Saturday, January 12, 2008

Pan African Film Festival and Hillywood trailer

It looks possible that more exciting news will follow, but for now, just a couple of bits:

1. We were selected for the Pan African Film Festival which is happening LA during February - I'll post the link once it's up - which is quite exciting, and even more brilliantly, is taking place the same week as a great friend of Debs and Bernie gets married (also in LA!), so they're able to go. We're thrilled to be in the festival, and really looking forward to seeing how the film goes down in an audience full of strangers! Debs and Bernie will be in LA from Jan 31st to mid-Feb.

2. I just received this LINK which is an online trailer for a doc being shot this year about the Hillywood rural film festival, where our film will play in Rwanda in March. It's a totally brilliant initiative, which takes an 80ft inflatable movie screen to villages around Rwanda, and plays locally made films. It's had coverage on the Beeb and all over the place - and we're thrilled to be part of it. Look out for Ayuub (our co-writer and co-producer) - who also co-ordinates Hillywood - in the trailer. He's such a dude.

3. The new website is NEARLY ready - and will have more detailed information, publicity pics, bits from the soundtrack and HOPEFULLY a trailer - I'll post here when that's up.

4. Finally - we have raised something like £700 through album sales so far, which is amazing. Thanks so much for that, and I'll try and post up details and updates of the two organisations over the next month or two if any are interested in supporting them further. (Please read the last post for more details about the organisation).

Lots of love - as mentioned at the beginning of this post, I hope there will be more exciting news to follow soon...! xxx