home biog

Archive for the 'Press' Category

Embraced by the giant

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

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

Story here

We’re going to have *beautiful* babies.

In Cannes and Making Waves

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

And not just because the room is swaying from too many glasses of champagne.

We’re out of the closet: Slingshot Distribution is official. At least that’s what it says in the pages of  The Hollywood Reporter and Variety so it must be true.

French Film latest

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Can be discovered in the Observer

We are the trash of trailers…

Mike Figgis (and me) on Digital Filmmaking

Monday, April 16th, 2007

This week at the newly relaunched BFI
Come one, come all…

the rise and rise of british urban

Monday, October 9th, 2006

one of the things we set out to do at slingshot was think about niche audiences that the traditional film-making establishment was ignoring.

Recent pieces in the press about “britsh urban cinema” suggests that we may be on to something in that area with Sugarhouse Lane. More on the sugarblog…

HOWEVER, the fact that 3 of the 6 movies in competition in the British Film Festival at Dinard (including 2 of the 3 winners) were also British Urban stories, suggests that we aren’t the only ones… which on balance is a good thing….