Little Dude Films

17/02/2026

All Aboard The From Mother, With Love Train!

As our updated poster illustrates, Little Dude Films’ short film, From Mother, With Love continues to wow them in the aisles, both in the UK and around the world. The film is directed by first time director, Gabi Wood; written by Mark A. C. Brown; and produced by Ian Beaumont of Little Dude Films.

From Mother, With Love has already been nominated or officially selected for over a dozen film festivals, winning, to date, in the best comedy or best actress categories in three festivals and being nominated in a range of categories, including best short film, best comedy and best screenplay.

These include two festivals that are coming up in March 2026: the tenth annual Women Of Wonders Film Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, with the film being screened there on Sunday 8th March 2026; and The Funny Life Film Festival in Islington, London, with the film being screened there on Saturday 21st March 2026.

We’ll continue to update you as the From Mother, With Love train keeps on a rolling.

01/12/2025

With Love In Winter

The Portobello Film Festival is holding a Free Winter Film Festival between 3rd and 7th December and will be screening a number of its recent award winning films during the festival, including From Mother, With Love, on Saturday 6th December, as per the below links.

https://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/2025/dec6muse.html
https://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/index.html

The screening on Saturday 6th December begins at 6pm and our film should be on at around 7.25 PM if any of you wish to attend. It’s a free event.

The location is the same as for their film festival screening and awards ceremony back in September, i.e. at The Muse Art Gallery, 269 Portobello Road, London, W11 1LR.

We hope to see some of you there.

Portobello Film Festival concludes its anniversary programming with a Winter Festival to celebrate local talent, past and present, spanning five days of free events. An evening dedicated to the late poet, actor and activist Heathcote Williams kicks off the programme with a reading from The Ruff Tuff...

15/09/2025

Everybody Loves A Winner!

Little Dude Films’ produced short film, From Mother, With Love, continues its highly successful film festival run by winning the Best Comedy Award at this year’s 30th Portobello Film Festival.

Little Dude Films’ director and the film’s producer, Ian Beaumont attended The Portobello Film Festival Awards Ceremony on 14th September 2025 and spoke on behalf of the film after the Best Comedy Award was announced. From Mother, With Love is directed by Gabi Wood and written by Mark A.C. Brown.

Below is a photograph of Ian with Festival organiser, Jonathan Barnett after the awards ceremony.

This win completes a hat-trick of successes for Little Dude Films at The Portobello Film Festival. In previous years, we have won Best Drama awards in the Festival for two other short films we respectively produced and executive produced: Shades of Beige, starring Michelle Dockery and Drift, both of which were written and directed by Aimee Powell.

Please watch this space for more film festival news for From Mother, With Love.

11/09/2025

Little Dude Love Fest!

Little Dude Film’s latest short film, From Mother, With Love, continues to take the film festival circuit by storm.

The film has been shortlisted for a Comedy Award in this year’s 30th Portobello Film Festival in London, as per the below screenshot from the Festival website.

Being shortlisted in the Portobello is an excellent result, considering the fact that 175 films have been screened during the Festival. The awards ceremony is on Sunday 14th September 2025 and I’ll let you know how we get on.

From Mother, With Love has also been selected for screening in two more prestigious festivals: The Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival in September 2025; and the HB Film Festival in Paisley, Scotland in October 2025, with hopefully more to follow.

Love clearly is all you need!

18/08/2025

Little Dude Films AKA Let’s Do Festivals!

Little Dude Films has got a very busy couple of weeks coming up, with three film festivals and one premiere to attend on behalf of two of our films in August 2025.

Our very well received short comedy/drama, From Mother, With Love, directed by Gabi Wood, written by Mark A.C. Brown and produced by Ian Beaumont for Little Dude Films is being screened in three prestigious UK festivals this month, all of which we’re planning to attend. These are as follows:

From Mother, With Love is being screened at the Chichester International Film Festival at the Chichester Cinema at New Park on the evening of Wednesday 20th August 2025. The festival is celebrating its 33rd year this year and our film is one of only eleven films selected for their Short Film Showcase;

Our film is also being screened at the Horsham Film Festival at the Everyman Cinema in Horsham on the evening of 29th August 2025. From Mother, With Love has been selected as one of only three films in their Best Comedy category;

Our film is also being screened at the Portobello Film Festival at the Muse Gallery in London, W11, on the evening of 31st August 2025. The Portobello Film Festival is celebrating its thirtieth year this year and Little Dude Films has been lucky enough to win two best drama awards for our short films in the festival in previous years, so fingers crossed for From Mother, With Love.

We are also premiering our short comedy/drama, On Hold, at The Theatreship in Canary Wharf, London, E14 on the evening of Tuesday 26th August 2025. On Hold is written and directed by Chloe Palmer Laporte and produced by Ian Beaumont for Little Dude Films and we are screening it alongside another short film, All the Women You Have Been, by Jessica Holbrook and Stephanie Ritzema.

Watch this space for updates on how we get on in these and other film festivals.

28/06/2025

The Lost Blonde Is Getting Found

Following the success of the rehearsed reading of our play, The Lost Blonde: The Veronica Lake Story at the Seven Dials Playhouse in Covent Garden, London in April 2025, we are now liaising with various prestigious theatres re staging the play, also in London either later this year or in 2026.

We are also talking to a number of leading directors re directing the London performances of the play.

The Vimeo link to the showreel for the rehearsed reading and photographs of the event are available to view on our website www.littledudefilms.com.

For sight of the full film of the rehearsed reading of the play, please contact Little Dude Media Ltd’s director, Ian Beaumont at [email protected]. Similarly, if you are interested in supporting the play, including financially, please contact Ian, as above.

We’ll keep you posted when we have more news re where and when the play will be staged and who’s directing it and look forward to seeing you there.

19/05/2025

Feeling The Love

Little Dude Films short film, From Mother, With Love, which was directed by Gabi Wood, produced by Ian Beaumont and written by Mark A. C. Brown, is already making its mark in film festivals it’s been entered into this year. To date:

The film was nominated in the Best Script category in this year’s Wolverhampton Film Festival.
The film was a quarter finalist in this year’s Bay International Film Festival.
The film has just won two awards in this year’s Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards: Best Actress for Fiz Marcus; and Best Acting Duo for Fiz Marcus and Phillipa Flynn.

Little Dude Films’ director, Ian Beaumont says: “Making From Mother, With Love was a real team effort by its brilliant cast and crew, so it’s great to see everyone’s hard work publicly recognised and rewarded in these prestigious film festivals.

Hopefully, there will be more festival successes to come, which we will of course let you know about.”

10/04/2025

Our April News

The Lost Blonde Play: A Rehearsed Reading

Little Dude Media Ltd is hosting a rehearsed reading of our play, The Lost Blonde: The Veronica Lake Story at the Seven Dials Playhouse, Covent Garden, London on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 for representatives of London theatres and investors, producers and production companies.

Participating in the reading will be five established actors: Alanah Bloor, playing the younger Veronica Lake; Susannah Harker, playing the mature Veronica Lake; and Oscar Adams, Oliver Alvin-Wilson and Issy Stewart multi-role-ing the other roles.

Rohan Gotobed is the play’s director; Little Dude Media’s Ian Beaumont is its writer/producer; Croft and Dye Productions are the general managers; and Ellie Wintour is the play’s highly regarded and much in demand set and costume designer. Ellie will display some mood boards and renders of the play’s sets and costumes ahead of the reading, based upon her and the director’s vision for the play.

We hope that the rehearsed reading, which we are also filming, will result in a London theatre staging the play either later this year or in early 2026.

From Mother, With Love Film: Festival Success

Little Dude Films’ produced short film, From Mother, With Love, directed by Gabi Wood and written by Mark A.C. Brown, has been accepted in the highly regarded Wolverhampton Film Festival 2025, in their best short film category. The festival is happening between 25th and 27th April 2025.

Here’s the link to the Film Freeway page on the festival: https://filmfreeway.com/Wolverhamptonfilmfestival

Watch this space for an update on both events.

Welcome to Wolverhampton film Festival 🎥 The festival aims to champion other storytellers through the form of film. Taking place over the space of 3 days ...

05/02/2025

LDM Joins ITC

As we move forward with our plans to put our new play, The Lost Blonde on the London stage, our umbrella company, Little Dude Media Ltd has joined the Independent Theatre Council, known as ITC.

ITC is a membership organisation of over 450 performing arts companies and producers, which represents and advocates for best working practices and aims to lead the industry in ensuring ethical management across the sector.

As Little Dude Media Ltd’s director, Ian Beaumont explains: “Our membership of ITC will help us formalise our relationships with people who come on board as members of The Lost Blonde team and also with our external partners on the play.

“In addition, ITC offers a wide range of invaluable support and resources for independent producers and companies such as ourselves, including management and legal advice, best practice guidance, networking opportunities, training and advocacy. We are very pleased to have been accepted as an organisational member of ITC and look forward to working closely with their team as we prepare to stage The Lost Blonde play.”

19/01/2025