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Monthly Newsletter
To contact us or to find out FBF's latest news, please send us your email details to
flat-brokefilms@fsmail.net. We will add you to our monthly email distribution news list. Thanks, David
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LATEST NEWS - July 2008
The co-writers of A SAFE BET Dave Reynolds & David Gilliam met horse trainer Richard Phillips at his stables in Adlestrop for discussions on background material and location filming. The meeting proved very successful in inspiring the story development and Richard showed us around his stables where he trains over 50 horses. We plan to spend an early morning at the stables to watch how the horses are prepared for galloping over the beautiful Cotswold hills surrounding Adlestrop village, and see his horses run at both Fontwell and Cheltenhan. Further location visits are being planned for Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire Airport and other locations in The Cotswolds. Our story is based upon real events in Belfast, and Cheltenham racecourse, but all the characters and places named will be ficticious. Our main theme is a Heist/Revenge Thriller with many sub-plots and twists to include stealing the Tote cash?? Film producer/director Danny Boyle is interested in reading a final version of the screenplay, and Chris Ellison (Burnside from The Bill) has shown an interest in our project. Parts are being written with the likes of Danny Dyer, Charles Dance, Brian Cox, Phil Davis and Angelina Jolie in mind.
FBF's modern day Ghost Story: Seeing Is Believing (15min) is planned to be produced in 2009 with another project "Train Of Thought" a (30 min) Comedy set on the GWR steam railway. Maralyn & David are developing the screenplays/casting the films, securing finances and locations. Both films will be produced on one Special DVD for sale at the GWR shop. www.flat-brokefilms.co.uk
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PRESS RELEASE
Flat-Broke Films is very pleased to announce that our WATERS END short film was screened on Sky TV's new 195 channel on (12th October 2006). This new "pay for view" channel broadcasts all over Europe to 33 countries, including Vatican City! The channel is on air every evening from 20.00 to 01.00 and is sponsored by Propeller TV in association with Yorkshire TV. It "transmits" new film talent in the UK.
More info on www.propellertv.co.uk
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“WATERS END”
A Dream in the Making
David Reynolds was born in 1943 at Queensbury, Middlesex just North West of London. As a young man he spent all his “pocket money” going to the local cinemas to see the latest western, biblical epic or “Carry On” films-sometimes three times a week. He became fascinated with the “magic” of movie making and was eager to go into the film industry as a career when he left school.
However, his parents, knowing how precarious the “film world” was advised him to go into Local Government as a traffic engineer – much more of a stable profession - which he dutifully did for 33 years. His love of movies, however, never diminished and he was fortunate at Cheltenham Town Council to look after the “needs” of Film Production companies who were shooting in the lovely Regency Cotswold town, which had similar streets and architecture to London, but much more controllable.
He was mixing with the crew & stars like Michael Caine and Nigel Havers, being involved in their film “The Whistle Blower” (1987). He even appeared as an extra and this adventure convinced David that he wanted to be part of the movie business, somehow.
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Picture courtesy of The Gloucestershire Echo
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It was while David was taking shots of the old trains and stations, which had been lovingly restored to the 60’s period that a germ of a story outline came into his mind.
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Reflecting on those days when he went by steam train to school daily from Bricket Wood (near Watford) to St. Albans, he thought “What if a lady is traveling alone on a train journey to visit her husband’s grave in a small rural village churchyard during the 1960s?”
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With a small budget donated by “friends & family” and all the locations agreed “at no cost” on the understanding that they would receive maximum publicity with the release of the short film, the cast including Lord Nigel Jones (his first film acting role and seen driving a late 50s Alvis sports saloon) and crew, started filming at Nature In Art Museum on a very cold but dry February morning.
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Juggling with the availability of actors, and confusingly filming “out of sequence”, the last location shots were “in the can” on a hot summer’s morning in August at Greet railway tunnel entrance.
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Kevin and David set-up two cameras trackside and shot the “Opening Scenes” of the steam train exiting the tunnel - it looked fantastic in close-up! It was a wrap!
Getting 5 hours of footage down to a target length of 18 minutes was a huge task, but with Cannes Film Festival in mind (amongst others) we then discovered that they only wanted 15 minutes! It’s heartbreaking losing shots, but we did it!
The “icing on the cake” was adding Lee Axford’s hauntingly beautiful original soundtrack music to “Waters End”. A Dream Completed!
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