SHOOTING A KIWI | Your Big Break

SHOOTING A KIWI | Your Big Break

Peter Jackson's YOUR BIG BREAK

Just entered YOUR BIG BREAK, the competition organised by Peter Jackson and Barrie Osborne - 100% New Zealand.

Have a look at my entry and vote if you like it:
SHOOTING A KIWI

VOTING ENDS 15th JAN.

The Passenger

I watched Anonioni's film "The Passenger" again last night. It's probably the tenth time I have seen it and I still see it like a new film every time. This film poetically and cerebrally reinforces the idea that you can't change who you are in life. Not that your destiny is fixed, but that your 'identity' is. That there is no escaping who you are. It makes a powerful statement about this idea through Jack Nicholson's portrayal of a journalist who has become trapped in his own identity unable to really say anything meaningful anymore, even though he has a privileged career and a strong reputation. Even though he knows the truth about the war he is reporting on in Congo, he is unable to report it how it really is. By chance he is offered a way out, when a man dies in an adjacent hotel room. He fakes his own death and takes on the identity of the man who has died. What follows is his inability to escape his own identity, as well as his now assumed identity which slowly also becomes a burden from which he also needs to escape....

OXO FACTOR result

Just a quick note to say a BIG THANKS to everyone who voted for us in the OXO FACTOR competition. Unfortunately, we didn't win despite votes coming from wide and far - so well done to the 'Dawsons' who claimed the £10,000 prize. They certainly had an impressive amount of views on Youtube compared to everyone else.

Thanks again for voting for the "Califano Hursts". I'd like to believe that we were at least 2nd! We were in terms of the number of Youtube votes anyway. And it was pretty amazing that the ad had a viewing of over 15 million when it was on ITV1 during the X-FACTOR! It was certainly fun to do - and it's something to show the kids in several year's time when they have all forgotten about it!!!

THANKS AGAIN!!!

Arab Shorts

Graham Jeffery sent me this link about Arab Shorts


Just found my friend Mahdi's film on it - check it out:

Arafat and I by Mahdi Fleifel