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SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2014: A Film By Abigail in Official Selection at Film Festival! [SDCC]

15/7/2014

San Diego Comic-Con 2014
OFFICIAL SELECTION
San Diego International Children's Film Festival

UPDATE: 'A Film By Abigail' will screen in Programme 5 as the second film in what's dubbed "Best of Fest" and described as
"Some of the best shorts from 11 years of the festival, take a trip back in time enjoying again some of the all-time favorites!"
See the schedule in full on comic-con.org.

Exclusively announced on the TRAVELLING MAN FACEBOOK page - the best and my favourite comic book shop - my short documentary A FILM BY ABIGAIL will screen at the world renowned and highly anticipated SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2014! It is in the Official Selection of the San Diego International Children's Film Festival on 27th of July. If you're unfamiliar with SDCC, this is the number one event where huge announcements/panels are held for TV, film and comics. Although it's rooted in the science fiction and superhero genres first and foremost, the event has become an annual phenomenon in which celebrities, tv shows, premieres, producers, writers, directors, actors... will all be present and it is the most important popular arts convention in the world. To be a part of it with one of my films is astounding. As a comic book reader who (and will still this year) wait for the major trailers/announcements trying to one up each other, cliche or not, it is a dream come true to have my work there. To give you an idea of its magnitude and cross-form appeal here are some of the illustrious sponsors: AMC, Warner Bros, MTV, Nintendo, Showtime, Marvel, DC Entertainment, Xbox and Sony Pictures.

...this year presents many new shorts, as well as favorites celebrating the past decade of the festival. The festival features creative, exciting, and imaginative short films from around the world: animation, live action, and documentary... films from the United States, Canada, Italy, Hungary, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Spain, and beyond."
- Description of children's film festival from: comic-con.org

'A Film By Abigail' recently screened at WonderCon 2014, the sister event from Comic-Con International, the WonderCon Anaheim International Children's Film Festival and also at the 25th Internationales Film Festival Emden/Norderney in Germany as the opener of a British showcase of work curated by the London Short Film Festival. In addition to the San Diego Comic-Con screening, I have decided to coincide the event with the film finally releasing online publicly as well!

Some other quick notes before you leave... my science fiction short film MARS-II screens in Detroit (USA) in the Official Selection of the Detcon1 Film Festival in a few days on Saturday 19th of July at 7:14pm as part of 'Science Fiction & Fantasy Shorts #4'.

Also, following my blog about three art film commissions on the horizon, I have now successfully completed production on them. Phew! The first of which is completed and online (see left), a documentary for my 'Videos For Artists' web series, shot at BARBICAN CENTRE. My film for 'Filthy Lucre: Lost In The Nameless City' where I interpreted London's urban spaces with video/photography screened

at the event a few days ago and was met with a resounding ovation from the audience. I will be writing a separate blog about the making of the film very soon, sharing images of the process and research behind it, as it developed from ideas into a finished piece of work - - - I returned from Denmark about a week ago, and having gone there to shoot two films, I returned with FOUR!! I shot at a rarely captured place called Vallo Castle, dance on a beautiful Copenhagen beach and at a converted Chapel, now a dance studio: Danse Kapellet. There'll be more on these exciting finished or near completed film projects in an upcoming blog post.

Thank you for reading and if you're feeling generous and enjoyed the blog - please hit the share/like buttons to help support/expose my work! If you want, say hello and connect with me on Twitter @PaulEVernon. Until next time...

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'A Film By Abigail' in OFFICIAL SELECTION for LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL in 2014 - 25/11/203

24/11/2013

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A FILM BY ABIGAIL
IN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR
11th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

After a year of gradual exposure and festivals for my short documentary A FILM BY ABIGAIL, it has now been selected for a high profile event and is a part of the official selection for the 11th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL taking place in January 2014! The festival had over 1200 British films entered into it and 300 were chosen for screenings. Check out some of the things said about the festival below:

“A London bastion of cutting-edge short films and multimedia”
- The Times

"A festival not afraid to take creative risks and nurture new talent, something rarely seen in this age of austerity and conformity."
- i-D Magazine

“The Best Short Film Festival in the World”
-Guardian Guide

The London Short Film Festival is a "BAFTA-recognised festival", meaning it is on a list of the most professionally important and accredited film festivals collated worldwide. The list contains renowned cinematic competitions such as Cannes, Sundance, Venice and Toronto. Being a part of a festival on the list opens up possibilities for potential funding/grants and support for the film from the British Council, as well as your progression as a filmmaker. In no small measure, this is what I've been trying to achieve since finishing my MA in 2012 and I'm very happy (and also relieved) to reach it! One step further...

"The London Short Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is recognised as the premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge UK independent film... Renowned for daring cross-arts programming, we showcase the very best of the country’s raw talent... a Mecca for the UK’s young creative talent and a significant date in the UK film calender."
- via www.shortfilms.org.uk (LSFF website)

A FILM BY ABIGAIL is currently screening in France (25th-30th of November) at the This Is England - English Short Film Festival of Rouen where it is nominated for the RNC Special Award. Thanks for reading about my film. If you'd like to, you can help me even more by sharing the blog by clicking TWEET or LIKE at the bottom of the page (only if you want)!

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'MARS-II' Short Listed For National Awards! - 12/09/2013

12/9/2013

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MARS-II SHORT LISTED FOR:
NATIONAL IRISH SCI-FI FILM AWARDS!
THE GOLDEN BLASTERS

Hello! Great news! My short film 'MARS-II' has been officially short listed for:
THE NATIONAL IRISH SCIENCE FICTION FILM AWARDS

Golden Blasters takes place at OCTOCON 2013 (not the Octagon!) at The National Irish Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, October 12th and 13th. Check out the website, it's been running since 1990 and their first guest of honour was Terry Pratchett!

What makes this slightly more exciting for the film and those involved in making it, is that this is more an awards selection than a usual film festival. It gives the short film something slightly different to flaunt and we're all so happy that's it's achieved this! The film is of course screening there too, much to our delight, and it's going be great to have a solid sci-fi audience in front of it!

"...After weeks of arguments and discussion, the Judges have come up with a list of the ten nominees for this years awards. To say this was our hardest year yet would be an understatement with the level of entries doubling in the past year and a quality to each... (they've) surpassed our expectations."
- Golden Blaster Website
2013

Screen Grab: www.goldenblasters.com

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Official Selection In South Africa For 'MARS-II'! 19/08/2013

19/8/2013

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MARS-II In Official Selection
At South Africa's Celludroid

Finally, I Can Reveal What I've Been Teasing!
MARS-II has made the Official Selection at CELLUDROID. What the hell is CELLUDROID you ask? Well... it isn't just the best name for a film fest I've ever come across but is touted as South Africa's ONLY event of this nature in the country, showing genre films such as science fiction, anime and fantasy. As far as my research took me, it seemed to look like it was the only one of it's kind in the whole continent!

The film has been chosen as one of just seventeen films selected from the many international submissions recieved and will legitimately be it's "African Premiere". The short films have been split into two feature length volumes that'll screen in Cape Town twice according to the site schedule. Following those screenings, Johannesburg is the second destination for CELLUDROID, but this is currently unconfirmed by the organisers. The festival begins at the end of this month and continues into the start of September. The film festival shows feature films too; such as weird and interesting documentaries, recent new films and classics such as PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (directed by Ed Wood).

"The CELLUDROID Short Film Collection presents fantastic shorts from around the galaxy consisting of two separate feature length chapters with sci-fi, fantasy and animation subjects."
www.celludroid.net

This announcement comes just days after MARS-II was screened in Hyderabad, India for short film event 'A Short Evening With Films'. With MARS-II containing themes of humanities quests and exploration, it's fitting that the film has broken ground into not one but TWO continents in only a week! Africa and Asia seemed a little out of reach before this week, but now slightly unbelievably, they are a reality. Hopefully... seemingly... desirably... there'll be more to come and this student film will continue to do well.

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'MARS-II' At Oblong Cinema & 'A Film By Abigail' At Bradford Festival

26/6/2013

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Bradford Festival &
Oblong Cinema Screenings

Hello! Unavoidably, it's been a busy & rough few weeks due to family commitments that have set me back on aspects of my work. Due to this, I've been behind on keeping the blog up-to-date for all five people that read it & I can inform in retrospect that A FILM BY ABIGAIL was screened during the BRADFORD FESTIVAL. I don't have the exact details of when or where it showed during the event, but it was most likely shown as part of the entertainment on a screen between musical performances/changes on the main stage of the festival. The opportunity came from the RATMA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in which the documentary was a 2nd Place Runner-Up, being asked to provide blocks of shorts to represent them.

Also, MARS-II will screen at OBLONG CINEMA in Leeds (Woodhouse) TONIGHT at 7pm! The film night looks to promote films & filmmakers of local relevance. Check out the link above if you'd like to attend or find out more. Despite the invite & promise of an excellent curry, I sadly cannot attend what will be a great evening of short works - perhaps you can though?!

Please look out for my art gallery video of MEMORIES THROUGH LINE & COLOUR from Anna Jung Seo, hitting ASAP in the next few weeks...

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SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2014: A Film By Abigail in Official Selection at Film Festival! [SDCC]

San Diego Comic-Con 2014
OFFICIAL SELECTION
San Diego International Children's Film Festival

'A Film By Abigail' in OFFICIAL SELECTION for LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL in 2014 - 25/11/203

A FILM BY ABIGAIL
IN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR
11th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

'MARS-II' Short Listed For National Awards! - 12/09/2013

MARS-II SHORT LISTED FOR:
NATIONAL IRISH SCI-FI FILM AWARDS!
THE GOLDEN BLASTERS

Official Selection In South Africa For 'MARS-II'! 19/08/2013

MARS-II In Official Selection
At South Africa's Celludroid

'MARS-II' At Oblong Cinema & 'A Film By Abigail' At Bradford Festival

Bradford Festival &
Oblong Cinema Screenings

Thank you for reading. I'm writing this blog as an active artist, filmmaker and the curator of my Vortex Museum.
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San Diego Comic-Con 2014OFFICIAL SELECTION﻿San Diego International Children's Film Festival﻿

'A Film By Abigail' in OFFICIAL SELECTION for LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL in 2014 - 25/11/203

A FILM BY ABIGAILIN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR11th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

'MARS-II' Short Listed For National Awards! - 12/09/2013

MARS-II SHORT LISTED FOR:NATIONAL IRISH SCI-FI FILM AWARDS!THE GOLDEN BLASTERS

Official Selection In South Africa For 'MARS-II'! 19/08/2013

MARS-II In Official SelectionAt South Africa's Celludroid

'MARS-II' At Oblong Cinema & 'A Film By Abigail' At Bradford Festival

Bradford Festival &Oblong Cinema Screenings

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OFFICIAL SELECTION
San Diego International Children's Film Festival

A FILM BY ABIGAIL
IN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR
11th LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

MARS-II SHORT LISTED FOR:
NATIONAL IRISH SCI-FI FILM AWARDS!
THE GOLDEN BLASTERS

MARS-II In Official Selection
At South Africa's Celludroid

Bradford Festival &
Oblong Cinema Screenings

Thank you for reading. I'm writing this blog as an active artist, filmmaker and the curator of my Vortex Museum.
- Paul