After Devils Gate, The Blackening finally set to shoot in April, with possibly two more to come from Fresh Paint Pictures  Leslie Lowes, tireless champion of both British indie film and the Shetland Islands should be celebrating a double win with the announcement of a new HiDef feature to be shot on the Islands over the next year after producer Alec Bruce completed financing o…

  Not content with their first feature film, Gypo raking in a number of awards and international critical acclaim, releasing on DVD  February 12th, Medb films have opened their new post production studios in Ramsgate, Kent, just an hour and half from London and for qouta purposes, beyond that crucial M25 ring road. "We wanted to create a one stop shop for other…

  Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ashvin Kumar as in the final throes of finishing his latest film, The Forest. And by all accounts it should be a top-notch thriller, but it offers much, much more than rising hairs on the back of the neck as his Ashvin Kumar's personal blog shows... The Forest is a thriller with an environmental conscience. Instead of preaching to the converted (as w…

  Jordan, hemmed in between Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine is facing many challenges, since our country is growing in many sectors and fields, such as the economy, and filmmaking, where the country is witnessing the birth of digital filmmaking, with the media industry in Jordan adapting to the new technology to achieve the highest standards. Sandra Kawar Samain a Producer & D…

  British Featherweight Champion and Boxing Phenomenon Filming is underway on what is shaping up to be one of the biggest productions to come out of Wales. The film Risen, about the boxing phenomenon "The Welsh Wizard" Howard Winstone has been generating such interest it promises to put Wales firmly on the cultural map. Born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1939, Howard Winsto…

  People who buy a word in Michelle Eastwood's film script will get a mention in the closing titles The budding movie-maker is banking on the fact that film fans will want to have the last word on her debut project. In fact Michelle Eastwood, 23, hopes 369 other fans will also want to stake a claim in a script that she is selling off word by word. Buyers can pick a word of thei…

Busiest Year on Record Liverpool City Council's Film Office - part of North West Vision - organised a total of  240 filming days between January and the end of March compared to 74 last year. The number of productions also trebled - up from 21 to 61 in the first quarter.

 Redcar to Become Bombed Out Dunkirk Here comes the French invasion as the seafront at Redcar in Cleveland is transformed into 1940s Dunkirk - literally a bomb site with tons of rubble, craters, bombed-out houses and tanks half-buried in the sand - for the film version of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel, Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. In addition, 1,000 local pe…

  Principal photography has just concluded on 'The Golden Age' directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush who reprise the roles they originated in the Academy-award nominated 'Elizabeth'. Joining them are Clive Owen who plays the dashing seafarer, Sir Walter Raleigh as well as Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish and Rhys Ifans.