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Michelle Green,
Fuji Photo Film
(UK) Ltd’s
Motion Picture
and Professional
Videotape Marketing
supremo, along with her responsibility as Managing
Editor of EXPOSURE, has
retired at a very tender age
to have her first baby, due
in October. She took over
both positions from Rachel
Baker, when Rachel beat her
to it by a couple of years
with her first baby. Michelle was also responsible latterly for organising the Fuji Scholarship Awards. We wish Michelle a happy, contented, but prob-
tephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, starring Amelie’s Audrey Tautou in her first English-language role, has been selected for the official compe-
tition at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
A dark, London-set thriller, written by Steve Knight, Dirty Pretty Things, co- starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez and Sophie Okonedo, was shot on Fuji by Chris Menges BSC. ■
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ably quite busy and noisy retirement. She will be sadly missed by all at Fuji especially Eric Mould who will now have to do his own spreadsheets. ■
FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLY
Since catching the eye of the mental health charity MIND in 1998 and subsequently gaining a modest MIND Millennium Award, filmmaker Corin Hardy has been toiling away at creating his traditionally styled, stop-motion model- animated short film Butterfly for nearly four and a half years.
After completing scripting and inten- sive storyboarding by mid- 1999, it was time to get on with produc- tion – shot in his father’s dusty wood workshop.
Budget restric- tions were incredibly tight. The construc- tion alone required more than 20 fully built model sets as well as many intri- cate puppet charac- ters and props.
from amateurs and students to pro- fessionals as well as companies pro- viding unique sponsorship for materi- als and equipment.
Shooting on film was an early deci- sion as it was important to him that his 25-minute film had a “real model magic” quality akin to, he hoped, the
Working alone at first, Hardy relied on the important involvement of individual talent for specific tasks including model-making, set building, sound recording, technical engineer- ing, costume and armature making
Photo above: Rachel Baker and Michelle Green
Ray Harryhausen epics or, say, The Nightmare Before Christmas, as opposed to being simply “computer enhanced.”
Hardy pays credit to FujiiFilm for supporting his film throughout with stock and to Soho Images who did all the processing
and telecine.
Last year, Hardy won a South East Arts Award which helped the meagre budget along. He’s now in the last stages of shooting and aims to have the final edit ready for film festivals, and perhaps a TV screening, early next year.
Butterfly will be used by MIND
as a resource tool and focus for dis- cussion groups. To find out more about Butterfly or view the trailer visit www.mysteriouscat.com and click on the link to Butterfly. ■
MCABBAGE WAR KUDOS
rs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, directed by Ian Sharp and shot on Fujifilm by Sue Gibson BSC, was awarded runner-up for the Bernhard
Wicki prize at the Emden International Film Festival in Germany beating 14 other entrants including Sexy Beast and Last Orders.
The film, starring Pauline Collins (below), is currently proving a big hit with audiences in New Zealand and is hoping for the same reaction when it opens here in the UK at the beginning of November. ■
Photos from top: Director Stephen Frears; DP Chris Menges; Audrey Tautou; Audrey Tautou and Sergi Lopez in Dirty Pretty Things
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