So we started recording songs for Race's first ever independent album about 8 days ago and things are going amazingly well. 

Well it's been a crazy few weeks that's for sure!

Having managed to pull together an entire film festival / competiton in just under a month, I think both Ivy and myself can be termed as a mixture of extremely ambitious, completely insane and right now, damn exhausted!

However, it was an amazing experience and in the end all came together incredibly well.

Some of the fun experiences along the way included our 3 drinks evenings gone wild at Fringe, Alhambra and back to Fringe again, engaging in daily midnight calls with Ivy as she crammed in overnight hours whilst at Busan Film Festival then Tokyo Film Festival, watching Joe Fiorello pick "Musical or Western" out of the genre hat, bumping into two different teams in Wan Chai at silly o'clock in the morning as we engaged in a mixture of partying and filming, spending the weekend in a tiger suit, berating Arne and Mike Chan whilst they were wearing animal hats and dancing (instead of editing), hosting the screening, watching the films themselves, the CRAZY afterparty, attending Clockenflap and watching the films again there!

Whew! What a ride!

Thought I'd include a few nice pics from along the way.

Robot Entourage:




Hanging with Ivy:




A little post-traumatic celebration:




Watch this space! More to come.

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Following the great news the other day that David Venghaus (Pirates of the Carribean - Assistant Director) and Eric McLeod (Pirates of the Carribean - Executive Producer) announced that they would be joining the DevaShard Production as Executive Producer and Producer respectively, the press and blogs immediately started reporting on it, using the evocative title: "A Couple of Pirates Board the DevaShard Production".

Here are a few examples of the coverage:

Screen Daily



Comic Book Movie.com



The Comics Waiting Room Newswire

As if we hadn't already had enough great news with David Venghaus (Assistant Director of Pirates of the Carribean) and Kevin Grevioux (co-creator, writer and actor in Underworld) coming on board the DevaShard project, I am now extremely happy to announce that one of the most successful Producers in Hollywood has confirmed he will be joining the DevaShard film project as Producer

Eric McLeod, Executive Producer of Pirates of the Carribean and producer of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Tropic Thunder and the upcoming BioShock has yet to have a miss in Hollywood, producing successful films one after another, year after year.

Having handled enormous budget movies in the past with excellent results, studios, financiers and of course our own Fluid Comics all have great confidence in him to do a great job with the film.

You can see DevaShard listed at the top of Eric's IMDb page , as well as a list of all the many projects he's worked on over the years. I've put a short screen grab of it for reference here:

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More amazing news continued to stream in this week, as Assistant Director to the world famous Pirates of the Carribean films, David Venghaus confirmed that he would be joining the DevaShard project as an Executive Producer.



David specialises in motion capture technology and on integrating animation and CGI seamlessly into live action film, as you can see from his work with Captain Davy Jones on Pirates. We look forward to seeing the same kind of expertise applied to the DevaShard film.

I have included a short list of his films from his IMDb page and as you can see, DevaShard is already listed. Have a look through the other exciting projects he has worked on in the past and ones he has coming up.