Friday 7 January 2011

Shorts whatever the weather...


I have begun my Oscars vieiwng campaign by looking up the 20 films on the best short film longlist so that I can watch as many as possible – rather than waiting for the shortlists to be announced. After all they aren’t long!

So far I’ve mainly found trailers although I have seen one nominated short already – and you will too if you watched Toy Story 3 in the UK.
If not the link is supplied below for anyone who wants to take a look. I've supllied trailer/clip/film links for anyone who wants to join me in appreciating what look like some excellent films.

Tonight the marvellous London Short Film Festival kicks off until 16th January, so if these whet your appetite you'll find plently to love there.

Live Action Shorts longlist

Ana’s Playground - webiste/trailer
The Confession - Clip
The Crush - trailer
God Of Love - The facebook page - still tracking down the trailer.
Little Children, Big Words (Sma Barn, Stora Ord) : Trailer
Na Wewe - website/trailer
Seeds of the Fall (Slitage) - trailer
The Six Dollar Fifty Man - trailer
Wish 143 - Not yet found
Shoe - Still hunting for a link

Animated Shorts
The Cow Who Wanted to Be A Hamburger - Filmmaker blog, no clip link yet but this is my favourite title so i included a still!
Coyote Falls - Still looking
Day & Night - Actual film!
The Gruffalo - It's been on the bbc, so hunting around iplayer
Let’s Pollute - trailer
The Lost Thing - clip
Madagascar, A Journey Diary (Madagascar, Carnet De Voyage) - The actual film
Sensology - The actual film
The Silence Beneath The Bark - The actual film
Urs - Clip

Wednesday 5 January 2011

Resolutionary road!


Popularly considered a time when we set ourselves impossible goals I usually try and make January a time when I focus on one or two specific things I have been meaning to get round to.


One year I made a concerted effort to save money and eat more healthily by making sure I always took a packed lunch to work. It was a great year for pre-prepared soups, healthy noodle dishes and, okay, a lot of baked potatoes – but hey that’s definitely one I’ll pick up again and is much more fun than going to the gym as a way of staying healthy.


But my big 2 resolutions are to considerably reduce my lateness and to watch every film nominated for an Oscar this year. The first one is just purely because I am fed up of myself and I hope will have the knock on effect that if I will just get more done with my life. And the second is that if I am going to set myself a ridiculous goal and balance out the whole healthy eating kick – I feel I need to be grand, ambitious and sedentary! Also that one is done by March which is about as long as my attention span for resolutions is likely to last.

Watch this space for progress, here’s to a leaner, more punctual, more square eyed me.