I am in Madrid & London in August. Making films. One on the nature of dementia.

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I could do a London Film Night on Monday 9th August, if anyone was up for organising it.

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If you are up for it … EMAIL ME.

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It appears that my June Film Commission Shoot has just postponed until later in the year.

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If you’d like to be seen from the inside out [CLICK HERE] then email me.

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The possibility of making a film together may be more in reach than you at first imagined.

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This is simply a first mock up of what such an app might look like.

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Importantly, both an iPhone, and an iPad app is under development.

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I imagine it to be the best, most personal way to experience the characters that make up Soul Biographies. And what they might provoke.

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I expect it to be ready and in the App Store (without charge) by the end of summer.

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I had long wondered if I might capture someone with less. With less time.
And with fewer words.

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Less can be a challenge. More is so much easier. Soul Portrait Number One will be screening for the very first time this Monday.

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The SOUL BIOGRAPHIES site has received a serious haircut.

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There is now little to do but watch a film.

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I think the simplicity of the site is suiting of its content.

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A ninety minute cut of Soul Biography Short Films is closing the Sunscreen Film Festival in Tampa, Florida this Sunday evening.

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Apparently it has been described as one of the twenty five coolest* film festivals in the US by Movie Maker Magazine.

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* I have no idea what this actually means.

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I’d like to ’shoot’ a bride & groom to be.

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The week or two prior to their wedding. As a
commissioned film. To capture the feeling
and the possibility that exists
between two souls.

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Then to share it with the world.

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Anyone know of two appropriate souls?!

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[EMAIL ME]

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THE AFOREMENTIONED CLIENT - POST OF 8 APRIL - DURING THE  ‘FILM PREPARATION’ PROCESS

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I should be editing but seemed to have been drawn into writing a story for the Short Words Series.

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‘Mister F’. Where F = FAILURE.

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Except it doesn’t. And that is the point. Will publish sometime soonish. GET ALERT

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I have the author of an extraordinary book flying into Minneapolis today, to make a ‘two minute book film’. I’ve never made a ‘book film’ before. This is exciting.

And outside of the technical preparation, this is what I have in mind for psychological preparation;

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*walking the dog around the lake, whilst talking about everything & nothing in particular.

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*dinner with the entire family. great food but no special behaviour included.
all under 6’s, and over 6’s, exactly as they are.

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*encouragement to slide down the fire pole that we installed in the kitchen. it runs eighteen feet to the basement and was installed ‘just because’. all slidees get to sign the red padded walls.
floors also padded for safety reasons.

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*first preview of a brand new film to screen this coming monday. it started out life as a commissioned film. it’s for everyone who has/had parents and/or children.
i think it might make some shudder.

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*drinking of extraordinary coffee - Guatemalan naturally -  with enough ’space’ to enjoy it.

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The making of a film has always been about more than simply the time spent with the red light flashing on the back of the camera [SEE THIS IMAGE].

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A new pre-release clip from the Leadership on Film Series is to be screened on Monday 19th April. Starring Doug Harrison of the Scooter Store.

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In 2009, The Scooter Store were voted as one of the best fifty places to work in the USA by Fortune Magazine. This pre-release footage might give a clue as to why - GET ALERT.

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This particular FACEBOOK ENTRY (comments on my PERSONAL FB ACCOUNT) was of course an April Fool.

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‘ … just downloaded footage from yesterday’s Florida shoot and noticed that the subject has an ‘OUT OF PLACE NASAL HAIR’. do i tell them & reshoot, or hope that no one will notice?!’

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Soul Biographies - a volume one feature length cut - accepted into Sunscreen Film Festival, Florida.

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April 14/18, 2010.

Read more

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‘There was a Rabbi, an Insurance Salesman and a Chimney Sweep …’

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No, not the first line of a well worn joke but a few of the characters that have graced my camera this week in Chicago.

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Fascinating conversations of leadership. I just need to work out what it all means, and then tell the story by way of film.

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And it might be worth noting that the insurance salesman and the chimney sweep actually lead multi million dollar businesses through an aspect of curiosity. Pre-release clips for this (commercial) series will be available to watch without charge at leadershiponfilm.com, in the next few months.

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I’m close to completion on a commissioned film about a company that has managed to quantify ‘culture‘. Culture within organisations, and within nations.

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I wonder what the culture of the country of your birth would look like, and could look like?

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Picture seven souls; a poet, a painter, a film maker, a recording artist and the like.

All who see life through an untethered
imagination. At least some
of the time.

Together, in a cabin hidden amongst silent
woods. Far far away.

For seven days.

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With no usual facilities, and no usual rules. With no specific intention but to see what
can be imagined. And created.

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And to share what is imagined. And created.

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Who knows where this thought might lead.

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[GET NIC'S WORK]

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Three of my commissioned films now appear for the first time in the free iTunes Podcast library. All of which might just make you wonder.

Including the recent and well watched ‘MORE’, the comedy ‘INTANGIBLY INARTICULATABLE’, and the corporately soulful ‘IT’.

Be quick. I am not sure how long they’ll be there!

[CLICK HERE] Or search for ‘Nic Askew’ in the iTunes library.

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After last year’s long run at the Short Word Series,
I believe it’s time I started writing again.

There is so much to say, hopefully with few words.

And so I shall. Start writing again that is.

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The first pre-release clips for the new film series LEADERSHIP ON FILM, have just been posted to the new site. They will give you the idea about the new commissioned film style.

FILM 001 is entitled ‘THROUGH DEEPER PERSPECTIVE’ - [CLICK]

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