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Neil Marshall’s The Lair coming to Shudder on January 26th

24th January, 2023

After its premiere opening Fright Fest in August and screening at Sitges Festival, Neil Marshall’s latest adrenaline-pumping creation, The Lair, starring Jonathan Howard (Thor: The Dark World), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning) and Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica), is dropping on Shudder! 

“Independent Film only works when you get more than what you pay for, and the value-add that Onsight brings with their unparalleled can-do attitude has made THE LAIR the film we always hoped it could be.”  - Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Producer.

Produced by Daniel-Konrad Cooper for Rather Good Films, The Lair follows RAF fighter pilot Lieutenant Kate Sinclair, after her plane is shot down over a rebel stronghold in Afghanistan. Whilst being pursued by insurgents, Sinclair finds refuge in an abandoned Soviet Research bunker where she unknowingly awakens the Ravagers - a DNA based biological weapon gone horribly wrong. 

Post Production

"I’m thrilled to have been able to work with Onsight again on my latest feature THE LAIR. They have a fantastic team of highly-skilled professionals and a familial approach to the collaboration of filmmaking. I get support at every turn and the fantastic attention to detail that every producer craves on every project." - Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Producer.

OnSight had the pleasure of managing the conform, grade, online and delivery of The Lair, overseen by Senior Post Producer Jeff Halsey. The action-horror film was shot on Sony Venice, which was a treat for our team to work with and looks fantastic on the big screen! Colourist Andy Lee graded the film, set in Afghanistan, to emulate the remote high altitude mountains of the Nangahar Province and a hidden Soviet bunker; creating a fantastic contrast between the bright, barren environment and the dark colourful bunker, where the Ravagers lay in wait. 

The Lair was then handed to OnSight’s Senior Online Editor Adam Sample and Online Editors Alfie Mitchell and Dan Bourne. With over 600 VFX shots, The Lair was a great technical challenge for us and the team worked quickly to innovate new bespoke workflows for this project. Working with Director Neil Marshall throughout the post production process, from the offline to the grade and finishing meant the team had a solid understanding of the project and its needs right from the onset.

BRIAN AND CHARLES’ Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl & Chris Hayward receive Outstanding British Film BAFTA nomination.

20th January, 2023

Following its award-winning success at Sundance Film Festival and reaching the top 10 in the US box office in June, Brian and Charles has been nominated for the Best British Film BAFTA! 

The debut feature for British Director Jim Archer, was written by David Earl and Chris Hayward, as an extension of Archer’s 2017 award-winning short film of the same title, which gave the spotlight to comic Earl’s acclaimed stage character Brian Gittins. 

Shot in a mockumentary-style, Brian and Charles follows Brian, a lonely and unlucky inventor in rural Wales, who spends his time building unique and unconventional creations, usually with little success. Undeterred by his failures, Brian attempts his most ambitious project yet - enter Charles, an artificially intelligent robot made from odds and ends, played by Chris Hayward. The feel-good comedy tells a heartwarming story about friendship, family, finding love, and letting go and promises to leave audiences uplifted and entertained.

Brian and Charles was Produced by Rupert Majendie for Mr Box Productions, a UK producer who offer comedians a platform to create and broadcast their own sketches and podcasts and the film was developed and co-funded by Film4 and the BFI. 

Senior Post Producer Jeff Halsey oversaw OnSight’s post production services for Brian and Charles including the offline edit, conform, VFX, online edit and delivery to Sundance, Bankside and Focus Features. OnSight’s Adam Sample performed the conform and online edit, with some great artistic input from Archer.

Congratulations to our clients Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie and their whole team for this fantastic BAFTA nomination! The BAFTA award ceremony takes place on February 19th.

Read more about Brian and Charles here.

BLUE JEAN’s Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director) & Hélène Sifre (Producer) are BAFTA nominated for the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

20th January, 2023

After World Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival and winning the People’s Choice Award in the ‘Days’ Giornate Degli Autori sidebar in September, Blue Jean made a considerable impression on the festival circuit, collecting a host of awards. 

Blue Jean went on to win four British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) for Best Debut Screenwriter, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance and Best Casting, along with nine further nominations. We are delighted that the film has now been nominated for the Best Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA! Congratulations to our clients Georgia Oakley, Hélène Sifre, Marie-Elena Dyche and their whole team for this well deserved BAFTA nomination!

Set in 1988, during Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as UK Prime Minister, Blue Jean is a psychological identity drama following Jean (Rosy McEwen), a gay PE teacher who is forced to live a double life when Thatcher’s government passes a new law that stigmatises the LGBTQ+ community. The law, known as Section 28, in effect prevented teachers and those working for local authorities from even acknowledging the existence of homosexuality. Although repealed during the early 2000’s, this law's legacy left a lasting culture of shame and homophobia.

Overseen by Senior Post Producer Jeff Halsey, OnSight are thrilled to have delivered picture post production for Writer/Director Georgia Oakley and Producer Hélène Sifre for their powerful debut feature, Blue Jean.

The BAFTA Awards ceremony takes place on February 19th and Blue Jean hits cinemas on February 10th. Watch the trailer here.

Read more about Blue Jean here.

BUS GIRL’s Jessica Henwick & Louise Palmkvist Hansen receive British Short Film BAFTA nomination

20th January, 2023

Actress Jessica Henwick, who recently starred in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and The Matrix Resurrections, makes her directorial debut with short film Bus Girl. After collecting several awards on its festival circuit, Bus Girl has been nominated for the British Short Film BAFTA! 

Produced by Louise Palmkvist for Emu Films, with Annika Ranin as Line Producer, the short film tells the story of an aspiring young chef June, played by Henwick herself, as she tries to break into the culinary scene and navigate the cutthroat world of high end cooking. 

Bus Girl was shot over the course of three days using six Xiaomi Mi 11 smartphones, a phone with one of the larger camera sensors available in a smartphone today, allowing it to pull in more light for brighter results in low-light scenes, capture more detail and output higher-resolution video. 

Henwick says “we would actually have two phones. We would be pulling focus on one phone, and we would be using Wi-Fi to control the main phone. It worked very similarly to a normal crew, except the gear fits in your palm.” Cinematographer Nick Cooke describes the creative advantages of shooting on a smartphone, given its compact nature, “we could squeeze through shelving units with little thought or even place it in a pan of water ”.

OnSight are pleased to have supported Bus Girl in post production, with Jeff Halsey as Senior Post Producer and Adam Sample as Online Editor. Henwick is currently in post production on a sequel titled Sandwich Man, and has announced there will be a third short film to put a cap on what she calls ‘The Phone Trilogy’.

Huge congratulations to our clients Jessica, Louise and Annika for their BAFTA nomination! The BAFTA award ceremony takes place on February 19th and, in the meantime, you can catch Bus Girl at the London Short Film Festival on January 21st, tickets available here.

Staged Returns with a Third Season, Available Now on BritBox

28th November, 2022

The award-winning comedy series, starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg has returned to our screens for a third season with some seasonal good cheer and its usual healthy dose of squabbling.

Created by Simon Evans and Phin Glynn, Staged launched on BBC One in June 2020, providing relatable and light hearted entertainment during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The show saw the actors play fictionalised versions of themselves as they tried to rehearse a play during lockdown. Staged’s second outing played with the idea of the first series success, with the actors meeting options for who might play them in a Hollywood remake of Staged, featuring a host of guest stars including Dame Judi Dench, Ewan McGregor, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Cate Blanchett.

Series 3 sees David and Michael return to their everyday working life, having moved on from lockdown, while Simon’s career remains stagnant. Simon’s phone does ring, but only to ask if he can get David and Michael back together; and they’ve made it clear they want nothing more to do with him. But with Christmas approaching, Simon hopes the warmth of the season might soften them to the idea of a radio version of a Christmas classic!

Post Production

It was great to return to this fantastic project for post production of a third season, again overseen by Post Producer Joana Coelho. Our Colourist Emily Russul Saib, with her keen eye for detail, focused on the fluctuating light levels from the self-shooting and video conference technology. Due to the nature of these video conference sequences, Emily also graded multiple pieces of media within each shot. The episodes were then onlined by Senior Online Editor Adam Sample and Online Editor Andrew Fisun.

BritBox

Staged is Directed by Simon Evans and Produced by Phin Glynn, Victor Glynn and Georgia Tenant for Infinity Hill and GCB Films. Distributed by Rainmaker Content, Staged season 3 is exclusively available on BritBox, alongside the first two series and a series special, featuring mistakes and outtakes, and shows how the show itself was found.