NEW IMAGE FOR NZ FILM

Jigsaw Productions have released a new image and poster for our up coming feature film Anarchy in Aotearoa. This work has been undertaken as part of the packaging of the film for financiers which has been taking place over the past few months. The film, which has already begun to cause a stir in the industry on both sides of the world due to its confrontational style and innovative story structure will be directed by Jigsaw's Dale Corlett.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Jigsaw Productions would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and we hope the New Year is both creatively and personally fulfilling and rewarding.

Looking forward to seeing and working with you next year

All the very best

The Jigsaw team

Running in Germany

Director Dale Corlett was singled out as one of the new generation of auteurs at this year's Mannhein - Heildberg International Film Festival, where his debut feature film Running Traffic was in the official competiton in November. He was a guest of the festival where he met a number of other international directors and some future collaborators. His highlight was seeing some amazing films including some brilliant South Amercian films like Eduardo Pinto's, Cano Dorado, the disturbing and innovative Swiss film, Coeur Animal, by director Severine Cornamusaz and the equally beautiful Norwegian film Jernanger, not to mention the emotional Finish film Letter's to Father Jacob.

Running away with Awards

Jigsaw Productions are proud to announce that their feature film, Running in Traffic, has won the 

Os International Film Festival Award for Excellence at this years festival in Norway. Director Dale Corlett, Producer Marc Twynholm and Actor Bryan Larkin were presented with the prestigious award at the final night ceremony.

The WT JURY:

"The winner of the WT RETRO APOLLO AWARD for EXCELLENCE goes to a film with a visual and emotional impression like a powerful force of nature. The Director manages through image and cast performances to paint a vivid and painfully realistic work of art, with acting that comes across as truthful and heartfelt"

RUNNING IN TRAFFIC rights

As of October 2009 London based CENTRE MEDIA SALES have acquired the rights to Running in Traffic. For more information please visit HERE. Contact Eddie Leahy

Ties ready for next step

Director Dale Corlett and Screenplay Writer Stephen Thompson are to happy to announce the work has been completed on the latest draft of their feature film, Ties That Bind. The script which is now being read by international producers will undergo a small amount of further development over the coming weeks with a view to moving it into financing and production in the next year. Watch this space for more info.

Running to Festivals

Running in Traffic has been selected in official competition in both the Os International Film Festival in Norway and the International Film Festival Mannheim - Heildberg in Germany. Director Dale Corlett will be a guest of the festivals, presenting the film and participating in Q&A sessions following each screening in November this year.

Running in America

Running in Traffic will screen at this years AFM in November. For all those US based colleagues the details of the screening are below:

Running in Traffic at the AFM

 Saturday, Nov. 7th - 11:00 AM - Le Merigot #1

Hope you can make the screening

Dale

Running in Traffic at EIFF - Film Live TV

Here is the Film Live TV episode of the Running in Traffic at 

Edinburgh International Film Festival earlier this year - Enjoy !

A Boy Called George

The first draft of Jigsaw Productions feature film project, A Boy Called George (formally Cry boy Cry), written by Suzanne Adamson has now been completed and is being presented to potential funders, producers and fellow collaborators.  Suzanne has been busy undertaking further research over the past few weeks focusing on the new romantics music scene specifically in Glasgow and Scotland. She has also set up a dedicated blog for the film to help her research and the overall development of the film. Later she will set up a facebook account for the film, to help keep people up to date with the films progress. Over the coming weeks Jigsaw Productions will undertake more formal development on this first draft, with Executive Producer Dale Corlett working closely with writer Suzanne Adamson on its development, prior to formal funding being secured.

Visit the film blog or facebook for more information

Visit the jigsawproductions website for more information about our slate of films

TIES THAT BIND

Jigsaw Productions are happy to announce one of their latest feature film projects, The Ties that Bind, written by English Novelist, Stephen Thompson, is reaching the final stages of the initial development period. This development process has involved director Dale Corlett and Stephen working closely together developing the various aspects of the final story.

A new script is due in the coming weeks with it then being forwarded to a number of industry producers and financiers who have already shown a lot of interest in the project.

As it's a low (ish) budget feature Jigsaw are expecting to fast track this project, with a plan to put it into production early next year. Watch this space !

check out our development slate for more info

EIFF '09

Some photos from our EIFF Red Carpet this year. Thanks Edinburgh for such a great time and launch for our film.

Jigsaw

check out the running in traffic blog for more info

Edinburgh International Film Festival '09

Jigsaw Productions have had a very productive and entertaining EIFF this year. With a few too many parties, a couple of red carpet events and a lot of meetings this years festival has proved to be a very productive one indeed. Developments have been made with our Australian / Scottish co production project, Shadow, with writer / actor Leighton Young flying in from Melbourne to meet with prospective investors and development executives. His visit also allowed him and director Dale Corlett some valuable face to face time working on the script and some of the developments they have been working through via sykpe for the past few months. Meetings with potential co producers also took place helping them to move this project into the next stage of development. Watch this space for updates.

check out our development slate for more info

Cannes '09

Following a very busy and productive Cannes film festival earlier this year, writer/ director Dale Corlett has been busy working on the re write of the second draft of his feature film Anarchy. He is happy to say that this has now been completed. The script is now being read by established film industry producers who have already shown a lot of interest in the project and following that, further development will take place before it is formally submitted for financing in Australia and New Zealand later this year.  

Welcome

Welcome to the Jigsaw Productions blog. the place to come for up to date info on all the things going at Jigsaw Productions, one of the UK's leading film production companies. We'll be posting info about our up coming feature film productions including two being produced here in Scotland early next year, updates on our international productions including our New Zealand based Anarchy film as well our new training courses and the work opportunities that will be coming up with the company. 

Following a very successful EIFF (Edinburgh International  Film Festival) where our debut feature film, Running in Traffic produced by those lovely Dabhand Films guys and directed by Jigsaw's Dale Corlett, had it's red carpet world premiere, work continues on securing more festivals to screen it while the Dabhand team are busy securing the best options for distribution. At Jigsaw we've been very busy working on our slate of films with a variety of writers including Australian based Leighton Young, Scotland based novelist Stephen Thompson and Jigsaw Productions producer and actress, Suzanne Adamson, on her debut feature film, Cry boy Cry. Watch this space for more updates and developments. 

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