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Jeanie is a British artist and filmmaker who creates intimate, funny and personal work for the cinema and broadcast, including Emmy nominated Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, BIFA nominated Seahorse and The Great Hip Hop Hoax; BIFA winning ORION and SOUND IT OUT, and Sheffield DocFest winner Your Fat Friend. She is currently making her tenth feature.

Documentary

Sound It Out: Adventures in Crowd Funding

I was at Sheffield Doc/Fest last week and crowd funding was everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE! It felt like the thing that was being talk about and discussed more

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Documentary

Sunnyside of the Doc

La Rochelle station Entrance to conference centre The conference centre Party on a boat Sunnyside in La Rochelle is not quite like any other film event I have

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Film Festival

Home from edinburgh but not for long. Next stop Sunnyside

I’ve been home for all of two days and am now, yet again waiting for a train to take me somewhere. This time to St Pancras so I can catch the Eurostar to

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Film Festival

A Number 26

I know this is just a picture of a bus, a number 26 bus but it is just one of many, many sentimental reminders of my past connection with the city. I’m

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Documentary, Film Festival

What volcano? Next stop Hot Docs

After spending a nervous few weeks wondering whether my trip would actually happen – tentatively searching to make sure the online bookings company I

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky '10: Made it to NYC

A wee timelapse, shot from Hudson hotel room.

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Goodbye with a Big Old Fire

Can’t believe Big Sky is over so soon, it’s been so good and the festival grows and gets better every year. The pitching event this year was

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ‘10: Meeting the man from Disney

Apologies for the radio silence but signals have been hard to come by and it’s been such an action packed festival. The weather is crisp and bright and

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Mountain Views and Heated Debates

After the epic 26 hour journey from the UK I’ve been in Montana for three days now and feel right at home in the mountains. Since I got here I have been

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Documentary, Film Festival

Big Sky ’10: Day One – Getting There, Slowly

I’ve made it to the throbbing city of Heathrow, terminal 4 (the location and setting for my husband’s film Mum & Dad, being here never fails

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Article

Jeanie Finlay 2009 Top Twelve

I’ve decided to break the rules slightly and am not exclusively listing films that were released in 2009 but films that I saw this year which made an

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Documentary, Film Festival

Fly on the wall? I don’t want to fade into the background

After another late night of dancing to guilty pleasures in the Showroom bar I was grateful this morning for some kind of lie in. My plan was to book time in

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