Samantha Horley

05 Apr 15 Career Launching British Debut Films

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If you want to launch a lasting career as a director, you had better choose your first film wisely. I've selected fifteen widely varying debut features, many low or micro budget, from directors whose first films got them noticed and validated; and all of whom have gone...

08 Feb The First Cold Contact: Top 11 Don’ts

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You're a new filmmaker and you have an amazing script and you want to send it to me? Please don't do this...

05 Feb Genre: 10 Things You Need To Know About “Labelling”

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What genre is your movie? If it hasn't got one, pick one. Not two, one. And not a made-up one or one that isn’t one*. And you may need to get over the idea of being pigeonholed while you're at it. What do I mean by...

05 Feb 25 British Films of the Last Five Years You Should See

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Call Yourself a Filmmaker? I've met many, many, many people who want to be filmmakers. What I find utterly staggering is how many of them watch so few movies. Your "type of film". It doesn't matter if it's not your type of film. It doesn't matter if it...

04 Feb Get Your Head Around International Film Sales: Tomatoes

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Once a year my father used to say to me “Samantha, what exactly is it that you do?” I’d explain, again, that my job was to try and find films that I thought would have a chance of working internationally; that is to say in,...