How to make an award-winning adventure film (without budget or crew)

Share this article You don’t need fancy equipment, a crew or lots of money to make a great short adventure film. Featured contributor Leon McCarron explains how anyone can get started. In 2012, I walked across the Empty Quarter desert alongside my friend Alastair Humphreys. We had just two cameras to film the entire experience, […]

Jam City acquires Brainz, the makers of award-winning indie World War Doh

Jam City is expanding its mobile game horizons by acquiring the assets of Brainz, a Bogota, Colombia-based mobile game developer and maker of the upcoming action strategy game, World War Doh. Brainz’s creative team has joined Los Angeles-based Jam City and will continue to carry out the development of World War Doh. Jam City has […]

Award-winning Lexus Sport Yacht to get a production successor

Imagine driving along a coastal road in the evening sun, listening to Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald or some other very smooth singer usually associated with the tag “Yacht Rock”. Perhaps a Lexus coupe could very well suit that soft rock mental imagery, with “Sailing” playing from its Mark Levinson audio as you cruise down the […]

25 beautiful and intimate award-winning photos show the reality behind weddings around the world

James Frost Whether you’re already married, planning a wedding, or have simply attended too many to count, you’ll know that a wedding day comes with a mix of emotions, from stress to sadness to utter joy. Weddings also differ depending on where in the world they’re taking place. In order to “promote and celebrate the […]

‘The Kindergarten Teacher’: Netflix Snags Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Award-Winning Sundance Drama

Another Sundance movie has found a home. Netflix has scooped up the rights to writer/director Sara Colangelo‘s The Kindergarten Teacher in the U.S. and Canada, and they’ll make the film available for subscribers to stream sometime this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal produced the movie and stars as a teacher who becomes dangerously obsessed with nurturing the […]

‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ Director Sara Colangelo on Crafting Her Award-Winning Drama [Sundance Interview]

For her second feature at Sundance (after her highly praised 2014 debut Little Accidents), writer/director Sara Colangelo has chosen to remake a four-year-old Israeli drama to examine the dying practice of encouraging and protecting artistic genius. Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines […]

After an investor bailed, a 20-year-old filmmaker spent her entire college fund finishing her award-winning debut

Samuel Goldwyn Films Actress-turned-director Quinn Shephard was 20 when she made her debut feature film “Blame” in 2015. The movie went on to win the best actress prize at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and later found theatrical distribution. Shephard had to cash in her college fund to self-finance the movie after her sole investor […]

Remember the Lidl prosecco deal? ASDA drop award-winning fizz to JUST £5 starting TODAY

It’s officially two months until Christmas today and this deal from Asda is set to send customers into a spin.  Asda has popped the cork on £5 prosecco. From today to Wednesday 1 November the supermarket will be selling its award-winning Yellow Label Prosecco for just £5.  But you’ll have to be quick as the […]

Aldi award-winning gin: Judges claim £10 budget supermarket alcohol is BEST in the world

The discount supermarket has been crowned ‘Supermarket Own Brand Spirits Range of the Year’ at the world renowned International Spirits Challenge as well as scooping no less than 20 medals at the International Wine & Spirits Challenge this month. The accolade comes at a time when spirits such as gin and whisky are enjoying a […]