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Derek Boyes

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Derek Boyes is a writer and director who graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2004. His spellbinding graduation short, The Happiness Thief, was officially selected in competition at Cannes that same year and went on to play at film festivals across the globe. Since then, Derek has directed shorts for the BBC, UK Film Council, Bfi and Screen South while developing a slate of ambitious feature films.

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Article Comment – Did Steven Spielberg Improv the End of 'Jurassic Park'?

I always felt the ending was rather abrupt, as if there was something missing. I’m not sure the original ending in the script would have been better either? ….maybe Spielberg’s distraction with Schindler’s List was reason enough. It’s a shame as up until that ending, the film was as strong as his earlier classics.

5 days ago
Article Comment – Adobe’s 'Super Resolution' Promises to Upscale Your Low-Res Images

This is potentially very exciting. I have a few films I shot on 16mm but only mastered on digi-beta and would love to get at least a genuine 1080p image out of them. If you can convert each frame to an image (despite the timescale), it should be possible, no?

1 year ago
Article Comment – Born Sexy Yesterday: Why Does This Male-Fantasy Trope Need to Go?

I swear CT advocates spend so much time 'deconstructing' films they forget to look up and see the world as it really is. How old are these films referenced here? This is a nit-picking of the past through a lens of self-righteousness. No intelligent filmmaker today would consider writing a 'trope' as framed in such a narrow-minded supposition. I agree it can be tiresome to see (and downright cringeworthy the further back you go), but the explanation for such occurrences I suspect has a much deeper and more complex truth, that might surprise us all.

1 year ago
Article Comment – Independent Film Must Lead at The Intersection Of Art And Activism

This article reeks of pretentiousness. Film doesn't need activism, it needs balance and truth. Activism has a tendency to portray an extreme, bais view of an issue and is blind to its own failures. Stick to focussing on telling a truthful story.

2 years ago
Article Comment – Is it Too Late For You to Find Success? We Have Visual Evidence...

I'm 48. Creatively I feel I haven't even peaked yet and still have loads to offer as an up and coming fiction feature filmmaker, yet since around 35 years of age, opportunities seemed to dissipate rapidly. As a father now too, finding free time to keep writing and making films is difficult (but not impossible). I hope my work and talent will eventually get noticed, but realistically I think it is unlikely now ....and that fact disappoints me.

2 years ago
Article Comment – What Colin Trevorrow's Leaked Star Wars Movie Reveals About The Industry

The article is not absurd at all, its inviting you to reflect on the fact that even the big experienced Hollywood executives, producers and directors can get it badly wrong. There are BIG lessons to learn from this botched sequel trilogy (whether you enjoyed them or not) and they could have been ....should have been much, much better for such big 'tent pole' level franchise films. Screenwriting and directing were never George Lucas' strengths, but at least he had a single vision, something Igor, Abrams, Kennedy and Johnson underestimated. Be interesting to see how SW moves forward from this.

2 years ago

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