Well, the date in the diary we promoted in the New Year has come around – Ben Campkin from UCL Urban Film Society kindly invited us to host a mini ‘Optimistic Immigrants’ event as part of their 2010 programme (see their website or facebook event page) This Thursday 25th February at 6.15pm come down to to watch Olly Lambert’s ‘Confessions of a Traffic Warden’ accompanied by a short film by Gillian McIver ‘Mosti:Bridges of St Petersburg’.
Archive for February, 2010
We’re finalising the full and exciting programme for the upcoming Optimistic Immigrants event as part of the launch of the London Jewish Museum from 7.30pm on Sunday 28th March 2010.
For this one you need to book and you can do this via the Jewish Museum box office – Raymond Burton house, 129-131 Albert Street, Camden Town
Box office: 020 7284 7384 / admin@jewishmuseum.org.uk
Tickets are £10 including one drink and a chance to win a Vodka Club membership and the program will run throughout the newly opened interactive gallery space, foyer, cafe and auditorium featuring the famous Paper Cinema, Transylvanian performer Monooka, poets Nela Millic and Jude Rosen, live music by Dunajska Kapelye and exclusive previews from How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire. (full programme to come shortly).
Thanks to the London Jewish Museum and to Polska! Year for supporting the event.
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Feb
Model world
Our studio is becoming more and more crammed as three of the 25 models needed for the drama part of the film make rapid progress. Hilary is hard at work with Agata and Rebecca to create the streets, distilleries and ballrooms of an imagined revolutionary Ukraine. If anyone has scraps of red carpet/felt, metallic paints, old record player and perhaps even a model train or ferry get in touch!
More photos of the team in model making action to come….
Thanks to Saatchi and Saatchi for inviting us along to take part in their inaugral ‘Nothing is Impossible’ event at their London HQ. Dan was one of three speakers – the others had achieved the impossible and he was brought in as a perfect example of someone on the way and amidst it all! A Saatchi and Saatchi micro site with videos of the presentations and some interviews should be available shortly and we’ll put up a link here. Guests left with some rather plush good bags which included the treat of a very ltd edition ‘Zorokovich 1917′ mini bottle. Thanks to http://www.miniatureglassbottles.co.uk for helping us out with our order sent from deepest Ukraine.
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Feb
Back from Ukraine
What an adventure. A very cold one at that. We traveled all over Ukraine this time from Kiev to the village of Duboviazovka then east to Kharkov and Luhanska on the Russian border. All the way filming in –20 temperatures, being accosted by police, taking countless night trains in the pursuit of our vodka recipe and bottle design and along the way witnessing baptisms of ice, election apathy and discovering another distillery belonging to the Zorokovich family now producing window cleaning fluid and wanting investment. For a glimpse of the trip in photos go to flickr.
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