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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Arjun & Alison: the trailer is out!
Been waiting all year for this, and it’s finally here. The trailer for Arjun & Alison, the indie feature film I was hired to script in February 2010, worked on all that year and saw shoot in Birmingham last November. It’s been in a Mumbai edit suite most of this year and this is the first glimpse of what the film might actually look like. (The security guy with his back to camera is me, by the way).
Jimmy Sangster 1927 – 2011
I suppose it’s normal that most screenwriters who pass away go to that Underwood in the sky with little ceremony. Sometimes we don’t even notice their passing ourselves, and often we don’t realise how much certain screenwriters mean to us or what they’ve given us over the years. Jimmy Sangster was a self-effacing screenwriter, director, producer who, while giving DVD commentaries recently, seemed surprised that anyone would be interested in his life’s work. But to this screenwriter, he was a …
Radar love
If you live in Birmingham, particularly my stomping ground of Moseley, you might be familiar with the brilliant culture and listings magazine, Radar. They’ve been running for over a year now and giving the low down on all that’s worth seeing in the city. So I’m particularly pleased that my ebook publishing project is a major feature in this month’s issue. Intrigued by my 11 before 11.11.2011 project, and not averse to the DIY indie ethic themselves, they asked me …
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss before midnight? Meet Me in Montmartre is a delightfully romantic short story and a taster for the forthcoming collection, Lovers in Paris, a multi-strand novel about various couples meeting in Paris on New Year’s Eve (to be published September 2011). In this 10,000-word short story, vintage-obsessed English girl Sandy travels to Paris on New Year’s Eve for a blind date with her French pen friend, but …