Charlie Productions : 2007

Sweet As Onions...

If you can make it to the 'The UK's most important short film festival' (The Guardian) then you'll find Chris and I in the bar on Thursday and you'll find me talking my face off on Saturday as part of Shooting People's discussion of the Future Of Short Film.

If you can't make it to Bristol, then at least all the films nominated for the BBC New Talent Award will be on BBC3 in the near future.

So a huge thank you and massive congratulations to everyone who has worked with us on both these films. Well done you.

Panda Porn - The Insomniac's Friend.

"This is your captain speaking, I'm a Panda..."

Stay In - Stay Up - Watch Hallo Panda!

Old Man Dies in Ealing and Newcastle.

It is showing on the 22nd of February at 7.30pm at Stage 5, Ealing Studios, as part of a short film showcase in support of MS. Tickets cost £8 and can be reserved by emailing Cara Williams (click here)

That's right - there is no escape.

04.02.07 It's Beautiful down South

Not only do we keep having to shoot south of the river thanks to our producer Barrington never wanting to travel more than fifteen minutes from his countryside Carshalton pad (as well as our blood-runs-thicker-than-the-Thames devotion to Caffy's La La Land NX), but now we are being asked to celebrate the fact.

Beautiful South at the NFT, Thursday 8th 7.30pm is a big old shindig devoted to down there and it promises to be a cracker with many fantastic shorts being screened alongside Death of The Revolution and all for the princely sum of £1. Yes, £1. That's the way to do it, eh, certain venues north of the river? There is also a screening earlier for shorts made on training schemes and both come fully fitted with a guest panel (thankfully not us so you may get some sense) to impart wisdom and beneficent smiles...

The new year brings in a new era for everyone here at Charlie Productions. Last year, thanks to Film4 and the UK Film Council, the "legendary Blaine Brothers" made their last short film ever. And that's forever ever. As if to prove this fact, the Halloween Short Film Festival is hosting a retrospective of their years in shorts at the ICA on Thursday 11th January.

Ben and Chris Blaine started making films when they were teenagers, with money won cheating at poker. Since 1997 they have made 21 short films, nearly not been not nominated for a BAFTA three times, come second in the first (and last) York Film Festival, third in the Wood Green Film Festival and been described as "the British Coen Brothers" on no less than thirty-five times in the local press. With the help of some of the most brilliant friends you could ever wish to work with, their trials and errors have produced a collection of vivid, delightful and joyously exuberant films, all of which are detailed here.

Highlights include a shoot-out without guns, a blue screen sci-fi epic without the cgi, a reunion with a friend who isn't there, an angel who lives in the gap on the london underground, an old man going insane to cheat death, a naked Danny Dyer, a communist revolution in a primary school and a man who has to masturbate a talking chinese black and white bear.

Ben and Chris will introduce all the films and after the screening the best of their work for our sister company Digital Sneakers will be shown in the bar with live music and dancing 'till late.

ICA Cinema 1 (click here to book tickets)
6:15pm Thursday 11th January 2007.
£8/ £7 concs/ £6 ICA members.

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