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Radio HaHa: Finalist biogs

Victoria Allison — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:09:42 +0000

Following on from our finalist announcement for Radio HaHa, here are some short biogs of the chosen 9. Many thanks to all those who took the time to submit their moments of comic genius. Daniel Jamieson Daniel is a 17-year-old film student from Edinburgh. His submission, AJ and Finnegan, is a spoof American cop show following partners [...]

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Radio HaHa finalists revealed

Nick Carson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:30:12 +0000

As you may have noticed, over the last few months we’ve been calling for up-and-coming comics to fling their funny bits in our direction for a unique competition with E4 Radio, called Radio HaHa. The response was incredible: we had literally thousands of audio clips and scripts snippets piling into our inbox. It took us a [...]

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Summer School 1: Pitching

Catherine Madden — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:19:23 +0000

After pitching a behind-the-scenes film about the workings of Channel 4 to a panel of big wigs, Summer School placement Catherine Madden reflects on how it felt. So you’ve worked on an idea that you feel passionate about. You know it has potential, and the thought of anyone ripping it to shreds and making you feel [...]

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4Talent Awards: Final judges

Nick Carson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:31:02 +0000

We’ve taken our sweet time, but we can now proudly announce our top-level judges for this year’s 4Talent Awards - our showcase of the UK’s hottest young creative talent. Our latest scoop is legendary trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, co-creator of that notoriously infectious Big Brother theme, for the Production Music category. Victoria Pile, creator of Green Wing [...]

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Britdoc, last day: Masterclass

Chris Bates — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:22:00 +0000

The first masterclass of the day was on interview technique. It was hosted by BBC’s Kate Adie with a panel including a police interrogator, a forensic investigator and a QC: the subject in discussion was how to get the ‘real truth’ out of someone, an invaluable technique for the would-be documentarian. Rapport and mutuality are both [...]

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Britdoc, day two: The Pitch

Chris Bates — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:58:54 +0000

Film-maker Chris Bates blogs about his second day at Britdoc festival, pitching his film to commissioners. A big day today. My first time pitching face-to-face to an actual commissioner. Current TV is a great platform for first time filmmakers, and if I can get a few pieces on their channel, then that could provide some serious opportunities [...]

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Britdoc, day one: Trailer Trash

Chris Bates — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:02:17 +0000

Film-maker Chris Bates writes a blog from Britdoc documentary film festival. Billed as ‘the most productive 3 days of the year’ for UK documentary, Britdoc festival in Oxford was an event that as a freelance film-maker I just had to visit. I have several doco projects of my own that I am trying to take to the [...]

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Twitter competition winner announced

Catherine Bray — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:26 +0000

Another week, another festival microblog. The weekend just gone saw 4Talent head to Birmingham’s Custard Factory to bring you Twitter updates from the small but noisily formed Supersonic, featuring a dream line-up of sludgey, grungey, kraut-rocking noise for those who like their music uncompromisingly large of sound and eclectic of source. For those who couldn’t [...]

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Inside Film4’s Directors Lab: Day 2

Nick Carson — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:48:59 +0000

Six young directing talents journeyed up to the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of 4Talent and Film4’s Directors’ Lab. We asked a couple of them to give us a potted glimpse at what they’re up to. “We started off the day with Mia Bays, the independent producer and Microwave head don,” begins Charles-Henri Belleville. “Mia [...]

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Inside Film4’s Directors Lab: Day 1

Nick Carson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:14:09 +0000

Six young directing talents journeyed up to the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of 4Talent and Film4’s Directors’ Lab. We asked a couple of them to give us a potted glimpse at what they’re up to. “Day one and we’re off with a bang,” begins Hope Dickson Leach. “We began the day meeting all those [...]

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