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Masterbaker @ Rocliffe
Following on from my last post, the BAFTA Rocliffe Forum For New Writing happened last Thursday at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, and I’m still alive! The process started back in March when the call went out for emerging writers interested in having their work staged with live feedback from industry professional(s) and an…
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BAFTA Rocliffe Forum for New Writing
My feature script, Masterbaker has been selected as 1 of 3 UK projects from 400 applications, for the BAFTA Rocliffe Forum for New Writing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011. A 10 minute extract will be performed live on stage in the presence of an audience, and industry guests producer Nicola Shindler (of Red…
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What is that strange yellow ball in the sky…
Love Cake is being mixed this coming week, *squeal*. More news soon. There isn’t a much better feeling than standing in a warm wood with the sun flooding through the trees. Hello Spring.
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Persona – the most fun you can have in the palm of your hand
So finally I can talk about the ‘unexpected opportunity’ mentioned in the last-blog-but-one. It wasn’t a deliberate tease, promise – just decided not to count my chickens until they’d hatched, so to speak. Anyway, I’m pleased to confirm that I’m one of the writers on season 3 of Persona from the rather forward-thinking company App…
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Love Cake
Happy Valentine’s Day, and to celebrate here’s the trailer for the new short film I’ve written (the soon to be finished), Love Cake. Directed by the lovely Eleanor Yule, and produced by the also lovely Selena Darke. Remember… everyone needs a little sweetness… Love Cake trailer from Aldo Palumbo on Vimeo. Film and trailer edited…
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Flash! And it’s 2011.
Finally, the snow has gone except for odd solid mounds of dirty ice at the side of the road that look like slumbering polar bears. I was slightly disappointed to not have to get out my Leatherman and head for the hills, but there’s still time. So that was 2010. It went by in a…
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Every time he comes up, he’s got no knife, he’s got no jacket, he’s got no pants, he’s got no boots. All he’s got is that stupid gun he carries around
Why when you have an enforced snow week, do you feel less inclined to get down to writing than when you’re rushing around like a blue-arsed fly with absolutely no time to spare? Discuss. This is the drift I fell into earlier – it wasn’t as much fun as it sounds. We’ve had a week…
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New Scientist Flash fiction competition 2010
The New Scientist is running a competition, looking for very short stories about futures that never were, and…. (drum roll) NEIL GAIMAN is judging the shortlist! You know, the guy that wrote American Gods, Coraline, Sandman….. The winning entry will be printed in the special end-of-year issue of New Scientist and the most entertaining and…
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Fall
I took the photo of the glowing maple at the Botanic Gardens yesterday when saying farewell to a friend. First time out and about for a week as a few days ago I fell down a rabbit hole in the woods and twisted my ankle. But that’s fading into a purple, yellow bruise now, a…
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I wish
I wish I was fearless. I wish I was eastern-bound and weighed down by nothing but minimal baggage and expectation. I wish I could summon up courage in a heartbeat and spread it ahead of me to cushion any fall. I wish I was brick-built and indestructible. I wish I was solid and honourable and…
mandy lee 