| Running Dog Films Ltd. is a new British film company dedicated to making films using cheap and affordable technology combined with proven no/lo budget production practices. |
...just do it! It's not a crime
to make commercial films that appeal to a wide audience (as opposed
to say a system where working class people have their lottery money
spent by pretentious "auteurs" making films the punters
will never see).
We take our lead
from the just-do-it movement (Rodriguez, Linklater, Robert Townsend, et
al)and the straight-to-video movement. Running Dog Films also imbues its
films with the populist spirit of Corman, Fred Olen Ray, the Hudlin Brothers,
Sam Raimi & their ilk.
...burning down the (art)house...
We need to build an independent film movement.
Using 16mm stock and desktop video editing, direct-to-video feature
films can be produced for as five figure budgets. Running Dog are
not some idle theorists however, having produced two films and we
are now at work on a third. Our first two features are now ready for
distribution.
With the size of the video and DVD market in Britain, we believe there
is room for the weird, the wacky and the wonderful within any genre.
So next
time you get angry at the ineptitude, ignorance and sheer indulgence
of what passes for a film industry in this country, you know what
to do about it...