Tag: Trashhouse
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Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead is out NOW in US/UK!
The release day of a film is always a little strange for me. The first time I ever experienced this was back in 2006, when a lack of product in the marketplace and the difficulties of digital filmmaking at that time meant that my homegrown midnight movie TrashHouse somehow got a wide DVD release across…
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Write When You Can
I was sat in the car on Saturday morning, waiting to pick a family member up. I had half an hour to kill. I opened the screenwriting app on my phone, opened my current work-in-progress and somehow tapped out a character moment that I absolutely love. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve written all…
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Amazon Video Direct, Vimeo on Demand and the Independent Filmmaker
So Amazon have now launched a new VOD service called Amazon Video Direct, which will allow filmmakers to charge for their work and has been labelled as a cross between Netflix and YouTube. This is an interesting new wrinkle in amongst the VOD options available to filmmakers and indies. We’re planning on trying it out this…
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Pat Higgins Live – “My Glorious Career in a Selection of JPGs”
Another chunk from the 2014 live show “Fake Blood, Real Guts” from Horror-on-Sea. This is a four minute breakdown of how and why I made the choices that I did, starting with our low-fi cult flick TrashHouse and ending up fading out discreetly at around the point I wrote Strippers vs Werewolves. I’m speaking on…
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Filmmaking is now a Democracy. Maybe we need more obstacles.
As I’ve mentioned before, there’s pretty much only one reason that my shot-on-miniDV first feature ended up getting decent commercial distribution (which, in turn, led to me being considered a ‘proper’ filmmaker albeit one on a very, very low rung of the ladder). I climbed an obstacle. Cutting footage on a home PC was tough…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 