Big news! With our parters Short Sighted Cinema once again, we are commissioning our next round of filmmakers to produce a short film located in Palmers Green, North London. We are shortlisting at the moment and hope to announce this year's award winners by mid October. [vcex_spacing]READ MORE ABOUT THE COMMISSIONS
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 [...]
The festival programme this year launches with an amazing British independent film introduced by one of the cast, local actor Lindsey Coulson. Another local figure, Prof. Kurt Barling looks through the eyes of Londoners involved in recent historical events . We are also very proud to premiere four new short films, commissioned by Talkies for [...]
Talkies has commissioned another four young film makers for short films that will premiere in March 2019. Sophie Ansell's "The Girl in the Shed" is already in the can. Shot at locations around Palmers Green it is a comedic tale of anxiety, loneliness and skeletons. Behind the scenes images from local photographer Sarah Boezalt Thanks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]