Interview by Niamh Brook Could you give us a little introduction to yourself? My name is Hugo Le Gourrierec. I’m 30 years old and I’m from Chambéry in the French Alps where I grew up for 20 years before studying cinema. I’ve been an assistant director for 8 years now and I’ve been lucky enough […]
At last year’s festival, we were delighted to screen a brilliant little film called This Time Away. The film stars legendary British actor Timothy Spall as a reclusive elderly man haunted by his past and memory of the family he once had, until an unexpected visitor arrives and disrupts his lonely routine… Our judges and audiences […]
Back in 2017, our Official Selection included a little film called Infinite. This brilliant narrative short follows a young man (played by 1917 star George Mackay) who attempts to make his existence infinite before his untimely death. Our audiences loved the film (as did we), so we were delighted to hear that production company Lowkey Films have decided to […]
Co-director, Craig Higgins shares his top picks for visitors to this year’s festival. 1) Name one of the short films you’re looking forward to seeing at the festival this year and why? Personally, I love all of them for different reasons. Each film has different strengths and provides the viewer with something new and exciting. […]
Norwich Film Festival had the privilege of speaking with Hollywood actor Alfred Molina who returns to London this summer to reprise the role of artist Mark Rothko in John Logan’s play Red. This tremendous play is taking place at Wyndham Theatre until the end of July 2018. Molina recalls in our conversation that this is […]
During November 2017 we saw the Norwich Film Festival award its prestigious prize of Best Short Film to the outstanding film Edith and we wanted to take a moment to catch up with the wonderful duo Sara Huxley & April Kelley (Pictured above) who are the production team behind this award-winning short. As a film […]
Continuing on from our Part 1 Interview with the incredible talent that is Jeremiah O’Driscoll, we delve a little further into some of his latest Film edits and some more crucial filmmaking advice. Part 2….. NFF: The Walk (2015) was a fantastic film which held a combination of digital painting, green screen and other film related techniques and […]
The Norwich Film Festival had the pleasure of catching up with the brilliant Hollywood Film Editor Jeremiah O’Driscoll (J O’D). His editing credits include: The Polar Express (2004), A Christmas Carol (2009), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and most recently Allied (2016). Jeremiah has also contributed his editing skills on films such as Addams Family Values […]
The Norwich Film Festival recently had the honour of speaking with the incredibly talented Denise Parkinson around her role in marketing film content. Her career spans over 20 years’ in all aspects of Marketing and Distribution in the UK and International film distribution industry. Starting her profession in the marketing department at Palace Pictures, followed by […]
The Norwich Film Festival recently had the honour of speaking with the incredibly talented Denise Parkinson around her role in marketing film content. Her career spans over 20 years’ in all aspects of Marketing and Distribution in the UK and International film distribution industry. Starting her profession in the marketing department at Palace Pictures, followed by […]