The Southend Film Festival celebrated its 10th year anniversary over the weekend and continued to show why it remains one of the most prestigious annual events in the UK for filmmakers. Delivering a strong diverse range of independent films specially selected for the festival, it gives the audience a unique opportunity to see films which they would not normally get to see on the big screen.
The festival creates an amazing atmosphere over the weekend with guests and filmmakers interacting by the bar between films. In fact, the only issues I had was the number of great films playing simultaneously, which often left me divided as to what I should watch. But with such a fantastic line up, whatever you chose you knew that you would not be left disappointed.
Following the initial opening gala on Thursday, where they had a special 50th Anniversary showing of if…. (1968), the main film festival lasted for four days.
The festival creates an amazing atmosphere over the weekend with guests and filmmakers interacting by the bar between films. In fact, the only issues I had was the number of great films playing simultaneously, which often left me divided as to what I should watch. But with such a fantastic line up, whatever you chose you knew that you would not be left disappointed.
Following the initial opening gala on Thursday, where they had a special 50th Anniversary showing of if…. (1968), the main film festival lasted for four days.
- 6/1/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
Guardians is a new horror-comedy from writer-director Mark A.C. Brown, which has been selected to play at the Southend Film Festival on Saturday 26th May. I got a chance to ask Mark A.C. Brown a few questions about the original concept for the film, the biggest challenges they faced and his favourite scenes to shoot.
What can we expect from the haunted comedy Guardians?
A lot of laughs and silliness, the odd scare, a bit of dancing, a couple of rashers of bacon all on a bed of hot satire and historical inaccuracy.
Where did the concept for the film come from?
I was trying to think of something I could set in one house and I remembered that a lot of actor friends I had known had been live-in Guardians in these big old houses around London. I thought that, whilst they actors got a lot out of it,...
What can we expect from the haunted comedy Guardians?
A lot of laughs and silliness, the odd scare, a bit of dancing, a couple of rashers of bacon all on a bed of hot satire and historical inaccuracy.
Where did the concept for the film come from?
I was trying to think of something I could set in one house and I remembered that a lot of actor friends I had known had been live-in Guardians in these big old houses around London. I thought that, whilst they actors got a lot out of it,...
- 5/23/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
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