Awards news first, and 3 of our directors have picked up a bunch of awards over the last few months.
Jonty Toosey picked up several awards for his Kaspi Bank film starring Antonio Banderas, including the festival Grand Prix at Red Jolbers Festival and Gold at Best of Central Asia Awards. If you haven't seen the film, watch it HERE.
Olivier Venturini picked up best film idea at the Australian International Fashion Film Festival for his film for The Fableists - a sustainable kids clothing company. (watch the film on his reel)
And finally Joseph Oxford has won a load of awards for his amazing short film ME+HER, including Best Animation at the Aspen ShortsFest, and the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Monadnock International Film Festival. Joseph's work has also been featured on The New Yorker's video page.
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On to new work and Calum Macdiarmid has just shot his first music video for the amazing Chloe Black for her first single '27 Club'.
Calum has obviously found his music video feet, as he spent yesterday shooting another! Watch this space for more info on that!
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Both Laura Gregory (GG Founder) and GG director Remo Camerota have been doing talks recently.
Laura has just done a talk in Dubai at Dubai Lynx awards. She was joined by director Omar Hilal, and together they attended the ECD talk in Dubai, which was attended by all major ECD's from the Middle East.
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| Laura Gregory and Omar with Johan Olson, Attila Nyeki, Falvio Zanni, Jamil Assidy, Ahmed Nazzal, Eli BouChayaa, Mario Daou, Alain Mhawej, Ramzi Moutran, Sascha Kuntze, Akram Dohjoka, Ossama ed Kaoukji and Paul Shearer. |
Remo managed to steal a few moments of calm in his crazy 48hours on the ground to capture some of the city:
Cheers to a great talk Remo!
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You might remember a news article about Andy Morahan directing a live opera for the ENO back in May 2014. Peter Grimes was a huge success, and screened to cinemas across the UK live from the ENO. It was so well received that Andy has been asked back to direct round 2. This time it's La Traviata. It will be screened LIVE across the UK tomorrow in selected cinemas as part of the ENO Screen. For more information, visit your local cinema's website.
Andy comments: "This is a fantastic opportunity to film an overdue revival of Peter Konwitschny's very stylised version of Vedi's classic Opera 'La Traviata'. A moving tale of society and morality, this masterpiece combines characters you care about with powerful melodies you’ll recognise right away. It makes for one of the most emotionally engaging and popular operas of all time and I feel very lucky and privileged to be able to film it for the ENO at the Coliseum and take it 'live' into over 400 cinemas in both the UK and Europe."
Let us know if you're going to see it, tweet us @greatgunstv
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Seeing as we love to finish off a blog post with a great lunch, why break tradition? We had a lovely lunch with some of the Rainey Kelly team last week at the York & Albany - and took along two of our directors Calum Macdiarmid & David Hartley.
Unfortunately we were all so hungry by the time the food came that we forgot to take photos! Hopefully these pictures of the pudding we had last time make up for it?
Gorgeous profiteroles, smothered in melted chocolate, with a scoop of chocolate ice-cream on top of chocolate soil.
And our favourite - a salted caramel apple cheesecake, laden with caramel sauce and accompanied by a tart apple sorbet.
Go on, have another look at it close up.... don't lick the screen!
We highly recommend the York & Albany. Part of Gordon Ramsay's collection of pubs and restaurants, it's located at the top of Parkway, just by Regent's Park. Pop in for a afterwork drink, or after a long walk round the park. Their bar snack menu includes pizzas, sausage & mash and crispy squid rings. Though we go for the pizza every time ;-)
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We promise not to leave it so long next time! We have lots of exciting things coming up, so keep your eyes peeled.
As always you can contact us / tweet us / send us stuff / chat to us via twitter @greatgunstv
Love,
The Gunners x
