Comedy

The Right Place

A short film originally made for AdFest Remarkable 5 young directors session. A winner of best short film in Young Directors Award Cannes Lions 2006, Film & Video Gold in New York Festival, Best Foreign Film in New York Short Film Festival, Diesel Film of the Festival in Raindance Film Festival. Official Selection of ResFest 2005, Onedotzero 10.

This short film opened a first Shorts on Tap Japanese night.  Directed by Kosai Sekine, this film was originally made for AdFest Remarkable 5 young directors session.
A winner of best short film in Young Directors Award Cannes Lions 2006, Film & Video Gold in New York Festival, Best Foreign Film in New York Short Film Festival, Diesel Film of the Festival in Raindance Film Festival. Official Selection of ResFest 2005, Onedotzero 10.  Enjoy!

Infidel

'Best UK Short' award at the Raindance Film Festival 2009. Part of the Sins Of London triptych directed by George Milton, written by Mark Tilton and produced by Martino Sclavi. "Chicken a l'Orange with a dash of Hitler makes for a chilling dinner party." Cast: William Beck, Jo Bourne-Taylor, Elize du Toit, Orla Fitzgerald, Dan Fredenburgh.

Another addition for my collection from Director George Milton, who run an amazing workshop on how to direct actors at London Film Academy.  Infidel won "Best UK Short" award at the Raindance Film Festival 2009. 

Part of the Sins Of London triptych directed by George Milton, written by Mark Tilton and produced by Martino Sclavi.
"Chicken a l'Orange with a dash of Hitler makes for a chilling dinner party."

The Connoisseurs

A short comedy, part of the Sins Of London triptych directed by George Milton, written by Mark Tilton and produced by Martino Sclavi. "Con-nois-seur (n.): a person of refined sensibility and discriminating taste; one who professes to know about such matters." Cast: James Frost, Laurie Hagen, George Lenz, Stacey Roca.

By the time I saw this film, I have read the script, directed my own version of the story, and have heard 11 other versions directed by my fellow students at London Film Academy.  We did it at the Directing Actors workshop run by Director and Producer George Milton together with brilliantly patient actors James Groom and Mika Simmons who acted the script based on our instructions.  Amazing experience!  At the end we were presented with the DVD with three films directed by George Milton, including Infidel which won best short at the Raindance Film Festival.

A short comedy, part of the Sins Of London triptych directed by George Milton, written by Mark Tilton and produced by Martino Sclavi.  Cast: James Frost, Laurie Hagen, George Lenz, Stacey Roca.

"Con-nois-seur (n.): a person of refined sensibility and discriminating taste; one who professes to know about such matters." 

Below are photos from the workshop.

How they get there

by Spike Jonze

Feel-good romantic comedy which went a bit wrong - by Spike Jonze whose work include Being John Malcovich.

Watched it at London Film Academy as part of learning about dramatic shots contraction.  Really enjoyed it.

The tutor mentioned an interesting fact about the film:  a car crash stunt was filmed and not used for a feature film, so short film story was written specially to utilise that shot so that it wasn't wasted. 

The Lunch Date

a study of perceptions

Watched this film last night and it made me smile the whole day today.  A timeless masterpiece.

As per wikipedia, The Lunch Date is a 1990 American short film directed by Adam Davidson. In 2013 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".  

Russian Roulette

London seems a little less lonely when Lucy meets a cosmonaut on chat roulette... BEHIND THE SCENES - https://vimeo.com/90733534 Made for under £50 while on pre-production for another film, 'Russian Roulette' is proof that the best effect your astro-short will ever need is a smart writer (Oli Fenton) and great actors (Bec Hill, Stewart Lockwood). For more from the flick, check out facebook.com/RussianRouletteShortFilm2013 or www.benastondirector.com WINNER JURY PRIZE Sundance London online short competition 2014 Starring Bec Hill @bechillcomedian - http://www.bechillcomedian.com/ Stewart Lockwood @Lockers2525 - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3935034/ Directed by: Ben Aston @benastondir - www.benastondirector.com Written by: Oli Fenton @thunderfenton Produced by: Ryan Bennett Cinematography: Darren Joe - @digitaldarren - http://www.darrenjoe.com/ Webcam DOP: Michael Dorgan - @DorganMichael - http://www.goforth-films.com/about/ Production Design: Jonathan Hillson Composer: James Morris - http://www.jamesmorris.org.uk/ Sound: Tiago Morelli @jacknash - www.jacknash.tumblr.com Gaffers: Manos Ioannou & Oliver Cottam Colourist: David Herrera featuring 'Space Odditty' by David Bowie - Copyright Sony Music Entertainment Special Thanks: Tom Rosenthal, Karim Yahyaoui ALSO, check out our other SotW and Vimeo Staff Pick 'Dinner and a Movie' https://vimeo.com/46071455 as well as the film I was working on when we made this, 'He Took His Skin Off For Me' https://vimeo.com/77898342. You can check out the wonderful writeup about the film by Ivan Kander at SotW here - http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2014/04/02/russian-roulette/

This is a winner  JURY PRIZE at Sundance London shorts competition 2014 - made for under £50 budget.  If you think you are lonely, try to think what it is like to be a lonely man in space?

The Mundane Goddess

Jameson Irish Whiskey in association with Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions presents 'The Mundane Goddess' starring Uma Thurman Subscribe, like and share Henco J's film, the Jameson First Shot 2014 winner for South Africa. Jameson First Shot sees Jameson Irish Whiskey collaborate with Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions to give three filmmakers the chance to bring their talent to life.

'The Mundane Goddess' starring Uma Thurman - a short film by Henco J's won the Jameson First Shot 2014 for South Africa. 

Watch this #shortfilm and find out what happens when a goddess reaches the end of her tether.  Brilliant.

The Gift

Jameson Irish Whiskey in association with Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions presents 'The Gift' starring Uma Thurman Subscribe, like and share Ivan Petukhov's film, the Jameson First Shot 2014 winner for Russia. Jameson First Shot sees Jameson Irish Whiskey collaborate with Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Productions to give three filmmakers the chance to bring their talent to life.

'The Gift' starring Uma Thurman.  This film by a Ivan Petushkov has won the Jameson First Shot 2014 for Russia.

When you are watching this film - watch the balloon behind the actors - it is pretty cool.

 

The Boot

The Boot is a short film I made while working at Spitting Image on Crapston Villas. The film starred Kim Thomson and was shot on 35mm over three days in an old shopping centre in Tobacco Dock London.

The Boot is a short black comedy film by Peter Boyd Maclean.  It was shot about 15 years ago on 35mm film and probably lost a bit of quality when digitised.  The film starred Kim Thomson and was shot in an old shopping centre in Tobacco Dock London.  The film won best cinematography at the New York Independent film festival and was selected into competition at the Venice Film Festival in 1998.  Beautifully made and very funny.