{"id":5,"date":"2013-05-08T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-08-16T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:47:40","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAT&#8217;S WHISKERS FILMS<\/strong><br \/>\nis a film and theatre production company set up by writer\/film maker <a title=\"Carol Allen \u2013 Writer\/director\/producer\" href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=982\">Carol Allen<\/a>. (biog)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Show-reel-033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Show reel 033\" src=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Show-reel-033.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"class=&quot;alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have so far made two half hour narrative features.<br \/>\n<strong>With Marjorie Gone<\/strong> and <strong>Miss Threadgold<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThese films were completed in 2012 and launched in a double bill in September as the opening event of a season of independent short films held at the Drayton Arms Theatre in Kensington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/official-selection-20132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"official selection 2013[2]\" src=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/official-selection-20132.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"class=&quot;alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/No-Gloss-Film-Fest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"No-Gloss Film Fest\" src=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/No-Gloss-Film-Fest.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"class=&quot;alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Marjorie Gone was screened at the Carmathan Bay Festival in Llanelli in April 2013 and was shown as part of this year&#8217;s No\/Gloss festival in Leeds in October.<\/p>\n<p>The film was then selected for the American Online Film Awards&#8217; 2014 Spring Showcase. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LaurelsGB-AOFA.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-977\" alt=\"LaurelsGB AOFA\" src=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LaurelsGB-AOFA.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LaurelsGB-AOFA.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LaurelsGB-AOFA-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/LaurelsGB-AOFA-560x400.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Miss Threadgold is an education project which Carol made with the New Horizons Drama Group in Kensington where she is drama tutor. It has been screened to older audiences with great success. We are open to further screening opportunities with older people&#8217;s arts festivals and other venues.<\/p>\n<p>For further details on both of the above and other projects, see <a title=\"Our Films\" href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=49\">Our Films<\/a> page<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projects in Development<\/strong><br \/>\nA Textual Affair<br \/>\n15 Cigarettes a Day ( isolation in older people)<\/p>\n<p>For further details on the above and a video of a conference performance of the theatre presentation of The Isolation Project, see our <a title=\"In Development\" href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=37\">In Development page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theatre productions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carol has directed several theatre presentations with the New Horizons group and the So and So Arts group.\u00a0 She collaborated with McFarland Ray Productions on <strong>The 21st Century Merchant of Venice <\/strong>.   She also wrote and directed \u201cThe Glorious Georges\u201d, a site specific piece about the history of Kensington Palace in the 18th century and <strong>War Babies<\/strong> for So and So&#8217;s Women and War festival &#8211; for details see <a title=\"Cat's Whiskers Theatre\" href=\"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/?page_id=457\">Cat&#8217;s Whiskers Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAT&#8217;S WHISKERS FILMS is a film and theatre production company set up by writer\/film maker Carol Allen. (biog) &nbsp; We have so far made two half hour narrative features. With Marjorie Gone and Miss Threadgold. These films were completed in 2012 and launched in a double bill in September as the opening event of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catswhiskersfilms.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}