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The Pilot episode of 'Abandoned' is now live. Enjoy 😎👍

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Bully has been made OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 14th Anatolia International Film Festival in Turkey.

The screening will be held on the 6-7th Feb, 2025, in the İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Mini Theatre. My sincerest gratitude to the AIFF Jury committee and organisers for including our film for screening at the festival! :)

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Lets suppose that you were able, every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream.

And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure, you see. And after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."

But now lets have a surprise. Lets have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is going to happen to me that i don't know what it's gonna be.

Then you would get more and more adventurous. And you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally you would dream where you are now.

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - you can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in... is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

Alan Watts

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In other news, Archipelago is OFFICIAL SELECTION for the Culver City Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA! Woot! A huge thank you to the CCFF team for selecting us, you have amazing taste!

The Festival will be held between the 9th-15th December, 2024 at the Regal LA Live. This means our short will be seen on both coasts of the USA in December, very cool! :)

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

-George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824

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Grab your disco fries, we're heading to New Jersey! 🍟😉

Archipelago is now OFFICIAL SELECTION for the 9th Annual Nassau International Film Festival. Many thanks to the festival team and judges for picking us! 👍 Schweeeeet!

Held on Saturday the 7th of December, 2024 from 6.30pm onwards at the AMC Marketfair in Princeton, NJ, there will also be a panel discussion during the festival too.

UPDATE (10/12/2024): 'Archipelago' has won the Best of Festival Award in the Fiction category. Congratulations to the production team and our sincerest thank you's to the NFF for selecting us for your festival and honoring us with this win!

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I'm very happy to announce that the Paradise Film Festival has awarded me the honour of BEST ACTOR for my role in the short film 'Bully'. A humongous thank you to the judges and selection team at PFF, you guys rock!

When I produced Bully, the short suffered terrible audio issues on the day. Try as I might to work around every cicada chirp, bird tweet, car exhaust and construction noise in post, the short languished on the festival circuit (never film in the middle of summer). I'm pretty stoked that the short has finally been given some serious recognition. Props to Natalie, my director, the film crew and especially also to my talented co-star who gave an honest, vulnerable and nuanced performance.

Thanks to new audio technology, i'm in the process of re-releasing Bully with a newly polished and balanced vocal track, the way it was originally envisioned it. Keep your lids peeled ;)

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Archipelago has been given another HONORABLE MENTION for the Reale Film Festival in Milano, Italy.

Thank you, RFF :)

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On the other end of the film spectrum, I'm very happy to have been given an HONORABLE MENTION for my short film Bully by the team over at the Monza Film Festival. That's freakin' cool! :D

I just want to send my biggest thank you so muches over to the crew and judges @ MonzaFF for considering this little film of ours. I'm very happy to share the laurel with my old friend and colleague, Natalie Richards, who helped co-produce and direct it with me.

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I'm so fortunate to have Archipelago become OFFICIAL SELECTION this month for the Luleå International Film Festival at Norrbottens län in Sweden. Thank you so much to the team at LIFF for accepting our production for your festival! Such fantastic news :)

UPDATE (31/08/24): We went on to be SEMI-FINALIST. Not bad.

To say i'm overwhelmed by the response to my short film of late is an understatement. The journey to get it to this point was long and fraught with numerous setbacks. But i'm very happy that our little film is gaining traction, being given recognition by so many generous people in the business and is being seen the world over in theatres, the way it was intended when I started out. I find that incredibly humbling.

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I'm happy to announce that Archipelago has won the award for BEST UNDERGROUND SHORT FILM at the prestigious Short Film Factory in Bucharest, Romania.

The production team would like to give a huge thank you to the Short To The Point crew and judges for this wonderful honour. You guys rock! I cannot be more chuffed by this result, well done to my team for another win for our little film, it's excellent news :)

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The production team is super excited to be OFFICIAL SELECTION for the upcoming 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 edition of the 𝗦𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹.

Amazing work by everyone involved and thank you to the SAIFF judges and crew for taking the time to see our work and selecting us as part of your official program! Cool :D

UPDATE (29/08/24): we were given an HONORABLE MENTION in the winners list. Grazie amici SAIFF, ti vogliamo bene! :D x

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The Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival gave me an HONORABLE MENTION for their 'Best Acting' category in Archipelago. In their email correspondence, out of 41 submissions in the same category for the month of July, I was placed in the top 3 performances. AMAZING! :D

I want to thank the AIMAFF Team for this incredible distinction, that's huge! It's made my day :)

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Archipelago is OFFICIAL SELECTION for the 2024 Manchester International Film Festival in beautiful New Hampshire, USA. The production team and I would like to extend our gratitude to the festival organisers and judges. Amazing! :D

It will be screening at 'The Rex' in Manchester, NH on Saturday, August 10th from 7pm. Tickets can be purchased at the link below.

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A few more nods for 'Archipelago' by the kind folks at the Lytham International Film Festival and Folkestone Film Festival for FINALIST and SEMI-FINALIST respectively, both festivals located in the UK. Very cool!

The production team wishes to extend their sincerest thank you's to the organisers and judges to each festival for taking the time to consider us! It's much appreciated :)

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"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." -Kurt Vonnegut

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A great little doco I got involved with during covid has finally released a trailer. Was a fun shoot over the few days we had to the empty studio. Congrats to Enzo Tedeschi, Laurentine Ten Bosch, James Colquhoun and the team at Food Matters, looking forward to seeing the final cut of 'Love Over Money.' 👍