March 2010

........as 'The Hurt Locker' became the big winner last night at the Oscars. Kathryn Bigelow's film garnered 6 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Jeff Bridges also lived up to expectation to take the Best Actor statuette for his role in 'Crazy Heart.' Best actress in a leading role went to Sandra Bullock, for 'The Blind Side.' This is Sandra's second win of the week, having already (very good naturedly) collected a Golden Raspberry award for the role of Mary Horowitz in 'All about Steve.' Which, when you think about it, is quite an achievement! Other winners are listed on our main BLOG page. MM....read more ›

Running between 20th and 28th March the 'nlff' promises to be another great participation event. Their website has full details available, www.nlff.co.uk, also Info line 0191 231 4066 and info@nlff.co.uk One event we have heard about is that on Saturday 27 March BAFTA-nominated Filmmaker Dan Elliott will be apperaing at the BALTIC Centre, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA. 4pm start. There will be screenings of Dan's The Making of Parts and Jade, winner of a Silver Bear at Berlin, and nominated for the BAFTA Short Film Award this year, followed by a Q&A with Dan. ...read more ›

Hello there, last call for entries for our March competition. No voting for February is required since we got no entries during that month. Only a few more days to go and then you will have once again missed the chance to to win this month's heat, the Flip Digital camera and see your work go on to be judged by our industry professionals. The chosen genre/theme for next month's competition, opening on April Fool's Day, is 'Comedy' so let's see your humerous side and cheer everyone up this Spring. V best to all MM...read more ›

Soon after our interview with MA Screenwriting Programme Leader at Bournemouth University, Rosie Cullen, (which can still be seen on our BLOG page) MM toddled down to Madam Jo Jo's in Soho to see some examples of the graduate screenwriting students work. Opened by the Dean of the Bournemouth Media School, Stephen Jukes, extracts from 10 works (7BA & 3MA) were enacted on stage after an introduction from the writers themselves, awith Sophie Johnson filling in for the two unable to attend. We had a great evening and our thanks go to all those who contributed to it; From the BA course: Jed Gatward for The Last Church' the (BA Prize winner)- Duane Wharton for 'Sweet Mother'- James Grisdale for 'Football's Slaves'- Alex Gully for 'She Loves You'- Mathew Kyne Baskott for 'Broken Colours'- George Barnes for 'No Modern Romance'- Paul Hawkins for 'Rooms/Donald Recurring'- and from the MA course: Ian Masters for 'Rouge Noir' (MA Prize winner)- Bhairavi Patel for 'The Sammy Khanna Fan Club'- & Mark Mitchell for 'Unseen'- All of these were directed by Darren Bransford and performed by Cameron Harris, Luke Harris, Kate Loustau, Katherine Newman, Matilde Ramos Pinto and Damian Sommerlad....read more ›

MM Would like to offer our congratulations to all those nominated for an Oscar and those in particular who have won, their names are listed below. - Best Picture - The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro Actor in a leading role - Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart Actor in a supporting Role - Christopher Waltz Inglorious Basterds Actress in a leading role - Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side Actress in a Supporting Role - Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire Animated Feature Film - Up - Pete Docter Art Direction - Avatar - Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration) Cinematography - Avatar - Mauro Fiore Costume Design - The Young Victoria - Sandy Powell Directing - The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow Documentary Feature - The Cove - Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens Documentary Short - Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett Film Editing - The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis Foreign Language Film - The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) - Argentina - Directed by Juan José Campanella Makeup - Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow Music (Original Score) - Up - Michael Giacchino Music (Original Song) - Crazy Heart "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett Short Film (Animated) - Logorama Nicolas Schmerkin Short Film (Live Action) - The New Tenants Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson Sound Editing - The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson Sound Mixing - The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett Visual Effects - Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher Writing (Original Screenplay) - The Hurt Locker Written by Mark Boal ...read more ›

The 16th London Australian Film Festival runs from 18th - 28th March at The Barbican Centre, address - Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. MM retains a fondness for this festival as it is where their founders at TFD had an early screening of 'Black Water' which has now been released around the world and you can still catch here on Sky and pretty much everywhere on DVD. Their Australian collaborator on that movie, producer Michael Robertson, has another film in this years line-up, 'Road Train' set deep in the outback and guaranteed to make you jump, it can be seen here for the first time and we are looking forward to it. The full programme of events and screenings can be seen by following this link - http://www.barbican.org.uk/australianfilm/whats-on We hope you enjoy it, MM....read more ›

Congratulations to Alex Lightman from all of us at Moviemogul.co.uk for winning the January competition with 'Gin & Tonic' Alex wins 1st prize of a Flip Digital HD 8GB Camera. Runner up, Tracey Murray collects two free uploads to any of our future competitions for her film 'Dying to Reach You' Thanks to both of you for entering and we wish Alex all the best in the annual play-off later this year. We have received no entries during the month of February, which is a shame, however we are now open for March entries. So please join in right away and submit your work. MM...read more ›

'We See Colourless' by Lee Russell, Winner of 'Best Fictional Short' award at the BFI Future Film festival is now available to view in the Moviemogul.co.uk Showcase. MM ...read more ›

Three entries for the March competition can be seen and voted on now. Feel free to review and comment. Some of you, we know, feel it difficult to comment because you are not film makers yoursleves. But you are the audience and as such your views are essential to determining the development of ideas that work. Be bold, make your point and make a difference. MM...read more ›

Short & Sweet the venue that has been screening shorts films every Monday night since it opened in 2006 plays London host for the fourth year running to BAFTA's 'Shorts on Tour' event. S&S will be screening all the nominated BAFTA shorts over two nights. Then, for the rest of the year the nominated short films and short animations will be going on tour around the country. Find them at the Short & Sweet, Cafe 1001, 91 Brick Lane, London. Entry is free. 22 March, Doors open at 6:30pm for 7:30pm screening - Jade, Happy Duckling, Off Season, Mother of Many and 29 March Doors open at 6:30pm for 7:30pm screening 14, I Do Air, Mix Tape, The Gruffalo. http://www.shortandsweet.tv/ The tour continues with screenings of all the nominated films on 23 April at the Glimmer Festival, Hull....read more ›