BBC News: £400 UK film on Cannes shortlist

[miker]

It's obviously en-vogue to tout how cheap films are to make nowadays.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/4527057.stm

A civil servant with no formal training has had his ?400 short film selected for competition at the prestigious Cannes film festival.

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Crowe, a former rail worker who works at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, wrote, directed, produced and shot the film, before editing it on his computer at home.

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They and their producer, James Brown, 29, made the film using their own money.

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Taneja said: "This is just a fairytale for us. None of us have ever been to film school. We just decided to make it when Ben sold his mandolin to raise money to buy his camera.

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Film London spokesman Andy Cole added: "It's amazing that a film shot on such a tight budget has done so well.

"A great film comes out of a great idea, and with today's technology, anyone can make a good film for hundreds of pounds.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pity there's no budget breakdown, as ever.

[Bnew]

?400? I thought Cannes only accept 35mm prints? [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

I guess they bought all their own equipment so rental costs weren't included in the budget, free locations, non-professional actors, no insurance etc. Sounds pretty cool imo [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

I'd be interested to know what it was shot on though, as my understanding is that DV looks abysmal when blown up.