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Angel Film Awards 2010 -
Best Short
Documentary Film & Independent Spirit Awards
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Radio Geronimo
- Monte Carlo & Bust
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40 years ago,
on the new site for the
Angel Film
Awards
in Monaco, stood the famous Palace
Radio Monte
Carlo (RMC).
From here after midnight each weekend, evangelical
programmes from Trans World Radio were followed by
inspiration of another kind. Europe's hippest music station
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Radio
Geronimo.
Beamed over Europe on RMC's powerful medium wave transmitter,
the programmes were recorded at a studio in Harley Street
London, and financed by Rolling Stones producer
Jimmy Miller
and record industry operator
Tony Secunda
(The Move, Marc Bolan). Radio Geronimo beamed a far-out mix
of cosmic music and anarchic presentation through the Spring
and Summer of 1970. |
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Support for anti-Vietnam war protesters and ads for the biggest
cigarette papers in the world were broadcast inbetween music
ranging from
Jimi Hendrix
and Albert
Ayer to
Buxtehude.
Somehow the ad agencies didn't catch on and when funds ran out,
Radio Monte Carlo's management woke up and the brief dream
ended. We remember this tumultuous summer of 1970 through the
hazy memories of these intrepid broadcast pioneers. Winner of
Best Short
Documentary Film
and
Independent Spirit Awards
at the Angel Film Festival in Monte Carlo, December 2010.
Director:
Mark Dezzani.
Producer:
Chris Bent. |
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Left to Right: British actress Sophie Berenice,
Director Mark Dezzani, Producer Chris Bent |
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Local resident
Tom Anderson
recalls the day he broadcast from the Radio Caroline ship
'Mi Amigo'
while it was sinking and his dramatic rescue in a force 9
gale. With the interest in offshore radio rekindled by
Richard Curtis' new movie
'The Boat That Rocked',
former Riviera Radio programme director Tom Anderson talks
about the Radio Caroline 'Boat That Sunk!' |
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Sir David
Jason OBE
attended the
8th Angel
Film Awards Monaco
2nd-5th December 2010 as director of the short movie
'All The Way Up'.
The movie scooped 6 Angel Awards. Sir David was also
honoured with the
Angel
Lifetime Achievement Award.
In this interview with
RivieraLife TV's Andrew Burroughs,
David Jason talks about All The Way Up and how he became
involved, his appreciation of the values of the Angel
Film Awards, his shooting in Monaco of an
Only Fools
& Horses
special and the influence of his
Open All
Hours
co-star
Ronnie
Barker. |
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The 8th annual
Angel
Film Awards
took place 2nd-5th December 2010 in the
Art Novo
Theatre, Novotel, Monaco.
The festival features non-violent movies. In this report for
RivieraLife.tv,
Andrew
Burroughs
looks at a selection of movies screened and talks to their
directors including
Sir David
Jason OBE
who directed the short movie
'All The Way Up',
Mohy Quandour,
Writer/Director of the Best Movie winner
'Cherkess',
Kinshirou Ogino,
Director of 'Asakusa Daydreams' and
Paul Petersen,
Director of
'Simon Sez'. |
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The Angel Film Awards takes place each December in Monaco
and features non-violent movies. The 2008 event featured a
groundbreaking co-production 'Jun-Ai' between China and
Japan. The movie sought reconciliation between these
two nations on the 70th anniversary of the Nanking massacre
following the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
Together with BBC Correspondent Andrew
Burroughs, our parent company
Europa
Productions produced this report for BBC World's
Asia Today
programme from the Angel Film Awards 2008 in Monaco. |
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Maverick
film director and former Python Terry Gilliam debuted his new
fantasy movie 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' at the
62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009. In this interview with RivieraLife.tv's Mark Dezzani, Terry
Gilliam talks about his artistic roots in the 60s; how style now rules over
substance; his difficulty
with compromising; the essence of his moviemaking; the legacy of Monty Python and digital technology for up and coming film-makers. |
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