PARNU DOC FESTIVAL screens THE GRANDPARENTS this week

Picture shows filmmaker Ioana Joca with her grandmother, Ioana Bardea

The PARNU INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL is screening Ioana Joca's film, THE GRANDPARENTS on Tuesday 4th July at 18.00 in the "Lifestyles" section at the PARNU VANALINNA SCHOOL, and again on Friday 7th July at MARIJA ISLAND. Click here for full details

Swiss Museum of Transport permanent expo

DUE TO OPEN THIS AUTUMN:
The Verkehrshaus der Schweiz / Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne is planning a permanent display of inserts of our films - to bring to life the flights of the Breitling Orbiter 1, 2 and 3 balloons. The Museum, the most visited in Switzerland, has the Breitling Orbiter 2 balloon capsule in its permanent display (which broke the duration record for an aircraft of any type when it floated from the Swiss Alps to Myanmar in 1998). One year later, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones took the ultimate ballooning prize when they completed their epic flight around the earth in the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon. The capsule that they flew in this historic flight now resides in the Smithsonian / Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

The Grandparents invited to Estonian Documentary Festival

Ioana Joca's film, "The Grandparents" will be screened in competition at the Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival in July 2006 - exact dates to be announced.

Ioana Joca selected for UP AND COMING Filmmakers' Workshop in Hanover

Glasgow-based filmmaker Ioana Joca has been selected from a shortlist of 80 to attend the 'Up and Coming' workshop for new talent - called film up- which is held every 2 years as part of the Hanover International Film Festival in Germany.

Link to the official website

Ioana was nominated in two categories in the most recent BAFTA Scotland awards - for BEST NEW WORK and BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR for her documentary film, The Grandparents.

More details on film up:

film-up, a special film workshop, will take place in Hanover in October 2006. 12 filmmakers from all over the world have been invited to take part in this workshop (5 days). In Hanover, they'll shoot a short video/film (to a given theme), and exchange their methods/experiences with the other invited filmmakers.

HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY WINS 2 BAFTAS

Factual entertainment series, "How To Start Your Own Country", and its innovative and highly successful interactive spin-offs, have been recognized twice in the National BAFTA TV CRAFT AWARDS ceremony on 19 May. Nominated in two categories, it won both.

Winner - BAFTA UK Award - BREAKTHROUGH TALENT for Lee Phillips as writer/ producer/ director
Winner - BAFTA UK Award - NEW MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

Congratulations to Danny & a brilliant production team!

OUR FILMS

Lots of new pages have now been posted in OUR FILMS section - describing many of the main projects that we have made. Soon we will be posting film clips for all these productions in our VIRTUAL CINEMA. Come back soon to view them!

Congratulations to 60 CUPS OF COFFEE

Brilliant short film, 60 CUPS OF COFFEE, directed by David Ward ("ALL OVER BRAZIL", "THE FALL OF SHUG McCRACKEN") written by Robbie McCallum (also "SHUG" and BAFTA-nominated "RANK" and produced by Raymond Martin (of Raygun Films) has just come out top (announced today) in the HypTV Short Film Award winning £1000, a TV commission and an X-Box ! Congratulations all round. 60 CUPS will be streaming on the web at http://www.hyptv.com/ - see it and believe it. Also see a clip at the Raygun Films website.