Guy Maddin talks about the Your Winnipeg competition, whilst we discuss the correct pronunciation of ‘Branchage’ (pretty sure this is bran-khage). You’ll need to get cracking if you want to enter the comp as you now have less than 50 days left to submit your entry. A few people have been querying as to whether its okay to make a film about a home town that’s outside of the UK, and yes this is more than okay- be it in Spain, Japan, Antarctica or even on the moon- all we ask is that you the filmmaker are currently a UK resident.
But yes without further adoo I’ll hand over to Guy,
As you may be aware come July 4th Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg will be winging its way into cinemas care of Soda, but also launching today and inspired by the release is the film making competition ‘Your Winnipeg‘.
It was a sell out event with cast & crew in full force at the Cameo Cinema and director Duane Hopkins on hand for a Q&A after the screening. Even the weather seemed to make way for the film as the rain clouds from the night before began to scarper. So far we’ve been thrilled by the positive response of the audience and press after the screening.
Our marketing manager Martin stumbled across the Taiwanese theatrical poster for upcoming release ‘El Bano Del Papa’ on the Bavaria website this morning. In light of my post yesterday talking about the use of different designs in various regions I thought it would be apt to feature it.
This month at Soda has seen me venturing into new ground as I undertook overseeing the design process for the poster of Guy Maddin’s ‘My Winnipeg‘. Usually something undertaken by our marketing manager Martin, this month the baton was passed down and I thought it might be interesting to others if I wrote something about the process. (more…)
In the delayed absence of the promised part 2 of the favourite cinema lists, I instead bring you news on Sodas current office competition- Sunflower growing. We started the competition 6 days ago inspired by the Blue Peter Sunflower competitions from our youth.
Here’s our new Theatrical Sales Co-ordinator Ben last Friday as potting got underway.
So far only 3 have been planted, (but I’ve been promised that Kate and Ed will join the race shortly). The current standings are as follows… (more…)
I remember a while back that the Guardian film blog posted about favourite cinemas. I sadly can’t relocate the original post (if you can please let me know and I’ll add a link). Yet in light of the many posts/articles I seem to be endlessly reading about why visiting the cinema isn’t what it used to be- (mobile phones, unruly children, rising ticket prices and so on and so on) I thought it was about time that we took stock and reflected on why cinema going has and still does hold such a special place in our hearts.
So…I’ve asked the Soda bods to take a few moments to reflect on their favourite independent cinemas, not just the most comfortable or the best surround sound, but those great experiences that have stood the test of time… (more…)
With ‘Critics Week’ at this year’s Cannes announced yesterday we are happy to reveal that upcoming Soda release ‘Better Things’ from British director Duane Hopkins is included in the line up.
Variety have commented on Duane’s debut feature as a “frosh (sic) youth drama” (I’m assuming they were aiming for fresh). Unless you’re in Cannes this year then you’ll have to wait till late 2008 when the film will be released in the UK. In the meantime however you can catch some of Duane’s award winning shorts over on the BBC film networks website…
Taking 10 minutes out of my lunch break yesterday I decided to answer this very question. If the Soda staff were films instead of people what would we be? My visions of an eclectic range of classic cinema were sadly dashed as I sourced imdb for our namesakes and below is the resulting alternative guide to the Soda staff (well those who were in on Monday)…
Ben Metcalf: Theatrical Sales Co-ordinator Tagline: Where Willard ended, Ben begins, and this time he’s not alone imdb rating= 4.5 & imdb keywords= Eaten alive by rats, Cornflakes, Harmonica, Firetruck (more…)
Released April 7th on the Soda Vintage label was Mike Leigh’s debut feature ‘Bleak Moments’. Days before this DVD hit UK stores there was, as always, that gut wrenching moment as us Soda bods checked over the final product to ensure we’d crossed every t and dotted all the lower case j’s.
However, it is inevitable (so is life) that mistakes will happen from time to time, and this time it was the onbody of the disk (onbody= the artwork on the DVD itself). Where the title ‘Bleak Moments’ was supposed to be silver, it was instead a rather fetching shade of pink (Pantone Process Magenta’ to be precise)…
