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THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • AUTUMN 2000
EAXPOSURE EXPOSURE
fter fame as a Page 3 girl then as one of With the success of the Northern Film television’s most popular and glam- School it seemed appropriate to go behind the ourous presenters on shows like Fort scenes in Leeds to find out just what makes this Boyard, Melinda Messenger now reveals establishment tick and why top writer Kay (Fat her latest ‘look’ – as a fairytale princess Friends) Mellor so enthusiastically describes it
in the family fantasy film MUMBO JUMBO, with co- as “a hotbed of real talent.”
JOHN ROBINSON
MICHELLE GREEN
star Brian Blessed, featured in our Cover Story. Our regular feature Behind the Camera focus- es on three cinematographers who all have some thing in common – they’ve just completed their first feature. After working his way up through the ranks of assistant director, GRAHAM FOWLER even- tually switched to a light meter. Many pop promos and commercials later he has just lit South West Nine on which he also doubles as executive pro- ducer. Dubliner JOHN LYNCH teams up with direc- tor Julien Temple on Pandaemonium, co-starring John Hannah, Linus Roache, Emily Woof and Samantha Morton in a period drama about poets Coleridge and Wordsworth and their women. This idyll couldn’t be further removed from the black- ly comic world of Dead Babies, an adaptation of Martin Amis’s controversial novel conjured up in a new film by American writer-director William Marsh. Certainly a testing debut for DANIEL COHEN who once worked as an assistant to Jean-Francois
Robin and Benoit Delhomme.
The highly prestigious 20TH ANNUAL FUJIFILM
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS turned into somewhat of a rout for the Northern Film School’s Liberty Lindley and her team who scooped no fewer than nine prizes for the eye-catching short Wolf In An Arran Sweater, which greatly impressed guest presenter, director Stephen Frears.
We go out and about to report on some major new British films on the horizon. BORN ROMANTIC was chosen as this year’s Gala Closing Night film at the Regus London Film Festival. A follow-up to his hit This Year’s Love, writer- director David Kane returns with yet another offbeat tale, co-starring Jane Horrocks, Craig Ferguson and Catherine McCormack.
Directed by Nick Hamm, THE HOLE, stars Thora Birch from American Beauty and first-timer Laurence (son of James) Fox, in the suspenseful story of four teenagers trapped above an unex- ploded wartime bomb.
John Davis, head honcho of ISL PRODUCTION explains the big business world of television sport and his parent company’s plans to pre- sent football at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Nearer to home, Barry Byrne’s TRANSCO FIRST4MEDIA gives Fuji customers what they want at recently-refurbished and well established premises in Soho’s Dean Street.
All this plus writer JULIAN SPILSBURY on his work for The Bill and other popular TV shows, a pair of DPs, GEOFF BOYLE and MARTIN TESTAR singing the praises of the new F-400 stock in their world of commercials, and a short sharp sci-fi shock in Watford called The Dreamer from film-makers MIGUEL SAPOCHNIK and IVOR POWELL.
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk