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We’ve just received some really exciting news. “The Library of Burned Books” has been nominated for a Student Academy Award. Of the nine films in the foreign section, three will win awards of some kind. The judging is due to happen around 13th May, so we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed until then! More updates as they come.

Check the press release here.

The Kickstarter campaign we’ve been running for “Exposures” has reached – and passed – its funding goal. We’re moving forward into production with a healthy budget to see us through. I’d like to thank everyone who pledged money, pestered others to pledge money, or who shared the links around. Thanks also to folks who responded to us on Twitter, including Duncan Jones and Margaret Atwood! I’m going to figuratively direct my pants off.

Gael García Bernal stars as an ad-man creating the TV spots for the anti-Pinochet referendum campaign in Chile in 1988. Dir: Pablo Larraín, 2012. Seen at: Hackney Picturehouse.

Well, what a week! I feel like I managed about 5 hours sleep total throughout my entire time at the festival. Loads of incredible work on potential campaigns for films that were showing at the festival, drinking and circular ping-pong in fly-by-night Berlin bars, drinking at warehouse parties, drinking in bars where only the Berliners drink, and the odd film or two. And I never thought I’d get to talk to people from Artificial Eye, Picturehouse, Soda Pictures, Wild Bunch, Cinemoi, and MUBI, but I did.

To all my new film friends: Prost!