One of last years competition short list, Tom Lloyd, has had his short film in the Cannes Short Film Festival, and is also part of the 12th Expresion En Corto International Film Festival in Mexico, which runs from July 24th to August 2nd 2009. His film, Live Before You Die (Vive Antes De Morir), has also been screened at the BFI as part of Upshots 2008, runner-up Keswick Film Festival 2009 and selected for the Stawberry Fair Film Festival 2008.  Being featured as one of the top 4 most watched and top 10 most liked videos on the Radar Music Video site, Tom is currently in negotiation with Radar to distribute the film through Vidzone. Congratulations!     

We are very pleased to announce that ‘On the Agenda’, the winners of 2006’s ThinkSync Film Competition have not only won Raindance’s 2008 ‘Film Of The Festival’ but have been nominated for BIFA’s ‘Best Short Film’. Congratulations guys!

ThinkSync are very pleased to announce that they have started working with the very talented Richard Canavan for bespoke work and score. Richard has scored the Raindance 2008 ‘Film Of The Festival’ and BIFA nominated ‘Red Sands’.

Naturally we’re always keen to hear what our previous ThinkSync Film Competition winners have been up to. So it was great to hear that David Procter and Peter King who won the 2006 competition with ‘72 Hours From Now’ have had a whole load of things going on.
They have established their production company ‘Agenda Collective’ off the back of their success on the festival circuit, with competitive screenings, awards and nominations across over 40 countries. They have recently moved into a new Brixton office incorporating a 4KHD edit suite, with things continuing to gain momentum. The boys have completed productions this year in Namibia and Latvia alongside commercials for clients including 3Mobile and Castrol.

The company has 3 films in this year’s 16th Raindance Film Festival:

‘Karosta,’ the company’s first feature doc is receiving its world premiere. A haunting portrait of a dystopic society, the film was recently described by Nick Broomfield as ‘beautifully photographed and observed with a wonderful humanity.’

Karosta Film Clip

‘Red Sands’, David’s short doc directorial debut is receiving its UK premiere and has been nominated for the Best UK Short Award. It explores the conflicting whirlpool of emotions that surround bullfighting.

Red Sands Film Clip

Also receiving its UK premiere is short fiction ‘A Man of Letters,’ a recent co-production about a postman’s unrequited love, photographed by David and onlined by Peter.

A Man of letters Film Clip

David was recently talent spotted in BAFTA’s Academy Magazine and has this month been nominated for a Channel 4 4Talent Award for his work as a DoP.

Needless to say this fill us with pride and we look forward to hearing about further successes from David and Peter in the near future. Nice work.