I read the news today, oh boy part 3

Some more literature for you: here's an interview with 1883 online magazine which we did a little before Christmas, following the OneDotZero screening at the BFI. Great stuff!

There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up

We did a music video a little while ago for Jumeee, R'nB popstar and dance choreographer extraordinaire, and he's releasing the single today. The song's called Back To The Future, and the video has already been featured on both Radar Music Video and Directors Notes, yes! Jumeee also recently performed the song at Westfield shopping Centre - the new one in Stratford I think - and won a competition for some recording time. Hooray for Jumeee. Would you like to see and listen...?

You're so cute when you're slurring your speech, but they're closing the bar and they want us to leave

This Tuesday 31st, Emily and I will be in Stoke Newington in London, at Speech Motion. Speech Motion is a monthly art-type event where they have poetry and films, and we have very kindly been asked to be this month's featured filmmakers. We'll be screening all four of our films, which includes our two separate graduation films, and then there will be a Q&A session afterwards. That's right - another opportunity to hear Emily and I babble over the top of each other! Will either of us let the other finish a sentence? How red will we go? The answer to these questions, and hopefully many more, will be found if you come join us, which I hope you do.

The evening starts around 7pm, at The Others.

Guide & Inspire is awesome

A few weeks ago we met Rebecca from Guide & Inspire website, and she decided to interview us. Guide & Inspire is a new website aimed at young people who are or who would like to be filmmakers, and would like to be guided and inspired. It's got bits about filmmaking events, workshops and festivals for young people, and a profiles section about how other filmmakers work. Rebecca runs it all herself, which is really impressive, and she's also very nice to talk to!

You can read our interview here.

How about this Arienette, how does she fit in to all of this?

Last Friday I went along to the BFI to answer questions in a Q&A session about film festivals and young people. Noel from the BFI asked the questions. It was very interesting, and I met Alex from Adder Film Festival - he set up his own festival with a friend at 15! That is quite an achievement, plus he was very friendly, so it was a lot of fun.

Afterwards, I attended a press junket for the BFI Future Film Festival 2011, which, you may recall, Emily and I recently made the trailer for, after winning Best Animation at said festival last year. Attending press junkets is not how I usually occupy myself. I talked to four different publications! Here is one now; it's Live magazine:

Assuming I can find them on the interwebs, there will be more to follow...

For careers you say you want to be remembered for your art

Have a look here on Ideastap for an interview I did about the trials and tribulations of being an animator. It's the job of the week!

It says I have "done it all", but I really haven't.