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LFCC this weekend. Had photos taken with by Duncan
16/11/2025

LFCC this weekend. Had photos taken with by Duncan

feature film produced by Paranoid Android Films and partly shot in our studio March last year. Here are some photos of...
24/10/2025

feature film produced by Paranoid Android Films and partly shot in our studio March last year. Here are some photos of the set Duncan and I built and

24/10/2025

Rumple Stilt Skin

FreeSprite Media Ltd and Paranoid Android Films in association with FILM EXPO SOUTH



There are a number of motion picture retellings of this classic fairy tale, even putting aside the Amy Irving one from the eighties.

Recently I've caught a low fantasy version, and this one, which must be considered high fantasy.

I had my problems with it, but on the whole I think I must laud this as both a good film, and a decent pagan movie. Here we are leaning closer to a kind of wiccan, dualistic world view, rather than hard polytheism, but it's also not expressly articulated.

Rumpelstiltskin is quite an esoteric story, even in the context of fairy tales, covering both alchemy, and the power of naming.

This particular version manages quite a b***y tone, complete with colourful language, which they somehow managed to artfully weave into slightly archaic English.

The castle was sumptuous, the backdrops were perfect and the acting was quite good. There was one glaring gaff from the art department, which clashed with all the other good visuals.

There is no rule that says that high fantasy must look like the fifth, to thirteenth century. Such a depiction might be nice, as the fashion history of medieval Europe has been woefully neglected in film. If you were to judge history by film, you'd think humanity started out in the renaissance.

Somehow, high fantasy has fallen into a late Byzantine, early gothic reimagined environment, with magical and spiritual elements drawn from the bronze age, and superimposed. This is by no means the definition of fantasy, but has become a sort of comfortable habit.

If art directors, or stylists, don't want to draw from gothic portraiture for inspiration, there is no reason they can't go wild, imagining hairstyles in any sort of crazy, experimental way. What really shouldn't happen, is that stylist's go with the most convenient option, and have the actors looking like they came to set, as is, and the stylists just combed their hair for the shoot.

There was a time, when having a modern hairstyle in a fantasy movie was kind of novel, but we are past that point now. Hey, at least the medieval era doesn't call for rag curls!

This was entertaining, and atmospheric. And despite the rant, we recommend it.

Any covenant entered into with the Fae, must be thrice pondered.

🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝🌜

a feature film production since 6th September. Evans Freesprite Studios and Impala Films production DOP Luke Foxwell
25/09/2025

a feature film production since 6th September.
Evans Freesprite Studios and Impala Films production
DOP Luke Foxwell

Recording season 3 at .studios. Written by . Produced by Implala .o
17/11/2024

Recording season 3 at .studios. Written by . Produced by Implala

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13/10/2024

URGENT WARNING ... If you are watching Powertool Cheerleaders Vs Boyband of the Screeching Dead on Prime, DO NOT play the FreeSprite Drinking Game, there are so many FreeSprite locations you will probably die

Powertool Cheerleaders Vs Boyband of the Screeching Dead Has just dropped on Amazon Prime. A gore filled comedy, horror,...
12/10/2024

Powertool Cheerleaders Vs Boyband of the Screeching Dead Has just dropped on Amazon Prime. A gore filled comedy, horror, and it's a musical.
If you have Prime please watch it or download it this weekend, we need as many watches /downloads as possible ... And it's a cracking film, Cheerleaders, Zombies and songs you don't want your grandmother to hear :)

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29/09/2024

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