Tuesday 29 January 2008

BAFTA success for Cinema of Horror Camera Operator

Andrew Gaynord, Camera Operator for Duchy on Bitten and Cinema of Horror.

Help him win a BAFTA - click the link below, then click "vote for this entry" - that's it.
http://www.60secondsoffame.co.uk/bafta/sixtysec/_entry/
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Title of short- Unite

Check out the Yorkshire section.

Andrew's short made the final stages of the BAFTA one minute film competition. The film broadcast on BBC regional news between 6.30pm - 7.00pm on Wed. 30th. Telephone voting opens at 6.30pm this Friday 1st Feb. the number to call will be broadcast on BBC regional news at this time. You can vote up to five times per handset.

Monday 28 January 2008

"Ragnarok: The Last Viking Invasion of England"

Work is starting on the digital test for "Ragnarok: The Last Viking Invasion of England" the factual drama developed by Marc Ganley through Digital City.

Berlin Film Festival details 2008

9th to 14th Feb. 2008

Contact details for Peter M. Kershaw in Berlin:
M. 07799-765481

Messages can be left at the MEDIA Umbrella Stand at the European Film
Market.

Hotel during festival:
IBIS Hotel am Potsdamer Platz
Anhalter Straße 4, 10963 Berlin, Germany
Tel: (+49)30/261050 Fax: (+49)30/26105222

X factor audition for Boolywood dancers

Many of these smiling faces turn from hopefuls to Bollywood dancers for Cinema of Horror as those auditioning here are now into the hard graft of rehearsal. The final rehearsal pre shooting is set for Sunday 24th Feb. in Bradford.

Thursday 24 January 2008

"Ragnarok: The Last Viking Invasion of England"

Once more Duchy is working in the digital realm as plans go ahead to help talented writer/director Marc Ganley prepare to create tests involving live actors and the very latest in digital technology for the factual drama - "Ragnarok: The Last Viking Invasion of England".

Bitten - Short drama shooting Feb. 08

"Blood oozes from the large bite-shaped gash on Sarah's neck. Something hauntingly disgusting waits for her in her bedroom. Trapped in her own house. She is being watched. Nobody can help her. Nobody to watch her die."

Bitten a new drama from Duncan Laing shooting February 2008 under the Duchy umbrella.

Tuesday 22 January 2008

Cinema of Horror - Dancers Rehearsal times

Saturday 26th Jan - 7pm - 9pm

REHEARSAL @ Salma's Bollywood Dance School - Huddersfield

Galpharm Studio Business & Leisure Complex
Stadium Way
Huddersfield HD1 6PJ

Sunday 27th Jan -- 5.30pm - 8pm

FINAL REHEARSAL @ Salma's Bollywood Dance School - Bradford

Esporta Health Club
Gallagher Leisure Park
Dick Lane
Thornbury
Bradford
BD3 7AT

Thursday 17 January 2008

Dancing opens the show

Finding dancers kicks off the pre-production for the short comic fantasy - Cinema of Horror the latest drama from director, Peter M. Kershaw.
On Wednesday 16th January 2008 at Bradford College under the watchful eye of Salma from Salmas Bollywood Academy students from Bradford College underwent the first knock out auditions for the Bollywood dance sequence soon to appear in Cinema of Horror shooting at the end of Feb.

Damian OKeeffe and Kate Shackleton from the college watched nervously as 30 students competed for 13 places while Martin Walker and Johnny Rouse took stills and video.

For Salma, the work is only just the beginning, as she now has to rehearse the dancers for a specially created dance sequence inspired by Bollywood Movies that mixes Bollywood and Bhangra.