Double bill

Bewildered by getting identical copies
of the same letter, St Albans leading
film maker (since Stanley Kubrick passed
on) looked again and discovered he had
two short films accepted for a festival
instead of just the one.

Both Last Train and Fate & Fortune
have been accepted for this month’s
Wilmington Independent Film Festival
in Delaware. “Delaware. That’s a type
of pie-dish isn’t it?” quipped a
passerby. Humour Police are still
searching for the author of that joke.

Producer prodded

Gremlins were blamed when it was
discovered that a film director
had completely misheard the email
address for the person he wanted
as co-producer. The problem came
to light when she called to ask
where her script was.

Our hero recovered by cutting and
pasting parts of a message on the
internet where he’d listed things
for her to do. Meanwhile someone
called ‘c_bop’ is thought to be busy
locating identical props and costumes
for a rival comedy being made by
Gremlin Productions.

Actor jilted

Charlie the actor was turned down
for the role of Charlie the driver
in a fairly short undramatic phone
call this afternoon. “That’s okay,”
he said, with the same casual lack
of emphasis which has left so many
film directors unmoved.