the short film albert’s speech, directed by richard fenwick and produced by onedotzero was on a screening tour around the world this year.

the short film is about albert, an introvert man who has a speech to deliver for his best friend. In front of 100 people.
Welcome to the world of the best man – as seen from the inside out. With the minutes ticking away Albert finds himself surrounded by fun-loving extroverts who have zero understanding of what his mind is going through. Each and every one of them pile on the pressure, oblivious to albert’s ever growing inner turmoil. As Albert battles to control his nerves and wrestle with his over-active imagination, the idea of escape becomes all encompassing…

since its premiere at the encounters, bristol 2009 albert speech has made appearances at festivals and events across the planet. recently albert has appeared at the  chungmuro international film festival in seoul, south korea and around europe at the court metrange festival, east end film festival and the lille international short film festival.

most notably albert’s speech was selected for annecy 2009 the fatoche international animation film festival and was proudly chosen for official selection in the 63rd edinburgh international film festival this year. the film was also selected as a finalist at the fujifilm shorts 2009.

a big thank you to our friends at lost in translating for preparing albert’s speech for our international audiences - http://lostintranslating.com/

a group of graduates who met during onedotzero cascade 08 recently launched their first creative project together. Working with JMB Leather Market they received funding from the Joint Security Initiative. With this backing greg ward, hassan alsekafi and patrick mcquade set out to tackle anti-social behavior in the area (South London). on the 26th october they ran their first six day film workshop were participants were set the challenge of making a short film from start to finish. the film was entirely led by the workshop participants both in terms narrative and in craft.

for the workshop itself, they invited some of this years top creative graduates [some of whom attended cascade 09] down to present some of their work. an experienced drama leader was also invited to hold improvisational exercises with the group and help them develop a narrative for their film. 

to find out more about the week please visit http://first-cut.co.uk/