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Today is Mark Hamill's birthday!
Happy birthday @markhamillofficial.bsky.social!
Congratulations everyone- fewer than 3000 to hit 100K. So let’s get signing #parkypetition100k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
This is tragic - please please vaccinate your children against measles!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
here is Indie SAGE report on preventable childhood diseases - including measles! Screenshot from report below.
please share!
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🚨 Trailer drop!
Check out the trailer for “Deaf President Now!” directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim, fresh off its 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere.
Streaming May 16 on Apple TV+ 🤟
Sound friends, check out this wonderful conversation between two great foley artists, Caoimhe Doyle from Ireland and Marita Sbeih from Lebanon. A great listen ❤️🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...
For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States.
Vaccines prevent measles.
Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
“I always thought, if the acting thing didn’t work out, which it still might not, I would love to be a Foley artist.”
—Cate Blanchett ❤️
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Women are the architects of progress, the defenders of democracy, and the heart of our communities. Today and every day, we celebrate the power of women who lead, fight, and uplift others. Let’s keep pushing forward—together.
Great to hear @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme follow up on our @theguardian.com investigation into the TV crisis this morning.
Broadcasters, big production companies - speak to me about it!
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
Terrific important piece on the crisis in the UK TV and film industry by @michaelsavage.bsky.social:
Sam Payne is one of the the coaches I work with at Kewford Eagles pan disability football, and last week, he lost his son at the age of just 19.
The family have now been hit by funeral costs of thousands of pounds. If you have a spare pound, it'd be appreciated.
Feel free to repost. Thank you.
Announcing the #FilmAudioFaceoff!
Our latest competition is all about #audiopost : you'll need to redesign audio for a short film to be in with a chance to win over $20,000 in prizes!
Composers, sound designers, and voice actors - team up and enter by April 13th over at airwiggles.com/faceoff!
📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today.
Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
I will never not be surprised by men being fragile and emotional and it being disguised as something else.
Hello #Birmingham #filmsky people! My live film conversation show - Film Stories Live - is back at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham in March and June.
Please help me spread the word! And indie filmmakers from the area - get in touch!
macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/film-...
Tomorrow at 1pm myself and Amelia will be holding a webinar to chat through the paper on working conditions in the UK post production sector. Link below to book a spot. Please come along and share to anyone who might be interested #postproduction
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-fix-i...
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
BEFORE SUNRISE was released 30 years ago this week. Richard Linklater's walk-and-talk romance classic, the story of how it was made is a fascinating mix of real-life inspiration, collaborative artistry, and cinematic serendipity...
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Adjusted for inflation, a #cinema ticket in 2025 is at its cheapest in more than a decade. So why do we all think it’s more expensive?
THREAD OF OCCASIONAL FILM AND TV RECOMMENDATIONS for 2025.
One of my favourite 1980s movies, John Sayles’ Matewan (1987), has just landed on Amazon Prime. I’ve been waiting *years* for it to finally show up on a streaming service so that more people could see it. #FilmRecs25
Trump, as most of us know, is the credited author of "The Art of the Deal," a book that was actually ghost written by a man named Tony Schwartz, who was given access to Trump and wrote based upon his observations.
As we again approach Holocaust Memorial Day, we again ask:
“Are we there yet?”
Forget excuses, deflections, “Godwin’s Law”…
No, we’re not there yet.
But we will be.
Unless we stop those working to take us there.
Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us.
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Hardly worth debunking this xenophobic garbage from Telegraph.
FWIW they seem to to have taken the (implausible) upper bound of @pewresearch.org's old, completely debunked estimate (1.2 m) and then assigning a % of those to London.
And then got London's actual population wrong!
archive.ph/a8MHX
UK’s TV workers exposed to ‘illegal or barely legal’ conditions and traumatic content
in my experience the genuine male feminists are just like, nice to women and treat them normally and don’t start podcasts or seek awards for it. performative behavior should always be a red flag.
NEW: meet Sergei. This is the incredible story of the man who tried to warn the British intelligence services of a Kremlin plot to infiltrate the Conservative Party.
And the backstory behind our podcast Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Apart from reading as AI spew, this ‘response’ parrots the usual industry garnish about positive env goods moor management could do, but fails to address the glaring reality that overwhelmingly, it doesn’t do them. Let’s get to 100k and have an actual debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.” ― David Lynch
One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹