Geoffrey Macnab

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Fiery Liverpool author and spoken word performer ‘Roy’ (real name PJ Smith) has built a strong cult following since the publication of his book of stories, ‘Algorithm Party,’ in 2020. These are raw, scabrously funny and sometimes very violent tales dealing with drugs, alcohol and domestic abuse – and partly drawn from his own experiences growing up in the city’s suburb of Toxteth. “All my writing comes from my experiences of dealing with insecure men. I am an insecure man as well.

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Lulu Scott’s new feature doc Where Two Oceans Meet (a world premiere in VdR’s International Feature Competition) looks very closely at the life of a family in Mitchells Plain, a township not far from the Cape of Good Hope. The wife Kulsum Orrie and her two children are waiting patiently for the release of her husband, Phadiel, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence.

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Roland Edzard’s rugged new feature doc Mountain Of Gold (a world premiere in Nyon) begins with a few lines of text: “In 2015, smugglers discovered the Tchibarakaten gold vein on the border between Niger and Algeria…the Central Sahara Gold Rush began.”The French director takes us into the heart of that gold rush. The characters in the film are “re-enacting their own story.”“It was a long process to meet the people and to make them [agree] to be part of the film,” he tells BDE.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Film Distributors’ Association chief executive officer Andy Leyshon has hailed the year-on-year increase in UK-Ireland admissions and box office achieved in 2024, “no matter how slim”. UK and Irish annual admissions improved by 2.3% to 138 million while box office was up by 0.2% to £1.065bn in 2024 (vs. £1.063bn in 2023). It marked a fourth consecutive year of box-office growth.

2 weeks ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Welcome to Boca Chica, Texas. This is where Elon Musk has built his SpaceX launchpad. It’s also where Julien Elie went to make his new feature doc, Shifting Baselines (a world premiere earlier this week in international competition at VdR and sold by Filmotor). The film is strikingly shot in black and white. “It’s really part of the narrative of the film. It’s not just an aesthetic aspect,” the Canadian director says of why he drained out the colour from the movie.