Official Selection, Golden Lion Film Festival '06, In competition, Silent Light Film Festival '05/'06, Runner-up, Panasonic International Script Pitch Competition Cannes '05, Runner- up, Slamdance Anarchy August '06, Finalist Straight8 Cannes '05, Finalist Straight8 London '06, Featured director Submarine Channel '06, Featured director Promo Power of 10 '05
Festivals
Cannes, Raindance, Rushes Soho Shorts, Silent Light, Golden Lion, Slamdance Anarchy, Telegraph Hill, Brockley Max, Spectrecom
Professional Affiliations
The Winners Productions
Nick's Interests
General
Film, writing, White Russians and frying fish at Texas Hold 'Em
Music
Northern Soul, Set Fire to Flames, Jamie Lidell, Martha Wainwright
Movies
The Big Lebowski, Memento, Stalker, Paris Texas, Pi, Morvern Callar, any Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone. Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite.
Television
Cities of Gold.
Books
In Patagonia, A Hero of our Time, On the Road, Art of Travel
Our new Straight8 film premiered in Cannes on Wednesday 23rd May:
Hello out there.
I seem to spend a ridiculous amount of my time making films and running 'The Dude Abides' - the UK's Big Lebowski festival. Check out the little film below and the slideshow from the 2006 festival! For more check:
www.dudeabides.co.uk
I just directed my first 'proper' short film called 'Breaker', which we funded by playing poker online! The film was shot in the early hours on the deserted streets of south London - check out the slideshow and trailer below and let me know what you think. We are hoping that the film will make it into some of the major international festivals around the world. Fingers crossed! You can find out more at:
www.breakershortfilm.com
I'm also a massive fan of straight8, the most hardcore back to basics film comp out there. They give you one cartridge of super8 to make a film on, you shoot everything in camera and submit it blind, with a soundtrack that you hope syncs up. Check it out: www.straight8.net
My last two straight8's are uploaded above.
Straight8 is one of those great ideas. It is a film competition that gives competitors a roll of super8... and that is it. You expose your cartridge by shooting a series of single take shots and submit it with an accompanying soundtrack on a CD, hoping that the two media make some kind of sense when put together. Hence the fruit from my straight8 loins:
Hometown Baghdad is a great series of bitesize documentaries about the lives of young Iraqis living in Baghdad. It was co-produced by a lovely guy I met in Berlin check it out:
wooop and yes, it's out now: the Lump200 album UNSIGNED
please feel free to comment, recommend etc. UNSIGNED is available on iTunes, finetunes etc. (world) and as CD (D/CH/A), please check your preferred shop
The A.M.O. film show is a new venture offering independent film makers from around the World the opportunity to have their films shown to the public over a 2 day weekend at a venue in Bath, UK. The first film show will be in January 2008.What we are looking for is submissions from film makers with any genre films from 5 mins to 90 mins in length. Films are submitted free of charge and there is no corporate sponsorship or judges other than the general public. The film show will be fully supported with regional promotion - program brochures, local press - plus international promotion via the web. Anyone wishing to submit their work please drop us a message for further info
Shot by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles and directed by Jasmine Dellal, this dynamic musical documentary follows five Gypsy bands from four countries who unite for the Gypsy Caravan as they take their show around North America for a six-week tour, astounding every audience they meet. Their musical styles range from flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. And with humour and soul in their voices, they celebrate the best in Gypsy culture.
Hey Nick, Congratulations with the Straight8 events and Cannes! Fantastic job on your movies! Please tell Ed hello for me; Kathy from Colorado, still hoping for 'Goldfish'.
Just had a call from Thora Herd she saw you on the BBC and thinks you would be great as her love interest on the next series of last of the summer wine!!!
Alright Grandad. Well done on your success at cannes matey. Will have to meet up soon and have congratulatory drinks, and you can have worthers to celebrate :-) See you soon dude :-)
Hey hey grandad. How ya doing? HAven't seen you in time you slag. Come drinking with us Saturday for pre film festival drinks! Looking forward to the film fest and I think quite a few of us are coming down, so breaker better win or we will bust up all the other film makers and the judges for you :-) Any wyas take care mate and keep dry !
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