I will be returning to Denmark in July to make a dance film piece for the project Human Proportions funded by the Danish Arts Foundation. It will be produced and co-choreographed by my long time collaborator Julie Schmidt Andreasen, who will be performing with co-choreographer Karl Fagerlund Brekke. We'll be shooting at Skagens Museum and the duet will relate to Danish artist J. F. Willumsen's paintings and drawings: I bølgen blå (In the Blue Wave). The film will be shot over two days on location and accompanied by live music. I have worked with Julie multiple times and our last pieces of work made in Denmark were Branches & Bones which was a dance / documentary film of a workshop interacting with nature at Vallø Castle and Transverse shot on a Copenhagen beach - watch the one minute cut of Transverse entered into the 60 Seconds Dance Competition below:
It's been finished for a little while, but with being a bit busy I've been slow sharing a new video I'd finished! Now on Vimeo is my live music video promo for national award-winning function band Vibetown. We lost a lot of time on the day to shoot completely comfortably and everything we wanted and had planned through a problem out of our hands (same old story with filmmaking!) and so I'm very pleased with how it turned out - take a look below:
Today is the last day of the Near Nazareth Festival in which A Film By Abigail was in the official selection and eligible for awards... so fingers crossed there'll be good news to tell soon when I receive the results. Hit me up on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook wherever you do all your social media...ing and please say hello / get in contact / follow my work. Thanks for reading and watching; look out for more announcements soon!
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A Film By Abigail is in competition at the Near Nazareth Festival in Israel from the 19th to the 31st of May 2016. There will be five winners chosen in each category and the "Best Works from each country" awarded too. A Film By Abigail is a short documentary about a child describing her idea for a film. It has been selected at the London Short Film Festival (at ICA), Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival (at LACMA), San Diego Comic-Con and at film festivals internationally. The film premiered at BAFTA and was recently award nominated in Cairo, St. Petersburg and Tirana.
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The festival aims to enrich Hickory and make it become more international, as well as teach children about cultural diversity through films. Their connection to this is demonstrated within the adorable hand-made posters made by local school children for a competition to promote the festival.
Abigail is in competition for the Jury and Audience Awards at Kinodot (St. Petersburg, Russia) right now throughout April with 8 other international films and can be viewed / voted on at this link. Thanks for reading and take care!
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A Film By Abigail has been selected to join eight other films for the ASAP Competition for Russian event Kinodot Minimalist Film Festival. From April 1st until April 30th the films will be voted on online competing for the Audience Award as well as by a jury of filmmakers for the Jury Award. Check out the event trailer below! "Kinodot is an online festival of minimalist short films... our answer to the predictable mainstream cinema, luxurious festivals, and the self-replicating secondary visual production. A Film By Abigail is nominated for the Best Short Documentary Award at the 13th edition of the Tirana International Film Festival in Albania! From the order released it will be the opening film (TBC) of seven chosen for the documentary category's official selection and the only from the UK, screening alongside other docs from: Iran, Greece, France, Poland, Canada and Spain. It is also the shortest at just over 5 minutes with the other films clocking in at between 14 to 23 minutes. I really love the festival designs; check out their TV promo below and the trailer for the documentary category which features Abigail first. As well as other competitive categories of animation, feature etc. there are also special programs including Pasolini Day which celebrates the brilliant and often controversial Italian filmmaker. Thanks for reading and letting me share this news with you - please stay in touch via your preferred social media including my (still kinda new) Instagram account (which I'm unabashedly enjoying!). I am active on all of them - say hello and keep in touch with what's going on with my work!
A Film By Abigail was in competition on the 17th of October for Best Short Documentary Award at the East Anglia Student Film Festival in Ipswich. Sadly, it came up short for the award but it was a great event to be screened at; a strong developing platform for student films that's working towards the goal of being one of the UK's most important. Last Saturday I shot Videos For Artists #5 in London at the ExFed Warehouse which will be a documentary similar to last year's The Next Room (shot at the Barbican Centre) observing a day of preparation for Le Collectif des Improvisateurs and director Roddy Skeaping as they work towards a surprising interactive colourful evening performance. Check out a mix of stills from the film below: Without a doubt this was the strangest day of filming I've ever done! If the ideas and content of the show weren't wondrous and dream-like enough, there was a veritable group of injured animals roaming the vast warehouse all day accompanying us; including TWO three-legged dogs (I hadn't realised there were two until I looked back at my footage), a very sweet one-eyed dog and a kitten (of which I'm yet to work out its ailment!). They were very friendly and as I filmed them (see the still bottom middle) I started observing vicariously through them and their perspective interested me. I'm excited to put the documentary together and get it online soon as the fifth in my Videos for Artists web series.
Sincerely thanks for reading! Please stay in contact through your preferred social media: Instagram / Twitter / Facebook. A Film By Abigail will screen in competition for the Best Short Documentary Award at Cairo's Qabila Film Festival! Although not well-known to me before submitting, the event has 10,000+ followers on their Facebook having cultivated a solid following online and looks to be a rewarding place to to be selected as a filmmaker stating "our finalists automatically qualify for other established Film Festivals around the globe". The screening will take place on the 9th of October in a few days at the Falaki Theatre at 7:15pm on Friday. The event is partnered with the American Cairo University and the European Independent Film Festival 2016. The festival was submitted to and found via the excellent FilmFreeway.
Thanks for reading! I've set up a new Instagram I'm using a lot at the moment, such a friendly ethos on there and great for image-based creators. Follow me on your preferred social media and say hello... I'll say hey back! My co-directed short film with Danish dancer / chreographer Julie Schmidt Andreasen The Body Canvas has been selected to be part of the 24h Video Dance Digital Event for satellite, app and online arts channel ikonoTV. The film was shortlisted by POOL '15 International Dance FilmFestival in Berlin and subsequently curated from that list to be included in this unique dance event. ikonoTV has some extraordinary global reach with 222,000 downloads on Amazon Fire and can be viewed on TV in countries such as France, Dubai, Qatar, Austria, Switzerland and in the MENASA region which consists of South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. Details on the event and how you can watch are in the Press documents below: In addition to the September 12th event, a playlist of the films will be made available on an ikonoTV premium service launching this fall. You can watch the channel right now here. Recently The Body Canvas screened in August 2015 at Huset-KBH in Copenhagen for HAUT in their Young Choreographers Festival in its Danish Premiere. Sincerely thanks for reading! Get in touch and follow me on my new Instagram @paul_filmmaker, plus my official Facebook and Twitter @PaulEVernon.
"Huset-KBH has since 1970 been Denmark’s first and largest culture house! Today Huset hosts approx. 1400 annual events spread across 10 diverse stages... Huset even has it’s own board game café, a small kitsch cinema and Europe’s first non-profit restaurant to battle food waste! ...This unique venue has a remarkable legacy spanning over four decades and is very important to many Copenhagen residents who know it for its colourful history." There is a heightened significance for the Danish Premiere with Julie being from Denmark and the film recently coming off of a successful screening at the Kaleidoscopic Arts Platform in London for the Wandsworth Fringe with some glowing reviews from Writing About Dance and A Younger Theatre: For discussion on the film, you can read my interview with The New Current focussing on The Body Canvas that was conducted just before Kaleidoscopic. You can follow me on Twitter @PaulEVernon, find me on my official Facebook or look me up on my brand new Instagram too. Sincerely, thanks for reading!
A Film By Abigail has been selected for Summer Cinema at Surface Gallery in Nottingham. There's a preview night on Friday July 31st at 6pm - 9pm and then main screenings on Saturday at 1pm, 3pm and 5:30pm. No excuses if you're near as it's FREE ENTRY! Its been posted in the news section of the Arts Council site, citing the description with Abigail as a highlight:
And by complete coincidence the film will also screen for youth groups at Greenacres Community Centre in Oldham, organised by the Sahar International Short Film Festival, the same day as the July 31st preview. Not much comes along and then two in one day!
Apologies for being absent with my blog and Facebook page for so long - I went through a particularly lengthy job application process getting to the late stages with BBC Worldwide and have been finishing my showreel too. I'm looking forward to sharing it online imminently. Sadly, the Cologne (Germany) June screening fell through with the festival that had invited me (with a consolation of screening next year... ) but there's some fresh and definite screenings to announce occurring soon. Starting the same time as Summer Cinema, the Surface Gallery also has a new contemporary painting exhibition called Painted Surface which runs from August 1st to 15th. As always, thanks for reading! Keep up-to-date with my work through my official Facebook and hit me up me @PaulEVernon on Twitter. |
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