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 Our short, originally made for the Virgin Shorts Comp will be in the short film corner and we will also be taking our feature outline and sales docs for 'Step Into the Silent Land'.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....

Misty days

Check out these beautiful images, they are more like paintings really......

Campbell Cloud Films on the move....

Campbell Cloud Films is moving to EPIC TV Norwich from the 9th January 2012.

Films in development:

'Step into the Silent Land' - a low-budget British feature film, based on the short film Into the Silent Land.

We are also developing a series of documentary films around teenage pregnancy and bullying.

Film School: New workshop dates will be announced in January.

INTO THE SILENT LAND - SCREENINGS IN NORWICH & LONDON

SCREENING IN LONDON 

INTO THE SILENT LAND is screening as part of the Underwire Film Festival 2011.  

The film will be screened as part of the Ring Masters Programme, in which Val and myself have been nominated in the 'Best Producer' category. 

The screening is on Thursday 24th November, at 7.45pm at the Shortwave Cinema (10 Bermondsey Square, London SE1 3UN). 

You can see the rest of the line up of the Ring Masters Programme and purchase tickets for only £5.00 here: http://www.underwirefestival.com/?p=472

Do snap them up quick, as there is limited availability!

SCREENING IN NORWICH

INTO THE SILENT LAND is screening at Cinema City, Norwich on Friday 25^th November at 6 pm. The film has a running time of 15 minutes and will be followed by a short Q & A with director, Jean Hogg afterwards.

Tickets are £5.00 / £4 Members/Concessions and can be purchased from the Box Office on 0871 902 5724.

Thank you to everyone who came to the first screening during the Norwich Sound and Vision Festival. Many people couldn’t get tickets so please come and support us now!

We will be organizing drinks and networking in the Cinema City bar afterwards to do come and join us.

INTO THE SILENT LAND is a short film shot on Super 16 mm about identical twin sisters who holiday near a working lighthouse on the North Norfolk coast.

The film is completely self-financed by the two producers Val Hanson and myself. We gained sponsorship from Kodak, Panavision, Panalux and Deluxe Post Production. We also gained support from i Lab, London and Alpha Cine, Seattle.

Everyone gave their time for expenses only and worked round the clock to get this film made. We also had amazing support from the Happisburgh Lighthouse Trust who allowed us unlimited access to the beautiful Happisburgh Lighthouse for a week in July 2010.

We took the film to the Cannes Short Film Corner in May and secured a distribution deal.

If you haven’t already seen the trailer here it is!

INTO THE SILENT LAND - TRAILER

Into the Silent Land - Cinema City, Norwich Premiere

The screening of 'Into the Silent Land' sold out at Cinema City. If you were there please email me feedback. Unfortunately our press photos have been damaged.
Look out for a review in the November edition of the Norwich Magazine.

Short film for National Adoption Week

http://www.nationaladoptionweek.org.uk/film-competition

Hi, looking for collaborators who have positive (but realistic) experiences of adoption. I would like to speak to anyone who would be happy to share some of their experiences to help me make a two-minute short film.

Please get in touch...

Into the Silent Land

Short film 'Into the Silent Land' will be screening on 1st October, at 11 am at Cinema City, Norwich part of the Picturehouse Cinemas.

Tickets can be purchased from the cinema and there are complimentary tickets available for cast, crew and friends.