POSH! THE REBIRTH OF CINEMACHETE & RONIQUE XXX

Post-production has been completed on POSH! the latest MOVIMIENTO CINEMACHETE collaboration shot in the depths of the Berlin winter by myself, Simon J. Paetau, Martin Backhaus, Llaima Sanfiorenzo, Charlotte Michel, Vincent Ribaud, Michaela Muchina and Laura Paetau, and starring the one and only Ronique XXX (previously Posh! The Prince) and the stunning Friederike Hirz.

POSH! will be unleashed very soon.

MOVIMIENTO CINEMACHETE:

The movement was founded by Juan Soto, Simon J. Paetau and myself, in the middle of a Bogota student riot, in 2007. The first films were made in Latin America but since then it has spread to Europe. Productions include BANADOS POR EL TIGRE, 4 MOVIMIENTOS POR EL CUERPO HUMANO, EL OTRO LADO DE LA CINEAGA and OURY JALLOH.

MOVIMIENTO CINEMACHETE explores experimental processes of filmmaking that play with the boundaries between documentary and fiction.

POSH! THE PRINCE:

Posh is a Berlin-based artist and scientist experimenting with life as an extraterrestrial in human form:

Surpriseville in Official Selection at DocPoint

www.docpoint.info/en/content/supriseville

Surpriseville Receives Honourable Mention at Off Cinema Festival

Surpriseville was awarded an Honourable Mention from the Jury at the Off Cinema Festival in Poland.

Surpriseville in Official Selection: Doclisboa & Kassel Dokfest

Surpriseville will be screening in competition at Doclisboa on the 25th and 27th of October:

http://www.doclisboa.org/2011/en/edicao/programadetalhe/812

It will also screen at Kassel Dokfest on the 10th of November.

1000 Voices wins in Dallas

1000 Voices wins Best Short Documentary Award at the 24th Dallas Video Festival.

1000 Voices Screening at Tricycle Cinema, London.

Amnesty International, Hampstead, present a showcase of short films on human rights issues, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Featuring animation, documentary, and fiction, the showcase offers a global portrait of human rights issues related to Amnesty’s campaigns, including refugees and asylum, women’s human rights, and prisoners of conscience.

Lenny Henry, actor and comedian famous for everything from Othello to Comic Relief Does Kibera, will introduce the event.

The Q&A after the screening will be hosted by Geoff Andrew, Head of Film Programme, BFI Southbank, and consultant editor at Time Out.

Confirmed speakers include acclaimed writer/director Sue Clayton (director of Hamedullah: the Road Home, many C4 documentaries and dramas and the feature film The Disappearance of Finbar) and the director Afarin Eghbal and screenwriter Francesca Gardiner who created Abuelas and Tim Travers Hawkins, director of 1000 Voices.

Tickets: £9.50
Profits will go to Amnesty International.

Suitable for age 15+

www.amnesty.org.uk/hampstead

Nomination for CANON BEST EMERGING DIRECTOR AWARD

I've been nominated for the CANON BEST EMERGING DIRECTOR AWARD at the Open City London Documentary Festival.

The film will screen on the 17th of June:

The Jury is made up of some very big names:

EDDIE BERG (Director of the British Film Institute) DAVE CALHOUN (Film Editor of Time Out, London) SIMON CHINN (Oscar winning producer of Man on Wire and Project Nim) MAREK HOVORKA (Director of Jihlava Int Documentary Festival) LUCY MUSGRAVE (Director of Publica) PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI (BAFTA winning director of My Summer of Love and Last Resort) NICK PEARCE (Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research) PENNY WOOLCOCK (Acclaimed Documentary and opera director)