Following the premiere of The Impact last summer, I entered the film into a schlew of top tier festivals. Sadly, none of the bit. This means I am now chasing big festivals, but not the huge ones like Sundance, Cannes etc. I just got word that we have been accepted at the Melbourne Science Fiction …
The Impact Festival Run For 2023… What’s happening and can you represent the film? Read More »
I’d never really thought about writing audio drama before the producer of ‘The End Of The Line’ asked me to write a navy-themed episode, which I knew to be a wonderfully crafted and thought provoking podcast series of: ‘Powerful stories about how we treat women who don’t have kids’. At that time, I’d already listened …
Dee Chilton And The Beginnings Of ‘The End Of The Line’ Read More »
We are now running at 111 minutes, longer than the advice I was given, but WAY shorter than the 145 mins we were running at before. Almost every film has been trimmed and four films have been removed entirely, including my own that was the final chapter, of the impact and devastation and final flourishing …
Last week I recorded a fabulous Desert Island Disks inspired show for Screen To Screen on Soho Radio. It’s a great listen to play in the background with some personal favourite music to boot. Hosted by the dynamic duo of Liz McMullen and Steve Harcourt (Liz who I met through The Impact). It’s a true …
Screen to Screen on Soho Radio with Chris Jones… A musical odyssey Read More »
As we enter the festival stages for Impact50, we need to get real. The film is too long and in my view, most festivals will reject it on running time alone. I asked a couple of friendly festival programmers for some feedback and here it is (edited to make it flow). I watched the movie …
Impact50 and the inevitable recut for film festivals… Read More »
Last Saturday we hosted the private online premiere of Impact50… At first I thought turnout was low as the softeware reported only 35 people were watching. That turned out to be 35 people who were logged into their accounts on YouTube at the time! When we got the numbers back from Youtube we discoved 2,400 …
What did the audience think at the online premiere of Impact50? Read More »
Milethia manages to capture the essence of Impact50 so brilliantly in this interview on the day of the online première! Well done for keeping the energy and momentum up Milethia!
This is a follow-up to a earlier blogs about Life’s A Beach, my short film entry to The Impact, which had its world premiere on 31st May 2022. Other posts HERE and HERE. When I directed Life’s A Beach in 2018 I had a few short film credits as director and plans for features were …
From Five Minutes to Five Cars… A Create50 Success Story by Mark Hampton Read More »
I just got the file of the recording of Richard Osborne, one of the filmmakers whose film is in Impact50, of his radio interview from a few weeks ago. Listen below…
I fully expected that the first project I’d tell you about would be my film BRAVE THE DARK, starring Jared Harris, which shot in the States last year – but another project has leap-frogged over it. And amazingly, it’s another feature film. After trying to break into screenwriting since I first turned professional with my …