El País talks to Rafa

“Si haces un esfuerzo, hacerlo en Londres lo optimiza todo.”
“If you’re gonna make an effort, doing it in London will multiply it.”

A couple of weeks ago, John Carlin dropped by our studio on his quest to unravel the strange and powerful attraction of London. He was particularly interested in why and how the city manages to concentrate so much creative talent. It seems he didn’t get all the answers from Boris, so the next obvious candidate was Rafa!

Read the article “Londres, capital del mundo” here (in Spanish).

Watergun needs your help!

Spanish bank BBVA has launched the BBVA Open Talent and Innovation Network, a contest to pick one start-up business which will end up getting a substantial investment. As we are currently making a big jump in growth, this would help us a lot, enabling us to hire the people we need to work with.

So if you want to support us, please take a minute to vote for us. The procedure is easy: just log in with your Facebook or Twitter account and cast your vote for Watergun. You can also sign up with your email address.

Your help is appreciated!

Watergun represented by OB Management

We are thrilled that the guys at OB Management have decided to represent Watergun for all UK and US-based music video production. After searching for adequate representation for a long time, we are now looking forward to many fruitful collaborations.

The Black Diamond nominated for 2012 FITC Awards

Last year we worked on the VFX for The Black Diamond, an interactive film for Stella Artois, directed by unit9‘s Anrick Bregman. The project has now been shortlisted for the FITC 2012 People’s Choice Award in the Advertisement category.

You can vote with a simple click HERE. Deadline is the April 24th and we’d be super happy if you voted for this project (if you like it).

News Roundup for March

Our short film Dark Matters is finally done and moving into distribution. We will keep you posted on festival screenings and more news.

(click the poster to see the trailer)

We also had the chance to show our music video Riot Rhythm at the launch of Let’s keep it short, a monthly independent film night at Hackney Picturehouse.

And finally, the friendly crew of Shellsuit Zombie Magazine, invited us down to their screening program, alongside jotta, to show The Great Western Singularity, Moby – After and the Latitude Festival Visuals.

Watergun on the Rhizome ArtBase

We are happy to share the great news that both The Great Western Singularity and Circuit I (Syscapes) have been curated into the Rhizome ArtBase!

“Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of digital art containing over 2,500 art works. Encompassing a vast range of projects from artists all over the world, the ArtBase provides an online home for works that employ materials such as software, code, websites, moving images, games and browsers towards aesthetic and critical ends. The mission of the ArtBase is to provide free, open, and permanent access to a living and historic collection of seminal new media art objects.”

The Cadgwith Conspiracy

A couple of weeks ago, all four Watergunners gathered in lovely little Cadgwith, on the bottom bit of Cornwall for a week-long spiritual retreat. Remote from the day-to-day office tasks, and without mobile phone network, we finally had some time to debate and plan the future of Watergun, as well as finalizing our business plan.

Morereover, we took some very important decisions about our long-term goals, which include the production of between 4 and 6 major film projects over the next few years, from shorts to features and potentially the pilot for a TV series. Which means writing our own screenplays, so keep your eyes on this space in the future!