Last night saw the 4th Film Surgery taking place in the Hospital Club’s Screening Room – and it was a really meaty one!
Plagued by bad weather (five flakes of snow and the whole rail system shuts down?), it was a pleasure to be in the warm environs of the Hospital Club, where discussions heated up. Last night’s surgery seemed to me more intimate and focussed than usual, touching on areas that the Film Surgeons were really passionate about, and drawing out plenty of audience feedback (comments and questions galore).
We saw Jason Fisk with his short comedy DO NOT BEND, and Jerome Clark and Leah Borromeo, showing two hugely different documentaries; contemplative portrait-of-an-artist-type-doc ANY MOMENT NOW from Jerome, and Leah’s trailer for her planned investigative TV doc DIRTY WHITE GOLD.
What were the best things that I learnt from last night’s surgery? That there’s a lens you can buy to attach to the front of a Z1 camera that gives your footage a much better quality, and that 3 Minute Wonders will be back up and running in a few months time and looking for new submissions. And a bunch of other similar little gems!
And the newest Film Surgeon, filmmaker Michael Pearce, was fascinating – welcome to the team.
Thanks to Film Surgeons, filmmakers, The Hospital Club, and venerable host James Mullighan (Creative Director of Shooting People).
Surgery is closed until April. Keep well. x
