Welcome to the blog of the Angel Film Festival! The Festival is a London-based (in Angel, for those of you who don't quite get it) short film festival, set up last year by three lovers of film, in a fit of hungover, Sunday fever. We ran over 4 Sundays in August 2006, showing 50 films in pubs across Islington. Loads of people came along, including coerced friends, filmmakers and random, confused people off the street, who we attracted with pretty actors and colourful flyers. We saw some great films - the winners and runners-up can be found at our official website www.angelfilmfestival.org. It was a success, much more than we expected and great fun to do.

Which is why, this year, we're planning to be even bigger and better. We're hoping to get some funding, which means prizes (and pets?) for all you budding film-makers out there. We're already lining up some unusual venues and maybe even some fringe theme nights. This blog is our way of letting you, our tiny but hopefully loving public, know what's going on and how three enthusiastic amateurs with full-time jobs get on with putting on an entertaining time for film-lovers out there.

I keep going on about "we", so I guess there should be some actual introduction of who "we" all are. I'm Terrie and I'm vaguely in charge of raising funds, marketing and standing on chairs shouting at our audience. Chris is the technical and venue guy, as well as the business brains, whilst Rick is the one who does press and gets to put together the final programme, an incredibly demanding job - God bless insomnia. We all watch every film that comes in and chip in with any ideas that we think will make the Festival great. It seems to work so far.

Welcome! I'm hoping that as well as letting you look at the man behind the screen, there'll be posts on other areas of the film world. Coming up: thoughts on the Oscar nomination and, after watching over 500 short films, my Top Ten tips on how to get into a Film Festival. Please comment and let us know what you think.

Terrie