HomeMade Film Festival

A Bristol-based cinema collective focused on nurturing and bringing together fledgling filmmakers, animators and creative cinema buffs alike

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Small World Animations ( feat. Claire Evans and 10 year old Bene)

Claire is a bristol-based community artist working mainly with children to make animations, which she finds much more fun than her old job of compiling and editing bilingual dictionaries. Bene likes art, music, model making, circus, football and drama. Claire and Bene's film was made collaboratively 3 years ago. 

If you could give a filmmaking pearl of wisdom what would it be?

C: Give it a go. Its amazing what you can achieve with limited resources and not much time. 

What is your favourite film?

C: If I have to choose... The Night of the Hunter (also Les enfants du paradis and L'atalante)

B: Aardman films. Dreamwork animated films. 

Where would you most like to be right now?

C: On a beach!

B: Probably working at Aardman.

What is your worst homemade disaster?

C: My biggest disaster is not getting round to making my own work really...

What is your favourite part of the human body?

C: Back of the neck.

B: The brain!

What is your biggest ‘what the hell am I doing!’ moment so far?

C: I have lots of those on most of my projects - they are very hectic and quite bonkers!

B: I'm only 10!

Small World Animations film 'The Mean Brain: or Fish and Peas on Mars' was screened at our BODILY event in January. You can watch the film again here - http://smallworldanimations.com/animations/

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Tim Harrod

Tim has recently moved from Brighton to London after graduating from his Illustration course at Brighton University. In his final year he made a lot of films and he is now concentrating on playing and making music, whilst writing and filming on the side.

If you could give a filmmaking pearl of wisdom what would it be?

Jeeez, when you have an idea just go for it, sometimes ideas will work sometimes they don't...oh well and when filming don't think too much, have fun.There is my pearl.

What is your favourite film?

It changes all the time, Godfather 1 and 2 are pretty good? I saw Interstellar recently that was pretty crazy.

Where would you most like to be right now?

First place that popped in my head was a scene in Black Swan but in all seriousness playing music on stage, best feeling ever, maybe. 

What is your worst homemade disaster?

I made a really weird film in Brighton, really weird, I think if you showed it to people they would be worried for my mental health.

What is your favourite part of the human body?

The brain is pretty good!

What is your biggest 'what the hell am I doing!' moment so far?

There was a lot of points whilst studying I thought what is going on? Some of the films I was making, it was good I got it out of system though, life seems a lot more straightforward now.

Tim's film 'Tasting the colours, Hearing the shapes' was screened at our BODILY event in January. You can watch the film again here - http://vimeo.com/95468821