Animals

(21/07/10)

Scarytree is wearing his fingers to the bone working on his first feature script entitled Animals. How, when or where this film will be made remains as much a mystery to Scarytree as the appeal of karaoke does, but nevertheless it will get made. One thing is for sure, there will be no singing in it, good or bad, and there will be no makeovers or line dancing either. There will, however, be an abundance of strange happenings and long silences intercut with screaming and dead animals. Bet you can't wait. For a look at the excellent painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin which inspired the script follow the link below.
www.ilyarepin.org


Time Travel For F*ckwits

(20/07/10)

How time flies. Scarytree's new short Time Travel For F*ckwits (AKA Untitled Time Travel Film), starring actor/director Mahdi Fleifel has been doing very well since I last wrote. The time and mind bending film has been screened at three festivals already. First up was the Babelgum Online Film Festival, closely followed by the Landcrab Film Festival in Bournemouth where it picked up The Gareth Dyer Award for the film that most embodied the spirit of the festival. If you are wondering what that means then I can tell you it means the film that was the most bestest and brilliantest work of genius in the world, ever - I think. Anyway, that was closely followed by a showing at the huge Phoenix ComiCon Comic convention in Arizona where it no doubt blew the mind of those lucky enough to see it and will be rounded off (for now) with a fourth battle for supremacy at the Irpen Film Festival in Ukraine at the end of August. That's in the future!
www.babelgum.com
www.thelandcrab.co.uk
www.phoenixcomicon.com
www.g-2b.com/kinofest


New Short coming in 2010

(6/11/09)

Scarytree has been busy again and this time he's been trying to get his head around the intricacies of time travel. The result is Time Travel For F*ckwits. Starring actor/director Mahdi Fleifel, it tackles a subject close to Scarytree's heart... How to get a great script without actually doing any work. The film should be hitting some sort of screen near you in early 2010 so either wait for it or rush out to your nearest bookshop and pick up a copy of Time Travel For F*ckwits and go and see it now before it's even finished.
www.scarytree.com/TTFF


Here Comes Funky Kazoo at The Portobello Film Festival

(30/08/09)

HCFK is in competition at the Portobello Film Festival in London on Tuesday September 8th. The screening will be attended by Funky Kazoo co-writer/producer and star Papa Garcia.
www.portobellofilmfestival.com


Here Comes Funky Kazoo at Duke of Wellington, Dalston

(17/08/09)

HCFK is screening at the Cinematograph film club at the Duke of Wellington Pub on Balls Pond Road, Dalston on Sunday August 23rd. An excellent pub with an excellent taste in short films.
www.facebook.com/thedukeofwellington


Here Comes Funky Kazoo in Uruguay

(5/05/09)

HCFK is in competition at the Motevideo Fantastico Film Festival in Uruguay on Sunday May 17th at 6.30pm. Several Scarytree 'Ambassadors' will be in attendance and have promised not to throw popcorn, or Ferrero Rocher for that matter, at the screen.
www.arte7.com.uy


Here Comes Funky Kazoo in South Africa

(19/03/09)

HCFK is screening at the Cape Winelands Film Festival in Stellenbosch, 45 minutes outside of Cape Town. The website says of the film: "A small gem at this year's festival. Not to be missed". A fine endorsement and I only wish I could be there to thank them myself.
www.films-for-africa.co.za


Here Comes Funky Kazoo in East End Film Festival

(23/02/09)

After its successes abroad, Here Comes Funky Kazoo finally lands a bit nearer to home. It has been officially selected for the 9th London East End Film Festival in April (23rd-30th). Screening Tuesday 28th April, 8.45pm at the Stratford Picture House.
www.eastendfilmfestival.com


Here Comes Funky Kazoo in Chicago

(29/12/08)

Here Comes Funky Kazoo has been officially selected for the Chicago Short Film Festival in December. Fingers crossed for a Funky result.
www.mamut.net


Here Comes Funky Kazoo in Bruges

(28/10/08)

Here Comes Funky Kazoo is competing at the Razor Reel film festival in Bruges, Belgium on Sunday 2nd November. The Scarytree himself will be there to rustle chocolate wrappers during the screening and to make sure that Scarytree becomes a household name in that most beautiful city.
www.razorreel.be


Here Comes Funky Kazoo wins award

(20/09/08)

Here Comes Funky Kazoo has won the Best Short Film award at the Flyway Film Festival in Pepin, Wisconsin, USA. The festival takes place on the 10th-12th October at Lake Pepin on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. The Scarytree thanks everyone at Flyway and wishes them a wonderful festival.
www.flywayfilmfestival.org


Here Comes Funky Kazoo selected for Lund International Film Festival

(16/08/08)

The latest film from Scarytree, Here Comes Funky Kazoo, has been selected to compete at the Fantastic Film Festival in Lund, Sweden at the end of September. You can see this 17 minute minor epic here on the website very soon.
www.fff.se


Scarytree is blossoming

(11/06/08)

After 6 short films and various other projects, Scarytree films is making its first foray into features. One gothic horror and one dark and surreal road movie are in the works. Fingers are a blur as they skip across the keyboard randomly hitting keys in the hope that something wonderful will pop out of a nearby printer after a few late nights.

Website launched

(17/04/08)

You'll hardly be surprised to read that the website is working at last. To view it, stay here or, for the long way round, click the link below and find yourself back where you started but with an almost imperceptible sense of achievement. Choices, choices.
www.scarytree.com