Best Historical Sceenplay Win for A Call to Arms at the Best Script Awards

In January, we reported that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to finalise his new script and get it ready for festival submissions. The dream was to get it made into a film - hopefully. We've already received some excellent feedback and won a few film competit...

Best Historical Script Win for A Call to Arms at Oniros Film Awards

In January, we reported that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to help finalise his new script and get it ready for festival submissions. The dream was to get it made into a film - hopefully. We've already received some excellent feedback and won a few film com...

A Call to Arms Wins Best Original Screenplay Feature at London Independent Film Awards

Back in January we announced that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to finalise and correctly format his new feature film script preparing it for festival submissions and even to (hopefully) get it made into a film. We've already received word that the script ha...

A Call to Arms Wins Best Feature Screenplay at the Hollywood Film Awards

Back in January we posted an article saying that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to help finalise his new script and get it ready for festival submissions and even (hopefully) get it made into a film. We've already received word that the script has been shortl...

A Call to Arms Script Finalist at BIFF Film Festival

Earlier this month we wrote about how Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to help to bring his script to life. We've received word that the script for 'A Call to Arms has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 'Best Feature Script or Screenplay' categor...

Script editing for A Call to Arms feature

Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to help to bring his feature film script to life. Julian has written a script for a Viking themed feature film called 'A Call to Arms', set at the beginning of the middle ages  and based on real historical characters. J...

Happy Easter to all of our Customers

The team at Maniac Films would like to wish our customers a very Happy Easter We will be closed over the easter weekend (emails may be answered but it won't be immediate) and will be open again on Tuesday 19th.  ...

Genesis Old Guys Rule product photography

We have been busy editing a range of new product photos taken for www.genesissurfshop.com. We were photographing a new line of t-shirts from popular mens brand 'Old Guys Rule' which will be sold on the Genesis online store. The t-shirts were modelled by Robin, the owner of the sho...

Mark Brindle is a judge at Ilfracombe Film Festival 2018

Over the weekend of the 20-22nd April 2018, North Devon played host to the glitz & glamour of the 2018 Ilfracombe Film Festival. The festival played host to a wide range of both blockbuster and indie films and even saw the town being invaded by zombies on Friday night! As part of the ...

Product photos for Lambland 2016 range

We have been working with local store Lambland in Ilfracombe, photographing the spring/summer product ranges for their online store. The products have ranged from leather handbags & holdalls, to sheepskin mocassins and sheepskin rugs. We photographed most of the products in our studi...

Cafe opening photoshoot with Ragamuffin

On Saturday, Stu met up with local celebrity dog Ragamuffin Lewis at the re-launch launch event for the Larkstone Cafe in Ilfracombe. Already the star of his own YouTube TV series - The Adventures Of Ragamuffin Lewis, Ragamuffin had been asked to attend the event, to meet the customers an...

Genesis Summer range photography

We have delivered photos to Genesis Surf shop for their summer clothing & accessories rage - which will appear on www.genesissurfshop.com. The products ranged from t-shirts to wallets  and all were photographed in our studio. Smaller items were photographed in our light tent. Men...

Costume photoshoot with Ragamuffin

Today our studio took on a new, hollywood feel as we welcomed back our canine model with a number of costumes to wear. Stu was conducting another photo shoot with Ragamuffin Lewis in the lead up to the launch of his new YouTube TV series - The Adventures Of Ragamuffin Lewis. The aim of th...

Countdown Photoshoot with Ragamuffin

Our studio became a doggy paradise today, as it was full of bones, dog toys, sausages, bacon, dog biscuits and more! Stu was conducting a photo shoot with Ragamuffin Lewis in the lead up to the launch of his new YouTube TV series - The Adventures Of Ragamuffin Lewis. The aim of the shoot ...

Studio photoshoot for Ragamuffin the dog

Something a little different today. Stu has just finished a studio photoshoot with Ragamuffin Lewis. Ragamuffin the faithful canine companion of Fiona Lewis, and she has set-up Facebook & Twitter accounts where people can follow Ragamuffins adventures. The photoshoot, which was set ag...

New Abbeymead Safety Training Website Goes Live

It's been a busy month for website design at Maniac. Today the brand new Abbeymead Safety Training has gone live to the public. The new site replaces an older one, which was very basic and out of date. Abbeymead Safety Training specialise in workplace safety training courses and...

Genesis Surf Shop Mobile Site Now Live

We have been working hard to bring the Genesis Surf Shop online store to mobile devices and the site is now live. This has meant a lot of work to modify the heavily customised online store in order to optimise it for mobile phones - adding a responsive feel that changes for mobile phone a...

Cozy Comforts Mobile Website Now Live

Today the new responsive mobile website for Cozy Comforts went live to the public. We have been developing this web site alongside a new mobile friendly website for local surf shop Genesis which should go live later this week. We plan to gradually add extra features to the site over the ...