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It's festival season and Warp X is just gearing up for its own unique contribution to the summer shennanigans. Filming for our new post-apocalyptic zombie film 'I Spit On Your Rave' is kicking off at The Big Chill with an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the 'Most Amount of Zombies Captured on Camera'. Noel Fielding is going to be our Zombie King, whipping everybody into a bloodthirsty frenzy on Thursday 6th August, so anybody partial to a party and nice bit of human flesh should check out http://www.ispitonyourrave.com// for how to take part. In search of suitably horror-related material on the site I thought I'd check out the Micro Movies competition, as 3 of these 5 ultra-short films seemed to have strong horror influences. There were some really imaginative responses to the classic stories but in the end it was the comedy, rather than a horror that won my vote. THE RABBIT HOLE takes stylish direction and some great visual trickery to produce a very smart comedy whose brilliance is in its simplicity. I'm always amazed at how much narrative can be squeezed into such a tiny space of time (and sometimes at how little features in terrible sprawling 4 hour films) but often with shorts, as with THE RABBIT HOLE, less really is more!
Well that's me for now, off to join the undead.
July 21 2009
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I sort of fell into producing films after a slightly checkered background in a variety of arts-related jobs, some more enjoyable than others. Having decided that neither ballet nor bongo-playing were really my thing I ended up producing short films, music promos and the odd TV programme. I also had one foray into the world of corporate video with an attempt to make a rather unique ultra-low-budget interpretation of 'Robocop' - probably the most spectacularly bad advertisement for a security company that you could ever imagine. Robin Gutch, joint MD of Warp X gave me my first shot at producing when he was at Channel 4. Many, many years later he must have forgotten his original error and took me on as Head of Creative Development for the new low-budget studio that was rather conveniently being launched with its head office in my home town of Sheffield. For the preceding five years I had been heading up the UK Film Council's short film schemes through my own company Lifesize Pictures so it's been great to expand my experience into features. It was also brilliant to see some of fantastic talent I'd worked with on shorts make the move into features through Warp X. The company is now into its fourth year with six features under its belt, three of which will be released in the next six months, and an exciting slate of new projects in development.
My favourite film: The Apartment
What my school report said: Age - 16, Subject - P.E. Caroline can work very well when she wants to and has real ability. I hope she feels more energetic this term.
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Warp X Blog - July 21 2009
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