As part of my university assignment to do an acquisitions report for a Japanese suspense thriller Creepy (2016) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa I designed an exit poll to be executed at Creepy's screening at the Leeds International Film Festival where the film was showing. Nervously, I headed to Leeds, printed copies of my questionnaire at a local Radisson Blue (thanks again!) and bough about a trillion very poor pens from a local Poundland. The exit poll aimed to find out why audiences

As part of my studies, my recent assignment was to put together an acquisition report to theatrically release the Japanese suspense thriller Creepy (2016) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Key issues to cover were marketing potential of the title, to identify the target audience for the film and to draft the key elements of the release. I found the assignment really motivating and also a great way to familiarise myself with some of the key elements of a release campaign. Acquisition Repor

Earlier this week I had the chance to Skype with Philippine Mignot from OurScreen about their platform and its progression over the past 2 years. I was very intrigued about the possibilities that the platform gives, not only to the audiences, but equally to filmmakers; using OurScreen as an alternative route for a theatrical run as part of DIY distribution. OurScreen is a service, founded in 2014, that allows anyone to book a film from their vast catalogue to be screened at a