With the Edinburgh International Film Festival just coming to a close, the festival awards have just been announced. Somers Town has taken the top prize, the Michael Powell award for the Best New British Feature Film!
Thanks to Neil (cudas on the FORUM) for passing on the news. You can check out the full press-release that Neil posted on the FORUM by clicking HERE
Also, thanks to Salvador who spotted the news item on the EIFF website HERE

Gavin Clark, the composer of the musical score for Shane's new film Somers Town, has put up three tracks from the film on his MySpace page.
There are two instrumental tracks which are titled, "Faces" and "Open", and one track which features Gavin's unique vocal talents called, "Raise a Vein".
Head on over to Gavin's MySpace page to check them out, and if you're a member of MySpace, why not post a thankyou message on Gavin's page.

Thanks to Lee2112 on forum for first spotting the UK release date for Shane's new film, Somers Town. According to both the Guardian newspaper and the IMDB, Somers Town will be released in the UK on the 22nd of August!
If you have yet to see This Is England, then you can watch it on Monday night on Film4 at 9pm. Thanks to Chewbaxter for spotting that one.

The UK premiere of Shane's new film 'Somers Town' will take place on the 20th June at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.. The film will also be shown again on the 21st of June.
The screening on the 21st of June is followed by a seperate event in which Shane himself will give an insight into his method of film-making.
Tickets for all of these events are available on the Edinburgh International Film Festival website:
Somers Town screenings -- Shane Meadows: Skillset In Person
It's probably best to snap up your tickets pretty sharpish, as the BFI screening of Somers Town in London on the 22nd of June has already sold out!
Big thanks to Salvador for keeping us informed on the forum.

After Somers Town's recent screenings at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, both lead actors, Thomas Turgoose and Piotr Jagiello, won the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film!
In other Somers Town news, the film should see it's UK debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival on the 21st June (although this is not yet confirmed).. and it will also be screened at the BFI Southbank in London on the 22nd June (followed by a live performance of songs from the soundtrack by musician Gavin Clark). Click HERE for the BFI site.
Somers Town should see a small nationwide release in August or September of this year, so keep your eyes on your local independent arthouse cinema!
FInally, I have now created a page for Somers Town in the FILMS section which I will add to as more information becomes available.

Back at the beginning of March, Shane won Empire magazine's "Outstanding Contribution to British film" award, but thanks to the dubious wisdom of the edit team at ITV2, Shane's acceptance speech was cut from the televised version of the awards ceremony.
However.... thanks to Jo Hartley passing on some top secret contact details, I was able to get hold of the complete video from the very helpful Hannah at EMAP Communications.
The award is presented by Paddy Considine and Shane gets the chance to honour a certain Graham Forde.. You'll find out why he is so important to Shane when you watch the video.
No more explanation needed, just enjoy the clip!


Apologies for the occasional glitches, but the video file I received had some 'issues'.

Sadly, This Is England didn't take home any prizes at the Empire Film awards yesterday..... but Shane won the award for Outstanding Contribution to British Film!
Keep your eyes on the forum for further updates and possible photos!
You can watch a short interview with Shane which took place after the awards show on the Empire website by clicking HERE
I have just got hold of a few photos from the Empire Awards, take a look at them on the forum by clicking HERE
Big thanks to HMVLee for spotting the video.

Yesterday, Shane and Tomo appeared on the This Morning programme to talk about This Is England and Tomo's own personal journey to where he is today.
If you missed it (like I did), then get ready to sing the praises of forum regular Thribb who has kindly uploaded the clip to MySpace videos.
You can watch it by clicking HERE

Huge congratulations are in order to Shane and producer Mark Herbert for scooping the Best British Film Award at the 2008 BAFTA award ceremony last night.
This Is England saw off strong competition from Control, Atonement, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Eastern Promises to take the award.

Shane and Mark Herbert with their well deserved BAFTA awards

Below is the video of Shane and Mark winning the BAFTA!
Big thanks to forum regular Thribb for capturing the video!

Yesterday Shane let us know on the forum that a collection of photographs taken on the shoot of his new film Somers Town has now been put on YouTube in the form of a slide show.
The music accompanying the slide show is by Gavin Clark who has written the score for the film. Click play on the video to take a look!