Winners will be announced on 22nd March!
Professor Green sets out to discover the modern face of homelessness, changing our perceptions of who the homeless are and the harsh reality of their lives. From the shocking streets of Manchester, where rough sleeping has doubled in the last year, to meeting those trapped in the same cycle of temporary hostel life and sofa surfing, he uncovers a generation of people without access to normal society or to their futures.
Available for the coming month on the iPlayer website – Link –
Britain used to be linked to Europe by a massive chalk land bridge, which was destroyed by a catastrophic flood 450,000 years ago. Dr Tori Herridge examines this once-in-a-million-years mega flood.
Congratulations to The Chase who won this years’ NTA for ‘Best Daytime Show’ and to Gogglebox which won the NTA for ‘Best Factual Entertainment’.
Well done to our Andrew Watters (see picture below) who worked on both the Chase and Gogglebox, and Ben Burgess who was an editor on Gogglebox. Well done everyone!
An exciting new series of documentaries exploring life online – One Click Away – will be showing from 26th Jan on BBC Three – featuring the talents of our editors Jen Hampson & Franco Bogino.
Jen Hampson – editor on “Murder Games: The Life And Death of Breck Bednar”
A teenage boy is targeted by an online predator after befriending him while gaming. Murder Games tells the true story of Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old schoolboy who was lured to his death after being groomed online by Lewis Daynes.
Broadcast – 26th Jan – BBC 3 – 21:00 / 00:45 / 03:00
Franco Bogino – editor on “Troll Hunters”
High-profile beauty vlogger Em Ford was a victim of online abuse and fought back. Now she targets the alarming rise of online abuse in Britain by trying to track down the trolls responsible. With the help of technology journalist David McClelland, Em investigates this very modern menace. She is on a mission to put a face to these anonymous bullies and to confront them with their victims.
Broadcast – 27th Jan – BBC 3 – 21:00 / 01:30 / 03:00
Also available on iPlayer shortly after broadcast – don’t miss them!
FlySpy is a short-thriller about a young, genius deviant called Greg, who has made a wirelessly controlled drone in the form of a fly with a camera in its head.
Everything the fly can see Greg can see. He is deeply obsessed with his ex-girlfriend Haley so he spends his time secretly watching her through the eyes of his tiny robotic partner in crime. But when Greg witnesses Haley’s violent new boyfriend, JOHN, abusing her, it very quickly becomes clear that for Greg, simply watching, is not enough.
Watch the trailer here.
FlySpy will be screening at the BAFTA-qualifying London Short Film Festival on January 15th 2016.
Get Tickets here.
See link for trailer (edited by our very own Smurf- Ian Smith)
‘God’s Acre’ is the directorial debut of our lovely editor J.P. Davidson. It’s set in the bleakest realms of London’s suburbs. Matthew Jure gives an incredibly powerful performance as Malcolm, a failed property developer dealing with his inner demons. Driven to bankruptcy due to the recession, Malcolm loses everything and falls into deep debt. With his only possession being a house that’s rotting around him, Malcolm must renovate and sell in order to repay his creditors and escape the spiraling danger which their lack of patience precipitates. It won’t be that easy though; the home haunts Malcolm’s mind and drives him further into an alcohol-driven loneliness. There’s something sinister in the very foundations, and Malcolm must see this through to the bitter end…
We are happy to announce that we will be sponsoring the Griersons again this year.
The shortlist has now been announced and can be seen at
http://www.griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards-2015/shortlist/
The BFI Film festival will be opening on the 7th October, we are looking forward to watching Louis Theroux’s new Scientology documentary showing on the October 14th.
See link for other highlights http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff .
And let us know if you’re going!
Congratulations to Joe Wilby, the film he edited has been nominated in the 2015 D&AD awards. We will find out the results on May 21st, but see the film here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMkWQvx3TN8
Well done Joe!
Also a big Congratulations to Rob Chandler, the episode of Surviving Evil he edited has been nominated in the Lifestyle/Factual/Reality catergory of the 5th Anual Canadian Cinema Awards.
http://www.cceditors.ca/5th-annual-canadian-cinema-editors-awards-nominees/
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