tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316227362024-03-14T08:57:28.395+00:00Stirton Productions and BeyondMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-38463853554138224152014-02-07T16:18:00.000+00:002014-02-07T16:18:57.953+00:00Removals - The short film that grew up
Made in 2001, the original "Removals" was the sum of 6 years of trying to get a feature film made. In the end (or so we thought) we ended up with a nice little short, based on the full length script.
The short did the usual round in festivals, opening at Glasgow's "In The Cut" festival to a good reception. After a while we put it in a box and got on with other stuff - Until 2007 when we Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-77889861359309995602012-11-08T09:40:00.002+00:002012-11-08T09:43:07.227+00:00One Day Removals Christmas dvd
Yes, I said it - Christmas. Our only official stockist for "One Day Removals" this Christmas is One Up music on Belmont Street, Aberdeen. So if you want copies of the movie for friends, family, cats, dogs, lemmings etc. you'll need to go to One Up.
We're still waiting for our sales company, Cinemavault to get dvd sales - so hang in there folks. One Day Removals is also available Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-81071823545424614582012-07-12T10:11:00.003+00:002012-07-12T10:19:26.300+00:00One Day Removals at Merchant City Festival
Stirton Productions is proud to announce the inclusion of "One Day Removals in this year's 'Merchant City International Indie Film Festival.'
The Festival, to be held in Glasgow, between the 27-29th July, will screen indi shorts and features from around the world. One Day removals will be on at 3.30pm July 29th. After the movie there will be a Q and A with director, Mark Stirton and Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-10888795048042026952012-05-16T11:59:00.001+00:002012-05-16T11:59:07.885+00:00One Day Removals Podcast
Here is a podcast of an interview with the producers and designers of One Day Removals, Michael G Clark and Kerwin Robertson. We talk about the design and look of the movie, directed by Mark Stirton.
That's me, the rather frightened looking chap being groomed by Thor.
Follow the link to the 'I am do filmmaker' site for the podcast here
Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-22382845024904806502012-04-12T13:42:00.005+00:002012-04-12T13:56:32.611+00:00Mark Stirton PodcastWriter/director Mark Stirton, creator of "The Planet" and "One Day Removals," has just done a podcast for cool movie site "I am do filmmaker - here.The interview covers his previous movies, work in London and some wee details on the new movie "Good Guys versus Bad Guys."It also contains lots of swears. So watch your poor ears. Listen!Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-4975684306549430742012-01-23T14:04:00.003+00:002012-01-23T14:11:10.392+00:00HBO Buys One Day RemovalsThanks to our excellent sales company - Cinemavault, our movie "One Day Removals" has been acquired by broadcaster HBO.This is a great bit of news and we're all pretty happy. Currently it is only available in Eastern Europe, but we're hoping that other territories will be opened up soon. It is fun to watch "faceci-od-przeprowadzek" in Polish though, it's so sweary! Here is a link to the home siteMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-58503309271014450792011-05-23T12:03:00.007+00:002011-05-24T09:17:12.885+00:00World's Rudest Movie Invades Loch NessStirton Productions sweary, Scottish comedy 'One Day Removals,' is to screen at this year's Loch Ness Film Festival.The festival, now in it's second year, is located in Drumnadrochit, on the banks of Loch Ness. The festival will run from May 26th - 29th and will be screening short films and features from around the world.The movie's production team, director Mark Stirton and producers Michael Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-85464360977610388872010-09-20T09:15:00.006+00:002010-09-20T09:32:56.566+00:0024th Edmonton Film Festival - One Day RemovalsThe 24th Edmonton International Film Festival is to screen our mad black comedy "One Day Removals." The film will be screened on Thursday, September 30th at 5pm.Our distributor, Cinemavault, have provided a subtitled copy of the movie for the screening. The subtitles will be in English, to help the audience with some of the Doric phrases, but I'm sure they'll be able to understand most of the Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-66140517156397047302010-06-04T12:27:00.004+00:002010-06-04T12:40:51.075+00:00The Next MovieI know you've all been asking for a while now what the next film will be, so lets put you out of our misery with this announcement.We're in the scripting and pre production art phase of our next movie - 'Good Guys Versus Bad Guys.' To get the ball rolling Mark Stirton has posted some of his layouts on his blog - here. I'll do the same and hopefully quite soon we'll have heaps of stuff to play Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-13694265771682090912010-05-13T14:11:00.004+00:002010-05-13T14:21:49.031+00:00Cinemavault releases One Day RemovalsStirton Productions, Doric road movie "One Day Removals," has been acquired for international distribution by Cinemavault. A well regarded movie sales company, based in Canada.The film is now being touted by the company for sale; so should be on the shelves near you soon. The sales sheet for the movie can be downloaded from here.The movie is also available online from Bablegum and Blinkbox, Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-24223039600958601902010-03-26T09:10:00.004+00:002010-03-26T09:23:25.457+00:00A Birthday CakeA non-specific director of Stirton Productions is a non-specified age on Saturday the 27th of March. So we had a little party for him last night to celebrate the thing that isn't happening.Susan, wife of producer Kerwin Robertson (in photo wearing a blue shirt), made a special cake (with the help of Kerwin, apparently...) for Mark. Mark Stirton, may, or may not be, a huge geeky fan of the world'sMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-54552337452111741502010-03-19T09:48:00.003+00:002010-03-19T10:01:06.174+00:00The Planet - Now on Blinkbox<!--[if !IE]--><!--<![endif]-->Watch movies online and free tv<!--[if !IE]--><!--<![endif]-->Those lovely folk at Raindance TV have released our first movie, "The Planet," online. It is being hosted by the movie/TV site Blinkbox, for rent or download.The Planet was released in 2007 and is available on DVD in the USA and Japan, this new online release is licensed to UK only. So apologies to anyoneMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-79552376771563749602010-01-26T09:18:00.006+00:002010-01-29T13:39:59.118+00:00New "One Day Removals" TrailerHi folks. Stirton Productions, commander in chief, Mark Stirton, has created a new trailer for our hit Doric murder comedy; "One Day Removals."This one is work and child safe, so bang up the volume and have fun.If you feel you're up to watching the whole movie, it is currently online: here.Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-61667886668599599262010-01-11T11:09:00.002+00:002010-01-11T11:17:49.755+00:00Celebrity Big Brother 2010Hi folks, and a happy new year to you all. Hope you are all having a good one, snow permitting.I'll start the new year off by saying 'Celebrity Big Brother'.... 'Why?'Really, why? I'd give them all chainsaws and unlimited drugs - whoever makes it out alive gets a new film contract.To vent my spleen I did another texty animation. In Doric - The language of the gods.Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-58261701468298471132009-12-24T09:58:00.007+00:002010-01-26T09:18:09.120+00:00Happy Fu*king ChristmasA happy Christmas/holidays etc to all you people out there.I hope you all have a good time and enjoy yourselves. A special mention to all the service men and women overseas at this time, all the very best to you and stay safe. And remember the true message of Christmas, Dr Who is on tomorrow. I'll have my Tardis pajamas and woolly dalek cap on to watch it - will you?Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-82657486725576595482009-12-18T12:01:00.004+00:002009-12-18T12:11:07.946+00:00DVD Demand Demands DVD DuplicatesSorry, I got carried away with the title. Sales for Stirton Productions, murder comedy "One Day Removals," have gone a bit mad so we've had to extend our sales into the new year.We have limited stocks now, so anyone wanting to buy a copy online better get a move on. We are going to be stopping selling the movie ourselves, but you'll have to wait for news on that.Also, the annual Stirton Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-67999957460323416392009-12-03T14:38:00.004+00:002009-12-03T14:53:46.848+00:00One Day Removals on Raindance TVBig beefy Scottish snuff/road movie - "One Day Removals," is now available to watch online from those lovely folk at Raindance TV. The film will be available via a number of players, but at the moment it is only on Babelgum Film. It is the whole movie, so check it out if you can.In other news: The dvd of the movie will no longer be sold from our Stirton Productions website after Christmas. So if Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-28503789890268805392009-11-17T17:17:00.009+00:002009-11-19T09:18:22.908+00:00Inverness Film Festival One Day Removals ScreeningWell, that's the Inverness Film Festival over. We had a run up the road from Aberdeen to attend and it went rather well. There was a good turn out for the screening and the crowd really loved the film, as usual. One Day Removals seems to have fans of all ages. We were signing copies for folk in their late teens and into their 80's. Two elderly ladies said it was the best laugh they had had in Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-80091249129591704462009-10-22T09:35:00.005+00:002009-10-29T11:20:05.289+00:00Inverness Film Festival 2009 - One Day Removals Screening"One Day Removals," has been chosen for selection at this year's Inverness Film Festival. We'll be appearing alongside some cracking new international movies, like "Cold Souls." So rush out and buy lots of tickets now.The Inverness Film Festival, now in it's 7th year, has earned a name for itself as one of the premier festivals in the UK. The festival runs from November 11th to Sunday 15th at theMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-54265193537101666322009-09-08T14:15:00.006+00:002009-09-08T14:34:50.445+00:00BAFTA Scotland and the Amazing Screening of One Day RemovalsYes, it's an old school dr who title for the amazing screening we attended at the BAFTA Scotland headquarter in Glasgow.Funnily enough, BAFTA is the floor below Scottish Screen, so it took quite an effort to get director Mark Stirton (or me) in the building after the history we've had with them. But hopefully that's all changed now as one of the attendees at the screening was from Scottish ScreenMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-23234077627494111112009-09-02T15:21:00.003+00:002009-09-02T15:54:34.822+00:00BAFTA Scotland Screening One Day RemovalsStirton Productions's Doric comedy, One Day Removals, is to have a screening at the BAFTA Scotland headquarters in Glasgow, next Monday.The movie is part of this month's screening schedule, alongside some other great movies. It may be the only comedy though.So, if you want the best laugh you've ever had with your clothes on (and you're a BAFTA member) head on down to 249 West George St, Glasgow Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-72452766338867561862009-08-24T15:34:00.006+00:002009-08-24T15:49:36.076+00:00One Day Removals - Doric Murder Black Comedy Road Movie - now on saleThe most fun you'll ever have while watching a van load of bleeding corpses.Available now on PAL DVD from Stirton ProductionsAlso, Click on link below to join the Facebook fan page for the movie. Lots of photos and behind the scenes stuff. FacebookLots of exciting things have happened in the past week, but we better not speak about them until things are confirmed. It's got us excited though, and Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-81700641458629688772009-08-13T07:55:00.003+00:002009-08-13T08:01:35.373+00:00Scottish Screen - Who are they helping?A contact page has been set up for those interested in expressing their opinions, good or bad, about Scottish Screen. The official film body of Scotland.Over the years many people have been unhappy about the way the Scottish Screen works. If you are a film professional, or have had dealings with Scottish Screen you may want to sign up and have your say. We hope later to publish our findings in Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-91877761931027666572009-08-12T11:44:00.003+00:002009-08-12T11:47:24.145+00:00One Day Removals - Facebook Fan PageHi folks, our movie 'One Day Removals,' now has a Facebook fan page for you to glare at. Join the fun and excitement of Stirton Productions comedy classic in the comfort of your own computer. Link is here:- FacebookMichael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31622736.post-22942391301915508752009-08-03T12:50:00.006+00:002009-08-04T07:16:19.479+00:00Cass Joins the Aberdeen City FirmLast Saturday saw the closing gala of the least advertised festival in the world, the Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival. Apart from the opening screening of 'One Day Removals,' which sold out, numbers for the other films were terrible. Hopefully next year the organisers will try promoting the venues a bit more. For a city with more money than most others in Scotland the effort was pretty Michael Grant Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07229579049815936450noreply@blogger.com4