Here an article by our Richard Webb published on Universal Film Magazine.
The mag can be downloaded for free at www.ufmag.biz

When we were organizing the Matchbox House Exhibition Party, we got in contact with Daniele Rugo, director of London Last Days, and invited him to showcase the trailer. After this, Daniele proposed to publish an article about Matchbox and Sandgrains on MUBI's Garage, an online cinema and community for people who love film. 

Garage is a specific branch within the MUBI site that exists to curate and showcase media created by emerging filmmakers. Here is the full article written by our wonderful Richard Webb.

Emanuela Bonchino of Rai News 24 (Italian National Broadcaster News Channel) interviews Francesca Tosarelli and Jordie Montevecchi of Matchbox Media Collective. The news piece covers Sandgrains as our main crowdfunded project, strategies of the collective and photography of Lampedusa and Occupy LSX.

Thanks to Riccardo Frugone that made it possible!

Here is the video! Also with English subtitles.

Thanks to everyone that joined us at our October House Exhibition Party!!!

Here are photos from the backstage and from the party by photographers Francesca Tosarelli and Thomas Cristofolett.

Click on the images to view the photo galleries.

You are warmly welcome to join us at our second House Exhibition Party. We had over 40 submissions by international artist, and after a long selection process we chose 25 works from 15 artists out of 9 different countries.

The event will kick off on the 28th of October  2011 @ our Dalston headquarters, in a night of exhibitions, screenings, DJ sets, cocktails and creative gathering...

Check out this short promo edited by Francesco Caradonna from footage of the July Exhibition by Francesca Tosarelli

Photographers, graphic designers, filmmakers, animators, painters: are you interested to exhibit your project at MatchboxMedia’s event?

click here to check out the last exhibition:
http://matchboxmedia.org/gallery/album/view/id/186

... This time the focus will be mainly on crowdfunded projects, but any other work is also welcome.
We are based in London and work from the creative area of Dalston, in a special 3 floor house with a nice garden. It will be a house exhibition party!

This is the program:
Friday 28th of October, 8 Camerton Close, Hackney London, UK. E8 3TB
from 7pm to 4am > exhibition time
Cinema/Exhibition/Beats/Posh Cocktails

... We give the chance to exhibit art on our walls and to show your works on our screen installations!
And if you have friends and contacts that might be interested please feel free to forward them this open call!

(If you don’t live in London Matchboxmedia can host you during the weekend at our place

Please, send your proposal to mail@matchboxmedia.org before the 7th of October 2011. We'll contact the artists by the 8th to notify our selection.

More info about the Collective: www.matchboxmedia.org
Our current crowdfunded project can be seen at www.sandgrains.matchboxmedia.org

As our first major crowd-sourcing experiment we decided to open a competition for the realization of the film’s ideogram and logotype.

Some say that the crowd has talent, We believe them!
Are you a graphic designer? Can you do the job? You are in the team!

Are you a professional designer and want to become part of the team?
Or are you a graphics amateur wanting to give your shot at this?
Maybe you are a student looking to find the perfect work to bring to the exams and want to make something that becomes real?

If you participate with your idea, you will get a behind the scenes access through our subscribers’ newsletter for producers and a special note on our web site.
If you win the contest your work will become the logo of this project, and you will become the designer for this project with a profile in the team page and a credit in the film. Check out the budget to see how much is allocated for this paid job.

If you choose to take part in the contest, here are some guidelines:

You should submit a finished and fully developed graphic idea for a logo (ideogram) and the ‘Sandgrains’ text (logotype) connected to it.

The idea should be that these two elements go together but can also be used separately.

Keep in mind that this creation of yours, if selected, will be giving the tone to the entire graphic visualization of the project on different media.

The design should take inspiration from the issues explored in the film; there is a lot of information in this web page, but if you would like to discuss further any aspect relating even remotely to the work you intend to do, don’t hesitate to drop us a mail.

If your work is ready for submission just export a full resolution image, and send it along with your full contact details to Jordie or Gabriel, whose contacts you can find here.

If you win the contest and accept to be the graphic designer for the project, bear in mind that this is an innovative but also risky way of making a film, and we can’t foresee how much we will be able to fundraise.