Sydney Film Festival June 2010

Tonight is the first screening of Glenn Owen Dodds at the Sydney Film Festival. We are playing tonight at 6pm with the feature film Three Boys Dreaming. Session is sold out!!!!!

Producer Bec Dakin's outside broadcast interview direct from the Heart of Gold International Film Festival available on-line with ABC now.

Glenn Owen Dodds Producer Bec Dakin sits down with Ross Peddlesden from ABC Wide Bay FM and Cam Young from ABC Coast FM, live yesterday for an outside broadcast direct from the Heart of Gold International Film Festival.  Here is a ink to the interview:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/03/12/2844617.htm

Photo: Ross Peddlesden, Cam Young and Bec Dakin

Director Frazer Bailey's interview with Cam Young from ABC Coast FM available on-line

Glenn Owen Dodds Director Frazer Bailey spoke to ABC Coast FM's Cam Young on Tuesday 9th March about all things Glenn Owen Dodds, Festivals, David Wenham, Directing and future projects. Check out the interview on-line at:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2010/03/you-want-the-meaning-of-life-youve-got-5-minutes--thats-the-tag-line-for-one-of-the-shorts-at-this-weeks-heart-of-gold-fes.html?site=sunshine&program=sunshine_cooloola_coast_drive

Heart of Gold Int. Film Festival Update

Producer Bec Dakin and Writer Trent Dalton have been having a great time at the Heart of Gold International Film Festival. Last night we had our screening of Glenn Owen Dodds to a packed crowd and the film was very well received. Trent, dressed in his awesome Glenn Owen Dodds t-shirt, attracted many comments on how much people loved his film and how it was their favourite film at the festival. Congratulations to the whole Glenn Owen Dodds team.

Photo: Producer Bec Dakin and Writer Trent Dalton

Live radio interview with Director Frazer Bailey this Tuesday.

Glenn Owen Dodds Director Frazer Bailey will be interviewed live this Tuesday 9th March at 4.15pm on ABC Coast FM drive program with Cam Young.  
Tune in to 90.3 to listen or you can listen on-line.
http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1855616.htm?site=sunshine

Clermont-Ferrand Certificate Arrives

We just received our Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival certificate. Here it is with the winners list for your viewing pleasure.

Festivals Ahoy!!!

Glenn Owen Dodds has been accepted into six festivals in the last two weeks.  I think we are on a roll.

Glenn Owen Dodds T-Shirt Giveaway

We have 5 official Glenn Owen Dodds t-shirts to give away (to anywhere in the world) to the first 5 video responses on our Youtube Channel. 


We have had so many comments from fans about the "fingers" scene in the which you can see here at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnu-YySfUM4&feature=channel at 2:36 on the timeline.  


First 5 video responses relating to this scene wins themselves a t-shirt.

Glenn Owen Dodds has a win at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Congratulations to Director Frazer Bailey, scriptwriter Trent Dalton and all the Glenn Owen Dodds team.  Glenn has taken out the Interantional Prix Canal+ award at Clermont-Ferrand. A massive thank you to Canal+ for the award which means that the network will purchase our film for screening on their channels in France and Spain.


Also a massive thank you to the festival organisers, the selection committee, the jurers, the volunteers and the sponsors that make this festival the best short film festival in the world. And an even bigger thank you to all the audience members at the festival who came along and saw our film, we hope you loved it as much as we do.


http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?&m=157&c=3&id_film=100078834&o=113

New Glenn Owen Dodds Video Blog up on Youtube now!

The latest Glenn Owen Dodds video blog is up on Youtube now for your enjoyment. Check it out for a crash course in short film marketing with Bec - Lesson 1 is Posters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3w_Ej-ppvA

6th Screening at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Well Jess and I made an executive decision tonight to not attend our screening tonight. The 6th screening tonight was at the Petit Velo again (same venue as the 1st and 5th screening). It was freezing cold tonight and raining quite hard so we decided to stay at the Cocteau and see some more of the International Competition films. So if anyone went along to the screening tonight please let us know how it went.


We saw some great films today including one that might just end up being the winner (in our opinion). Here are today's favourites:


"Vikko Eninen Vappua" Director: Hamy Ramezan (Finland)
"Pigeon: Impossible" Director: Lucas Martell (USA)
"I Love Luci" Director: Colin Kennedy (Scotland)


More favourites to come tomorrow.


Tomorrow is the final screening for Glenn Owen Dodds at the Capitole Cinema at 1.00pm.  We will be in attendance to see the final showing and report back to everyone.

5th Screening at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

5th screening is done and dusted.  We screened at the Petit Velo again for an 8.15pm showing. Not as packed as previous screenings, I think because we are coming to the end of the festival (only 2 screenings to go). Good response but not as big as all the others. Still the biggest response of all the films in our line up and a great round of applause again at the end. We are traveling well.  The film is doing really good and everyone seems to enjoy it very much.


Jess and I also got out and saw some more films today in the International Competition as well as the Zombie films. Here are our favourites from today:


International Comp
"The Neighbour" Director: Ben Weir   (Australia)
"Six Dollar Fifty Man" Directors: Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland   (New Zealand)
"Trolls" Director: Brianne Nord-Stewart   (Canada)
"Lost and Found" Director: Philip Hunt   (UK)


Zombies
"A Break In The Monotony" Director: Damien Slevin (Australia)
"El Acomodador De Zombies" Directors: Gustavo Di Virgilio, Jorge Yatzuba (Argentina)
"Food For Thought" Director: Will Hartman (USA) 

3rd & 4th Screenings at Clermont-Ferrand

We missed posting the 3rd screening blog last night - so here is the round up on screening 3 and 4 together.


Screening 3 was at the Capitole Cinema which was an awesome cinema with some of the most comfortable cinema chairs I have ever sat in. Screening went really well with a full house again.  Lots of laughs in all the right places and a big round of applause at the end. Very happy with the response.


Screening 4 has just finished a little while ago at the Centre Jaude Cinema.  The cinema was packed, so packed that Jess and I almost didn't get a seat to our own film :) This was the best audience reaction yet of all the screenings.  This audience got all the jokes and laughed the whole way through the film. Round of applause after the screening was awesome. We then received another round of applause after the credits.  We could not be happier with the reaction to the film.


We also have been able to spend the last couple of days watching the other amazing short films in the International Competition. Let's just say that there are some awesome films this year - very stiff competition. Some of them are so good we want to see them again.


Here are our list of our favourites from yesterday and today (in no particular order):


"Nyarma" Director: Edgar Bartenev (Russia)
"Slitage" Director: Patrik Eklund (Sweden)
"Civil...But Not Civilized" Director: George Tarabay (Lebanon)
"Jitensha" Director: Dean Yamada (Japan)
"Moore Street Masala" Director: David O'Sullivan (Ireland)
"Ella" Director: Hanne Larsen (Norway)
"Jenny & The Worm" Director: Ian Clark (England)


More favourites to come tomorrow.

Video Blog Day 2 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Here it is everyone, as promised.  The much anticipated 2nd video blog from Clermont-Ferrand.  Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnu-YySfUM4

2nd Screening at Cocteau Theatre is a success

The 2nd screening and the BIGGEST screening is done.  It was at the Cocteau theatre which seats 1400 people and it was completely full. People where being held at the door because there were no seats left. i will put up a Video Blog later tonight so you can all check out the screening and audience response.


The best part was after the screening Jess (my assistant) and I went to get a bite to eat and sat with a lovely local couple from Clermont-Ferrand who have been going to this festival every year for the last 10 years. They had just watched Glenn Owen Dodds and completely loved it. They were very excited about the film and asked lots of lovely questions about how we filmed it and the story itself. They were really amazing people and it was such a pleasure to meet them. I feel so happy that our film is being so well received by the audiences here in Clermont-Ferrand. Congratulations to all our talented cast and crew who made this possible for our little film. I feel very proud of our film and love that everyone else is just as excited about it as I am.

The 1st Screening - A huge success

Tonight was the 1st screening at Clermont-Ferrand for Glenn Owen Dodds.  We were the last film to play in our line-up and we played to an almost sold out cinema at the Petit Velo. What a response!!!! The audience loved it. We were the only film to get big laughs and the comedy in the film translated very well. We also received the biggest round of applause.  We are so excited.  Can't wait to see what tomorrow's response is.  Tomorrow we play in the 1400 seat theatre, the Cocteau, in the same line up again. We will upload a video blog tomorrow after the screening.

Video Blog Day 1 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

The first Glenn Owen Dodds Video Blog is on Youtube now. 

Day 1 at the 2010 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival - The SWAG bag. 

Please forgive Bec's presenting skills. Deary, deary me. She is Producer after all - we promise she will get better at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTQf7-1IoTU

We have arrived in Clermont-Ferrand

Bec and her assistant Jess have arrived in Clermont-Ferrand and will today hit the ground running.  Registration and an opening night function to attend. Posters to be put up and marketing materials to be handed out to festival goers.  Screenings officially start tomorrow morning.


Also a nice surprise is that Glenn Owen Dodds is the opening image on the Clermont-Ferrand website today http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/ look at image 1 and that is David Wenham as Glenn Owen Dodds.

Video Blogs and Photos from Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Bec will be in Clermont-Ferrand posting video blogs and photos from the festival.  


To check out the video blogs on Youtube, go to the Glenn Owen Dodds channel or just follow this link to the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnnqpp200E   and then look at other videos from Glenn Owen Dodds.


Photos will be posted on Facebook and Twitter for you all to look at. So if you are not a fan of Glenn on Facebook or Twitter, get your act together and join :)

Glenn Owen Dodds January Newsletter

Each month we will be publishing a small newsletter to keep cast, crew and friends of the film in the loop with everything happening. We will also post the newsletters on this blog for viewing. Check under labels for each newsletter. Enjoy!

Screen Australia Trailer with all the Clermont-Ferrand Entrants Online Now

A great trailer of all the Australian Clermont-Ferrand films, including Glenn Owen Dodds, is now available on line for viewing. All the films look amazing. I can't wait to see them all.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ScreenAustralia

Extra special screening in Paris

Got to love the people at BREF Magazine. Glenn Owen Dodds is invited to be one of only seven films from the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival to play a special one-off screening in Paris on 9th February. We are totally stoked.
http://www.brefmagazine.com/pages/soiree_qds.php

Courier Mail CM2 Story from Thursday 14 January 2010

Thanks to the incredibly awesome Courier-Mail for the fantastic write up on Thursday. You guys are great!

Clermont-Ferrand Website

Check out all things Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival at:  
http:///www.clermont-filmfest.com

We are screening at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Glenn Owen Dodds has been selected in the International Competition for the 2010 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France. The festival will take place from 29th January to 6th February. Be sure to follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/glennowendodds for the news from the festival.

Website

New Glenn Owen Dodds website will be up next week at:
http://www.GlennOwenDodds.com

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Here we will keep you up to date with all things Glenn Owen Dodds.