HUNGER TV INTERVIEW

Heres an interview with me in photographer Rankin's Hunger TV website

http://www.hungertv.com/feature/this-weeks-short-the-10am/

THE 10AM resurfaces

Well, its been a weird and wonderful year for many reasons. But what happened to the film? Basically it didn't seem to really travel. The East End Film Festival and The London Short Film Festival screened the film with all the other discs being lost in the post en route to international film festivals.

Fast forward 10 months laters and THE 10AM has just been sitting on my vimeo page with a lonely 46 views but then I  screened the film to some art students at a recent talk I gave and it received a very positive reaction, renewing my faith in what we had originally created. I submitted the film to Short Of The Week, if anything just for the critical appraisal they give if it didn't make the grade, a bargain for $24. They loved it. A week later it was on their website and a few days later it received a Vimeo Staff Pick that resulted in a shit load more hits, interest and some great comments. Sometimes distance is a great thing, yes it has things I'd tweak but I'm confident now (through time and distance) that I can say it's a good film and I would love to expand the universe of Aeron & Son Ltd. I wonder if anyone will turn up with a bag of money to make part II? I hope so.

PRIVATE SCREENING

On the 18th November I have my official screening for the film at Soho House which has a small but great screening room. If you can make it, heres the following details...

SOHO HOUSE
21 OLD COMPTON ST
TWO SHOW TIMES: 6PM & 6.30PM
(LET ME KNOW WHAT TIME SUITS YOU)
RSVP: info@colinotoole.co.uk

Film Poster

The 10am film poster can now be seen on www.shortfilmposters.com an amazing resource for short film poster art work based out of the US. Its well worth checking out, theres loads of good poster art to look at. Im chuffed they've added our poster to that list.

Martin Serene plays Aeron Senior.

Martin is a true original and when I needed someone to play Mr Aeron (The dad) there was only one man in mind. Born in the heart of Salford and then onwards to everywhere but Salford, he is a class act both funny and sometimes frightening which makes for a useful and memorable mix.

Martin is both an actor and 1st assistant director by trade who at one time worked with the best in Hollywood including Tony Scott RIP. His first acting break of all films was playing Wild Bill in Se7en.  His scene involved the leather shop, need I say more.

Check Martins IMDB here

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784997/

Heres Martin in the Leather Shop.

The 10am.

Score by Graham Massey

When I set out to create music for the short the first person that entered my head was fellow Mancunian Graham Massey. Graham is a pioneer in electronic music, acid house, famous for his band 808 State, collaborations with A Guy Called Gerald, Bjork, love for Sun Ra and loads of other great stuff and just a really top bloke.

Its funny then that when Graham agreed to do the soundtrack (amazing) that what actually came back had nish to do with electronic music and more to do with Steptoe and Son but twisted. Always expect the unexpected from Mr Massey. Thank you Graham.

To read more about Graham heres his wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Massey

Heres Graham with a full sized (Frank Sidebottom style) sculpture of himself by Korean artist Gwon Osang in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Festival No.6

Thanks to festival No.6 for giving The 10am its first test screening back in September. It played before The Stone Roses Doc 'Made Of Stone' directed by Shane Meadows. Apparently it went down really well. I couldn't be there!!