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Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival
Tuesday, Sep 1, 2009 7:15PM / Standard Entry
Hello folks,
Been a mad few weeks....lot of stuff happening
Just got back from a brief trip to Ireland as a guest at the First Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival, organized by maverick film-maker George Clarke the man behind the 'greatest Irish martial arts zombie movie ever made', the award winning 'Battle of the Bone'
The two day festival took place in Belfast with a number of films and shorts in multiple genres being screened, Q & A's with the film-makers and Workshops, merchandise, tattoo'ing and much more going on!
It was great to have the chance to talk, exchange information, experience, knwoledge with a wide range of film-makers and also good to catch up with old friends and new including Seamus Walsh & Cheung Chee-keong both of whom are old friends and colleagues, as well as new friends like George, Peter, Roddy, Graham and the rest of the Yellow Fever Gang who extended great hospitality to myself and everyone else at the festival.
Both Chee & Seamus took home prizes for Audience Choice and Best Short Film respectively for 'The Bodyguard: A New Begining' and 'Somebody to Love'
Submissions for next year's festival are welcome and for more information on the festival check out the Oct issue of Impact, and the websites:
http://theyfiff.ning.com/
http://watchinghorrorfilmsfrombehindthecouch.blogspot.com/2009/08/belfasts-first-annual-yellow-fever.html
http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article.aspx?art_id=2774
http://theyfiff.ning.com/profiles/blogs/full-guidelines-and-submission
The festival closed out with the official premiere of George Clarke's 2nd feature "The Knackery', which could best be described as 'The Running Man' meets 'Dawn of the Dead'...shot in 4 weeks, for a few hours a day for a budget of a hundred pounds...yes its rough at times, but its great entertainment and perfect reaffirmation that you dont necessarily need 20 million dollars to make a movie!
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US release for Bodyguard: A New Begining Sept 15th
Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 12:36PM / Standard Entry
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August Impact
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 10:33AM / Standard Entry
The August issue of Impact hit the streets in the next few days, and tis an action packed blend of East meets West as always as Impact takes a good look at Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglorious Basterds', the rebirth of several Comic Book heroes and much more in the West, while on the Eastern side of things we take a first look at two highly anticipated movies, the new Vietnamese actioner 'The Clash' starring Johnny Ngyun, and the star studded epic that is 'Bodyguards & Assassins' , as well as talking to Michael Worth about his recent projects both infront and behind the camera, reviewing the stylish supernatural actioner 'Hellbinders', the latest Japaname news and reviews, as well as a preview of next month's Phantasamogria Film Festival in the UK, and out of the vaults comes a look back at a classic slice of Hong kong heroic Bloodshed, as Andy Lau's 'Runaway Blues' gets re-examined.
Impact also asks the following question?
(thanks to mighty Mike Holdsworth)
impact is available as hard copy and/or digital edition from www.impactmoviemagazine.co.uk
We're also back in WH Smith's in the Uk this month so look out for us on the shelves
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Transformers...nah give me the Transforminators
Sunday, Jun 28, 2009 10:53AM / Standard Entry
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TRUE LEGEND: 1st teaser trailer
Saturday, Jun 20, 2009 12:07PM / Standard Entry
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