The Nature of Laburnum Boat Club

Lizzy made an animation last year with Laburnum Boat Club.  It's a sort of sketch of what happens on a Saturday there, and it features acts of great daring!

You can click here to see it.

Saturday animation club

There's a new Saturday animation club at the Film and Video Workshop for 10 - 16 year olds. I'll keep my eyes peeled for anything for a younger audience.  Meanwhile Emily and I are concocting more plans for projects nearby.  Watch this space!

Pop Up Picture Palace

Emily and Lizzy have been working on a new project in Wood Street, Walthamstow.  We have been making a site specific projection about the history of filmmaking in the silent film era, we have been working with Woodside Primary School and local residents.  Please come along if you can!

First Light Website

There are some really nice comments about Germinator on the First Light Website.  If you click here you can read them.

BBC London News 5th March

First Light Award Ceremony part two!

After our TV interviews we enjoyed the award ceremony. We didn't win our category, but our film got a great response from the audience.

Then we had drinks and mini burger canapes to round off a fantastic day. Our interviews were shown on BBC London News at 6pm!

First Light Award Ceremony

Here are some pictures of our day at The BFI on The SouthBank. We arrived early so that BBC London News could interview everyone about their experience of making Germinator.

Look!

Germinator has won a Commended prize at Animated Exeter!  It's really exciting to think of the film being seen beyond the pottery shed.

Next Monday, eight of the old J3 filmmakers will go to the BFI with Emily and Pat, hopefully there will be some pictures from the red carpet?

Germinator spreads its germs!

We are excited to announce that Germinator will be shown at AniFest 2012 under section for 'Films made by Children' 26th April - 1st May. The festival takes place in The Czech Republic home of amazing animation!

Germinator goes to Exeter!

The amazing Germinator has been accepted into another festival called Animated Exeter.  It will be competing in the Young Ones competition on the 18th February at 10.15 am.

Woop woop!

Germinator has been nominated for an Audience Award at the First Light Awards 2012!  Please vote for the film in the audience award category by clicking here and voting for Germinator? Come on Germinator! The film may be shown on the 5th March at the award event at the BFI.  I hope we will be able to go with some of the filmmakers.

Little Red Riding Hood in the Wood, with I7

Emily and I made puppets to animate in the morning and in the afternoon the whole class had a tiny shot at animating under our rostrum cameras.  As you can see, she had more than just the wolf to contend with on her journey, there's a monkey, a cobra, a large gogo, a rocket, a ninja and a vampire too.

What a funny dream

Little Red Riding Hood (with the Cobra and the Gogo)

Emily and I went into I7 this week to do a spot of drawing, puppet making and animation on the theme of Red Riding Hood.  Here are the brilliant drawings that they made on the theme.  Some of them made with eyes shut, or with their wrong hands.

Co-operative Film Festival in Bradford

A small group of 4 Gayhurst pupils represented the J3 Filmmakers on a day trip to the Co-operative Film Festival in Bradford where the J3 film Germinator was showing in the cinema in The National Media Museum.  It was a really brilliant day which culminated in a proud moment on the stage, as you can see in the bottom photograph.

(We also watched a very old episode of Dr Who in TV Heaven, which is why Tom Baker is amongst the photographs.)

National Portrait Gallery

Lizzy is running flick book workshops at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday 15th August for over 5's with their families.  They are free, but you would need to get a ticket. They are 90 minutes long, and they are at 11.30 and repeated at 2.30pm.  For more information please go here.

The film Germinator is showing on the First Light website.  Click here to see it, you can also post some comments if you like.

The Germs are Spreading!

Germinator has been selected to be shown at The Co-operative Film Festival 2011 at the National Media Museum in Bradford.  The Film will be shown at the 2 day festival on the 7th October with about 100 other films by young people under 19 years old.  It's the film's first big success, we hope there will be many more.

The Laburnum Boat Club

Lizzy has made a little film with the Laburnum Boat Club which will have it's premiere on The Floating Cinema on tuesday at the Shoreditch Festival.  Click here for the festival link, it would be great if you could come along.