Virgin Mobile Australia pulled over 100 Creative Commons images off Flickr to use in an advertising campaign without contacting and asking the photographers or subjects. One teenage subject found a photo of herself on a bus-stop, and has now been advised to sue both Virgin and the Creative Commons Corporation. A thread on Flickr sees her discover that she was 'face ripped'... "hey…

Shane Meadows' This Is England, set in early 80s northern England among skinheads and National Front members, was released on DVD on Monday 3rd September.   It won the UK FIlm Talent Award at the 2006 London Film Festival, as well as the British Independent Film Award for  Best Independent Film.   The film's pitch-perfect rendition of an 80s northern town, along…

A roundup of some of the latest news, events and funds doing the rounds at the moment - McLibel docmaker Franny Armstrong's new film Crude, made with Oscar-winner John Batsek, is shaping up as a British pioneer of user-engaged filmmaking. Like Brave New Films work in the US, the film is using the web for more than simply marketing. On a recently launched website (by TorchBox) -…

  The low budget horror feature film ‘Nailed', from debut director Adrian O'Connell has wrapped in Northern Ireland. The script, financing and production for the film was assembled and completed in just under four weeks. NAILED is a psycho-thriller about two criminals, fleeing from a drug sting, who break into a dilapidated home. Within the apparently empty home they…

Great thing about the web no.1 - people sharing tricks. BoingBoing has details of a system for printing from an inkjet to create home-made Super 8mm and even 16mm prints. While the resolution of the samples isn't great, and the sprocket holes currently have to be cut by hand, for those wanting a true desktop editing process without wanting to fork out for a transfer, the process, desig…

  Throughout its history, celluloid film has seen many other recording formats rise and fall. Developed back in the late 19th century, this thin, fragile and expensive medium has outlasted long-playing records, compact discs and video cassettes, and remained the movie industry's prime method of initial distribution deep into the digital age, despite the growing importance of DVDs to…

  The Metropolitan Film School, Ealing Studios, London has unveiled its new two-year BA degree in filmmaking. Commencing in October 2007, the course offers practical training in digital film production at a level of intensity offered nowhere else in the UK at undergraduate level, with an estimated contact time with tutors of 50% compared with the university norm of 20%.

Propeller is the only ‘not for profit’ UK TV channel dedicated to showcasing short films and promoting new film and tv talent to the UK and Europe on SKY TV.  It is screened on SKY CHANNEL 195 and on the Eurobird satellite link and is looking for short films (horror, experimental, comedy, romance animations, documentaries, unsigned music videos, student films, Making of&rs…

  Young Film Critics and Journalists - Call for Applications FIPRESCI - The Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique is looking for film critics and journalists under 30 years of age who would like to go to Berlin to report on the 57th Berlin International Film Festival between February 8th and 18th and  join the Berlinale Talent Campus f…

  Nickelodeon Films is to  make a $30m family film about kids inspired by the Olympics, based on a short produced for London's 2012 bid. Nickelodeon's "Legend of the Rings" will focus on children who are inspired to greatness by watching the games, but it will also address the issue of failure.

  From pop fans to combatants in Iraq, digital technology is creating a new generation of would-be Spielbergs. This is the digital world of DIY movie-makers,