|
Kurdi
and Milk are now on Indieflix. Click to view or buy
Milk
or Kurdi
DvD.
Doug
Aubrey's Minefield, about war, football and friendship,
is nearing a rough cut version. It's pretty flying and we'll
be launching a Kickstarter campaign
and throw all sorts of nonesense at you shortly. Till then there's
always Flickr....
Minefield
©
Doug Aubrey
Here
it is -
the Come Closer website!
Just
click.
Peter
Mackie Burns' first feature - a visual essay about intimacy,
accompanied by rare track by Icelandic post rockers Sigur Ros
- world premieres at
Open City London 19th June 4.30pm. Tickets
and info here.
Click
here to view the trailer.
Click
here for press release (May 2011).
Follow
us on Twitter @comecloserfilm
Come
Closer is forever dedicated to our
wonderful friend and Editor Bert Eeles who passed away April
25th. Bert edited over 100 films - Milk, Run, parts
of Kurdi and, lastly, Come
Closer with Autonomi. We will all miss him sorely.
For
ever exciting ways of noising up someone, -or or to get
to know instantly what we actually are up to - follow Autonomitv
on Twitter, Autonomi on Facebook and view our
channels on Vimeo & on YouTube.
0
0 0
Archive
Dec
Autonomi
associates get busy helping
Diversity Films produce six shorts for their new scheme
Starting Block.
Nov
Autonomi's
Tartan Short Run screened in the Scottish Blend section
at the
European Short Film Festival in Brest.
Producer
Marie Olesen attended cph:dox 8-14th Nov.
Fresh,
Final HD Minefield trailer
on Vimeo.
We
are rough cutting and looking for interest in Minefield,
Doug's Aubrey's observational film about war, football and frienship,
so please circulate.
If
you are interested in donating funds towards producing and completing
Minefield, please
look here for further info, then contact producer Marie
Olesen or click
here. Thanks!
Minefield
is developed with support from Creative Scotland, Channel 4
and DfiD/CBA.
Kurdi
is screening in Ireland's first Kurdish
Film Festival in Carrick on Shannon 1-3rd Oct. For more
detail visit
Film Ireland's website.
Autonomi
is currently seeking interest and funding for Peter Mackie Burns'
visual essay about intimacy, Come Closer.
Click to request sampler.
Watch
Doug Aubrey interview here.
Glasgow's
Streetlevel Gallery has now finished its run of Pictorial Heroes
videoartestry, Lost
and Found which ran as part of the International Visual
Arts Festival.
©
Alix Fenton
Islamophobia,
Autonomi's film for Show Racism the Red Card recently won Best
Film at the Scottish Muslim Awards.
Watch
the post-screening Q&A of Kurdi at
!f
istanbul here!
Click
here for more info about !f Istanbul International Independent
Film Festival
Kurdi
trailer on YouTube.com/Autonomixtv
&
38minutes.
***
News
2009
saw BAFTA Scotland Feature Film nominated Kurdi
world premiering at Documenta Madrid and subsequently screening
at Krakow Film Festival, opening Refugee Week Scotland's 1st
film festival, featuring in the London Kurdish Film Festival
and competing in DocuDays and the European 4 Screens Festival
in Paris.
Adam
and Alex completed Banda Europa which
we now hope to get into festivals.
Scottish
Screen and Channel Four backed Minefield
(aka War & Football) is hoping to move into production
in the new year.
Peter
Mackie Burns is keeping busy with a non-linear atmospheric,
beautiful feature whilst cracking on with Scottish Screen and
MEDIA funded Elaine Anderson
(working title).
Doug
Aubrey's A
Different Pitch played
at 11mm 2009 - the International Football Film Festival in Berlin
and looks set to play in NY in 2010.
-
- - - - - -
Also
we screened Kurdi in Glasgow Film
Theatre November 10-11th. Click for more info.
Festival
Européen des 4 Ecrans in Paris, screening 21pm on the
19th and 3pm on the 20th Nov in the MK2 Bibliotheque multiplex.
Click for
info.
London Kurdish Film Festival Sunday 22nd Nov @ 3.30pm in RichMix
and 4pm on the 24th in Amnesty International's Human Rights
Action Centre ,Shoreditch. Click
here for info about LKFF.
Doug
Aubrey & Peri Ibrahim's Kurdi was nominated Best
Feature Film in the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2009. The ceremony
took place on Nov 8th.
Alex
Bikuna and Adam Barnett's Banda Europa about Jim Sutherland's
unique orchestra is completed and sneak premiered at MORE
THAN A RETROSPECTIVE ON SPANISH CINEMA
in the festival's BEYOND A VISUAL SHOWCASE strand. Click
for info.
Kurdi
just played at DocuDays in Beirut - click
for info
- and is also selected for the London
Kurdish Film Festival in November - www.lkff.co.uk
View trailer here.
Latest
trailer from War & Football from Kurdistan is now
uploaded on Spirit of Soccer's YouTube channel.
Click here please.
o
o o o
Kurdi world premiered at
Documenta Madrid
in May 2009, and found a large audience at the
Krakow Film Festival as well as a full house at its
UK premie when it opened the 1st Refugee Week Scotland
Film Festival at
the Glasgow Film Theatre.
Watch
Kurdi trailer here
- or there!>>>>
Scotty
Lee and his Spirit Of Soccer charity picked up Most Courageous
Use of Sport gong and the recent
Beyond Sport summit
in London. Autonomi are developing War & Football with
Mr Lee - click
here to view some clips.
Watch
Kurdi, a documentary feature by Peri Ibrahim,
filmed and directed by Doug Aubrey over 5 years in Scotland
and the Middle East, online on Filmotech's website.
Click
here for link.
Kurdi
is produced with financial support from
MEDIA,
Glasgow Film Office, Arc
& Scottish
Screen.
Enjoy
Autonomi titles on Joost! Preview A
Different Pitch, Bedroom Radio &
See You in the Next War by clicking
here. Or make them your own films to keep.
Or
go to Babelgum who hosts Harrigan's
Beat, and two of Aubrey's Balkan films A
Different Pitch & Louder than
Bombs.
Wasted
Nation competed
in the Best Current Affairs documentary category
at the Celtic Media Festival in Caernafon,
March 25-27th. Didnae win though;(
Doug
Aubrey's A
Different Pitch played at 11mm
2009 - the International Football
Film Festival in Berlin, April 3-7th.
Other
News
11.03.09
Doug Aubrey will be part of a panel discussing this in the ECA
from 2pm Friday - the 13th - Documenting Conflict -
A Gaza Perspective. It's a special event organised
by Pilton Video and the Scottish Documentary Institute. The
panel is chaired by Nick Higgins and followed by a screening
of the remarkable Paradise Now in
the Filmhouse. Click here for more info.
25.02.09.
Autonomi have produced two films for Show Racism the Red Card:
Islamophobia and its Scottish
campaign film. View the trailer ...................>>>>>
Both
films are dubbed by Leo Saidenough & edited by Cassandra
McGrogan.
18.02.09
New blog up. Pls Follow, Use & comment.
Kingsway
Eye heroines Jean Donnachie and Noreen
Real have won the Scots Women of the Year Award.
Aye, they're the ones Jim Loach is making a film about.
Click
for link.
The
feature length documentary New Ten Commandments
, including Autonomi's contribution This is what
happens to Black Boys with Big Mouths,
about Aamer Anwar's contempt of court trial screens
this Sunday, Jan 25th in Glasgow Film Theatre 2.45pm.
©David
Graham Scott.
2008
17.12.08
Autonomi have just completed two films for Show Racism the Red
Card: Islamophobia and its Scottish
campaign film.
08.12.08
New Ten Commandments , including
Autonomi's contribution This is what happens to
Black Boys with Big Mouths,
about Aamer Anwar's contempt of court trial, screened
on BBC2 Scotland last night. The feature lenght documentary
is now touring various venues across Scotland.
29.11.08
While trawling through some early camera tapes for Doug Aubrey's
Victim of Geography, we came across some archive of Sarajevo's
answer to the Sex Pistols, Sikter playing live in Mostar in
the summer of 1996. So the legend goes the gig was cut short
by Croatian forces on the opposite side of the bridge, who threatened
to launch a mortar barrage if the band completed their set.
See what you make of these shell shocked rockers yourself by
clicking here.
For
more info on Victim of Geogrpahy visit the blog.
10.11.08
And the BAFTA for Best News and Current Affairs programme didn't
go to Autonomi. But Wasted Nation
got nominated. Trailer on Video Wall.
Wasted
Nation (Doug Aubrey).
24.10.08.
Autonomi's partner in crime - and work - Diversity Films,
will have two of their productions: ExNE - the Movie and Saturday
Sports Scene screening on Community Channel shortly. Click here
for a sneak preview.
Preview
copies for festivals & sales available from Autonomi.
Contact Autonomi for festivals and general interest and email
Looking Glass International for sales queries.
Check back for more info soon.
Bedroom
Radio can be viewed on the Scots Language
Centre site. Click here.
Autonomi’s
contribution to the New Ten Commandments
- freedom of expression film This is What Happens
to Black Boys with Big Mouths -premiered at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival, and
screened as Best of Fest.
|
