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shortfilmbigshot

You're a big man but you're outta shape.. with me, it's a full time job

About Me


"We luvs the flicks"
London based we enjoy and make our living working behind the camera, generating and developing ideas, script-writing, operating and directing. Also, loving comedy and messing about with movie clips like the one below.
Our website "www.shortfilmbigshot.com" has a short-film competition with potentially, some huge cash prizes for the winning films, up to a max of $100,000.
Visit the Website "WWW.SHORTFILMBIGSHOT.COM"
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ENTER THE SHORTFILMBIGSHOT COMPETITION!
Do you have a short film that deserves recognition?
Could you use:
$10,000, $50,000 or perhaps $100,000
towards you next film project?
Have you recently made a short-film that you think everyone should see? Are you about to? Perhaps you made it a little while ago and now it's sitting on your shelf in one of those blue digi-boxes or it's own dvd case.
I have a couple of those myself!
Well, if you're like us then you probably spend a lot time thinking about how you can get the MONEY for the next film project you want to make. I mean, that is what most of us, as filmmakers, are looking for...
...The big "M".
The rest of the time is spent mentally rehearsing that walk up those steps to pick up that beautiful, shiny trophy from that nice lady while the audience is applauding hysterically (standing ovation of course!) Well, that would be nice.
THE ULTIMATE SHORT-FILM COMPETITION
Anyway, that's why we started SHORTFILMBIGSHOT.COM.
It combines a pixel advert page with a short-film competition. Here, you buy a block of space on the shortfilmbigshot.com homepage and put your logo on it plus some text describing what you do or who you are, this links directly to your website, blog, or myspace page and so on.
Once you've bought space, you can enter a short-film in the competition. When the competition closes 25% of the income generated by the site will be awarded to the 15 BEST SHORT-FILMS that have been submitted.
PRIZE MONEY
If all the blocks are sold on the homepage, then the prize money will be $250,000 with $100,000 as the 1st prize! Plus $50,000 2nd prize, $40,000 3rd prize, $30,000 4th prize and $20,000 5th prize plus 10 runner's up prizes of $1000 each.
MORE THAN A COMPETITION
But it's not only a competition. It's another way to tell people about you and your work.
Anyone or any type of business can buy space.
At the end of the day we want as many people as possible to benefit from this. Everyone who buys space gets to be part of a unique site, the film makers who enter and win will have funding for their projects, and I'll be able to expand the website along the lines we want.
Plus 10% of the total profits from the site will go to several charities including the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London,England.

My Interests

Filmmaking
Film Financing
Directing
Camera Operating
Short-Films
Comedy
Screenwriting
B&W Photography
Cinematography
Producing
Film Festivals
Editing
Networking
Smoke and Mirrors
Theatre
Graphic novels
Far Eastern travel
Backpacking through India
Anything Japanese
Tibet
Peanut satay
Meditation
Martial arts
Tai-chi
Chi-Kung
Adventure sport
Rock-climbing
Driving fast
Risk-Taking
The Internet
Painting
Charity
Did I mention satay?

I'd like to meet:



Creative Minds
Video Artists
Cinephiles
Directors
Producers
Actors
Writers
Film Critics

Filmakers working in all genres; from Drama to ..ary, Animation, Music video, Experimental and Virals

Film Festivals, Distributors, Production Designers, Set Dressers, Storyboard artists, Cinematographers, Camera Operators, Camera Assistants, Illustrators, Make-up artists, Sound Designers, Boom ops, Editors, Runners, Post-Production talent and Agents

Fellow travellers, Mystics, Gurus, Svengalis, Script-writers, Comedy-writers, Web-lords and everyone else

Music:

Goldie
Portishead
Faithless
Kasabian
Green Day
Muse
Morcheeba
The Future Sound of London
Unkle
Alice in Chains
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Echo and the Bunnymen
David Holmes
Air
The Dandy Warhols
Stereophonics
Cocteau Twins
The Cure
Human League
David Bowie
Bjork
Depeche Mode
P.J. Harvey
Massive Attack
Bauhaus
Led Zeppelin
The Prodigy
Placebo
Joy Division
New Order
Moby
Sneaker Pimps
Sisters of Mercy
Radiohead
Coldplay
The Doves
Chemical Brothers
Nine Inch Nails
Plan B
The Killers
Bob Marley
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Hendrix
Cream
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
The Velvet Underground
Jefferson Airplane
Buffalo Springfield
Kula Shaker
Cliff Martinez
John Barry

Movies:

Get Carter
The Long Good Friday
The Shining
Performance
Straight Time
The Getaway
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
Scarface
THX-1138
The Conversation
The Parallax View
The 400 Blows
Day for Night
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Godfather
Point Blank
The Doors
Platoon
Salvador
Nil By Mouth
Blade Runner
The French Connection
Chungking Express
City of God
Leon
Magnum Force
Dirty Harry
Charley Varrick
The Yakuza
The Game
The Taking of Pelham 123
Straw Dogs
Bonnie and Clyde
Cross of Iron
Deliverance
Villain
The Outfit
In like Flint
The Exorcist
The Omen
The Changeling
Films from 70's America
A Boy and his Dog
..ary Film
The films of Don Siegel
Heat
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
King of New York
Superfly
Amelie
The City of Lost Children
Carry on Screaming
Any of the "Mr Moto" films with Peter Lorre
Traffic
Fight Club
Seven
Kingdom of Heaven
Alien Resurrection
Near Dark
Blade
Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween
Vampire Hunter D
Blood, the last Vampire
Grave of the Fireflies
Tokyo Godfathers
Ninja Scroll
Ghost in the Shell
Japanese cinema
The Ring
The Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
The films of Hideo Gosha
Sword of Doom
Shogun Assassin
Violent Cop
Dolls
The films of Beat Takeshi

Television:

The Sopranos
Lonesome Dove
Twin Peaks
NYPD blue
Arrested Development
Curb your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Futurama
The Apprentice
David Letterman
The Day Today
Brass Eye
Mighty Boosh
Out
The Fear
Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Dune
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel
Brighton Rock
Time Enough for Love
Tai-Pan
Contemporary fiction
Sci-Fi
Medieval History
Eastern Religions
Mysticism
The graphic novels of Alan Moore

Heroes:

Sir Richard Burton
Bruce Lee
James Coburn
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Lao Tsu
Lord Admiral Nelson
Mr. P. Yogananda
The Dalai Lama
The Marx Bros
Harold Lloyd
Peter Lorre
Buddha
Bette Davis
Michael Caine
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Steve McQueen
Jim Brown
John Cassevettes
Lee Van Cleef
Tom Cruise
Derren Brown
Takeshi Kitano
John Ford
Nicholas Ray
Gary Oldman
Sam Peckinpah
Lee Marvin
Clint Eastwood
Tatsyua Nakadai
Steven Soderburgh
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah
Kathryn Bigelow
Martin Scorsese
Peter Cook
"The Donald"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman

My Blog

COMPETITION ENTRY

THE SHORT-FILM COMPETITION ENTRY GUIDELINESFILMS: All genres and types of film are accepted. To be eligible, films must have been made after January 31st, 2000. LANGUAGE: Dialogue must be in English...
Posted by shortfilmbigshot on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:37:00 PST

IS THIS A GREAT IDEA FOR A FEATURE OR WHAT!

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Posted by shortfilmbigshot on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:10:00 PST

CREATIVE FILMMAKERS WANTED

Well this is my first blog on my space and it coincides with the launch of my new website "WWW.SHORTFILMBIGSHOT.COM"This is a site where ordinary peeps like me can buy pixel blocks and ADVERTISE THEMS...
Posted by shortfilmbigshot on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:56:00 PST