news & events
Over the past eight years, Wallflower Press has hosted book launches across the globe. Countries we have visited during our travels include Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, The Netherlands and Australia.
In addition to our international launches, many of our events take place here in the UK and we are proud to have worked with many high-profile organizations including Curzon Cinemas, BFI Southbank, Tate Modern, the ICA, the Imperial War Museum, Riverside Studios, the Science Museum and the London Review Bookshop.
Please visit our listings section for details of our forthcoming launches, as well as news of special festivals, seasons and screenings. Scroll down for news and other information.
– Mid-November Stop Press newsletter!
– New Electric Sheep magazine out 1 December!
– Shooting People are Ten
– Cinéphilia Film Book Shop
– International Film Guide Inspiration Award
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More news, events and books from Wallflower Press!!
(from mid-Nov 08 newsletter)
Get inspired for the holiday season with some of the new books from Wallflower Press!! How about a gift subscription to Electric Sheep magazine for your underground film buff best friend? Do you have a rich uncle who has everything? Why not buy him a copy of Religion and Film by S. Brent Plate? Or for the roguish nephew, you could consider a title from our Cultographiesseries such as Bad Taste (out December). For the woman in your life why not surprise her with a copy of Widescreen. Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere by the dashing film critic, Mark Cousins? What about The Cinema of David Cronenberg for the man of the house? Or Chavez: The Revolution Will not be Televised for your politically radical sister? The choices are endless!
CHAVEZ LAUNCH EVENT
Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - A Case Study of Politics and the Media.
Film Screening, Reception and Launch Event
Saturday 29th November 7-9.30pm
Bolivar Hall, 56 Grafton Way. London W1T 5DL
Admission Free | No tickets required
FESTIVALS
Exposures Film Festival 23-27 Nov 2008
Soundtrack Music Festival 26-29 Nov 2008
7th Discovering Latin America Festival 27 Nov-7 Dec 2008
11th German Film Festival 28 Nov-4 Dec 2008
FOR MORE EVENT AND FESTIVAL INFO PLEASE CLICK HERE!
Electric Sheep: Into The White (out 1 December)
The winter issue of Electric Sheep explores celluloid snow with articles on Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World and John Carpenter's The Thing as well as Christmas slashers, film noir and snow, and cult Japanese 70s revenge tale Lady Snowblood. Plus interviews with Asif Kapadia and Jerzy Skolimowski, preview of the London Short Film Festival, reviews of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, Béla Tarr's The Man from London and Lotte Reininger's Fairy Tale Films, and a comic strip review of Kamikaze Girls!
Subscribe to Electric Sheep magazine online and receive a free copy of Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview by Jason Wood. Order online for £12 and receive 4 copies for the price of 3!! We are also offering Gift Subscriptions, so why not buy one as a Christmas present for a friend!! Simply order online as normal and then email subscriptions@wallflowerpress.co.uk with the recipient details.
See events section for more info on special promotional events:
*Exposures Film Festival: Electric Sheep present a screening of Far North(Soda Pictures) | Sunday 23 November
*Hectic Peelers: Electric Sheep's Monthly Film Club | Tuesday 2 December
*ICA's Club Deluxe
*Sunday Shock Therapy event at the Vibe Bar | Sunday 7 December | where Electric Sheep will be screening a double bill of outrageous Icelandic horror movies, and hosting an alternative Christmas market for those in need of some off-kilter inspiration.
Shooting People are Ten
Shooting People, the institution that director Morgan Spurlock describes as: "a necessity for anyone who works, lives and breathes independent film", is proud to be celebrating its tenth birthday this year.
They want to share their presents with you. Join before the 10 December and get 10 weeks membership extra free. To join and see what else they've got planned, visit www.shootingpeople.org.
Shooting People is the international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent film. Set up in 1998 as a bedroom project by filmmakers Cath Le Couteur and Jess Search, the network has grown from 60 friends to over 37,000 members across the UK and the US.
Wallflower Press Open a Shop!!
Wallflower Press are very pleased to announce that we have opened a shop! Not just any old shop, but the destination film book store!
CINÉPHILIA, 97 Sclater Street, off Brick Lane, London E1.
CINÉPHILIA will stock all Wallflower Press titles, mostly at discounted prices as with our online shop, as well as extensive stocks of titles produced by our friends at Kamera Books and Auteur Publishing. There will be a diverse range of general cinema and moving image titles, from film studies, animation and documentary to television studies, new media and artists' film & video. We will also be stocking an extensive range of titles from Focal Press and other publishers dedicated to the art and craft of filmmaking, as well as various trade and academic presses servicing the subject area.
In addition to a wide range of new titles, we shall also have a second-hand section, and a vibrant exchange programme (for example, bring in your old film books and if they are in saleable condition each can be exchanged for any new Wallflower Press title at a 50% discount!). There will also be a lending facility for all those students with essays to write for Monday morning! So, wonderful books to buy, borrow or browse...
We will also be stocking a full range of quality DVDs, from such excellent independent labels as Soda, Axiom, Dogwoof, Second Run, Index, ReVoir, Illuminations etc. In addition to these fine folk, there shall be a healthy display of DVDs released by the British Film Institute and other more institutionalised distributors.
Lastly, there shall also be back issues of quality film magazines, for your reading pleasure or research needs...
So, please visit CINÉPHILIA, the destination film book store
everything for the discerning cinephile!
www.cinephilia.co.uk - info@cinephilia.co.uk 020 7729 9533
Winners Announced
SHORT FILM CITY (Leeds International Film Festival)
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THE WALLFLOWER PRESS AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM (Sheffield DocFest)
As you may remember from the last newsletter, this month Wallflower Press Editorial Director, Yoram Allon, was on the jury for not one but two short film competitions. We are delighted to announce the winners!
SHORT FILM CITY (Leeds Film Festival)
We are delighted to announce the winners for Short Film City, the new programme section launched this year. Yoram Allon chaired the jury.
FICTION
Winner: RENÉ (Tobias Nölle, Switzerland, 2007, 29 mins) - pictured
Special Mentions: MOMPELAAR/MUMBLER (Wim Reygaert & Marc Roels, Belgium, 2007, 22 mins) & ALEXANDRA(Radu Jude, Romania, 2007, 24 mins).
ANIMATION
Winner: SKHIZEIN (Jeremy Clapin, France, 2007, 13 mins 40 secs)
Special Mentions - THE PEARCE SISTERS (Luis Cook, UK, 2007, 9 mins) & MONSIEUR COK (Franck Dion, France, 2008, 9 mins 45 secs)
DOCUMENTARY
Winner: PLANE DAYS (Benjamin Kracun & Ewan McNicol, UK, 2008, 15 mins)
Special Mention: 52 PROCENT/52 PERCENT (Rafal Skalski, Poland, 2007, 20 mins)
EXPERIMENTAL Winner: VERTIGO RUSH (Johann Lurf, Austria, 2007, 19 mins)
Special Mentions: MOSAIK MECANIQUE (Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria, 2007, 9 mins 30 secs) & MAGNETIC MOVIE (Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt, UK/USA, 2007, 5 mins).
FANTASY
Winner: I LOVE SARAH JANE (Spencer Susser, Australia, 2008, 13 mins 45 secs)
Special Mentions: TERMINUS (Trevor Cawood, Canada, 2007, 8 mins) & STAGMAN (Virginie Gourmel, Belgium, 2007, 23 mins).
OVERALL WINNER - BEST SHORT FILM LEEDS 2008 - RENÉ
THE WALLFLOWER PRESS AWARD
FOR THE BEST STUDENT INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM
Sheffield DocFest
Sponsored by Wallflower Press, the Wallflower Press Award for Best Student International Documentary Film is a new award honoring the best student documentary in the programme.
Winner: Cyanosis (dir. Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Iran)
Special Mention: 12 Notes Down (dir. Andreas Koefoed, Denmark)
Second Winner of the International Film Guide Inspiration Award Announced!!
We are pleased to announce the second International Film Guide Inspiration Award has been awarded to Brian Hecker!
American debut filmmaker Brian Hecker has been awarded the first International Film Guide Inspiration Award given at an American film festival, at the Awards Gala at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Hecker won for his feature debut, the comedy Bart Got A Room, which closed the Festival. The film, a winning family comedy shot in south Florida, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008 and has been picked up for distribution by Plum Pictures.First Winner of the International Film Guide Inspiration Award Announced!!
Quebec-based short filmmaker Guy Édoin has been awarded the International Film Guide Inspiration Award at the Awards Gala at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. Édoin won for La Battue (The Beat), a 19-minute short drama which screened in the Fictions Quebec section of the Best Short Film Focus program of the Festival. The Festival, which celebrated its 37th edition this year from October 8 to 19 in the historic city of Montreal, is one of the world's most provocative showcases of new film talents.
The film was chosen by the Programming Committee of the Short Film Focus section of the Festival for its "unique visual style, daring content and expansive execution". The beautifully shot film takes place on a few acres of snowy woods in northern Quebec, where a pack of women are out hunting. Lost in the forest, a teenage girl tells her mother she is leaving the family farm. The film is as proud and as tough as its female protagonists. La Battue is the final film in the director's rural trilogy, which Les Affluents: Le Pont in 2004 and Les Eaux Mortes in 2006. All of the films were shot on the director's farm and dedicated to the region and its people.
See the latest pictures from Wallflower Press events.