April 16, 2018
It has been a lot longer than it should have been:
Moving beyond the confines of a physical film festival, digital platforms allow for a greater level of experimentation, further screening and a diversity of viewing experiences. Whilst it will never capture (or even re...
August 29, 2017
This blog offers the opportunity to discuss the value judgements and decisions-making processes behind the curation of the 'Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations Film Festival'. The festival received, via film submission platforms, in excess of 400 short films for consider...
December 27, 2016
This evening marked the final screening of the month-long festival, concluding with a taste of Romanian cinema. The reason for selecting Romania as the final country/ ‘national’ cinema was primarily due to the country’s impact on an international scale and festival val...
November 30, 2016
First of all, a huge thanks to Simon Miller, filmmaker of Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (2008), for providing a detailed introduction and an illuminating Q&A this evening. Simon Miller is an award-winning filmmaker, whose films have been valorized at the Celtic fi...
November 23, 2016
As the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations film event was under way at The Phoenix, Exeter, I was interviewed as part of a piece in D&C Film. The article deals with the film selection process for the short films and the feature films.
November 22, 2016
Firstly, a huge thanks to Dr. Kate Woodward, Lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, at Aberystwyth University, who provided an detailed introduction to Welsh Cinema and the feature film The Library Suicides (Euros Lyn, 2016). Once again, th...
November 6, 2016
First of all, thank you to all that attended the first night of the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations event, hosted at The Phoenix, Exeter.
The event opened with introductions by the organiser, Dr. Jamie Steele, followed by a video introduction by filmmaker Jonas Bloque...
October 28, 2016
After several months of submissions via Film Freeway, we have finally decided on the final selection of short premieres to be screened as part of the festival event. In line with the feature films from the four selected countries, Belgium, Wales, Scotland and Romania,...
October 9, 2016
The feature film programme is now ready to be released with tickets now on sale via the venue. We have a great list of feature films programmed with some fantastic speakers.
Across four Wednesdays in November, Exeter Phoenix will be hosting the Cinema of Small Nations,...
September 20, 2016
The film festival is dedicated to and designed to begin to showcase the work of cinematically small nations. The film that you have submitted to the festival highlights some of the limitations of thinking in terms of nation, that is it is articulated in English, filmed...
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