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10/10/08 AFRO-SAXONS CELBRITY PREVIEW SELL-OUT
All tickets have been sold for the Afro-Saxons preview tonight at the Ritzy. The film opens on Friday 17th October - see you there!

18/9/08 AFRO-SAXONS TRAILER GOES ONLINE
The trailer for Afro-Saxons, voiced by comedienne Angie Le Mar, will be screened in cinemas from next week. Click here to watch it first!

16/9/08 AFRO-SAXONS TO BE RELEASED IN LONDON CINEMAS!

29/6/08
SUPPORTING CARERS
Supporting Carers has now been launched. Produced and authored by Chocolate Films, it is a comprehensive DVD designed for all carers in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It contains 18 short films, lasting 53 minutes in total, as well as text pages and downloadable documents. If you are a carer and would like to receive a copy, contact Michael Olaniyan or Amtul Irtiza at LBBD on 020 8227 2826

15/5/08
SCREENING NEWS:

TALKIN' 'BOUT REGENERATION, PRESENTED BY PHILL JUPITUS
Talkin' 'bout Regeneration, Chocolate Films has just completed "Talkin' 'bout Regeneration" a short film where TV comedian Phill Jupitus shows how development of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is transforming the town that he grew up in for the better. It will be screened across the borough of Barking and Dagenham in a roadshow in late May and early June.

ROADS TO RECOVERY, PRESENTED BY JO BRAND
Roads To Recovery, a DVD designed to alert young people to the early symptoms of psychosis, will be launched at Watermans, in Brentford on June 3rd 2008 at 12.30pm

29/3/08
MIXED CHICKS MOVIES ONLINE
Chocolate Films produced six one minute films to promote Mixed Chicks hair products. Each of the film profiles a mixed-race model in the run-up to a photoshoot. View the films on mixedchicks.co.uk

04/2/08
BRIXTON SPLASH - From Infamous To Famous now online
The film charting the roots and development of Brixton's biggest street festival can now be viewed online. Click here to watch.  

28/1/08
PRODUCTION UPDATE
Currently in production:

PSYCHOSIS AWARENESS DVD
Presented by comedian Jo Brand, this short film features a series of dramatised scenes reconstructions of young people's experiences of psychosis. Commissioned by the HEART mental health trust and Watermans Arts Centre,

CARERS DVD HANBOOK
A series of short films introducing carers in Barking and Dagenham to the councils services, compiled on an innovative DVD with downloadable documents and information:

Recently completed productions:

BRIXTON SPLASH - From Infamous to Famous
A short documentary about the community street event featuring community leaders Ros Griffiths and Blacker Dread as well as Derrick Anderson (CE of Lambeth Council) and local business leaders.

MIXED CHICKS
A series of six short (1min) viral films mixed race models who use the mixed chicks brand of hair products.

BBH/Wahl Awards Event films
Fourteen short films for the annual gala event showcasing Britain's best Afro-Caribbean hair stylists.

23/9/07
AFRO SAXONS ROUGH CUT
Chocolate Films debut feature documentary is now at rough-cut stage and is currently being sent to film festivals worldwide.

27/7/07
BUILDING COMMUNITIES TRANSFORMING LIVES ONLINE
Building Communities Transforming Lives, a short film that Chocolate Films made for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, is now online. Visit the council's website to watch it.

22/2/07
CHOCOLATE FILMS PRODUCES DVD FOR BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
Chocolate Films has produced a DVD for the British Film Institute to accompany the inaugural exhibition at the gallery in the new BFI Southbank.

The DVD documents the work of New York artists Jennifer and Kevin Mccoy with over thirty short films, slideshows and interviews. Mark Currie and Rachel Wang shot ten exhibitis in Germany and England in 2006 and early 2007.

The DVD will be on sale during the exhibition which runs from 14 March to 28 May 2007. For more information about the exhbition visit the BFI's website.

1/1/07
CHOCOLATE FILMS has moved
Chocolate Films has moved to a new suite of offices just off the Albert Embankment. Happy New Year!

DIS-ASSEMBLY book published
The publication of the Serpentine Gallery project, Dis-Assembly, has now been published with a chapter on the work of Chocolate Films. To buy a copy visit:Dis-assembly: A Serpentine Gallery Project with North Westminister Community School

HEYDAY released on DVD in the US
Heyday is being released on DVD by the subscription distribution service The Spiritual Cinema Circle. For more information visit: www.spiritualcinemacircle.com

1/6/06
HEYDAY nominated for RIMA award
Heyday has been nominated in the short film category for the Race In The Media Awards. Organised by the Campaign For Racial Equality, the high profile awards ceremony will take place at The Royal Opera House on June 14 2006. For more information visit the RIMA website.

HEYDAY screeing at two London Festivals on June 3rd
Heyday is being screened twice on June 3rd. At 11am it will be screened in the Birds Eye View film festival at the Apollo West End, and at about 5pm it will be screened at The Jacksons Lane Arts Centre in Highgate at the Northern Heights Film Festival.

15/5/06
HEYDAY at Birds Eye View Film Festival
Heyday is being screened at the Birds Eye View film Festival at the Apollo Cinema in London's West End on June 3. For more information visit www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

6/4/06
HEYDAY at Hollywood Festival
Heyday is being screened at the prestigious Hollywood Black Film Festival in June 2006. For more information visit www.hbff.org

HEYDAY at Warrington Film Festival
Following its success at the Kino Film Festival, Heyday is being screened in a special programme at the Warrington Film Festival in Lancashire on Friday 7th April. For more information visit www.warringtonfilmfestival.co.uk

18/3/06

DIS-ASSEMBLY goes into production
The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned Chocolate Films to create DIS-ASSEMBLY, a film that documents the closure of an inner city school and the creation of work by internationally reknowned artists in collaboration with the students. Filming will continue until August 2006.

HIDDEN CAMERA optioned
Chocolate Films has just optioned the novel Hidden Camera by award-winning Serbian sci-fi author Zoran Zivkovic. The novel was recently reviewed in The Guardian by legendary author Michael Moorcock. Click here to read the article.

HEYDAY success at Kino Film Festival
Heyday was runner-up in the CDN North Award for best BlueFiRE! UK Short film at Manchester's Kino film festival.

HEYDAY to be screened in two UK Film Festivals
Heyday is being screened at two Film Festivals in the UK in the next few weeks: Kino Film Festival in Manchester is screening the film twice, as part of the BluFire (28 Feb) and the Baby Cow comedy (3 March) programmes. Wood Green Film Festival, where The IF Report won an award in 2004, is screening Heyday in its festival from March 24th -26th.

3/1/06

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HEYDAY to be screened in Seattle and Dam
Heyday has started the new year with a bang, being selected into two US Festivals.

It will be screened in competition at the 2006 Science Fiction Short Film Festival on February 4, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. The festival is a juried competition, comprised of distinguished film, television and science fiction book industry professionals, peers and film critics. Judges include Oscar winning director and special effects master Douglas Trumbull (Close Encounters, Blade Runner etc), the Sci-Fi Channel’s Thomas Vitale, SVP of Programming & Original Movies, internationally recognized jurist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, award-winning author Vonda McIntyre, and others. More details will soon be announced on http://www.seattlefilm.org/program/

HEYDAY has been selected for the 2006 Dam Short Film Festival, in Boulder City Nevada, and is scheduled in the program Romance Through The Ages. For more information visit the Dam Film Festival Site.

5/12/05

UNIVERSAL TOURIST Preview at National Film Theatre
UNIVERSAL TOURIST, Chocolate Flms' latest documentary about the photos we take on holiday has a preview screening at the National Film Theatre on Saturday 10 December at 12.00 noon. UNIVERSAL TOURIST is a unique film project that utilises photographs and film footage submitted by the general public with frank and often amusing interviews held in a specially constructed film studio.

The full programme will include a screening of short films made by young people on the theme of tourism and a Q&A with Mark Currie and Rachel Wang who will be talking about their experience making UNIVERSAL TOURIST.

This event is sure to be extremely popular so if you want to come along to this screening please can you come to the NFT at 11.30am for a 12.00noon start

The National Film Theatre is sited on the South Bank underneath Waterloo Bridge and is accessible from Waterloo underground and mainline stations.

Information about UNIVERSAL TOURIST is available on the website www.universalexperience.com

10/11/05

HEYDAY to be screened at City Hall
On 23rd November, HEYDAY will be screened at London's City Hall as part of the BFI's Blackworld program. The film is being screened alongside BLACK JOY by Anthony Simmons as part of the Pioneer Pictures series.
Following the film, Rachel Wang will appear as part of INDEPENDENT BLACK FILMMAKING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, a panel discussion with some of the pioneers of black British Cinema such as Anthony Simmons, Horace Ove and Menelik Shabazz. For more information, visit www.bfi.org.uk/blackworld

UNIVERSAL TOURIST News
The UNIVERSAL TOURIST multimedia studio at The Hayward Gallery was a great success, with thousands of submissions and almost 150 interviews taking place over 15 days. The preview screening is taking place at the NFT on December 10th. For information about tickets, check back soon.

HEYDAY Festival News
HEYDAY is being screened as part of the 13th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York on November 25th, as part of the Sisters Talking About Love programme. For more information go to www.nyadff.org

HEYDAY has been accepted into Kino Film Festival in Manchester in 2006. More details to follow

UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL Screening
UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL, the documentary filmed on International Women's Day, featuring Doreen Lawrence, is being presented at an event hosted by the Caribbean Women's Equality and Diversity Forum at The Imperial Hotel, London on November 25th. For more information or tickets, contact cwedf@aol.com

6/10/05

UNIVERSAL TOURIST Studio Opens
This weekend, the Universal Tourist multimedia studio in the heart of the Hayward Gallery opens for over two weeks. Come and visit, and be sure to bring holiday snaps, video or Super8 film! For more information visit
www.universalexperience.co.uk

HEYDAY Awards News

HEYDAY has won its second award: The Best Romantic Short Film Award at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival in Phoenix Arizona

HEYDAY Festival News

Check out Heyday at the following festivals in the next few weeks:

Whistler Film Festival, Canada
San Diego Girl Film Festival
"Where Is The Love" Bucharest Short Film Festival
Split Screen Film Festival, Bristol
International Horror and Sci-Fi Festival, Phoeniz AZ
Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

20/7/05

HEYDAY Festival News

HEYDAY will be screened at the following forthcoming festivals in September:
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, USA
Dragon*Con Film Festival, USA
BFM International Film Festival, ICA, London
Split Film Festival, Bristol
Weiterstadt Open Air Film Festival

17/7/05

Chocolate Films/Hayward Gallery launch THE UNIVERSAL TOURIST

Chocolate Films has been commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to produce an exciting new film experiment - The Universal Tourist. For more information visit www.universalexperience.com

26/6/05

JULY SCREENING NEWS

Catch up with the latest Chocolate Films productions at the following events:

HEYDAY
Heyday is being screened at the B3 Media Blank Slate screening at the Ritzy Cinema Brixton on July 7 at 7pm. For tickets email erinma@b3media.net by July 4th .
On the 23 July you can see Heyday at the Black Welsh Film Festival in Cardiff. For more information visit the festival website.

THE LOLLARD STREET ADVENTURE
The Lollard Street Adventure will be screened at The London Charlie Chaplin Festival before the feature film Easy Street at Walnut Street Walk School on 23 July at 7pm. More information to follow.

5/5/05

HEYDAY SCREENING AT 'NIGHTS TO REMEMBER'

Heyday will be supporting the feature 'Romeo Must Die' at the opening gala night of the 'Nights to Remember' festival, held at the Riveside Cinema. The festival starts at 7.30pm on Tuesday 10th May.

www.riversidestudios.co.uk

20/4/05

HEYDAY IS GOING TO CANNES

Heyday has been selected by the British Council to represent the British Short Film Industry at the Cannes film Festival. The film will be avaiable for viewing at the UK Film Centre throughout the festival.

20/3/05

HEYDAY AWARD PHOTO SHOOT

Rachel Wang was at the Tricycle Cinema recently  to receive a prize by Images of Black Women Film Festival founders supported by the UK Film Council for Heyday. She won the 2nd International short Film Award during the festival.

20/3/05

BRITISH COUNCIL CHOOSES HEYDAY

The British Council has chosen HEYDAY to be one of the short films to be included in its Catalogue of British films, and it will be distributing the film to high profile international film festivals under the British Council banner.

17/3/05

HEYDAY AT FINAL CUT

HEYDAY will be making its second festival appearance, this time at the Final Cut festival at the Hanbury Arms in Brighton on Thursday March 31st. More details on their website.

1/3/05

HEYDAY WINS AWARD

Heyday was been selected for the Images of Black Women Film Festival, and won the International Award Prize. The film will be screened at The Tricycle on Sunday March 6th, at 3.30pm.

www.imagesofblackwomen.com
www.tricycle.co.uk

24/2/05

BURDALANE

Mark Currie is directing the play "Burdalane", written by the award winning playwright Judith Adams (www.judithadams.co.uk). "Burdalane" will be performed in Glasgow during 2006.

9/11/04

HEYDAY wraps

Rachel Wang's new short HEYDAY, funded by the UK Film Council's Digital Shorts scheme, is now in post-production. The film stars Shirley Anne F ield (Alfie, My Beautiful Launderette) and Kenny Lynch (Carry On Loving).

THE UNDERSTUDY goes to Moonstone

Mark Currie will be attending the Moonstone Screenwriters Lab (run by The Sundance Institute) to work on his project The Understudy from 14-20 November. For more information visit www.moonstone.org.uk or check out the November 12 edition of Screen International.

1/10/04

IF REPORT screening/festival news

THE IF REPORT is being screened all this week by Wellywood shorts at the Screen Room in Nottingham alongside Farenheit 911 and Stage Beauty. For more information visit www.screenroom.co.uk or www.wellingtonfilms.co.uk/wellywood-shorts

THE IF REPORT has also been accepted by the "Shot By The Sea" Festival in Hastings, which runs from 22-31 October. Information will soon be available on www.electricpalacecinema.com

10/9/04

HEYDAY recieves funding from UK FILM COUNCIL

Chocolate Films' new short, Heyday, has been awarded production funding from the B3 Media Blank Slate Scheme, part of the UK Film Council's digital shorts.The film, a romantic comedy about a very old woman in a nursing home who builds a time machine from a wheelchair, goes into production in the week of 25 October 2004 with Rachel W ang directing and Mark Currie producing.

For more information email info@chocolatefilms.com

7/7/04

Festival News

THE IF REPORT has been selected for the 28th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt. The screening is scheduled for Saturday, August 14th - 2:35 pm (Indoor).

1/6/04

Chocolate feature gets New Talent Award

Mark Currie's screenplay 'The Understudy', based on a story that Mark wrote with Rachel Wang, has been granted a New Talent Award from the EU's MEDIA Plus Development Sch eme. The thriller, which Rachel Wang is producing with Chris Atkins (16 Years Of Alcohol, The Purifiers), is slated to go into production in Spring-Summer 2005.

10/2/04

THE IF REPORT wins award at Wood Green Festival

The IF Report was runner up for Best Film at The Wood Green Film Festival on Saturday night. Mark Currie was presented the award by the actress Crissy Rock (who won best actress in Berlin for her part in Ladybird Ladybird). Rita Tushingham and Ray Winstone were also in attendance. It was a great day with a fantastic selection of shorts screened.

2/2/04

VOTE FOR CHOCOLATE!!!

"Hop On Percy" by Mark Currie (to be produced by Chocolate Films), is one of the nine short-listed pitches to win the XFM/Hype Gallery filmmaking competition. It's a short comedy about two old men who build a "Back To The Future" style from an electric wheelchair. If only they can get it up to 8 miles per hour.

Mark's pitch will go out on air during Ian Camfield's Music Response show on XFM (104.9 fm) from 7-9pm, Mon-Thu from today until Feb 18th. Listeners can vote for their favourite Pitch.
You can also hear the pitches and vote on www.xfm.co.uk from 7pm this evening.

The winning Film maker recieves funding to make the film, so please vote! The result will be announced at the Hype Gallery closing night party on Feb 19th.

12/1/04

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The IF Report has starts 2004 with a London Festival Screening. The film will be shown at the Wood Green Film Festival on February 7th. For more information about times and locations, watch this space...

9/12/03

Two Chocolate Films to be screened in Berlin

The If Report and The Russell Fluffy Show are two of the forty one films to be screened at the Contravision Festival in Berlin on 13 and 14 December. Times as follows:The Russell Fluffy Show - 13 December. Program 1 13.20 - 14.30
The IF Report - 13 December Program 2 14.50 - 16.00

Both screenings take place at the Kino Blow Up, Immanuelkirchstrasse 14, 10405 Berlin

15/11/03

THE IF REPORT selected for the Triggerstreet Online Film Festival

The IF Report is one of fifty films to be chosen from all of the films on the Triggerstreet site for the online Festival. Over the next 2-3 weeks users of the site will have the chance to view, review and rate the film and if it ends up as one of the 10 with the highest ratings it will go through to the final. So here's hoping!Check it out on www.triggerstreet.com

THE IF REPORT Nottingham screenings

The IF Report was screened last night and will be screened again tonight (Sat), tomorrow (Sun) and on Thursday before Raising Victor Vargas at the Screen Room cinema in Not tingham.

07/11/03

THE RUSSELL FLUFFY SHOW

The Russell Fluffy Show, a new one minute puppet animation directed by Rachel Wang, has just been completed and can be seen on www.triggerstreet.com

THE IF REPORT accepted into Wellywood Shorts.

THE IF REPORT will be screened as part of Wellywood shorts, a short film screening initiative that pairs short films with features for screenings at a cinema in Nottingham. Dates times, and which film it will be shown alongside to follow.

03/11/03

Notting Hill Film Festival Screening Information

The times and dat es of the Notting Hill Film Festival Screeenings have now been confirmed as follows:Girl On A Cycle: Tuesday November 11 at Screen West, Latimer Road 2pm
The IF Report: Thursday November 13 at Westbourne Studios1.30pm

For full details click onto The Notting Hill Film Festival website. See you there!

28/10/03

THE IF REPORT screening in Soho on November 3rd

THE IF REPORT Has been officially nominated for Best Picture at the November screening at "Pictures @ Piano". It takes place on Monday 3rd November, from 12-4pm At the Pitcher & Piano, 69-70 Dean St, Soho, London, W1D 3SE. It will be shown 4 times over the afternoon on a continuous l oop with the other nominated films. Come down on the day, have a drink, and watch the film.

27/10/03

Double Chocolate at Notting Hill Film Festival!!!!

Girl on a Cycle and THE IF REPORT will both be screened at this year's Notting Hill Film Festival which runs from 10 - 16 November. We will let you know more information about the screening times and venues as soon as we have them. For more click on www.nottinghillff.co.ukTHE IF REPORT hits Trigger Street favourites

For two days in the THE IF REPORT's first week on TriggerStreet it hit the top 10 of the daily favourites.

19/10/03THE IF REPORT news

THE IF REPORT can now be seen online at www.triggerstreet.com . Watch it, recommend it and review it! A screening for THE IF REPORT is being organised in a central London venue in early December. For more information, watch this space.

18/10/03Girl On A Cycle goes north

Girl On A Cycle is being screened at The Meniscus Film Festival in Grimsby at The Whitgift Film Theatre, 29 October to 1 November 2003. For more information visit www.meniscus.com

1/08/03Cool Stuff

The Chocolate Films website has been updated. Check out the gallery and cool stuff.

28/07/03'Girl On A Cycle' London Screening'Girl On A Cycle' is being screened on Friday 1st August at Westbourne Studios. 242 Acklam Road, London W10, as part of the opening night of the Portobello Film Festival.The programme is called: BowieArt/John Malkovich & Bella Freud/Opening Party and lasts from 6-11pm. 'Girl On A Cycle' will be screened directly after the John Malkovich films at about 9.45pm.

For more information please check out www.portobellofilmfestival.com

03/07/03 'Girl' In Georgia

'Girl On A Cycle' had a very successful trip to the Dahlonega Film Festival where it was screened on 26 and 28 June.

12/05/03'Girl On A Cycle' Festival News

Girl On A Cycle will be screened at the Dahlonega International Film Festival (Georgia, USA) in June 2003. For more information check out www.diff.tv