May 2008
Reptile Day wins another award! Rollo and Tom went to Bognor to receive the award for Best Edit at the End of the Pier Film Festival. Sadly offline editor Jake Harris now lives in Canada so could not attend.

March 2008
Reptile Day receives "honourable mention". At the Boston Underground Film Festival Reptile Day received honourable mention in the best short film section. We imagine this is something like being runner up.

April 2008
Reptile Day in Bognor! We hope to make a spash at the End of the Pier Film Festival. We are showing on April 27th in the comedy section. Champagne and canapés to start before the evening is kicked off by producer/director Harold Snoad. We hope to see you there.

March 2008
Reptile Day at the Boston Underground Film Festival - Running from March 20th to 23rd in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the Boston Undergound Film Festival aims to subvert the way people look at films. As one of those selected, we trust that Reptile Day will play its part.

November 2007
Cinecity - The Brighton Film Festival, Brighton, UK. 22nd November 2008.

November 2007
Jury gives special mention to Reptile Day. The website of this Italian festival said: Menzione speciale al cortometraggio THE REPTILE DAY, proveniente dal Regno Unito, di Tom Hickmore. La Giuria ha deciso di premiare con questa menzione il film inglese “per l’espressione sorprendentemente originale di un film di genere”. We ran this through a couple of online translation sites and it comes out as something along the lines of - The jury decided to award this film with a special mention "for the creation of an amazingly original type of film."

October 2007
Reptile Day at the Sefton Short Film Festival. - The festival Sefton Short Film Festival was opened by Colin Dexter and we showed on October 10th as part of the launch night.

October 2007
Another Méliès Festival - We are pleased to announce that Reptile Day has been selected for screening at this year's Scienceplusfiction international fantasy film festival in Trieste, Italy, 12-18 November.

September 2007
Nice Media films to be shown in Hollywood! Two films in one festival! - Reptile Day (mini features section) and Married Life (eroticomedy section) have been selected for screening at the XFANZ Erotica Film Festival (15-16 Sept.) which offers " a thought-provoking celebration of erotica. “

August 2007
Trash Night! - Reptile Day has been selected for screening at this popular event in the Bunter Hund Film Festival in Munich, Germany (18-21 Oct) – a showcase for the very best off-key productions of the year. The English translation of Bunter Hund is `Colourful Dog`(!)

July 2007
Another award! - Reptile Day has won a Special Category Award at the da Vinci Film Festival in Oregon, USA – a 3-day celebration of independent, international film. The Spirit of da Vinci Award goes to the film that most represents the concept of the festival (either in subject matter or how the film was made).

May 2007
Coming Home - Reptile Day shows in Final Cut's selection of short films
to be shown in the Brighton Festival, May 13th, Po Na Na souk bar, East Street, Brighton. Doors open: 7.30pm. Admission: £4

Feb 2007
Latest Festival Selection - Reptile Day has been selected to participate in the European short films section of the 23rd Amsterdam International Film Festival, which will run from 18 to 25 April.

Jan 2007

Some pics from Clermont-Ferrand.

Jan 2007
TV Series - Tom has been working with co-writer Paul Sinclair and a team at Screenplay Productions to develop a TV series in the style of Reptile Day. The package is now complete and is being touted to the broadcasters.

Sep 2006
Festival updates - Reptile Day has been selected for screening at three more festivals:

CAN - Leicester International Short Film Festival, The Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester, 27th - 29th Oct
Sopot Film Festival, Poland, 10th - 15th Oct
"Where is the Love" International Short Film Festival, Bucharest, 16th - 21st Oct

Sep 2006
Reptiles invade London! - Reptile Day has been accepted for the Raindance Festival, taking place at Cineworld Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly, London and will be playing in the "Pulp Fictions" shorts programme, screening on Wednesday 4th October at 17:00.

Aug 2006
Shooting People Mobile Cinema - Reptile Day has been selected as one of the short films shown in the Shooting People Mobile Cinema.  This travels around the UK showing a selection of short films in small local venues. Apparently, the Mobile Cinema is also due to travel to the USA.  The first show of Reptile Day with the Mobile Cinema was at the Port Elliot Litfest, Cornwall.  The organiser wrote this of the event: "I felt the audience slightly start to lag.  I was prepared for this though and put on 'Reptile Day' next which thankfully works in front of audience as well as I'd hoped it would."  

Aug 2006
UK Premier - Tom and Anita attended the CAPTION Comic Festival for the first public showing of Reptile Day. The venue was the charming old cinema the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. Tom gave a short presentation before the film and took Q&A afterwards. The response was great, with loads of laughs, expressions of incredulous joy and applause at the end.  It was especially rewarding for Tom to hear the laughs – it was a clear demonstration that the film really works.  Big thanks to Daniel Hartwell, Selina Lock and their team for organising the show.

July 2006
"A massively enjoyable film"...."a piece of perfect kitsch"...."[Reptile Day] positively fizzes off the screen at you".

These are just some of the comments received in a bogglingly good review posted on Shooting People. Read the full review.

July 2006 
From Romania to Australia - Reptile Day has been selected
for screening at three major festivals around the globe including:

CAPTION - Comic Fesitval, Oxford (5-6 Aug 06)
ANONIMUL International Film Festival - Romania (14-19 Aug 06)
First & Last Experimental Film Festival - Australia (23-24 Sep 06)

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