Three film-makers from Middlesex University are having their work showcased at the Cannes film festival
Kate Beckinsale, Carey Mulligan … and David Irons, Awat Ali and Navarro Aydemir all strutted the red carpet at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Beckinsale was on the jury; Mulligan was there for the premiere of Wall Street 2. And the others? Well maybe soon they could be just as famous, as Irons, Ali and Aydemir, a trio of undergraduates at Middlesex University, each had work selected to feature in the hugely competitive and world-famous festival's Short Film Corner.
Thousands of films from more than 80 countries were submitted for the competition, but surely only one was recorded using a Tesco trolley, a traffic sign and an exercise bike on a £900 budget, as Middlesex undergraduate Irons did.
"I knew everyone who applied to Cannes was spending thousands on their films – the average I heard was between £7,000 and...
Kate Beckinsale, Carey Mulligan … and David Irons, Awat Ali and Navarro Aydemir all strutted the red carpet at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Beckinsale was on the jury; Mulligan was there for the premiere of Wall Street 2. And the others? Well maybe soon they could be just as famous, as Irons, Ali and Aydemir, a trio of undergraduates at Middlesex University, each had work selected to feature in the hugely competitive and world-famous festival's Short Film Corner.
Thousands of films from more than 80 countries were submitted for the competition, but surely only one was recorded using a Tesco trolley, a traffic sign and an exercise bike on a £900 budget, as Middlesex undergraduate Irons did.
"I knew everyone who applied to Cannes was spending thousands on their films – the average I heard was between £7,000 and...
- 5/24/2010
- by Lucy Tobin
- The Guardian - Film News
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