We Won Another Award!

 

We are thrilled to announce that we have won another award: the Jury Award at the Mexico International Film Festival! We are very happy! Thanks to all involved for awarding our film!

We Won an Award!

We are very pleased to announced that Life Just Is won a 'Gold Kahuna Award' at the Honolulu Film Awards last night! Thanks to all involved for awarding our film!

Deleted Scenes

In celebration of our US Premiere, which takes place at the Arizona International Film Festival later today, we thought we would share these two deleted scenes from the film. Enjoy!

 

 

The LIFE JUST IS University Lecture Tour

Talking to students on the BA (Hons) Film Production at the University of Gloucestershire. Pictured with Course Leader, Freya Billington.

 

As we've always tried to keep our friends, followers and fans posted on what we get up to behind-the-scenes on LIFE JUST IS, I thought it might be worth writing a quick piece about the main LJI-related thing that's been keeping me busy over the last month: going to Universities to talk about the making of LIFE JUST IS.

 

After the publication of the DIRECTOR'S JOURNAL and SCRIPTBOOK in January, Roland and I decided it might a good idea to start getting in touch with film courses up and down the country. As a small, independent production, we always knew that a reasonable percentage of our audience would be made up of aspiring filmmakers, and as a film about recent graduates, the student and graduate market has always been of interest to us. So going in to talk to students about the film seemed like both a logical extension of our general aim to be as open as possible about the making of the film, and a good way to hopefully drum up further interest in the film and the books.

 

I suppose it remains to be seen how successful the lecture tour is in terms of translation to actual sales of DVDs and books, but it has been a lot fun. Plus, having a classroom of students listen to you talking about your film seems like a much more engaging and rewarding way to promote it than sticking up some Facebook adverts.

 

Hopefully the students have been enjoying the talks too. I've been honest and open in my sessions, so with any luck it'll help them on their way to making their own first features.

 

For anyone who's interested in finding out more about our talks, or in arranging for us to come and talk at your institution, feel free to drop us a line on info*at*lifejustisfilm.com.

- Alex  

America, Here We Come!

We are thrilled to announce that LIFE JUST IS has been selected for the 22^nd Arizona International Film Festival. The film will screen on Sunday 21^st April 2013 in The Screening Room, Tucson.

 

For more information on the screening and the festival, please visit the festival's website.

LIFE JUST IS: A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY

For those who missed our event last week, here's a video of the introduction that Alex and Sam gave...

Books Launched!

Last night was the official launch of the two LIFE JUST IS books that we wrote about here. They can now be ordered from all the international Amazon websites. Links for Amazon.co.uk are as follows:

LIFE JUST IS: DIRECTOR'S JOURNAL (hard copy)
LIFE JUST IS: DIRECTOR'S JOURNAL (ebook)
LIFE JUST IS: SCRIPTBOOK (hard copy)
LIFE JUST IS: SCRIPTBOOK (ebook)

The event was a great success, and we'd like to sincerely thank all those who made it along – and especially those who stayed for the (hour long!) Q&A.

Some photographs from the event:

Writer/Director Alex Barrett (left) and host Sam Wigley (right) during the introduction.

Writer/Director Alex Barrett (left) and host Sam Wigley (right) during the introduction.

Writer/Director Alex Barrett (left) and host Sam Wigley (right) during the Q&A.

Writer/Director Alex Barrett (left) and host Sam Wigley (right) during the Q&A.

Producer Tom Stuart (left) and Writer/Director Alex Barrett (right) during the Q&A.

Producer Tom Stuart (left) and Writer/Director Alex Barrett (right) on the sofa during the Q&A

Producer Tom Stuart (left), Writer/Director Alex Barrett (middle), and host Sam Wigley (right) during the Q&A.

Executive Producer Christine Hartland at the book stall.