Category: Short films

  • ‘By the end of the shoot, I think we were telepathic,’ – an interview with filmmakers Anouchka Santella and Lucy Percival

    I first met Anouchka Santella over a plate of spanakopita spring rolls.  ‘Are they any good?’ she asked, as I shoved one into my mouth.  ‘Mmphf,’ I said, through spinach and feta.  We were at the opening of The Kurious, a ‘multi-disciplinary design and brand development consultancy’, based in Sheffield. It’s a film production and…

  • On Saturday, 4 March 2017, the team at Nothing in the Rulebook joined almost 250,000 protesters at the demonstration in support of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in London. This was a crucial part of the final end-game of our  ‘Haikus for the NHS‘ poetry project, which sought to build on the long-standing tradition of poetry…

  • The stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s timeless classic, Les Miserables, has been thrilling audiences for decades. Yet going to the theatre is just so darn expensive. Surely there must be a better way to capture the same thrills – the same spills – but without having to spend half your paycheque on seats with an…

  • In a tale of bread rolls, boiled sweets and missed opportunities in Rotherham, Jean and Graham wait for their friends to turn up for tea after a grand day out in Yorkshire. Written by Chris Smith. About the writer Chris Smith is a full time content marketing and PR type who dabbles in scriptwriting, creative…