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2012-01-29T03:20:00.000-08:00

2012-01-12T12:00:00.000-08:00

Frontier Media is opening 2012 with a set of high-profile releases, which include He Can Delve In Hearts - a brand-new short film/music video hybrid for The Mighty Sieben - and a commissioned comprising highlights of the incredible Julaba Kunda's performance at last year's Musicport Festival:

2011-09-19T05:28:00.000-07:00

ASSIST celebrated another year of supporting the refugee community by hosting a world music concert at Sheffield Cathedral.
Preview Frontier Media's production of World Over Concert:
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2011-07-19T10:27:00.000-07:00

The Pilot Episode of WHDE - Where Her Dreams End is now available online.This Frontier Media/Cinema Livre production has been written and directed by João Paulo Simões from his original short film and it stars Linda Valadas, Thomas Thoroe, Amy Russ and Emmanuelle Escourrou amongst others.
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For more information, visit WHDE.

2011-03-10T07:11:00.000-08:00

Warning: The following contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
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The eagerly anticipated music video/short film hybrid Victim.
Conceived & Directed by João Paulo Simões for Sow.
Relevant links:
http://www.i-absentee.com/sow/
http://capturafilmes.blogspot.com/

2011-03-04T14:29:00.000-08:00

Imagine having a disease which no one else could see...
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http://thesignalmovie.blogspot.com/

2010-12-21T14:29:00.000-08:00

The first images from Victim - a music video for Anna Wildsmith’s project Sow are now available:
The daring piece is a Frontier Media/Cinema Livre production conceived and directed by João Paulo Simões, who returns to his refined short film/music video hybrid and stars Jennifer Leti, Stuart Whelan and Tara Harris.

Nothing will be quite what it seems in Victim, which is set for a January 2011 release.
More stills on http://capturafilmes.blogspot.com/

2010-11-04T03:39:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media's production of a Promotional Video for Hassan Erraji's Album Awal Mara, commissioned by Konimusic.

Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/16427951

2010-06-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

Two women who were once each other's imaginary friend from childhood meet in a dream...
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The Brand-New Short Film by João Paulo Simões

Where Her Dreams End
With Hayley Youell, Chara Jackson, Amy Russ and Sarah Coleman
Original Music by Matt Howden (Sieben)

Official Preview Link:
http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/entry/338792/where-her-dreams-end
Alternative Private Link:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6XzSmCvxIizAG1xic4

2010-05-01T10:22:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media's production of a Promotional Video for the latest Sharrow Lantern Carnival, commissioned by Creative Action Network.
Watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/11376704

2010-04-12T01:53:00.000-07:00

Teaser Trailer for 'Star Wood Brick Firmament'
- The New Album by Sieben;
Order from: matthowden.com/
A Frontier Media Production;
Conceived & Directed by João Paulo Simões;

2010-01-01T04:29:00.000-08:00

2009-11-04T06:45:00.000-08:00

New Frontier Media commissioned music video Amar Salgado for Portuguese band Nanashi - Director João Paulo Simões talks about the experience:

"Right from its very first stages, this project was blessed with mutual understanding and respect. I could immediately tell that this was a very personal song for Sara Belo (frontwoman from Nanashi), so I made sure I sampled the right elements from our early conversations in order to bring her essence into the music video outline. On the other hand, there was a genuine interest on their side in having as much of my cinematic vision incorporated into the video as possible.
This freedom opened the gate for a challenging approach, in a narrative structure already infused with a sense of mystery, fate and the quintessential Portuguese feeling of saudade.
Bursting out of the song and forming a dramatic core for the proceedings, came a central section in which not just the song was 'suspended', but the whole pace dared to slow down.
This anguished, comtemplative section is mostly carried by the actress Sílvia Almeida's terrific performance and it's punctuated with a sound design which I'm particularly proud of.The return to the song is triumphant and the overall result of part film/part music video displays what could perhaps be summed-up as hybrid vigour."

With special thanks to: Teatro da Garagem, who made their professional technicians and space at Teatro Taborda available; Frederico Corado (for his kind generosity) and Enrique Rodriguez (for making the post-production of this project a little less turbulent);

For more information and music from Nanashi, visit:

http://www.myspace.com/nanashiportugal
For other music videos and work by Filmmaker João Paulo Simões, visit his Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/JPS3

2009-08-13T13:34:00.000-07:00

Independent Filmmaker João Paulo Simões talks to Laércio Costa about the upcoming film project Londoners.

Laércio Costa: To what extent has the fact that you’re a Portuguese filmmaker living in Britain influenced your involvement in this project?
João Paulo Simões: It could definitely be said that my involvement in Londoners has a very personal angle. It’s being written by a close friend and collaborator (London-based actor Alexandre Guedes de Sousa), but, as it was presented to me, I immediately related to the concept on a human level – as someone who’s come to this country in the pursuit of what he couldn’t attain in his own.
There’s also, and perhaps more importantly, the artistic/professional side. The way I see it, this project is the culmination of a lot that I’ve been expressing and exploring since I started living and working permanently in the UK. It will incorporate a lot of what my experience in the documentary field has taught me, as well. Particularly, the work I continue to be commissioned to make under the banner of Frontier Media, which has an ethical commitment to worthwhile causes and has helped promote social integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, amongst other things.

LC: Despite the multicultural side of London, Londoners brings racism to the foreground. Don’t you find that these two aspects together remain a paradox? How will the lens of your camera view and illustrate this?
JPS: Without a doubt. England is one of the European countries which most and better promotes the integration of different cultures within established communities. But that comes at a cost. There’s the unspoken, yet quite generalised, view that such approach can be in detriment of the traditions which have held this country together for centuries.
For almost everything official you’re required to do here, you’re asked to fill an Equal Opportunities form, in which you’re requested to state your ethnicity, etc. This might be in place to ensure that there’s no discrimination, but it also very immediately puts you into ‘a box’. What Londoners will explore, as a means to illustrate this dichotomy, is the way you can end up paying a very high price for either not knowing your own ‘box’ or attempting to move to another one. With such a rigid Class System still in place, such concept will unavoidably extend to issues other than race.

LC: This very same multicultural side and its subsequent tensions have already been explored in other film projects. What will Londoners add and bring of different or new to the 21st Century spectator?
JPS: I often say, when talking about this project, that I’m still to see to this date a multi-character film that fulfils me as a viewer. By that, I mean, more specifically: a piece with different narrative strands, interweaving the lives of various characters in a way that is not contrived or too reliant on the notion of chance. The portrayal of a modern, urban city and how it determines the fate of the characters is one of the most imperative concepts to get right, in this particular case.
As in a lot of my fictional work, this is about identity. Becoming a Londoner can be perceived not just as a new identity, but also as a new status through which the characters believe they can succeed. And there’s on the other hand, the cultural identity you somewhat corrupt (if not sacrifice) along the way.
This is where reality will begin to seep through the narrative. The film will incorporate the accounts of real people – and the bridge between those and the dramatic elements will be established by a fictional young Scottish filmmaker who, when forced to take on a job as a street fundraiser, initiates a personal documentary project entitled Oysters (itself a reference to the TFL card all Londoners use in real life - and through which their whole lives can be, to a great extent, mapped out).
In this factual film-within-the-fiction film, individuals are captured on camera and given the chance to briefly share the reasons for leaving their country of origin and what their hopes were once they arrived in London.

LC: Londoners has been labelled on your blog as “thought-provoking”. What reaction does this project intend to “provoke”?
JPS: The main thing for us is that this is a project which is entirely relevant for our times. It’s deeply rooted in social observation and will therefore invite the viewer to relate on an emotional level to the transient quality of the different characters’ lives.
With this, comes a good degree of realisation. We expect actual Londoners to watch it and, once they step out of their homes, to feel their surroundings as a continuation of what they’d just seen... To perceive the people sitting next to them on the tube as characters from the film...
The film will also touch upon key-aspects of contemporary British society and some uncomfortable truths of the recent History of this country. But it’s the humanity of the characters and real life contributors which will give it its global appeal, making Londoners about our place in an increasingly alienating and insular modern world.

João Paulo Simões is the Producer/Director of the notorious Antlers of Reason and various other fiction films, documentaries and music videos. Amongst the projects he has in development is the documentary ‘Beyond Climate Change’ - http://beyondclimatechangedocumentary.blogspot.com/
Laércio Costa is a Portuguese Copywriter with experience in Journalism - http://laerciodcosta.carbonmade.com/

2009-07-31T04:19:00.000-07:00

New Beginnings: Journeys To Employment - Binta, the first of three short videos illustrating stories of success from Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK - commissioned by VAS, Voluntary Action Sheffield.

For more information, contact: refugee@vas.org.uk

0114 253 6650

Or visit: www.vas.org.uk/volunteering

2009-07-19T12:33:00.000-07:00

Developed as a TV series, Londoners is a thought-provoking, character-driven project deeply-rooted in social observation. Entirely relevant for our times, this Cinematic experience explores the transient lives of different characters and concerns the inherent tensions one finds in the increasingly multicultural British society of today.
Londoners is written by Alexandre Guedes de Sousa and directed by João Paulo Simões;
Preview is a Frontier Media Presentation, featuring Linda Valadas, Milton Lopes, Thomas Thoroe, Hannah Day, Alexandre Guedes de Sousa, Eleanor James and Mandeep Dhillon; Music by Sieben;
Special thanks: Daniel Saraiva, Rui Jesus, Rafael Saraiva, Enrique Rodriguez, Sarah Coleman, Matt Howden and Alex Usborne;

Food & Mood - Tankersley Health Week

2009-05-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media's production of the Health Week Event in Barnsley. Students from Tankersley Primary School were invited to take part in activities which, by combining Drama, Music and Dance, illustrated the invaluable benefits of a healthy diet.

Antlers of Reason Now Available on DVD

2009-04-01T16:03:00.001-07:00

We are proud to finally release the Special Edition DVD of the original Antlers of Reason - the first feature-length instalment in the Thalus Trilogy.
The film has been digitally remastered and the DVD includes such extras as a Sieben Music Video, two Torpor Revisited Previews and the Official Thalus Trilogy Trailer.
You can order it directly from this site or from other selected online venues at the discounted price of £7.99.

Lucifer On The Moor/Virgin In The Green

2009-03-08T14:31:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media has completed the task of re-editing material from previous Captüra Filmes/Rear Entrance Films productions.
As a means to promote the new Sieben album, As They Should Sound (itself the re-working of previously released tracks), we were faced with the challenge of employing footage that was originally conceived for an altogether different purpose.
Whilst Lucifer On The Moor had to condense imagery which spanned all seasons and make it coherent by giving it a fresh new look, Virgin In The Green employs a selection of sequences from the feature film Antlers of Reason (in the soundtrack of which an earlier instrumental version of the theme was used) and weaves them into a romantically tragic and atmospheric tapestry.
Previews available on http://www.youtube.com/JPS3
As They Should Sound available on http://www.matthowden.com/

Watch out for news on the Special Edition DVD release of Antlers of Reason on http://antlersofreason.blogspot.com/ and http://capturafilmes.blogspot.com/

AstroPhilosophy

2009-02-13T04:26:00.000-08:00

Frontier Media completes the first official commission of 2009.
The Portuguese-language promotional video AstroFilosofia explores the ground-breaking concept of AstroPhilosophy as developed by José Prudêncio and in which Astrology meets Greek Philosophy. Prudêncio's ideas and literary work are also presented here in an insightful interview, complemented with evocative imagery.

The video was co-produced by Fernanda Brito, with music by Nuno Maló (Amália, A Arte de Roubar) and narrated by Mónica Sintra.
For additional information, visit: http://www.joseprudencio.com/ and http://www.fernandabrito.com/

Completion

2008-12-23T14:00:00.001-08:00

Frontier Media concludes 2008 in great style with the completion of the eagerly anticipated extended version of the documentary on Borreliosis/Lyme Disease, "One Tick Away".
Featuring brand-new material filmed across England, this version also adds substantial scientific background to the matter.

"This film is the most relevant and important Frontier Media production to date. We are immensely proud to have contributed to the exposure of this 'hidden disease' and intend to continue developing projects which support worthwhile causes." - João Paulo Simões

The DVD edition of One Tick Away will be released in January and can be ordered via BADA-UK's official website: http://www.bada-uk.org/

Extended Frontiers

2008-09-30T06:50:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media is on the road again, as an extended version of the ‘One Tick Away’ documentary gets into production - once more commissioned by BADA-UK (Borreliosis & Associated Diseases Awareness UK).
This time around, the company wll be crossing the country to gather additional footage in the shape of interviews and in-depth scientific background for the film.

See previous posts for more on Borreliosis/Lyme Disease and further details of this Frontier Media exclusive production.
The first version of the film can be previewed on Frontier Media’s Online Channel: http://www.dailymotion.com/FrontierShowcase

And for more information on the effects, treatment and prevention of Borreliosis, visit:
www.bada-uk.org

Three of the Frontier Media-produced ecological spots for www.TheEcoShop.com

2008-08-17T04:16:00.000-07:00

EcoShop_Spot1_Interview
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EcoShop_Spot2_Woodware
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EcoShop_Spot3_BlackSoap
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One Tick Away - Documentary Preview

2008-08-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

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Brand-New Documentary

2008-08-13T08:56:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media has just completed ‘One Tick Away’, a documentary commissioned by BADA-UK (Borreliosis & Associated Diseases Awareness UK). It has been specifically written and designed to raise awareness about Borreliosis, which is also known as Lyme Disease and can be contracted by the mere bite of a tick.
This film can be previewed on Frontier Media’s Online Channel: http://www.dailymotion.com/FrontierShowcase

and it marks the beginning of a new partnership with Redroom Studios, where the documentary was scored and mixed by Matt Howden – a collaborator of Producer/Director João Paulo Simões in such projects as High Broad Field, Antlers Of Reason and Stolen Waters & Other Absences.

For more information on the effects, treatment and prevention of Borreliosis, visit:
http://www.bada-uk.org/

Private View

2008-04-21T05:26:00.000-07:00

Private View
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2008-03-25T10:39:00.000-07:00

Frontier Media In 43 Seconds:

2008-02-13T04:19:00.000-08:00

Frontier Media Presentation
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2008-01-14T06:31:00.000-08:00

Frontier Media's ecclectic productions have so far included the short film Strings & Sutures, the Sieben album trailer for Desire Rites, two hip-hop music videos filmed in Portugal and the documentary Forging A Future.
With other commisioned work being negotiated, these should be considered the very first steps towards a varied international output of the highest standard.

More to come on these and other commissions soon.