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Mayhem Film Festival 2019: Days Three & Four

The 2019 Mayhem Film Festival continued to deliver a mind-bending array of films during its final two days at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. Day Three The Pool The Pool is a Korean killer crocodile that really delivers. It sees a young couple [...]

October 14, 2019

Movies In Focus Is Part Of The Femme Filmmakers Festival 2019

Movies In Focus is thrilled to be part of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2019. Organised by the masterful Robin Write of Filmotomy, the online festival showcases 20 short films across 10 days and also includes 21 feature films and a bunch of out of [...]

August 10, 2019

Watch Jill Gervargizian’s Quirky Genre Short THE STYLIST

Movies In Focus first caught Jill Gervargizian’s The Stylist at the Mayhem Film Festival back in 2016. I was impressed by it because it’s a highly effective short film, filled with dark humour, impressive visuals and strong production [...]

July 19, 2019

Watch Short Film CAPRICIOUS – Written By Movies In Focus

In 2016 I started writing a twisty-ish dramatic thriller with director Jordan Handford. We crafted a tight little script, which turned into a great little short film called Capricious. I was extremely impressed by Jordan’s direction, the [...]

June 15, 2019

Early Bird Passes For MAYHEM 2019 On Sale – Festival Now Accepting Short Film Submissions

Early bird passes are now on sale for the Mayhem Film Festival. The festival, based at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema is usually a wonderfully rich selection of genre movies and I expect this year to include more of the same. The 2019 festival [...]

June 9, 2019

Check Out Director Jimmy Dean’s Vampire Short V

Vampire films have been around for decades and nearly every angle has been explored in an attempt to breathe new life into the undead horror sub-genre. However, director Jimmy Dean has managed to craft a fresh take in his short film, V. The 10 [...]

February 16, 2019

Director Rob Savage’s SALT Is A Well Seasoned Horror Short

Rob Savage’s horror short, Salt packs a hell of a punch in the space of just two minutes. The set-up is simple: Alice Lowe is the mother protecting her daughter (Beau Gadsdon) from an evil, salt-hating demon. The film plays out like the [...]

October 29, 2018

if24 Festival Offers You The Chance To Turn Your Short Film Into A $2.4 Million Feature

Over the last 20 years, digital cameras have democratised filmmaking. You no longer need a huge crew or a lot of equipment to make a film. Scoring a budget to make something with a bit more scope is slightly more difficult – but that’s [...]

May 11, 2018

Watch Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK As A Short, Silent Movie

Digital filmmaking, the internet and all the tools around them has led to millions of fan edits of all sorts of movies. Some of these have been great, while others have been pretty terrible. This 8-minute film takes Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk [...]

January 1, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days Three & Four

Read about Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days One & Two SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER The third day of Mayhem kicked-off with the festival’s weakest film. Tag had energy and visual style but it just seemed like a collection of concepts thrown together [...]

October 22, 2017

Everybody Starts Somewhere: Ridley Scott’s BOY AND BICYCLE

At the minute everyone is talking about Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, but sometimes it’s worth looking back at an artist’s earlier work (I’m not talking G.I. Jane here). Scott has a keen eye and one of the great visualists [...]

May 13, 2017

Self-Congratulation: CAPRICIOUS Makes Its Big Screen Debut: Check Out The Poster

Movies In Focus isn’t usually the place where I talk about my own film-making endeavours. However, I’m incredibly proud of Capricious and felt compelled to write a few words about it. It’s a short film that I wrote alongside Jordan [...]

August 25, 2016

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