Filmumentaries

Message from Colonel Dietrich

14/01/2013 filmumentaries 0

One of the great things about creating these filmumentaries is making contact with the very people that starred in the films or helped to put them on film as a member of the crew. I’ve […]

Making Slow Progress

07/01/2013 filmumentaries 3

Two nights ago I watched the first third of Inside Jaws (so far). It is clear that this is once again a different kind of filmumentary. Whilst I’ll be using all the available material in […]

Many of my fellow fan editors feel an absolute imperative to preserve. Whether it’s Garrett Gilchrists restorative edits of Star Wars or Puggo’s 16mm and 8mm restorations or Adywan’s brave and successful efforts to preserve the […]

A Shark Is Not Just For Christmas

17/12/2012 filmumentaries 0

A while ago, my family and I decided that we should do the secret Santa thing at Christmas. Rather than spending a fortune on each other and on the kids, we now pick a name […]

Back at Sea!

03/12/2012 filmumentaries Comments Off

Tomorrow, 3rd December 2012, marks my first day of work on Inside Jaws for a couple of months. My (paid) work has taken me around the world for the past thirteen years. It’s difficult enough […]

Aspects of Fandom

07/09/2012 filmumentaries 1

One of the only other areas of Star Wars that I’ve always loved is the range of vintage action figures. So I recently dug out my collection from the loft and thought about a way […]

Popcorn Taxi Screening

21/08/2012 filmumentaries 0

Once again, thanks to the power of social media and the coverage which Star Wars Begins and Raiding the Lost Ark received, I was contacted from ‘down under’ by Popcorn Taxi. They are a Sydney based film […]

Film Festival

04/05/2012 filmumentaries 0

There’s nothing quite like hearing your film is part of the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival Official Selection to lift your spirits when you’re stuck at home with a virus. It appears I’ve been incubating the […]

Inside Jaws, A Filmumentary

20/02/2012 filmumentaries 16

Today marks the first proper day of research, planning and pre-production on my new Jaws Filmumentary. The title is yet to be set, but I quite like “Inside Jaws, A Filmumentary”. Tonight I am chatting […]

Raiding on NPR with comments from BBC, Web and Hollywood.

10/02/2012 filmumentaries 0

Thanks to the wonderful Beth Accomando (@cinebeth on Twitter) of San Diego’s KPBS, there is a piece about me and my filmumentaries on NPR this morning. The BBC Radio Film Programme presenter, Francine Stock along […]

Lunch With Film Royalty

24/01/2012 filmumentaries 0

As you know, I recently contacted Michael Ford, the twice Oscar winning Set Decorator, to talk about his work on Raiders of the Lost Ark. He kindly invited me to lunch to have chat. Yesterday I met […]