Foreign sales, repeat fees, contract basics; are you getting the fees you deserve? Directors UK, together with Sheridans law firm, give you the information you need for making bigger bucks on your next job.

Directors UK are paid by UK broadcasters for repeats and foreign sales. They even receive money from sales of blank DVDs and DVD players. Suzan Dormer, their Chief Executive, will tell you how to get your piece of the pie.

Sheridans law firm will then talk through the basic rights that are due to you as a director. They will give you the key check list for contract negotiations, informing you on what can be negotiated and what’s a waste of your time.

This is a women only event, and free for members.

As time passed Lolita, the most classical of Kubrick's films - first judged (often unfavourably) only in relation to Nabokov's literary masterpiece - was seen to fit ever more perfectly with the director's world view. The black comedy, the multiple impersonations of Peter Sellers as Quilty (shades of Dr Strangelove!), the sexual infatuation of Humbert Humbert for a nymphet and his descent into madness (an extraordinary performance by James Mason), brilliantly anticipated Kubrick’s future work.

See, Brighton Documentary Festival, launches this weekend with Three Miles North of Molkom. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Robert Cannan and Corinna Villari-McFarlane.

Every summer, more than a thousand people go looking for themselves at the No Mind Festival in northern Sweden.

The film follows the comic-come-karmic adventures of one 'sharing group' made up of a middle-aged mojo-worn lothario, a Swedish pop star, a Hawaiian hippy, an emotionally fragile Finnish grandma and the audience's sounding board, Nick, an Australian rugby coach who doesn't buy a second of their 'find your inner power animal' antics.

With Oscar® Night almost upon us it's easy to forget the short people. From this Friday, Shorts International and ShortsTV (Sky Channel 342) put them at the centre of attention with exclusive screenings of THE OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2009 in Picturehouse cinemas across the country.

With 2 programmes showcasing diverse work in both the Live-Action and Animation categories, this year's nominees include UK animation duo Smith and Foulkes' hilarious THIS WAY UP and Irish entry NEW BOY directed by Steph Green and based on a Roddy Doyle short story. Also screening is the latest Pixar Animation Studios short, PRESTO.

The animation programme will also feature additional films originating from the UK including the BAFTA-nominated VARMINTS and JOHN AND KAREN, a humourous evaluation of human relationships as seen through the eyes of a polar bear and a penguin.

Paramount are partnering with Sony for a major marketing push to promote the upcoming release - Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder (300). We received the following press release. I'm not too sure why they will only choose ten guests to ask questions, perhaps because the PlayStation virtial world cannot handle it?

At 4pm GMT on 23rd February, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) will be staging the first ever filmmaker Q&A to take place in the groundbreaking new virtual world PlayStation Home, promoting the international release of WATCHMEN on March 6th 2009.

An audience of ten guests – made up of journalists, bloggers and fans from around the world – will be given a unique opportunity to put questions to WATCHMEN director Zack Snyder and the graphic novel’s artist Dave Gibbons as part of this ambitious invitation-only event.

The event will be streamed live across the Internet, commencing a comprehensive WATCHMEN webcast which will include integrated film footage and a post event edit with coverage of the red carpet at the UK premiere in London’s Leicester Square.