🦞In tears 😭 in love ♥️ angry 🤬 & hopeful 🙏 all at once 🦀 We love what Emilie Gambade said about All Rivers Spill… after the @sirharrysummit.bsky.social sneak peek last week. Were you there? Uk premiere June 12 & 14 at @sheffdocfest.bsky.social 🎟️🦞🦀 www.sheffdocfest.com/film/all-riv... 🔥#utb

If anyone is looking for a State of the Nation report, I’m just on a tram and a group of teens started playing Freed From Desire out loud on their phone and singing along and now the whole carriage is joining in.

@aiannucci.bsky.social hello 👋🏻 what’s the best email to contact you about something.

Here’s the fabulous @tinabrownlm.bsky.social on why Hartlepool fisher, Stan Rennie’s story is the next MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE. Follow us www.glimmerama.com/allriversspill

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

The original mother

So invigorating to be at @sirharrysummit.bsky.social to talk about the value of feature length documentary to show change over time

It was incredible! So happy to show a sneak peek of my new film ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA and be a part of @sirharrysummit.bsky.social

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories based on the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.) This is #62, it's called 'Chips' and it's dedicated to @annebillson.bsky.social.

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.) This is #60 and it's called 'Press-up'.

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles.) This is #61 and it's called 'Coffee Machine'.

This @recordstoreday.bsky.social I’m remembering THE GREATEST and much missed record shop of all (don’t @ me) SOUND IT OUT. Here’s a scene from the film I made there. Watch the full film here vimeo.com/ondemand/sou...

I shot parts of this doc so I'm clearly biased but it really is a great piece of filmmaking with Tom, the shop's owner and a truly lovely man, at the beating heart of it.

This @recordstoreday.bsky.social I’m remembering THE GREATEST and much missed record shop of all (don’t @ me) SOUND IT OUT. Here’s a scene from the film I made there. Watch the full film here vimeo.com/ondemand/sou...

The Hair Ghost Of Prague taking a little walk in the park

🚨Nottingham🚨 Everybody to Broad street @broadwaycinema.bsky.social to see the rousing EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET I saw the film today and so good to hear spontaneous applause in the cinema afterwards. It’s showing all week. #supportdocumentary #nottingham

Strongly recommend the fabulous documentary work of @jeaniefinlay.com to everyone. Always beautiful, always humane, always thoughtful. #YourFatFriend on BBC iPlayer / Storyville also #GameofThronesTheLastWatch, #Seahorse absolute stellar artist and glorious human

Great to see a whole new audience connecting with my 2013 film THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX on Netflix. The fiction based on the same story, directed by James McAvoy hits cinemas April 10th.

Great to see a whole new audience connecting with my 2013 film THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX on Netflix. The fiction based on the same story, directed by James McAvoy hits cinemas April 10th.

Taken a couple of days off after the whirl of CPH dox. Let me tell you the cafes and restaurants of Nottingham are FILLED with retirees living their best lives.

Is there anywhere to listen to the new #lindywest book. I am an audiobook gal and I cannot find it in any of the usual places - although tantalisingly there are extracts of it… Is this just a territory thing because I am in the uk?

Wendy always takes the time to understand films and the filmmaking. Her smart writing on documentaries is very much appreciated

Wendy always takes the time to understand films and the filmmaking. Her smart writing on documentaries is very much appreciated

My review of Jeanie Finlay's powerful doc All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea www.screendaily.com/reviews/all-...

A few months ago I watched as a woman sitting in the back row of a cinema pulled out a jar of Very Lazy chopped garlic, opened it up and started eating it with a teaspoon like a yogurt.

Big news in Screen - Suzanne Alizart and I have launched GLIMMERAMA - the creative distribution arm of my production company Glimmerama Films. Film made with heart & care - for participants, for crew, for audiences. From Nottingham for the world. Thank you BFI Global Screen fund for your backing

Big news in Screen - Suzanne Alizart and I have launched GLIMMERAMA - the creative distribution arm of my production company Glimmerama Films. Film made with heart & care - for participants, for crew, for audiences. From Nottingham for the world. Thank you BFI Global Screen fund for your backing

Stan Rennie are you ready for your closeup? ALL RIVERS SPILL… makes its Hollywood Reporter debut just 5 days before our film takes its maiden voyage at CPH:DOX. 🦞🦀 Check out their interview where I talk lessons learned on my 10th feature. Including helming a fishing boat 🚤

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Delighted to have had the opportunity to work on Jeanie Finlay's latest production. Recently premiered at CPH:DOX. ‘All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea’ @jeaniefinlay.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Interview with my brilliant wife @jeaniefinlay.com, and an exclusive clip from her new film 'All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea', in the Hollywood Reporter today. The film premieres in Copenhagen next week. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Stan Rennie are you ready for your closeup? ALL RIVERS SPILL… makes its Hollywood Reporter debut just 5 days before our film takes its maiden voyage at CPH:DOX. 🦞🦀 Check out their interview where I talk lessons learned on my 10th feature. Including helming a fishing boat 🚤

Impressive to see 5 people wearing shorts today. Never change Nottingham.

FROM THE ARCHIVE ROOM PODCAST If you care about documentary storytelling, archive rights, research, or preservation this is essential viewing Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS7z... @lolaclips.bsky.social #archives #vrscarac @focalint.org @jeaniefinlay.com #archives

My wife @jeaniefinlay.com has made a new film, premiering next month in Copenhagen. It’s a great-and very timely-story from the North East coast of England.

… his world is turned upside-down overnight - and he finds himself thrown into a battle for the future. Have the sins of the industrial past come back to haunt the present? This is a wry, David and Goliath story about navigating grief and finding power in community.

It’s 15 years since I made SOUND IT OUT about the last record shop in #Teesside - and now I’m coming home with my 10th feature, premiering in competition at CPHdox I can’t wait for you to meet Stan and the fishers of Hartlepool in this intimate and urgent portrait, filled with North East humour.

This forthcoming documentary is about the unexplained deaths of crustaceans off the Teesside coast in 2021 and the impact on a Hartlepool fisherman. I've seen a few bits already and can't wait to see the whole thing.

🦞ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA The North-East of England, where the river meets the sea. Stan Rennie is the last of a long line of fishermen who have worked the same stretch of coastline for centuries. When a vast tide of poisoned crabs & lobsters washes ashore like a biblical plague

It’s 15 years since I made SOUND IT OUT about the last record shop in #Teesside - and now I’m coming home with my 10th feature, premiering in competition at CPHdox I can’t wait for you to meet Stan and the fishers of Hartlepool in this intimate and urgent portrait, filled with North East humour.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Great insight into how and why the NYT moved to become a mouthpiece for anti-trans bigotry—plus more evidence that every progressive issue is also a labor issue

This is a brilliant line that should make a lot of folks…in both parties…very uncomfortable. Yes. Good.

Anyway, watching this film just now jolted loose a whole cascade of stuff that's evidently been memory-holed for 40 years, not least because I know all these spaces intimately, and it seems none of them had greatly changed in the meantime. Quite an extraordinary trip down memory lane.

A few last days to watch Panto! for free (until Jan 1st) I’ve had so many lovely message from people watching and loving the film. Www.jeaniefinlay.com/pantoforfree

The director of the original documentary SONG SUNG BLUE has made his film available on YouTube youtu.be/YDukMQIz1Sc?... It’s weirder, more raw and way more complex than the (very enjoyable) film with Kate Hudson (great singing) and Hugh Jackman. #songsongblue #documentary

I'm slightly biased here but this really is a wonderful film and a great thing to watch at this time of year.

My Christmas gift - panto for FREE 🌟♥️🌟 10 yrs ago I made Panto! for BBCStoryville. A feature doc about an am-dram group staging a panto - Puss in Boots at the Nottingham Arts Theatre. A tiny budget, a punishing schedule & a ramshackle donkey costume are just some of the challenges they face

Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay offers her 2015 BBC Storyville holiday documentary PANTO! (aka PANTOMIME) for free via her website. Available to watch until January 1, it’s the first time the well-reviewed doc has been widely accessible in the U.S.