Most of your ticket money pays for overheads - licenses to screen films, venue hire, insurances and so on. A small amount ensures we maintain equipment to a good standard and the rest we use for film related projects - such as supporting young film makers to create new films through our commissions, or holding interesting film [...]
We are proud to present the work of four amazing winners of the 2019 Talkies' short film commissions as part of HERE - Suburban Film Festival JOSH BOWER AND MATT YOUNG An editor by trade, Josh runs Shoreditch based production company Ripple & Roll. Matt’s an experienced post-production co-ordinator by day, a swing-dancing portrait-painting virtuoso by [...]
Each year we feature North London talent at our annual HERE FILM FESTIVAL . If you are or know an an actor, filmmaker or other professional involved in film let us know - we are always on the lookout for work and people that we can spotlight in the festival. Just email us on talkiescommunitycinema@gmail.com
Many thanks to those of you who responded to our survey about venues. Waterhouse Hall in Winchmore Hill emerged as the most popular alternative venue to The Fox. We are in discussion over this now so watch this space for future announcements. We had 125 replies from 16 postcodes with the majority from Palmers Green, [...]
SUPPORT YOUNG FILM MAKERS BY BECOMING A FRIEND OF TALKIES There were 75 applicants for the 2018 Talkies' short film commissions. It was tough to get the number to a shortlist of 12 who we interviewed and even tougher to select out final four from such amazing talent. We are delighted to announce the five [...]
As you know, The Fox in Palmers Green is scheduled for development. It is proving difficult to find a suitable, affordable, replacement venue in Palmers Green. We would appreciate your completing this quick survey to help us with future programme planning. Just scroll down the page to answer each section of the survey and then [...]
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE COMMISSIONS Big news! We are partnering with Short Sighted Cinema once again, to commission four filmmakers to produce a short film located in Palmers Green, North London. Each maker will be will be awarded £500 towards the cost of their film. The commission is open to all genres and forms of filmmaking including [...]
Friends visit BAFTA at 70 Lots of obscure and not so obscure facts and photos were shared by our BAFTA ‘host’ with the group of Friends and Volunteers who visited on 30th April. Did you know, for instance, that the first BAFTA Awards were Henry Moore sculptures that were too heavy to carry and couldn’t [...]
Hi - I am Surayya Johar, one of Talkies volunteers. Recently I have been helping out with organising the shoots for Talkies short film commissions. I am now helping Talkies bring to the attention of its audience the catalogue of short films commissioned by Channel 4 - 'Random Acts'. I will be selecting a short film from [...]
The festival programme includes feature films that are mainly small independent British productions that have a connection with suburbia. During HERE festival we draw on local talent and themes and we are also very proud to premiere five new short films, commissioned for the festival. READ MORE.