Is the dough in the right place?

Friday 28 March 2008

SILVERDOCS

Breadmakers has been selected for the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival in June 2008.

SILVERDOCS is an international film festival celebrating the creative vision of independent filmmakers and the power of documentary to expand our world-view and enhance our understanding of the world around us. Entering its sixth year, SILVERDOCS has become the most talked about documentary festival in the United States. Due to record crowds in 2007, the 2008 edition of SILVERDOCS will be two days longer.

Leading filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Alan King, Barbara Kopple, Al Maysles, Stanley Nelson, Jonathan Demme, Penelope Spheeris and Martin Scorsese have shared their work and their perspectives with Festival audiences.

SILVERDOCS provides business and creative connections among filmmakers, broadcasters, distributors and funders from both established and emerging media markets at the International Documentary Conference. The conference includes over 60 panels and workshops and is attended by over 650 filmmakers and guests from around the world. Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore delivered the keynote address in 2006.

SILVERDOCS takes place at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centre.

Sunday 16 March 2008

Labour Ennobles

There will be a screening of Breadmakers in Amsterdam on the 18th and 19th April 2008 as part of the Amsterdam Shorts Teaser Night.

The event is entitled Labour Ennobles and this is their blurb . . .

" Let us shake up your drag of everyday life by showing you other people's humdrum routines at work. We guarantee this to be a refreshing experience for anyone. The third and final Amsterdam Shorts! teaser night presents five carefully selected films that show you that any kind of labour, ranging from the oldest job on earth to the newest quirks of globalisation, ennobles us human beings."

Calcutta Calling
R: Andre Hoermann
(Ge, 2006, 16')
Vikhee Uphall is making a career in telemarketing. Calling from Calcutta he sells phone subscriptions to Americans, Brits and Aussies.

De Zone
R: Ben van Lieshout
(NL, 1999, 18')
An accurately shot film about a typical Dutch phenomenon: de afwerkplek, a place where prostitutes and their clients can park a car to have sex in.

Morning / Evening / Morning
R: David Burrows
(Fr, 2006, 19')
A dreamy insight into the life of a couple who through conflicting work schedules never really are together.

Breadmakers
R: Yasmin Fedda
(GB, 2007, 11')
Somewhere in Scotland there is a bakery which has the happiest employees in the world!

Staplerfahrer Klaus. Der erste Arbeitstag
R: Jörg Wagner
(Ge, 2001, 10')
In this hilarious instructional video we follow lift truck driver Klaus' first day at work.

More details at: http://www.amsterdamshorts.nl

Friday 7 March 2008

CLICK HERE - Breadmakers on BBC Reporting Scotland

A wee section about Breadmakers on BBC TV's Reporting Scotland
- click on the title above.