Minister for Culture and the Creative Industries Ed Vaizey announces government plans for the British film industry saying the BFI will act as a ‘single voice’ for the film industry and the reginal screen agencies in England will be replaced with a new body called ‘Creative England’
Issue 8 of screenGRAB, screenWORKS’ monthly e-mag, is here
As the beginning of the end, Harry Potter, hits the big screen and fans are set to queue up all over the world, we consider various forms of book to film adaptations in the latest issue of screenGRAB. John Gibb investigates whether the small screen may in fact be a more suitable format for comic book adaptations and Laura Witz considers the impact the success of Downton may have on the future of period drama.
Claire Charras tackles the debate that has been running in Wired magazine recently, sparked by Chris Anderson’s statement that apps will spell the death of the web, and Peter Forbes offers advice to aspiring screenwriters.
Issue 7 of screenGRAB, screenWORKS’ monthly e-mag, is here
In this issue of screenGRAB, John Gibb looks at the future of publishing, Jonah Sugdon explores the rise and fall and rise again of the music video and Debra Clarke considers the 10 downloads you can’t live without.
Horror fans rejoice! Back for a one day Un-Hallowe’en Special, Scotland’s International Horror Festival Dead by Dawn takes place at the Filmhouse, this Saturday 9th October. A festival of discovery, it promises to be a day-long marathon of terror, with new features and shorts from both home and abroad to delight even the most ardent horror fans. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased for individual shows at regular Filmhouse admission prices. Alternatively, viewers can buy a day-pass for £30 which guarantees access to the whole lot, plus free entry into the surprise movie capping off the day’s fiendish festivities. http://www.deadbydawn.co.uk/
Issue 6 of screenGRAB, screenWORKS’ monthly e-mag, is here.
In this issue, we profile some of the new talent emerging at this year’s Media Guardian TV Festival as well as speaking to Anne Milne, winner of the Scottish Short documentary award at EIFF 2010.
Struan Roberston offers a beginners guide to 4iP, and what it can do for you, while Eva Trieman continues the 3D debate and asks if it really can have any artistic use.
David O'Doherty:Somewhere Over The David O'Doherty, Pleasance Courtyard until 30th August
It’s nearly over but here is the final issue of Screengrab’s Fringe Reviews 2010. We have our list of what you should definitely try to see and definitely avoid in the final few days of the Edinburgh Fringe.
We have worked really hard over the last few weeks to sift through the great and the grotty at the Fringe in order that you only have to see the very best. We’ll celebrate the end of the Fringe on Monday by having a nice sit-down and a cup of tea; hope you enjoyed it as much as we did though.
Suspicious Package, at C too until Aug 30
The schizophrenic weather hasn’t dampened spirits as the screenGRAB team continue to search out the weird and wonderful at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Heading into the final week they offer their tips on what to catch and avoid in the final stretch of the world’s biggest arts festival.
In this issue, we continue to focus on new talent and writing looking at a new production of the Burgess Classic ‘A Clockwork Orange’, an antidote to the manic pace of the fringe in Mark Allen’s ‘Go Slow’ and an unusual use for an antique sex-aid in ‘Dildon’t, Casual Violence’.
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Another Someone at Bedlam Theatre - Not to be missed 5 star review in this issue!
Our sleep-deprived, caffeine-fueled screenGRAB team have been out and about on the streets of Edinburgh, taking in the youthful enthusiasm, flyer-badgering and questionable nudity in the hope of being the first to discover the next big thing(s).
In this issue, the team focus on up-and-coming talent from productions of Jane Austen to Trainspotting, with some Dead Poets thrown in for good measure.
The Oscar-nominated In The Loop was backed by the Film Council
Shock as UK Film Council abolished by the Goverment ‘without any consultation’.
UK Film Council chairman Tim Bevan said:
“Abolishing the most successful film support organisation the UK has ever had is a bad decision, imposed without any consultation or evaluation,”
“People will rightly look back on today’s announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency. British film, which is one of the UK’s more successful growth industries, deserves better.
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Issue 2 of screenWORKS’ new monthly creative industries e-mag, screenGRAB is now online.
With blockbuster season now well underway, screenGRAB resident scribbler, John Gibb, explores the power of the corporate screen machine over British cinemas. Laura Jones takes another look at the continuing downloading debate and Orla Murray champions the overlooked Undertow, a gay romance, ghost story in which love transcends death. All this and more in Issue 2.
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