Adzie's Movie Blog

PIMPING IN THE WORKPLACE

Everyone loves a little bit of pimping and promoting. Right? Well, this being a blog all about movies and the film industry, I see no reason(s) to not make this entry, since the things to be “pimped” in question are relevant to the topic of this entire blog!

As you should know (or if you don’t, please allow me to educate you on the matter this instant), I work for a film and television production company as a Creative Executive, which has me working on a variety of visual products such as, well – as you would expect – motion pictures and television programmes. I have my, as the title suggests, creative stamp on things, writing and producing at present. The company – Shadowhawk Films – is part of an Entertainment Group, which includes a sister company called United Film Productions International, which is the base for professional production and distribution services, as well as a talent and creative artists agency. Now, these two companies have just entered 2009 so-to-speak, as we now have a fully function Twitter account and two Facebook fan pages for each respective company, so feel free to check them out via the links below, and of course the two websites, which, naturally, have been established since inception.

Shadowhawk Films (Eire) International Facebook Fan Pagehttp://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Dublin-Ireland/Shadowhawk-Films-International/222878421792?ref=ts

United Film Productions International Facebook Fan Pagehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Film-Production-International/207378245898

Entertainment Group Twitter Page
www.twitter.com/entgroup

www.shadowhawkfilms.com

www.ufpi-management.com

And from there we come to the website I write for. A film website of course – Screenjabber – an online film and television review website, covering all entertainment releases from the cinema, to Blu-ray and DVD. It’s humbling to be one of the few out there who can call himself both a film-maker and film critic. Perhaps I’m a Roger Ebert in the making, only with hopefully a longer career making movies! So definitely be sure to check us out. We’ve got a review of James Cameron’s Avatar, which is released this coming Friday in the UK and USA, so give that a read if you’re interested! I’ll be giving my thoughts in a new blog entry on this monumentally-hyped movie with my expectations before I see it, and then another post when I’m back from a screening.

www.Screenjabber.com

I hope this pimpage is of use to you, and for now take care!

ALLOW MYSELF, TO INTRODUCE… MYSELF

My first post was a little on the brief side, so I thought I’d elaborate with this fine chapter, so that you actually have a grasp of who I am, apart from a film geek indulging in film geekiness, in his final year of teenagery.

As this blog title may suggest, they calls me Adam. Adam Stephen Kelly to be exact. Why have I mentioned my middle name? Because after miles and miles of thought, I’ve decided that as a writer-director, that’s what I’d like to be credited as. Capice?

With film being my greatest passion in life, it would only be fitting to couple it with my greatest aspiration in life: to make a career out of film-making. A successful one at that. My dream is to bring to life the stories that I tell on those countless spiral notebooks, to incarnate the characters and the actions I scrawl with my army of pens and pencils. And by God, it is a dream I will realise.

Now imagine that dream as the Core Dream. It’s a big cloud with lines sprawling out from it in every direction, attaching itself to other smaller clouds. A spider diagram if you will, you know, those things you drew at school when you were collating ideas. They were called “brainstorms”, but that was changed because apparently it offended people with epilepsy. For the benefit of those who agree with me that the aforementioned is somewhere near the height of rediculousness, I will refer to this dream web as a brainstorm. So, this is my brainstorm of film-making aspirations. There’s that nice and fluffy, dreamy cloud in the centre, and surrounding it are such objectives as “Sell first screenplay” and “Write first feature film”. Well, you can tick the box next to the latter, because I wrote my first feature film a long time ago now. With regard to the “Sell first screenplay” cloud, I’m inclined to write half a tick in the box, to put my mind at ease. I am on the eve of sealing a deal that will have me selling a 45-minute “mini-feature” that I scribed. When that’s done and dusted, well, I’ll be on my way to ticking every box that every cloud has to offer in my brainstorm of dreams. You get the idea.

I write and I write and I write and I write. When I’ve written a script that I can personally produce, I direct it too. Film is my life (if you haven’t noticed).

My intention for this blog is to write about anything I feel compelled to write that relates to film, from opinions on actors and actresses, writers and directors, reviews, films I’m looking forward to, DVD collection updates, etc. I really do mean anything flickish. I will most likely also write about anything that’s on my mind that desperately needs to leak out of my fingertips from time-to-time, even if it doesn’t concern the magical world of motion pictures. But we’ll see how things get on. Or more precisely, how I get on in this “blogosphere”.

I will now bid you a fond farewell, but shall close this post with a few tidbitty sentences:

My favourite genre of cinema is horror.

My favourite film of all time is Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

Twilight is moronic and Robert Pattinson’s good looks are obviously  just a placebo effect. The man’s ugly. Admit it.

This video is absolutely hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtG6JOeNFqY

No, “flickish” is not a word.

Twilight is even more moronic than it was two sentences ago.

My next post will centre around my DVD collection, also known as my pride and joy, and the last 20 or so films that I added to it in the last week.

Are you in the Twitterverse aswell as the Blogosphere? Yeah? Really? Wow, we’re so cool. Follow me: AdzFilmmaker

Don’t tell me you’re in the Facebookversespherethang too? Oh my. What are the chances? You’re welcome to add me as a friend, you know, if you feel like being as cool as I am. Just search my full name and click on the handsome young gentleman who graces your screen.

In closing, I would like to honour fantastic up-and-coming actress friend of mine, Denise Bradley, A.K.A. D-Bizzle, in saying:

Toodle pip.

Adzie Padzie.

HELLO, GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME

And so I committ myself to yet another creative fragment of the internet. Blogs. I will engage this modern trend with open arms and hope that I can provide nourishing musings and nutritional story on whatever film-wise I feel compelled to scrawl on my endless sheet of virtual parchment.

Before I open this treasure chest – or Pandora’s Box – of insight into my up-and-down life, I shall merely scratch the surface with this introductory passage, which is exceedingly uninformative and dreary, and make a vow to soon produce a chapter of actual significance in friendly acknowledgement of the two fifteen year-old new wave punks who, confined to their basement, have probably bookmarked this literary drool.

In a nutshell, I am an independent film-maker whose passion it is to write and direct motion pictures, and whose dream it is to make a successful career out of writing and directing motion pictures.

My fingertips seem to be failing me as I begin this fourth paragraph, no doubt ceasing in protest of being forced to spin this meaningless web of brain spew, and not a nice fat slice of movie cake, thus I shall bid you farewell for this moment in time, and hope that I can honour (and remember) my vow to write again in some form of actual quality and point, so that I can serve those with the kindness and tolerance to read my yarns colour and imagination and movies.

Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish lady…