YOUNG SOULS Wins at Southend Film Festival

Copyright © Nicola Jane 2012


On Tuesday this week Dean attended the Southend Film Festival Awards ceremony along with Sonny "Scully" Evans (who stared as the lead in the film) where his short film YOUNG SOULS had been nominated for Best Short Film in the Music category. We are very pleased to announce that Young Souls won in that category! This is the 2nd award that YOUNG SOULS has secured since it was released back in July 2011, winning in the moving image category of Creative Review's Photography Annual. Young Souls has been very popular on the film festival circuit having already been shown at the London Short Film Festival and Cinequest, USA and will be shown at the Seattle International Film Festival at the end of May. You can now keep up-to-date with the film by following YOUNG SOULS on twitter and subscribe to the YOUNG SOULS page on Facebook.

Southend Short Film Festival

Currently all the entries for the Southend Film Festival Short Film Competition are being judged by actor Perry Benson. The awards ceremony will take place at the Park Inn Palace Hotel on Tuesday 8th May and starts at 7pm. Clips from all the entered films will be played and the winning Films will be screened in their entirety. It will be a great night out at the Park Inn Palace and all are welcome it is free entry so come down and support the festival and see some good stuff...come on!!!!

Young Souls to be shown at Seattle International Film Festival

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dean Chalkley’s short film YOUNG SOULS will be included in the highly prestigious Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) in Washington, USA!

SIFF runs from May 17th until June 10th and is the largest and most well attended film festival in the United States with 160,000 attendees expected in 2012. SIFF is also a recognised Oscar nominating Festival in the categories of Best Short Film and Best Animated Short Film!

YOUNG SOULS’s will be screened at the SIFF’s Uptown Theatre on Sunday 27th May as apart of the ShortsFest Weekend

Here’s the 2012 Trailer for the Festival….

"The Seattle International Film Festival is a BIG DEAL!!! How amazing that Young Souls has been selected. It means a hell of a lot to me. Young Souls is now getting out there, audiences are getting a kick out of it and being turned on whether they are knowing of the culture or not. The SIFF is a highly prestigious Film Festival and the largest in the USA, so the film will reach out in a physical way as never before. Young Souls is amongst incredible company just look at the festivals programme.. I can't wait for the audience to come through the door to settle down, for the lights to dim and then to start tapping their feet and watching the story of Young Souls unfold." - Dean Chalkley (2012)

YOUNG SOULS – to be shown at the Almost Grown weekender

Almost Grown Soul Club has linked up with the Southend~on~Sea Film Festival to present the 'Almost Grown Cellar Cinema Club'

12th May 2012 - 3PM-8PM - ENTRANCE: FREE



Taking place in the basement of the historic Royal Hotel, Dean Chalkley's short film YOUNG SOULS will be shown on the hour every hour from 4PM-8PM in between sessions by The Black Cat DJ collective, who will spin the best in Northern Soul, Rhythm & Blues and Ska to keep the essential club atmosphere “Uptight and Outta Sight” + a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
Later that night the club will take over the entire hotel for an all night club session.

Almost Grown Cellar Cinema
The Royal Hotel
1 High St.
Southend~on~Sea
Essex
SS11 JE

Watch this space for more details of what’s in store! :)

YOUNG SOULS FILM - AT CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL

The Festival is attended by 80,000 and although over 2,000 films are submitted each year only 188 films are shown and so we feel very honored that Dean Chalkley's YOUNG SOULS is among the final selection.


Cinequest is an annual independent film festival held in San Jose, California.

2012 is Cinequest's 22nd year and takes place from February 28th until March 11th.


YOUNG SOULS will be shown in the Shorts Program under "Give-and-Take" alongside 5 others.

Here is what the organisers had to say about the selections:

 "What sacrifices must one make?
No matter how it's defined, most people enjoy successes, but what we rarely reflect upon are the losses we suffer. Give-and-Take highlights the good and the bad of our endeavors. This program questions how much effort we are willing to put fourth to achieve our desire and to what lengths we are willing to go. But ultimately, these creative and inspiring shorts help us identify what we really value as individuals and determine for which ambitions we are willing to fight."

Young Souls will be shown on the following dates:
01/03/12 at 2:15 pm
06/03/12 at 4:30 pm
08/03/12 at 07:00pm

Click here to buy tickets to "Give-and-Take" Shorts Program 3 where YOUNG SOULS will be screened.

Dean Chalkley on Pelirocco Platters

Dean returned to England's most Rock and Roll hotel, Hotel Pelirocco for the 2nd time in a year to record the Podcast Pelirocco Platters.

Dean was asked back onto the radioshow by the host and hotel owner Mick Habeshaw Robinson to chat about Music, DJing, 'Young Souls' and his new exhibition 'Look Hear', which has it's opening night on 3rd February 2012 at the White Wall Space in Leigh on Sea, Essex.

YOUNG SOULS is currently being exhibited at Hotel Pelirocco. The show opened to the public on the 20th January and will continue on till 29th March. Open day and Night!

Young Souls Exhibition at the Hotel Pelirocco

For your chance to see a selection of Dean Chalkley's Young Souls photographic exhibition with an addition of some new, exclusive, never-before-seen images get yourself down to 'England's most Rock 'n' Roll Hotel' Hotel Pelirocco in Brighton.

The exhibition opens to the public from 20th January until 29th March 2012 and is Free!

To attend the highly anticipated, exclusive, launch party on the 19th January 2012 (6pm-11am) at the hotel, please RSVP your names to press@hotelpelirocco.co.uk

For more info on the event such as DJ line up and more please join the Young Souls Facebook page here!

For info about the Hotel Pelirocco click here!

Young Souls to be shown at London Short Film Festival

We've had to keep this under our hat for a few weeks… so I’m very proud to finally be able to revieal that Dean Chalkley’s short film Young Souls has been selected to be shown at the 9th London Short Film Festival!

The Festival will take place between the 6th and 15th of January 2012 at the Roxy Bar & Screen in Borough, London and will screen 24 Programmes of New British Shorts, showcasing nearly 300 new short films from British Filmmakers.

Young Souls will be screened as part of the New Shorts 16: Music & Video Program, on Thursday 12th January 2012.

To see it for yourself and be treated to a total of 152 mins (+interval) of the best british short films chosen by LSFF based on their marriage of sound and image, click here for tickets:http://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/2288/chk/070c

For more about the Listings on the 12/02/12 click here:http://www.roxybarandscreen.com/listings.php?event=1864

Creative Review announce Dean Chalkley’s Young Souls as “Photography Annual Motion Category” winner

We are very pleased to see that Creative Review has included an excerpt of the short film in their blog post announcing the winners of this year’s Photography Annual’s new Moving Image category.

Alongside Dean Chalkley’s Documentary ‘Young Souls’, which looks at the contempory Northern Soul scene, winners in this category include Carl Warner's animated short for Findus, Adam Hinton's work for the War Child charity, and Dave Young's 'Everyone has a story'.

LIBERATION!

Stephanie Binet from Liberation came over the channel last month to London to do a piece about Mod Culture. After coming to the premiere of Dean’s new short film YOUNG SOULS, which took place at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in London, she traveled to Reading for the “Reading Steady Go” festival. The festival; run by Reading Museum is a retrospective of the explosion of 1960’s youth culture and it’s legacy today. Here Stephanie also encountered Dean’s exhibition “The New Faces” exhibition, which is centered around a group of young modernists.

The results of Stephanie’s exploration can be seen here in Liberation!

YOUNG SOULS Exhibition at Youth Club has now ended.

Dean Chalkley's photographic exhibition and short film was being shown at PYMCA's Youth Club Gallery from the 22nd June untill the 16th August!

The Exhibition has now been taken down however you can still see the short film online at 125 Magazine's website. Click here to see it!

Young Souls has received rave reviews, but don't just take my word for it! Here are a few online reviews:

Creative Review

British Journal of Photography

and

It's Nice That

"[The] film... ...is seriously good in terms of the cinematography, sound, aesthetics etc., and (perfectly captured in the still photos) the dancing is so damn cool it hurts."- Bryony Quin, "It's Nice That"

YOUNG SOULS Exhibition extended due to popular demand.

Dean Chalkley's YOUNG SOULS Premiere

We are proud to announce that the premiere of Dean Chalkley's new short film will take place on July 14th 2011 at The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club.

Entry is free and by guest list only.

R.S.V.P Your full name and the name of any guests you wish to bring to: youngsouls@deanchalkley.com