job. 

So I arrived in Mumbai on the coldest day there in 46 years. It gave me a brief sense of bravado, strutting around saying, 'but it's scorching' as locals shivered in the 13 C dusk. The strutting didn't last long after I left my passport in one of the city's 55,000 taxis. Five hours and 32km later it turns up, making my first day feel at once both the unluckiest and most fortunate. Actuall…

Open is the new, erm, closed  as Google figure the only way into two huge markets they currently aren't leader in - mobile phones and social networks -  is through mass collaboration. Android, launched this week, is a consortium of mobile phone companies working to create an open operating system for phones based on Linux, that would be offered freely and be easy to develop for. P…