For the first time ever we have got the government to pay for us to develop our acting careers!

Since I started the ‘The Lynch Mob Agency’ I have recommended many acting courses such as Jason Maza film School where we filled the entire course along with BAFTA award winner Adam Deacon where we did the same along with recommending many acting schools such as the Sylvia Young Theatre School and the fantastic East 15 acting school. But I speak for myself here and the many casting directors, producers and directors when I say nothing gets you noticed quicker than having a showreel. I have said it many times that we need to see you act on screen and we need that long before you even get in front of us and have an audition so its imperative if you want to pursue and have a career in acting that you have a showreel and then its your job to keep that updated and current to reflect your recent work.

So its my pleasure to introduce to a pilot for a course. We are offering FREE to our extras and those intersected in acting to come to the Actors Centre and over a 10 day period shoot 2 different scenes with 2 different working directors for there showreels. Ideally it would be great if people could come with a few friends so let me know, there are limited spaces but if this goes well it will be ongoing. There will also be some acting and NLP tuition in this course (The NLP course that I mentioned last month is still incoming but we are doing this first). Please let me know asap as it starts on the 1st August… check out some info on the flyer.

Hackney actor Adam Deacon has revealed his best friend was beaten and Tasered by cops in a case of mistaken identity, in a new hard-hitting documentary called “Can we Trust the Police?” Adam, who is best known for playing Jay in the bleak British film Kidulthood and won a BAFTA earlier this year for his work as writer, director and star on spoof comedy ‘Anuvahood’, turned his hand to documentary filmmaking for the BBC shortly after finishing filming on ‘Payback Season’ which you can see on Sky Box Office all this week.

The 29-year-old, who grew up in Stoke Newington, says he has always been “wary” of the police and has seen examples of racism and brutality first-hand. But his on-film investigation sees him go out on shifts with officers to learn more about their job as well as meeting people who feel they have been let down by the system.

The show is scheduled to be shown on BBC3, on Monday, June 25, at 9pm.

Adam has also launched a competition today at St Pancras International, London aiming to encourage young people to showcase their talents within arts, culture and sport, promising the winners the chance to perform during the Olympics. The event is part of a wider youth project, somewhereto_, that helps find space for those aged between 16 and 25 to practice their chosen interests, from flower arranging to football.

Young people are being encouraged to show up and show off their talents online or in person when the project tours the country with a special stage in June and July and Ten entrants will then be chosen to perform at a high profile, secret location during the Olympics in August with one of then ten winners will also have the chance to star in a film directed by Deacon in Rio de Janeiro, home of the 2016 Games

Uks Pure Film Marches Forward With ‘Payback Season’ And ‘Victim’

London based Pure Film Productions continues its practice of nurturing and assisting UK talent after both the tremendous success of ‘Payback Season’, starring Adam Deacon and its forthcoming feature film ‘Victim’ on June 22nd.

Pure Film have been busy working with UK talent for sometime, cutting their teeth on the micro budget films such as ‘The Tapes’ and ‘Terry’, they proved with ‘Payback Season’ that a young British cast can command strong ticket sales at the UK box office and sell to international territories – outperforming films such as ‘Weekender’, ‘Demons Never Die’, ‘Cleanskin’ and ‘The Veteran’

The Pure Film ethos of supporting local talent and making films with the audience in mind, comes from the background of Pure Films very own Danny Donnelly and Justin King, who have spent many years doing a similar thing successfully in music and other areas of the entertainment industry. Absorbing everything from the funding, to producing the film through to the final edit, they see it as a ‘collaboration of like-minded capable and talented people that can be found on the doorstep’. ‘Our challenge is then to take that film and make it a commercial success’, which Payback Season has proved to be, even before the much anticipated DVD release. ‘Getting the film out to as many people as possible, whether via Cinema, DVD or overseas release is key to exposing what a small UK film company can do, on limited budgets’.

The ‘VIctim’ poster dispayed at this years Cannes Film Festival

Pure Film operates as an independent film company, without the large corporate funding of many of its competitors. ’ Bigger budgets doesn’t necessarily mean better films’ is the mantra, although a move towards larger budgets and productions looks inevitable.

‘Victim’ is in Cinemas nationwide from June 22nd

‘Payback Season’ DVD launch is July 2nd and we are please to say along with those two films along with ‘Demons Never Die’ and ‘The Veteran’ we supplied the extras and supporting cast to pure films productions. Johnny Lynch

​LONDON SUNDANCE FESTIVAL NEWS

The Sundance Channel in Europe and Asia plans to air fresh programming created by young aspiring producers during the inaugural Sundance London film and music festival. The channel, airing across the two continents, will also roll out television premieres of recently acquired titles from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Airing 5th and 6th May this year the network’s exclusive coverage of Sundance London will come as a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Sundance Channel and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and the young producers program set up by Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group and youth agency ‘Livity’.

Sundance London runs 26th April through to the 29th April 2012 at the O2 Arena and will play host to 14 movies and a series of concerts and discussions with musicians and filmmakers.

Sundance was started by Redford 30 years ago in the mountains of Utah and you have the chance to get 2 tickets for £13.00 on selected screenings at the 02 Arena by joining up to the discount and offers site ‘Travelzoo’.

Click the link below to sign up for free and redeem your voucher

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Just got my invite to the premiere of ‘The Victim’ in May so to celebrate here are a couple of film stills of the Film. The amazing cast on this includes Adam Deacon (Kidulthood, Adulthood and Shank) Frank Harper (Football Factory, Lock Stock and Bonded By Blood), Jason Maza (Demons Never Die, Anuvahood, Fish Tank), Ashley Madekwe (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) 2012 Golden Globe winner David Harewood (Blood Diamond, The Man Inside and Homeland), Letitia Wright (Top Boy) and Shanika Warren-Markland (4,3,2,1, Adulthood)

I was lucky enough to see an advanced screening of the film in Soho late last year and found it unlike anything out there at the moment. The gritty drama sees Tyson [Ashley Chin] struggling to look after his little sister whilst paying off his mum’s gambling debts. Armed robberies with his friends Jason (Michael Maris) and Mannie (Jason Maza) seem to be the only way he can keep his head above water, then Tia (Ashley Madekwe) comes along and shows Tyson a way out – a way to stop being a victim of his circumstances and live his life as an example to his sister. However, before Tyson can leave the street life behind, he must take one last job to secure his future.

‘Outside Bet’ is released nationwide in the UK on Friday 27th April. Please go and see it and help support British Film and ust released the artwork for ‘Outside Bet’ aka ‘The Mumper’ from the director Sacha Bennett and producers ‘Gateway Films’ of ‘Bonded by Blood’ and ‘Get Lucky’ Starring Bob Hoskins (Dagenham Girls), Calum Mcnab (The Firm), Terry Stone (The Holding), Jason Maza (Demons Never Die), Vincent Regan (Bonded by Blood), Jenny Agutter (Logans Run), Dudley Sutton (Cockneys vs Zombies), Perry Benson (Dead Cert), Kate McGowen (Screwed), Emily Atack (The Inbetweeners) and BAFTA 2011 winner Adam Deacon (Anuvahood)

Image shows director Sacha Bennett with Bob Hoskins between takes

‘Outside Bet’ is a comedy drama following the journey of seven friends during the Fleet Street print workers’ strikes in the 1980s. While money, privatisation, unions and dramatic media evolution start to swirl, the life-long group of friends find themselves at the bad end of a redundancy pay-out and invest their savings into a racehorse – hoping that one final race can turn their fortunes around. The story is one of friendship and overcoming the odds. Enjoy the trailer

Our friend Johny Pach caught up with BAFTA award winner Adam Deacon, Nichola Burley, Richard Blackwood, Leo Gregory and Geoff Hurst at the ‘Payback Season’ Premiere

OK i have been waiting for this one. This is ‘Outside Bet’ aka ‘The Mumper’ a film made in 2010 it seems like a age since it was filmed. Its from the production company Gateway Films written and directed by Sacha Bennett (Bonded by Blood) it stars a lot of our favorites and a few new faces including Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa) Phil Davis (Whitechapel), Jason Maza (Demons Never Die), Jenny Agutter (An American Werewolf in London), Calum Mcnab (The Football Factory), Adam Deacon (Anuvahood), Terry Stone (Rise of the Footsoldier), Kate Magowan (Screwed), Emily Atack (The Inbetweeners) and Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey).

Set against the turbulent mid 80’s of money, privatisation, unions and dramatic media evolution: A life-long group of friends find themselves at the bad end of a redundancy pay-out and invest their savings into a racehorse, hoping that one final race can turn their fortunes around.

Enjoy the trailer

So today is all about ‘Payback Season’ and here for your viewing pleasure are a few stills from the film which will have its premiere tonight in London.

Adam Deacon, Dappy, Tom Hardy, Professor Green, Jamie Winstone & Tichy Stryder are set to attend tonight’s Payback Season UK premiere in London along with two lucky winners just announced and also confirmed for the PAYBACK SEASON World Premiere After Party are Legendary DJ’s SPOONY / JASON KAYE / HATCHA

So we are coming up to the last weekend before the launch of ‘PAYBACK SEASON’ and this is one of those films that we have loved seeing the progress on. The Director Danny Donnelly as been feeding us with lots of updates and with Adam Deacon winning the BAFTA for Rising Star of 2012 its added that little bit of sweetness to which I’m sure will be an excellent cinema run in terms of people going to see it and sales. For the last couple of weeks the posters have been out on the buses and the tubes and yesterday the other start of the film Sir Geoff Hurst was doing the rounds on TV and Radio starting off on Breakfast TV through and news segments throughout the day he also took part in a huge webchat to carry on the marketing of the launch due out March 9th finishing off with Sky Sports getting right behind the film.

If your lucky enough you can still see the film before anyone else and enter the competition to win a ticket with 9 of your friends to see the film at the world premiere in London and hang out with the cast on Weds 7th March including VIP tickets to the after party and chauffeured Limousine to the event and back by clicking the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/paybackseason