Ohna Falby

I realise it has been over a year since I last updated this site - oops. On the Rattling Stick front, Tom Vaughan went off in June to shoot his second feature film What Happens In Vegas… with Cameron Diaz & Ashton Kutcher and in fact they had their UK premiere the same night as The Pond so unfortunately I missed it. Johnnie, Chris and Lucy went from Rattling Stick though and really enjoyed it. The US premiere follows shortly this month and then Tom will be available for commercials again. In the meantime I produced a new form of advertsing campaign with Darren Bailes at Mother for PG. We produced a 10 minute infomercial to feature on free DVDs (outtakes & all) that will be available on packs of PG Tips in supermarkets, a 5 minute cinema version to go out before the main attraction in UK cinemas, and 30 & 40 sec trailers for use on internet. Mother and Rattling Stick teamed up as one to make production as cost effective as possible and the result is really good. At the end of 2007 Steve Cope joined Rattling Stick from Red Bee and I have been producing for him. His debut Rattling Stick commercial was for KIA cars through Mustoes and now we’re busy pitching…

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We had The Pond premiere screening at BAFTA this week and it was a great success. The print looked fabulous up on the big screen, we had a great turnout and the film went down like a storm! It was amazing seeing all the kids who were in the film, unrecognisably grown up after two and a half years. The British Council have picked the film up and we are starting to enter it into festivals in earnest now. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures, except for two we grabbed as we were leaving…

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We have spent the last few weeks searching for music for the short film and of course MySpace is an invaluable tool when it comes to music.

To search MySpace for interesting new talent you have to create you own MySpace account though, so I sat down with Apoa and Kiloh and they showed me how it works. They helped me choose backgrounds, create photo albums, pick a song etc… and build a MySpace page.

It turned out to be lots of fun but I am hoping I don’t get hooked. Alcohol, drugs, myspace….. Then again it’s another device that sets your life out there into the public domain, or whatever aspect of your life you choose to put out there. I guess everyone’s got different things they’re hoping to gain from it - for directors and musicians looking to get their work out there, single people trying to hook up or teenagers finding new fun ways to delve into the world and make their mark.

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How exciting Antonio’s Breakfast won the BAFTA after all!!! All I saw on the TV was a 2 second glimpse of Amber on stage clutching the mask. Where was Daniel? Surely he was there? Either way it is great news and I am sure he will benefit from it no end.

Tomorrow I am off to Sydney to shoot a few FOSTERS commercials with Director PAUL MIDDLEDITCH. 21 hours in the air is sounding very appealing to me just now. Catch up on a few movies. Catch up on some sleep. No phone calls….

And back on the 9th of March, missing my precious Apoa’s 13th birthday and my no less precious Kiloh’s secondary school acceptance letters. The suspense is terrible…

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Having produced commercials and promos for many years and after working as Head of Commercials Production at Exposure Films (now known as HSI London) from January 2005 to January 2006 , I have more recently decided to try to link my strengths within that industry with my enthusiasm for the longer format.

I have been collaborating with Director Daniel Mulloy on his film projects whilst completing final post on his latest short film DAD which is scheduled to premiere at Edinburgh this summer 06 as part of the UK Film Council / Maya completion fund. I have also produced a short film called SISTER with Daniel which was funded by the Arts Council of Wales and opened the Cardiff Film Festival in November 2004. It won a Welsh BAFTA for best short and the Arte Prize at HAMBURG 2005. It is coming to the end of its festival circuit and has won many other awards including best cinematography at Bucharest.

Through Exposure Films, I have been co-producing THE POND, a short film written and directed by Sonja Phillips. We still need to shoot a day of underwater photography to complete the project, but funds are now in place for this, so we hope to finish the film by the end of summer. I have also been working as post production supervisor on Barney Clay’s short film FINKLE’S ODYSSEY which is also very near to completion now, after over a year’s worth of fantastic and surprising VFX work.

I am now based at Rattling Stick (award winning Directors Danny Kleinman and Ringan Ledwidge’s new company) producing commercials for Tom Vaughan who recently joined from his previous company HLA after completing his first feature film STARTER FOR TEN with James McAvoy. Here I am also able to look after my independent film projects whilst promoting and producing for Tom…..

We shoot our first commercial next week (last week of August - barely a month after joining) with JWT & starring Ray Winstone. Should be fun!

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