Life's A Beach is John Baker Jr's debut feature. It's a documentary about Jerry 'Mungo' Francis who set up home on a beach in Folkestone to lead a life free of the rat race. Soon after John started to film him to get his story a dispute over land ownership and rights sprung up that put Mungo at loggerheads with various private and public sector bodies. Tragically he died before anyone had the chance to throw him off the beach. Life's A Beach is an inspiring, and ultimately a sad tale. A true lif...
Jul 01, 2015•45 min
We spoke to Matthew McGuchan and Julien Mery of Film Suffolk about their regionally inspired film project: WITH LOVE FROM... SUFFOLK - an anthology of eight romcoms. WITH LOVE FROM... SUFFOLK is due to be shown Valentine's Day 2016. Check out the rewards from their crowd funding campaign - they include VIP trips to the cinema to see it plus champagne and strawberries. The crowd funding campaign closes 12 July 2015. After that date you can still donate via the film's website Donate at: https://ww...
Jun 25, 2015•54 min
Co-owner and Head Programmer Andrew Simpson previews the 2015 East End Film Festival: Opens 1 July and runs until 12 July 2015. This includes a look Britflicks.com's documentary Life's A Beach and Containment - a film that was in development when we featured it on the podcast in November 2014 http://www.britflicks.com/blog.aspx?blogid=15601 Full details about the programme are on the website at: http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com Follow them on: @EastEndFilmFest "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompe...
Jun 18, 2015•45 min
Writer/director Alice D Cooper talks to Britflicks about her short film "A Small Dot On The Western Front". It will be shown 7 July as part of the East End Film Festival. Here's the trailer: https://vimeo.com/94765393 Website: dotonthewesternfrontfilm.com/ and www.hurcheonfilms.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DotOnTheWesternFront?ref=hl Twitter: @alicedcooper / @hurcheonfilms.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons...
Jun 11, 2015•41 min
Rich Peppiatt talks about his journey from tabloid journalist at the Daily Star through to documentary film maker critiquing the very profession he once worked in. One Rogue Reporter is documentary you can see via Netflix and other VOD platforms in the UK. Buy or rent here: http://bit.ly/1rogue Fans of the Yes Men and Michael Moore will love it. "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: G...
May 28, 2015•1 hr 1 min
Simon Lovell talks about directing his first feature film - the second British Youth Film Academy production - All The Ordinary Angels. Screenplay by Peter Spencer was adapted from an original stage play by Nick Leather. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-British-Youth-Film-Academy/114584971904933 https://vimeo.com/user36377769 Catch at a film festival in 2015/16. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4046896/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative C...
May 21, 2015•42 min
The horror short Surgery was the title of the last script to involve the great British TV and film screenwriter Brian Clemens before he sadly passed away in January 2015. His sons, George and Samuel, talk to Britflicks about paying tribute to their late father, shooting 'Surgery' and wanting to invite you to help them raise the £4,000 needed to cover the post-production, CGI and film festival costs. Campaign ends 31 May 2015 - https://phundee.com/reward/campaign/surgery-1 "Carefree" Kevin MacLeo...
May 14, 2015•43 min
Raffaello Degruttola is the star and filmmaker behind Flim The Movie - a British low budget mockumentary that does for filmmaking what Spinal Tap does for touring rock bands. A hit at Raindance Film Festival 2014 and nominated for a BIFA 2014 too. Raffaello talks about how this wicked satire about filmmaking via the crazy deluded eyes of Ravi - a Bollywood wannabe who comes to England to make his first feature - came about. www.controventofilms.com/flim @raffdegruttola https://www.facebook.com/p...
May 06, 2015•47 min
Evilspeak Ep004 and we get our first live guest... Eric Stolze the writer of the werewolf movie Late Phases (dir. by Adrian Garcia Bogliano). Plus we speak at length about a wonderful new horror made by not one, not two, but three directors: Simon Herbert, David Whelan and Phil Guidry - SAVAGELAND. July 2017 update - "Savageland" is OUT NOW and AVAILABLE on Amazon and iTunes. Rent or buy this sucker and let's see this movie climb those charts! Savageland: WINNER - Best Horror Feature at the Inde...
Apr 30, 2015•1 hr 17 min
Vicky Jewson is the writer, director and editor of Born Of War. She talks about making an action film on a budget and shooting in Jordan among other interesting things. Born Of War is out in selected cinemas from 1 May. See local press and/or the film's website for details. "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. ...
Apr 30, 2015•29 min
Sean Cronin is best known for playing villains in some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, including James Bond, Harry Potter and The Mummy, now he is set to direct the life story of disabled football fan Paul Hodgson. The film is titled Give Them Wings and Britflicks is proud to get a chance to speak Sean before he goes into production with the movie later in 2015. The story is astounding: When he was ten months old, Paul suffered meningitis that left him unable to move and speak, his father h...
Apr 16, 2015•47 min
Brit abroad Simon Herbert is not one of two, but one of three co-directors of the brooding, feature length horror mockumentary Savageland. He talks frankly about what happens after you've produced a movie and the benefits of getting your film into a film festival - especially genre film festivals where the community you meet are on your side. . https://www.facebook.com/savagelandfilm2014 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3899154/combined "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creati...
Apr 08, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Beatrice Neumann talks about the launch of her crowd funding campaign to raise money in support of her new initiative Distribution Rewired that takes place 22/23 June 2015 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. As well as launching the campaign and describing the perks you could be entitled to, she talks through some of the ideas the initiative aims to cover: reaching new and wider audiences and the creation of a marketplace dedicated to emerging and innovative film distribution models. I...
Apr 02, 2015•57 min
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT Evilspeak is an occasional detour away from the usual Britflicks Podcast format into the world of genre by Stephen Routledge and Stuart Wright. It's a conversation about film by film fans rather than an interview with a film maker. And because it is about films it is chocker full of SPOILERS. This episode we look at The Babadook and It Follows. Previous episodes are here https://soundcloud.com/evilspeak-podcast Intro/outro music "Music to Delight" Kevin MacLeod (incom...
Apr 01, 2015•1 hr 28 min
Marc Morris and Jake West from Nucleus Films release 50 Shades of Erotica on 13 April. This follow up to their successful Grindhouse Trailers series (number 5 will be their next release) takes you through nearly two hours of 70s, 80s and a couple of early 90s art house/erotica trailers. Buy it here http://www.nucleusfilms.com/fifty-shades-of-erotica.html "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro...
Mar 25, 2015•49 min
Co-writer/co-director James Gillingham talks about writing and developing the movie High Tide. www.longarmfilms.co.uk @longarmfilms "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100826. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/britflicks-com-podcast/donations Advertisi...
Mar 18, 2015•43 min
The Carvan: A dying mother plans a reconciliation with her husband and son after her death. We talk to executive producers and stars of The Caravan: Mark Sheals & Darren Connolly about making an indie movie, developing the story with the screenwriter, learning from Shirley Henderson and so much more Follow them @thecaravanUK "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks b...
Mar 05, 2015•58 min
Writer, director and producer JK Amalou talks through his influences, inspirations and challenges making his latest movie - the new crime thriller, Assassin, starring Danny Dyer, . Out on DVD, all good VOD platforms, iTunes etc Monday 9 March Twitter is @assassinfilm "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. incompe...
Mar 05, 2015•50 min
Jeremy wrote Grand Theft Parsons (2003), the video game Battlefield 2 (2005) and the upcoming features Twenty and Blank. Here he shares his approach to writing a screenplay and some of the steps he took early doors to move away from a career in advertising and break into the film making business. @jeremydrysdale on Twitter "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevi...
Feb 24, 2015•1 hr 5 min
Coz Greenop gives Britflicks a close up view of the life of a feature film through his writing and directorial debut: Wandering Rose. He goes from making it, being in charge and having to grow up quickly on set, taking it Cannes Film Festival, getting it released and reveals many of the lessons he learnt along the way. "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin Ma...
Feb 18, 2015•55 min
Graham Fletcher-Cook talks about harking back to those classic B movies of the 5-/60s, importantance of your audio design and working with next to no budget when making a feature film. You can see Blood and Carpet: 12 & 16th February at the Arthouse Cinema, Crouch End 25th May at the Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings Online from 16th February via www.bloodandcarpet.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Feb 12, 2015•36 min
Sasha C. Damjanovski - Writer/Director - of Project Snowflake a new sci-fi film. He talks about how YOU can get your film off the ground, making independent films, adapting a stage play and the importance of distribution to a film. For a 17 minute single take http://orev.co.uk/home/portfolio/green-pages/ For more info see http://www.orev.co.uk or https://www.facebook.com/projectsnowflake Follow Sasha on Twitter @orevfilms "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons...
Feb 05, 2015•42 min
Jonathan Gladwin (@MrPew) and David Angell (@DavidAngell) of Social Placement talk about how a film maker can get the best of social media, how best to promote a movie using social media and much more. Their top 3 tips: 1) Find your audience, not necessarily the largest audience. 2) Remember all the stories from when you start a film through to when you finish filming. 3) Always be positive. Be friendly. Respond to people. They will tell other people you're alright. Social Placement is a social ...
Jan 29, 2015•1 hr 2 min
To reflect on another whirlwind year for UK Film the Britflicks Podcast sat down with two film critics - Stuart Barr and DW Mault - to find out what were the best British films of 2014. This is part 2 of 2 and is the Top 5 British Films of 2014 as selected by writer/director DW Mault. 5) Locke 4) Starred Up 3) Frank 2) Exhibition / Spell To Ward Off The Darkeness 1) Under The Skin The Man Whose Mind Exploded Podcast http://www.britflicks.com/blog.aspx?blogid=10546 "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incom...
Jan 21, 2015•1 hr 44 min
To reflect on another whirlwind year for UK Film the Britflicks Podcast sat down with two film critics - Stuart Barr and DW Mault - to find out what were the best British films of 2014. This is part 1 of 2 and is the Top 5 British Films of 2014 as selected by Stuart Barr. 5) '71 4) Calvary 3) Under The Skin 2) Mr Turner 1) Pride His blog: http://maxrennblog.wordpress.com/ And he also writes for Verite magazine: http://www.veritefilmmag.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed unde...
Jan 11, 2015•1 hr 19 min
Chris Brown has written a book about a very British moment in film history - the video nasty scare of the 1980s. On the Britflicks Podcast he talks at length about what he found watching all 72 of the films the Director of Public Prosecutions believed to violate the Obscene Publications Act 1959. It's a noble act and one that spawned a podcast first and eventually the book: "The Video Nasties Moment: Examining The Films Behind The Scare." Archive of the Video Nasties podcast is videonastiespodca...
Dec 12, 2014•49 min
Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King's Speech, Exam) talks to Britflicks about his latest film - Kajaki: The True Story. http://kajakimovie.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Intro/Outro music: Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100826. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/britflicks-com-podcast/donations Adver...
Dec 04, 2014•31 min
Liverpool's DW Mault talks through his evolution from film critic to film director, his insatiable appetite for watching the medium, obtaining the rights to a book, the challenges of adapting a novel for the big screen and developing a film with the BFI. Cold Water is currently in development. Follow its progress at: http://coldwaterfilm.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cold-Water/214202175280250 http://www.pinterest.com/pin/21462535694226396/ "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License...
Nov 19, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Co-founder of Lift Off International Film Festival discusses what you can go to see for free in December, what makes a good short film and more importantly gives an incite into what short film festivals are looking for when they are selecting their films. For tickets and programme see http://www.lift-off-festival.com/festivals/london-lift-off-film-festival Twitter is @London_FilmFest "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.or...
Nov 18, 2014•46 min
For one week only the podcast makes me the guest as I appear on John Flannery's Soundtracking show - originally broadcast by Reels Rebels Radio - catch up with past shows at http://www.mixcloud.com/flanners2013/uploads/ or check out the varied musical palates of other DJs at this Stoke Newington, London based radio station at http://www.reelrebelsradio.com Tracklisting: Chang & Sword - Cliff Martinez (Only God Forgives). Cannibal Holocaust theme - Riz Ortolani Can't Forget - Cliff Martinez ....
Nov 13, 2014•1 hr 37 min
