Mark Gill’s recent Chicken Little speech gave me one of those “thank god we worked that out already” moments - but if you want to understand what has driven out revised selection and development strategy here at the sling-farm, you could do a lot worse that read Mr. Gill’s speech in full. It’s right here

Yes, its true. Little slingshot has gone and got into bed with Goliath

Story here

We’re going to have *beautiful* babies.

We have just got through to the final 3 of the MyMovieMashup - which is more than a little exciting. If we win, the very talented director Vito Roco, will get to make the very wonderful script Faintheart into a movie, with the collboaration of all the interweb (or at least the MySpace bits of it).

Please help it happen by visiting MySpace (you have to join to vote) and cast your vote for Vito and Faintheart: www.myspace.com/mymoviemashup2

What The Independent 6/7/07 had to say about Vito….

http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2737901.ece

 

GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD is the beautifully photographed tale of a bullied schoolboy’s relationship with his best friend, the recently deceased pensioner Mr Carter. Rather than melancholy social realism, director Vito Rocco goes for the touching black comedy, as the boy devised a novel way to deal with his companion’s death. Situated somewhere in the previously unmapped territory between Cinema Paradiso and Weekend at Bernie’s, it has the bittersweet feel of a Wes Anderson movie.

 

Please vote for VITO and help him win!

Many thanks!

Hello all… I feel a little bit like an interloper but whilst Arvind is busy talking figures and staring at ridiculously long Excel spreadsheets I thought I could commandeer the soapbox for a few moments…

Slingshot is excited to have teamed up with the UK Film Council to act as a production partner for their latest 25 Words Or Less scheme.

We will develop and produce a microbudget feature inspired by the brief: ‘Teen Hitchcock’. Writers need to submit a 25 word pitch to the Film Council by 13 July 2007.

Slingshot is looking for a story that reimagines the thriller genre for a teen audience. Teen Hitchcock draws on the language of Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s cinema, from the thematic concerns of suspense and voyeurism, to filmic techniques such as the Hitchcock zoom, whilst maintaining a clear teen sensibility. The ‘25 Words or Less’ pitch for Teen Hitchcock should encapsulate the essence of the master filmmaker whilst situating the story in a believable teen world. Comparable films include BRICK, CRUEL INTENTIONS and DISTURBIA.

Guidelines, application form and further details are here
There is also an article in May’s issue of ScriptWriter magazine which goes into a little more details about the genre which I have also posted as a comment below….

Happy pitching people!

Uzma Xx

Well, kind of, a new production company based on the principal of low up front fees, gross participation, and creative control for writers, has just been set up on the Warner Brothers lot. Sound a bit familiar?
Click on link for full story at Variety.