Indian Space Dreams goes gold
Indian Space Dreams directed by Sue Sudbury is a Gold Award Winner at the Spotlight Film Awards. Congratulations to Sue and all the team!
And.... Nat Geo will be showing Indian Space Dreams this Saturday (25th) at 9 pm in India with another 83 territories in Asia seeing it on February the 8th.
Papa Cool
Cool Daddio is having its French Premiere in Paris at the
FAME 2020 - International Festival of Films on Music
on Saturday, February 15, 2020, at 7.15 p.m.
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C'est très amusant!
Night Will Fall is Back!
We are delighted to say that More4 will be repeating our Emmy, Peabody and RTS award-winning documentary on the liberation of the concentration camps on the 25th January at 9 pm.
Indian Space Dreams
Last night, Indian Space Dreams had its first public premiere screening at Dochouse in Rusell Square followed by a terrific Q+A with director Sue Sudbury and Vinita, one of the stars of the film who had come over from Mumbai for the occasion.
Such was the demand for tickets there's another screening coming up of the 5th of December - don't miss it!
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5kjcKWhOF6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.facebook.com/BerthaDocHouse/videos/985999398436410/
https://twitter.com/BerthaDocHouse/status/1201472832686956544
PRISON Goes Around the World
In this weeks 'Broadcast'
"Channel 4 access doc sells to 82 territories with Discovery and Nine Network among the buyers
Australia’s Nine Network, Canada’s Bell Media and Discovery Networks are among the global broadcasters to have picked up Spring Films’ Channel 4 access doc Prison.
Blue Ant International has now sold the 3 x 60-minutes series to more than 80 territories and countries, including France, Norway, Germany, Poland and New Zealand.
Prison taken an in-depth and exclusive look behind bars at HMP Durham, giving rare insight into the challenges prison staff face on a day-to-day basis. Over seven months, the documentary tells the human story on both sides of the door: staff and prisoners, and the real issues facing them all.
Bell Media has acquired the series for its French-speaking services while Discovery has picked it up for Italy. Elsewhere, Prison has sold to Sky in New Zealand, M6 Group network W9 for French-speaking Europe, TV2 in Norway, Luxembourg’s RTL, Polsat in Poland and Germany’s Autentic.
Off the back of these deals, distributor Blue Ant has made series two of Prison, also 3 x 60-minutes, available for pre-sale. The second series focuses on female offenders.
“These new sales exemplify our commitment to bringing high-quality and thought-provoking programmes to buyers and audiences internationally,” said Blue Ant executive vice-president Solange Attwood.
“We’re glad to have the chance to sell such a high-calibre series as Prison and we look forward to debuting Spring Films’ second series of the franchise for pre-sale this month.”
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/indies/spring-films-prison-expands-overseas/5145088.article
Cool Daddio On SKY
This Friday (22nd November) at 9 pm Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore premieres on Sky Arts (coincidentally a channel launched by our MD in 2000!).
https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/91e741f0-ca0d-47c7-9527-604f75d45df2/cool-daddio
So this Friday cancel all your plans, don't go out, don't answer the phone, don't check your email (but Txt your friends to tell them it's on)and tune into Sky Arts. It's a brilliant watch and some of the coolest music you will ever hear!
We did it Again!
We are delighted and very proud to say that we won the Grierson Documentary Series award for PRISON last night in the face of some amazing competition.
Thank you Paddy, Jack, Josh, Chris and all who worked on the series. PRISON 2 is coming next year. Watch this space!
The judges said: "Filmic, powerful, funny, sensitive, revealing, this series takes one of the most problematic, but also familiar problems of our time, and yet makes it weirdly enjoyable. The director was a brilliant character, invisible off-screen and yet as present as the best presenter. A master of being in the right place at the right time, he was also highly intentional in creating documentaries that were nuanced, humorous and balanced, with a phenomenal soundtrack, skilful editing, distinct, original episodes which still sustained a cohesive series identity.
"But the real triumph of this winning series was its characters. A group of people whose stories we think we know - born without privilege, in some cases addicted to drugs, stuck in a cycle, left behind and unloved in the national consciousness. This series created a nuanced platform for their stories - their hopes, dreams, struggles, successes, and failures. The full humanity of people on both sides of story shone through because of the empathy and thought with which they were filmed.
"It’s often to feel fatigue towards this subject, and yet this winning series made it resonate anew with brilliant urgency and its depiction of people whose lives tell us something vital about Britain today."
Как твой русский?
André is in the news again. Check out the BBC World Service to see the interview they did with André about 'Meeting Gorbachev'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FrbTO0c4GY&t=9s
Gorbachev Comes to the UK
- Filmhouse Edinburgh
- HOME, Manchester
- Ciné Lumière, London
- Depot, Lewes
- Watershed, Bristol
- Curzon Bloomsbury, London (Dochouse)
- Arthouse Crouch End, London
- Showroom, Sheffield
- Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow
- Irish Film Institute, Dublin
- Lighthouse, Poole
- JW3, London
- Macroberts Arts, Stirling
- Chapter, Cardiff
- Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden
- New Park Cinema
- Strode Theatre
- Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
And André will be doing Q&A's in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Curzon, London.
The Thin Blurred Line
The hot ticket at t this year's Asthetica Short Film Festival:
Documentary filmmaking comes with many moral and ethical dilemmas. When confronted with a deeply emotive scenario, do you continue to film or put down the camera? How do you condense 500 hours of footage into a 90-minute film? What decisions should be made to ensure that the production reaches its full potential? Emmy-winning and BAFTA-nominated Richard Melman from Spring Films (Night Will Fall, Into the Inferno) establishes ethical boundaries and how to recognise them.
https://www.asff.co.uk/tickets/#2019-masterclasses
Thursday 7 November
16.30-17.30
York Theatre Royal Studio
The Dream Is Alive…
Indian Space Dreams is a Broadcast 'Hot Pick' at MIP. Directed by Sue Sudbury at Sequoia Films with Richard Melman Producing and André Singer Exec Producing for Spring.
"Indian Space Dreams hits Mipcom as demand booms for stories about the Asian super-state, which is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN projections. India is emerging as a global economic force and with that has come its entry into the space race.
The documentary, which is part science story and part cultural and social observation, follows a team of scientists in Mumbai as they prepare to launch the country’s first astronomical satellite. Their mission began in 2001, and the doc follows them over the final six years of the project up to launch.
TVF International (TVFI) head of acquisitions Will Stapley says it is the first time a film crew has gained access to an Indian space mission – a key selling point for buyers to consider."
https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/international/indian-space-dreams/5143619.article
Nashville turns Coolio
Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore' is a tragi-comic musical odyssey to discover underground music icon R. Stevie Moore, a man who recorded over 400 albums…. in his bedroom. Now in his 60s, R. Stevie Moore is finally receiving worldwide recognition and growing cult following. As he embarks on his first global tour, is it all too much, or too late?
Cool Daddio was a major hit at the 50th Anniversary Nashville Film Festival, attended by the man himself Mr R. Stevie Moore, the directors Imogen Putler and Monika Baran and Spring's Producer Figs Jackman.
https://www.facebook.com/cooldaddiorsmfilm/