a pretty cool milestone

Friday, October 30th, 2009

A few weeks back I mentioned that the website for 1 Day had gone live, a movie I did some stills for in 2008. It opens next week and today I arrived at work to discover a bunch of my photos from it on page 3 of The Independent. It turns out the film, which is set in Birmingham and centres on street gang warfare punctuated by rap musical numbers, is being turned down by certain chain cinemas in the city after a West Midlands police officer informally suggested to the manager of the Birmingham Odeon that he shouldn’t show it. The manager then spoke to other cinemas who also agreed not to show it, although there are several others that will.

Anyway, despite the negative connotations of the story itself, it was pretty cool to see several of my shots in print in such a high profile article. On the way home I picked up the latest Empire and found they’d reviewed the film and in so doing had given me my first ever publicity still in print within their covers, which I’m pretty stoked about. I’ve had shots in plenty of listings pages and some industry magazines, which is very satisfying, but Empire is something else so I’m just riding on that little cloud at the moment!

Cheers!

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