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UK Screen 2013 – How Cannes helps the underdogs

June 6, 2013 at 11:27 pm

With Cannes 2013 over, the festival award winners are slowly receding into the memories of those who were fortunate enough to see them, some of them possibly unlikely to see the light of day again. Anyone eager to see the second-prize Grand Prix winner, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davies in the UK will have to wait until January 2014, and Palme d’Or winner, the three hour lesbian love story Blue Is The Warmest Colour, does not yet have a release date here. [...]

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Hinode (dir. Tetsuka Niiyama)

June 3, 2013 at 11:42 pm

This beautiful piece of motion design was a recent submission for our monthly film night Screen Social.

“This is a CG movie that depicts saltation and growth of life in the sea using jewelry as the motif for illustrating the theme “Jewels of Sea.” It creates mystifying and attractive scenery by the ores resembling creatures of sea and its transforming refraction and reflection of light that are affected by the organic moves.”

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Independent Cannes: Interview with Welcome to the Majority director Russell Owen

June 1, 2013 at 10:56 pm

During The Cannes Film Festival 2013, Cannes in a Van spoke to independent filmmakers about their experiences in Cannes and beyond. This is a short interview with ex-storyboard artist-turned-director Russell Owen who screened his short Anglesey Road this year at Cannes in a Van.

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Independent Cannes: Interview with Soeur d’Arme (2012) director Olivier Lavielle

May 31, 2013 at 11:13 pm

During The Cannes Film Festival 2013, Cannes in a Van spoke to independent filmmakers about their experiences in Cannes and beyond. Here, French director Olivier Lavielle talks about making his short film Soeur d’Arme and how it is being an independent filmmaker in France. Hear from more independent directors in our interview section Follow more of our progress at Cannes 2013 @cannesinavan #CIAV or like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/filmfestival1

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Tell Tale (dir. Michael Middleton-Downer)

May 30, 2013 at 11:12 pm

Director Michael Middleton-Downer was at Cannes in a Van 2013 to screen Tell Tale, his entry into the London Sci-Fi Festival’s 48 hr challenge. Mike had previously worked on Van d’Or Awards 2012 Best Director winner Steve Reeves’ debut feature film Keeping Rosy. Click here to see our interview with Mike.

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Independent Cannes: Interview with Tell Tale (2011) director Mike Middleton-Downer

May 30, 2013 at 10:51 pm

We spoke to UK director Michael Middleton-Downer who made the mammoth drive to Cannes to screen his short films at Cannes in a Van. Here he and actor Marc Hendrey talk about their festival experience and making their short in 48 hours. Watch Tell Tale here. See the trailer for One Tonne here. For news of post-Cannes activity follow @cannesinavan #CIAV or like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/filmfestival1

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Cannes in a Van Film Festival 2013: blog 9

May 29, 2013 at 10:38 pm

The carpet had been rolled out, the chairs in position. The final challenge was to flick our speakers up to an appropriate level so we could be heard over the sounds of turntable remixes across the road. The speakers didn’t let us down. Midnight was soon upon us and as the club switched to stealth volume, we knew who had won the battle of the sound systems. CIAV has come a long way since 2007.

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Gorilla Film Magazine – By Filmmakers for Filmmakers

May 24, 2013 at 6:24 pm

For any fresh-faced filmmakers it can be hard to discover vital tips and tricks of the trade when looking to turn heads in the always-intimidating film industry. You could very well waltz into your local Waterstones, grab the first ‘How To-‘ book on the shelf with the glowing review from people you haven’t even heard off, but it can be frustrating not knowing the right direction to go in.

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Cannes in a Van Film Festival 2013: blog 8

May 24, 2013 at 4:44 pm

Day 8 Soon after we awoke, our Israeli neighbour, filmmaker Yanai Lein popped round for coffee to discuss some of the key themes around his mesmerising debut The Hidden Spring. He spoke at length about his intriguing background and the origins of his movie. As the day moved on, and Yanai left to meet in Cannes with producers, we heard a crash from the heavens, shortly followed by (unsurprisingly) more torrential rain. Sitting in the campsite ‘media hub’ the core [...]

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Cannes 2013: Cannes in a Van interview with Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman

May 24, 2013 at 3:09 pm

This is the uncut interview with independent film legend and Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman as he talks about a changing Cannes Film Festival, Occupy Cannes and how independent film is so important in a developing film industry. You can watch the vast back catalogue of Troma films including All The Love You Cannes on the Troma Movies Channel. Look out for more from Troma & Cannes in a Van in London soon…

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Cannes in a Van Film Festival 2013: blog 7

May 24, 2013 at 9:41 am

Now the weather was on our side and we were raring to go. We headed down and grabbed a tight little spot outside the Grand Hotel and proudly displayed our recently installed sexy velvet inertia.

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Cannes in a Van Film Festival 2013: blog 6

May 23, 2013 at 3:54 pm

The roads around the Palais de Festival were closed to traffic so us mere mortals could get close only to grab some generic touristy-style snaps of the red carpet. We could only begin to imagine how much better it would have looked as Ryan Gosling hovered over like some sort of deity.

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