Feature film development

Thank you for visiting our site for feature film development.

'Step Into the Silent Land' is a psychological drama about identical twin girls Rachel and Sarah (16).  The feature film is being developed from a short film 'Into the Silent Land' which we shot at Happisburgh Lighthouse, Norfolk two years ago. The film took us over a year to complete, with trips to Seattle to get the 16mm footage processed (yes it was cheaper to fly to Seattle and stay in a youth hostel  than to process the stock in London). So that is what I did. I did find some time to go whale watching so it wasn't all work whilst in the wonderful city of Seattle.

Since then the film was sold at The Short Film Corner, Cannes and is currently enjoy a festival circuit. It will be screening as part of the Aesthetica Film Festival in York (Nov 8th-11th) which i'm thrilled about.

So with the feature film I'm been busy working with colleagues to develop the story and explore what I really want to say with this film.... this is taking longer than I thought!

But today I installed Final Draft on my mac and this weekend I am starting to write the screenplay.

This is my favourite still from the short film...

for more news on films in development please visit www.jeanhogg.co.uk

A painting I did many years ago.





Happisburgh Lighthouse, with Junebug.

Waxham, Norfolk

Why? short film in the Short Film Corner, Cannes 2012

Really excited to be heading back to Cannes next week for the festival. Our short, originally made for the Virgin Shorts Comp will be in the short film corner and we will also be taking our feature outline and sales docs for 'Step Into the Silent Land'. Val and Jean will be there from the 18th to 25th May.

Still from London 48 Hr  Comp 2011 film, A Week Ago Today

Jean is busy preparing her iFeatures 2 application for the upcoming deadline.

iFeatures: The UK's most exciting low budget film initiative is back. Engaging, inspiring and collaborating with the brightest upcoming talent, iFeatures is now accepting submissions from producer, writer and director teams who an already demonstrate a strong body of work.

http://www.ifeatures2.co.uk/

Campbell Cloud Films - New website live

After a fair few months of developing logos and copy our new site is now live. Thank you to Steve Appleton for designing our great new logos and to Business Revolution for your lovely new website.

Busy working on my i features application, the Creative England initiative which closes in a couple of weeks.

Imaginox First Feature Producing Lab

Jean is currently on a six-week producing course through Imaginox to develop her feature film 'Step Into the Silent Land' ready to take the Cannes this May.
http://www.imaginox.co.uk/http://www.imaginox.co.uk/

Film for Weetu

Campbell Cloud films is busy preparing for our shoot this week with WEETU (an independent Norfolk-based organisation which helps women in work and enterprise).


Over the coming weeks CCFs will be interviewing and visiting just a handful of the many business starts-ups that WEETU have worked with over the past few years. 


We will also be filming on International Women's Day on the 8th March. 

Into the Silent Land at Clermont Ferrand

Campbell Cloud Films had a great time at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival. It really was one of my best festival experiences. Despite arriving to freezing cold weather and a complete white out (I think the airport closed). But the festival was so friendly and Val and I met some great people. Both filmmakers with films in competition and those in the short film corner.
We pitched our feature film to some industry contacts and got some great feedback.

It was also so inspiring to see such a great range of films in competition and to see short film taken so seriously....

There were also some great parties!

Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival

'Into the Silent Land' is in the short film market at Clermont Ferrand (27 Jan to 4th Feb). Jean and Val will be attending the festival to pitch their feature film 'Step Into the Silent Land'.

Campbell Cloud Films at EPIC

We have now moved into our production office at EPIC TV in Norwich. We are busy developing both our feature 'Step Into the Silent Land', a feature length documentary and a couple of projects with local charities.

We offer a full production service for local businesses. Jean Hogg is an experienced director/editor working in both drama and documentary. We have a pool of established local and London based freelancers to crew our productions. Jean has many years experience of working within the charity sector and before that within film and TV.

Into the Silent Land - at London Short Film Festival - 8th Jan @ ICA

http://shortfilms.org.uk/events/2012-01-08-new-shorts-9-landscapes

Hi everyone,
'Into the Silent Land' will be showing at 4.30 pm on Sunday 8th January at the ICA, London. It is being screened as one a number of short films around the theme of landscape.

Hope to see you there....