Missed the Bristol Filmmakers Festival?

If you couldn’t make it to Watershed & Arnolfini for the Bristol Filmmakers Festival at the end of June, you can now rest easy. Click here to read Veronique Martin’s write up.

Watch the Documentary event with Anthony Wonke

Many thanks to Rich Warren, Jo Barker & Lou Applegate for filming the event, and to Michael Bower for editing it together.

To see more films from Cineformation, check us out on youtube.

Festival photos

Check out the pictures from the festival courtesy of our ace photographer Neil Young… and Flickr!

Bristol Filmmakers Festival Winners

So, here you have it, the winners of each festival screening and the overall audience award at the Bristol Filmmakers Festival 2008.

WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE AWARD & £700 to spend at Bristol’s fantastic pre & post-production house, Films@59 went to (drum roll please!) ...

The Sweded Classic ‘Alien’ directed by Chris Esson

WINNER OF PROGRAMME 1:

‘The Bent Penny’ directed by Darrel J. Butlin

WINNER OF PROGRAMME 2:

‘God & Dave’ directed by Mark Simon Hewis

WINNER OF BLUESCREEN:

‘We Are All Winners’ directed by Ciara Mahon

WINNER OF PROGRAMME 3:

‘Mouks’ directed by Dave Cropley

WINNER OF THE STUDENT SHOWCASE:

‘Mee & My Dad’ directed by Lorne Kramer

WINNER OF PROGRAMME 4:

‘Small Change’ by Chris Jones

Congratulations to all the winners & especially to Chris Esson & the team behind ‘Alien’!

Missed the Locations event?

Check out what went on at last week’s Locations event by reading Veronique Martin’s fantastic write-up of the event.

And we’ll see you at the festival!

Bristol Rewind - Sweded Classics

REMAKE YOUR FAVOURITE FILM

The Bristol Filmmakers Festival 2008 – which takes place at the Watershed and Arnolfini on the weekend of 14th and 15th June – is calling for DIY remakes of classic movies.

The programme takes its inspiration from the recent hit film Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def in which a resourceful video store manager and inventive friend confront the problem of the erasure of the video store’s entire stock by creating homemade versions of the famous films they rent out. The process is known as Sweding.

The Bristol Filmmakers Festival 2008 welcomes any homages/pastiches/rip-offs of any popular films. Entries to the Festival so far have included Pretty Woman and Alien. The Festival organisers suggest not directly using the original copyrighted music from the film – they hope the filmmakers will be equally resourceful there as well.

Godzilla, Last Tango in Paris, Blade Runner, The Birds, Gandhi – there are plenty of films ripe for sweding. You just need to be incredibly imaginative and resourceful. In many ways, this is the ultimate example of the independent filmmaking that this festival’s been created to celebrate.

Tickets are £5 & are on sale from the Watershed Box Office on 0117 927 5100.

The deadline for submissions to the ‘Bristol Rewind – Sweded Classics’ programme is Wednesday 11th June. Go to www.bristolfilm.co.uk for more details or email bfmf2008@yahoo.com.