February 19, 2007

congrats to dave!

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[Dave loo­king quite cheery etc.]
Con­grats to my old friend, Dave Mac­ken­zie, for his movie, Hallam Foe win­ning a Sil­ver Bear at the Ber­lin Film Fes­ti­val.
Late last year I orga­ni­zed a blog­gers’ din­ner to see the movie. It went down well.

[UPDATE:] From “Scot­land On Sun­day”, one of the big Scots papers:

Pee­ping Tom movie spies glo­bal suc­cess
A low-budget Scot­tish film set on the streets of Edin­burgh is set to eclipse Holly­wood block­bus­ters after attrac­ting inter­na­tio­nal acc­laim and win­ning major dis­tri­bu­tion deals.
Hallam Foe has been cata­pul­ted to suc­cess on the back of its selec­tion at Germany’s Ber­li­nale film fes­ti­val.
Telling the story of a modern-day pee­ping Tom, it was writ­ten and direc­ted by Scot David Mac­ken­zie. It stars Jamie Bell, in his first Bri­tish film since Billy Elliot, and Sophia Myles, who caught the cri­tics’ atten­tion last year in Tris­tan + Isolde. Ewen Brem­ner, who made his breakth­rough in Trains­pot­ting, also stars.

[UPDATE:] More news from Get­Your­Peo­ple:

Ove­rall the fes­ti­val was a huge suc­cess for us, we all enjo­yed our time in Ber­lin immen­sely. The fes­ti­val staff really know their stuff and our publi­city team wor­ked so hard to ensure all ran smoothly. Thank you all on behalf of Team Hallam! As well as pic­king up two awards, the film was well recei­ved by various inter­na­tio­nal press cri­tics and won a cou­ple of sig­ni­fi­cant dis­tri­bu­tion deals. Fin­gers cros­sed the next stage will be just as suc­cess­ful.
“An extraor­di­na­rily accom­plished piece of film-making” The Scots­man
“A superbly too­led rites of pas­sa­ger.… Con­firms Mac­ken­zie as one of Blighty’s most dis­tinc­tive talents” Variety

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One Response to “congrats to dave!”

  1. Robert says:
    February 19, 2007 at 6:58 PM

    Do unto Hallam Foe as thy wouldst do unto Stormhoek and lo, it shall be a big wedge ear­ner and pri­ze­win­ner.
    And lo it was so and soon Hallm Foe was on all the peo­ples lips. They whis­pe­red and wrote won­de­rous words of praise for the movie. And so more peo­ple set forth to the cinema near them to see what the fuss was all about. Lo, they were struck in com­plete won­der­ment at Hallam Foe for sooth it is good and you must see it.
    Amen