Screenwriter Stephen Potts and Director Phil Hawkins picked up awards for Best Adaptation and Best Director respectively for their work on the independent film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Butterfly Tattoo at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Congratulations!
See the rest of the winners here or visit the film’s official site to find out more.
Yay!
I’m really looking forward to seeing it. (But perhaps I should read the book first, eh? So far I’ve only read HDM and Pullman’s books for younger readers; I love his humor, and I know this is not a humorous story.)
Interesting way to fund the film….perhaps the same could be done for a NEW HDM trilogy?
=D can’t wait until I can watch this movie!
Continuing my newfound role as news source…
“Join us on Friday 14th November to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the first Oxfam bookshop (56 St Giles, Oxford) at a special literary event, ‘Writers and Bookshops: A Love or Hate Relationship?’. Guest speakers include Philip Pullman, Colin Dexter, Mark Davies and Sophie Grigson. The chair is Maggie Black.
Friday 14th November 2008, 7pm to 9pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LW.
Ticket price £5.00. Tickets available from the bookshop at 56 St Giles, Oxford (tel: 01865 310145).”
I’ll be in Edinburgh that weekend 🙁
-sigh-
I wish I lived in England.