Here is the first teaser trailer for 'Alpha Papa' The Alan Patridge Movie, Declan Lowney's new film with Steve Coogan. Out on the 7th of August, and more trailers to follow shortly.
HSI director Thomas Napper recently directed the award-winning documentary film, Lost Angels: Skid Row is My Home, set to premier at Hollywood's ArcLight Cinemas Friday, December 7. Learn more about the up-close look at life on Skid Row here - http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/12/06/lost-angels
Big Easy Express has been nominated for Best Long Format Music Video - directed by Emmett Malloy - and Yoann Lemoine (aka Woodkid) Run Boy Run is nominated for Best Short Music Video at the Grammy Awards!
Eva Weber's Reindeer has been selected for the New Frontier Short Film at Sundance. Commissioned by Nowness, the film is a lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lapland wilderness.
Congratulations to Douglas Hart who has won first prize at the Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne 2012 for his short film Long Distance Information.
In one of the first deals announced at Docs for Sale, Austrian-based outfit Autlook Film Sales has swooped to handle international rights on Eva Weber's Black Out.
The “Danny Dyer” track which features within the pilot for the Rubberbandits, directed by Declan Lowney, has now gone live on Channel 4's You Tube Channel.
Yoann Lemoine is nominated for Best Director- plus his music videos for Lana Del Rey 'Blue Jeans' and 'Born To Die' are up for Best International Pop Video, and Best Cinematography for 'Blue Jeans'. Gorillaz 'DoYaThing' is up for Best Animation in a Video. And we are very excited and happy to see our lovely Gareth Thomas nominated for Best Producer.
The Guardian - "Sky's new comedy could be the funniest to come out of Ireland since Father Ted."
The Independent - "Moone Boy is entirely loveable, one of those comedies that you actually feel a slightly better person for liking...it's sweet natured, fresh and absolutely not by-the-numbers, and if you want to bully it you'll have to get past me first."
The Daily Mail - "Malcolm Tucker may have been back in The Thick Of It on BBC2 last night, but the comedy highlight of the week was Sky 1's new Friday night delight Moone Boy"
Yoann Lemoine is up for Video of the Year and Best Male Video for Drake feat. Rhianna "Take Care", and Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography for Drake feat Rhianna "Take Care" and Lana Del Rey "Born to Die". John Urbano is up for Best New Artist and Best Pop Video for One Direction "What Makes You Beautiful".
We're so proud of our Claire Luke who cycled 1200km from Verona to Cannes over 8 days and raised just shy of £2.5k for the charity Leuka. Well done Claire!
Yoann Lemoine's latest video for his musical alter ego 'Woodkid' is another richly fantastical mind trip set in a surreal world of magical monsters & Metropolis-style skyscrapers.
To Celebrate 10 years of BBC4, Radio Times have whittled the channel's output to an all time top ten..and Chris Cottam's 'Rich Halls Dirty South (2010) in number ONE on the Best Hidden Gems list!
Douglas Hart's "Long Distance Information" is now being screened at the Sundance Film Festival, here's a picture of Douglas, with producer's Ohna Falby and Beth Montague living it up in Utah.
Moone Boy is a semi-autobiographical sitcom written by and co-starring The IT Crowd's Chris O'Dowd about a boy growing up in Ireland in the 1980s. The new show, also staring Steve Coogan & Johnny Vegas, will explore the life and adventures of Martin Moone and invisible buddy Sean, using Martin's chaotic, scatter-brained family life as a backdrop. The series is Directed by Declan Lowney and is on air in the Summer on SKY 1.
The short film "Long Distance Information" has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2012. It was selected from nearly 8,000 films entered. “Long Distance Information” was made at HSI LONDON, part funded by Film London’s Borough film scheme. It was written and directed by Douglas Hart, and produced by Ohna Falby and Beth Montague. It was also selected earlier this year for the BFI London Film Festival and the Bristol Brief Encounters Film Festival.
