BEAST with a BAFTA
In May last year I reviewed 'Beast', a film in the First Feature Competition of The London Film Festival 2017, written and directed by Michael Pearce and produced by Lauren Dark. I sang its praises loud and long. I was thrilled to see them go on to win at this years BAFTA award ceremony in the category of Outstanding Debut by a Writer/Director/Producer. Michael Pearce decided at sixteen that he wanted to make films and has spent 20 years honing his skills to reach this stage in his career. Consider the monumental task of filmmaking. You have an idea, you write it down, you write a script, you write and you re write, again and again and again. You plan the entire film out shot by shot, making storyboards. You find a location, you then need to obtain permission to film there. You need equipment, lights, cameras, costumes, make up. You need a crew, you need those fabulous mercurial beings known as actors. You will have none of these without funding, so get ready to sell yo