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Delta Film Award
The Delta Film Award was presented annually to the best amateur film screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England from 1990. The awards relaunched for the 2022 festival as a new short film competition, including a best-in-festival award. Now plural, the Delta Film Awards are named in honour of the Delta group of amateur filmmakers whose efforts enlivened 1960s British science fiction conventions. Members included Tony Edwards and the late Harry Nadler, founding members along with Gil Lane-Young of the Society of Fantastic Films, which oversaw the Manchester festival. The Delta Film Award celebrated significant achievement by low-budget directors. The award was relaunched for the 2022 festival with a new short film competition following the death of Gil Lane-Young, with a committee of festivalgoers agreeing to update the annuaFestival of Fantastic Films in Manchesterwhile retaining the event's unique atmosphere and intimate feel. The festival gained a new we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Of Fantastic Films (UK)
The Festival of Fantastic Films is an annual non-profit celebration of ''cinema fantastique'', held annually in central Manchester, England. It was created by Tony Edwards and the late Harry Nadler (both members of the Delta Film Group, an amateur film-making society active in the 1960s and both past organisers of an Eastercon), together with their fellow enthusiast Gil Lane-Young. Past guests have included: the producer Tony Tenser; the producer/director Roger Corman; directors Robert Fuest, Val Guest, Robin Hardy, Jorge Grau; actors Andrew Keir, Robin Askwith, David Warbeck, Ken Foree, David Hess, Norman Rossington; actresses Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Anne Robinson, Catriona MacColl, Ingrid Pitt. Two prizes are presented each year: for the best amateur film screened (see entry for the Delta Film Award) and the best independent entry. The 19th Festival of Fantastic Films was held on 17–19 October 2008 with Jess Conrad and Lamberto Bava among the guests appearing. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman J
Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (film), a 2010 drama film * '' Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer'', a 2016 film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song written by John D. Loudermilk and recorded by Sue Thompson * "Norman (He's a Rebel)", a song by Mo-dettes from ''The Story So Far'', 1980 Businesses * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McGillivray (screenwriter)
David McGillivray (born 7 September 1947 in London) is an actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic. On the BBC Radio 3 discussion programme ''Free Thinking'' on 10 February 2015, writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet described McGillivray as "The Truffaut of Smut", leading to McGillivray later commenting via his Twitter feed @makeadelivery, "I can die happy". Originally a critic for ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', McGillivray wrote his first film script, ''Albert's Follies'', for friend Ray Selfe in 1973. Intended as a vehicle for The Goodies, who turned it down, the film was eventually released as ''White Cargo'' (1973) and starred a young David Jason in one of his earliest leading roles. McGillivray was soon involved in the British sex film industry, writing scripts for ''The Hot Girls'' (1974) and ''I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight'' (1976), two films produced by pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay. As would be the case with many of his films, McGillivray makes came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Green (journalist)
Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978–84) turned freelance journalist, who has also written short fiction and poetry. He is an active member of the science fiction press and fan community. Journalism and other writings Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on ''The Walsall Observer'', later on ''The Solihull News''), Green has contributed to such magazines as '' The Dark Side'' (for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), '' Interzone'' (interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins), ''Fantasia'' and '' SFX'', as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5 series ''The Way Out''. He wrote an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for '' The Sunday Mercury'' in the late 2000s and returned to ''The Dark Side'' as a movie reviewer in 2015. With Martin Tudor, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Simpson (journalist)
Mike Simpson, professionally known as MJ Simpson, is a British author, journalist, scriptwriter and occasional actor. He was deputy editor of the British science fiction magazine ''SFX'' from 1995 to 1998. He was for several years an expert on the television writer and novelist Douglas Adams and his work. Simpson wrote two books about Adams' ''Hitchhiker's Guide ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (sometimes referred to as ''HG2G'', ''HHGTTG'', ''H2G2'', or ''tHGttG'') is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it w ...'' and was involved in running ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' appreciation society. In 2005, on the release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, Simpson closed down his website Planet Magrathea and gave up writing about the subject. He is now an authority on modern British horror films, a subject on which he has written one book so far a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gallagher
Stephen Gallagher (born 13 October 1954) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. Career Gallagher has written novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series ''Doctor Who'' — for which he wrote two serials, ''Warriors' Gate'' (1981) and ''Terminus'' (1983)—as well as for the series ''Rosemary & Thyme'' and '' Bugs'', for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens. He adapted his own novel ''Chimera'' as a 90 minute dramatized audio drama for BBC Radio 4 in 1985, and as a miniseries of the same name that was shown on ITV in 1991. He also directed the miniseries adaptation of '' Oktober'', as well as writing the feature-length episode ''The Kingdom of Bones'' for the BBC series ''Murder Rooms''. He created and wrote a science-based series for ITV, ''Eleventh Hour'', starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. The programme was rumoured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critical Wave
''Critical Wave'', later subtitled "The European Science Fiction & Fantasy Review", was a British small-press magazine, initially published and co-edited by Steve Green and Martin Tudor during the period 1987-96. There was also a short-lived US edition in the late 1980s. Many authors and artists contributed to the original 46 issues, including Graham Joyce, Michael Moorcock, David A Hardy, Stephen Baxter, Colin Greenland, Charles Stross, Joel Lane, Iain M Banks, Arthur "ATom" Thomson, David A. Hardy, Iain Byers, Dave Mooring, Jim Porter, Sue Mason, Michael Marrak, Harry Turner and Kevin Cullen. Once ''Critical Wave'' became fully typeset, Kevin Clarke joined as resident designer. Despite the immense enthusiasm displayed by many of its readers, ''Critical Wave'' only continued to appear with extensive financial input from its editors and key supporters. It eventually buckled under the pressure of increasing print costs, postage and bank charges, and announced its closure in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hess
David Alexander Hess (September 19, 1936 – October 7, 2011) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and director. He came to prominence for his portrayals of murderous villains and gruff characters in several films in the 1970s and 1980s. Hess originally worked as a songwriter in the 1950s, co-writing songs recorded by Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, but garnered international attention for his feature film debut portraying Krug Stillo in Wes Craven's exploitation horror film ''The Last House on the Left'' (1972). He played several hard-edged roles as criminals and rapists in the Italian films ''Hitch-Hike'' (1977) and '' The House on the Edge of the Park'' (1980) as well as a supporting role in Craven's ''Swamp Thing'' (1982). He made his directorial debut with the slasher film ''To All a Goodnight'' (1980). In his later life, Hess was affiliated with the California Film Institute, where he taught improvisational theater in the institute's youth programs. He died of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Harvey (English Director)
Brett Harvey is a film writer and director based in Cornwall. His debut feature film ''Weekend Retreat'' (2011), which premièred at the Cornwall Film Festival won several awards. Early life Harvey grew up in Malabar, Truro He attended Richard Lander School and later studied film at St Helens College and Truro College. Harvey has two brothers: Simon Harvey and Dan Harvey. He later starred alongside them in the play ''Superstition Mountain.'' Simon founded Rough Cut, a regular film night organised by o-region in association with DOGBITE film crew, which Brett is currently the programmer and regular contributor to. Career Harvey has created more than 30 short films. Harvey released a DVD in 2010, ''What I've done while I look for a real job'' which showed a collection of his short films. It featured 15 shorts between 60 seconds to 15 minutes long. Harvey's first notable film ''The Curse'' (2003) was made for a Rough Cut film event and later won Best Amateur Film 2004 at Manc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Bloom (director)
Matt Bloom is an Emmy winning and BAFTA-nominated British director of television, commercials and short films, and a graduate of the International Film School Wales. He directed consecutive new hit shows as lead director: The BAFTA-winning ''4 O'Clock Club'', '' All at Sea'', '' Hank Zipzer'' starring Henry Winkler, '' The Lodge'' for Disney Channel, and ''Find Me in Paris'' for ZDF. He was mentored by ''Moulin Rouge!'' and ''Romeo + Juliet'' director Baz Luhrmann, with whom he made a short film in Manchester starring Brenda Blethyn and Emma Bunton, which was shown before the Royal Premiere of ''Moulin Rouge!''. His award-winning short fil''Small Things'' starred Stirling Gallacher (''The Office'', '' Little Britain'') and Joe Absolom ('' EastEnders'', ''Vincent''). He has recently directed commercials and virals for The Co-operative Group and BBC Comedy, and his latest short horror film, Endless' starring Chris Geere and Jenna Harrison, which won the Best Horror/Sci-Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
