Little Brown Bird festival run continues

This Friday Little Brown Bird has its Scandinavian Premiere at Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway. We are the opening film of six being shown as part of the Horror: Ramaskrik presents strand of the festival, which has been running for thirty-six years. You can see the full festival schedule and get tickets here.

Closest to home and in the county where I grew up, Little Brown Bird is coming to the South Coast next month. We have been selected as part of the short film program at the inaugural Screams by the Sea festival in Bournemouth on February 10th. Find out more here.

Festival update

Following Little Brown Bird’s premiere at the Marbella International Film Festival in Spain and the screening at Chapter Moviemaker, here in Cardiff , Wales, our short film has been selected for a few more festivals in recent weeks.

We won the Best Horror Film award at November’s Athens International Monthly Arts Film Festival, making us eligible for their yearly awards too. The trophy will take pride of place in my writing room.

We are also being screened at the Minimalen Short Film Festival, in Trondheim, Norway in January, as part of the Ramaskrik Presents section. It’s an honour to be selected as part of their curated group of horror films from all over the world.

Little Brown Bird premieres in Marbella

Last month Little Brown Bird had its world premiere at the Marbella International Film Festival and I made it over to Spain for the duration of the festival.  On the festival’s opening night on Wednesday 4th, and again on Saturday 7th October, Little Brown Bird played on the big screen at Red Dog Cinemas. 

We had a really positive reaction from festival goers and fellow filmmakers, which was extremely gratifying. On the final night of the festival, Sunday 8th October it was the gala dinner and awards ceremony. where Little Brown Bird was nominated for Best Short Film. The category was won by the excellent Dragunov, written by, directed by, and starring fellow Brit Robin Kirwan. 

One of the best things about being part of the festival was getting to spend so much time with other filmmakers, comparing notes and discussing the writing and filmmaking process was a real highlight of the week. I’ve been to a number of film festivals before in my capacity as a VFX Producer, so it was a really good feeling to be there representing my own work and as a filmmaker in my own right. 

Our next screening is at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff on Monday, as part of their monthly Moviemaker event which makes us eligible for next year’s BAFTA Cymru awards.