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The First Teaser Trailer For Noirish Project Is Out!

24.09.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

https://vimeo.com/74585515 Delighted to share with you the first look at Noirish Project A Neorealist Feature Film Masquerading As Film Noir Noirish Project is a melancholy and gently absurd feature film about Billy, who steals his family's precious pearls and hands them over to low-life Jimmy, who in turn takes...

The Great Acting Blog: “Notes On The Stories We Tell”

24.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

While researching an educational product for filmmakers I'm working on, I stumbled upon this video interview with Tony Robbins. He talks about how the stories we tell ourselves about our lives impact what we do, and if we change our stories then we can change...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors Producing Films”

23.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 44 Comments

I stumbled upon two links separately but which were interconnected. The first, was a story that Cate Blanchett was to make her directorial debut and the second was a "top 10" list of first films by actors-turned-directors. Ralph Fiennes has a film coming out (The...

The Great Acting Blog: “Self-Doubt – Exiting The Comfort Zone”

22.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Self-doubt is that feeling we get whenever we intend to do something which will take us out of our comfort zone. Perhaps we need to ask a powerful person for help or we want to start our own production company rather than waiting around hoping to...

The Great Acting Blog: “Making The Decisions Right”

21.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

It's not about making the right decisions, it's about making the decisions right. Whenever we decide on a goal to pursue, we are not in full possession of the facts when we make that decision: none of us can predict what will happen in the future....

Italian Fotobusta Designed By Nuts4R2 For Noirish Project

20.09.2013 , Noirish Project , 0 Comments

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The Great Acting Blog: “Dealing With Haters”

20.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 21 Comments

Haters. That rather sad and lonely section of our society. They have received a boon in recent years with the rise of social media: they can use a false name, invent a profile for themselves and display an anonymous pic and harass anyone, anywhere, with...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Power Of Transformative Goals”

19.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

When we are on the scent for a goal that we truly want to accomplish, that truly excites us, we become superhuman. We have masses of energy. Focus, self-discipline and motivation aren't a problem, we can work longer hours and we'll give more of ourselves...

Sorry, But Acting Has Got Nothing To Do With Being Realistic | The Great Acting Blog

18.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

Following on from yesterday's post about directors who manipulate actors in order to get a "real" response from them. I want to go further and say that not only is manipulation wrong, but it's objective, namely this "realism", is beside the point. Why? Because acting has got...

The Great Acting Blog: “Actors’ Craft, Not Directors’ Tricks”

17.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

A piece in the Guardian caught my eye recently when it brought into focus once again the actor-director relationship. The broad gist of it questioned whether some of the lengths directors go to in order to get performances from their actors go too far,...