Film of the Fortnight: A Complicated Way to Live.

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Live Action Narrative | UK Why Lift-Off Programmed this Film: Momentum is key to filmmakers finding their voice and their brand. In our experience it’s almost impossible for a filmmaker to find their style from their first or second film. HartHunter Productions started with Lift-Off many years ago with their debut short: Leonard – a […]

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filmmaking law and legal misconceptions

Filmmaking law and legal misconceptions.

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The usage of trademarks and copyrighted material in Indie Filmmaking Law and all other elements which need to be taken into account. Filmmaking Law. The tables have turned. In the past a stern “I’ll take this to the press” threat really meant nothing to a big brand or production company once they and their scary […]

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9 Mistakes filmmakers make on the film festival circuit.

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In the many years Lift-Off has been accepting our film festival submissions, we’ve picked up a few things along the way. This sort of post could always be misconstrued as a bunch of film festival directors blowing smoke up their own bottoms trying to tell everyone how to run their film festival submissions, trust us we […]

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Film of the Fortnight: Francis B. Griffin – Directed by Paul Griffin.

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Documentary | UK Why Lift-Off Programmed this Film: We find that films of this nature tend to tow a common background – but many fail to deliver something as unique as Francis B. Griffin. It had a certain humanity which we have found lacking in many talking head based retrospective cinematic family tributes. Our Global […]

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Perfect short film story structure

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Story structure for the short film narrative “These creatures are among us, although morphologically they do not differ from us; we must not posit a difference of essence, but a difference of behaviour.” – Phillip K. Dick Short film story structure is a difficult point in terms of education. Notably, three acts within 10/15 pages […]

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