Jeremy Blackmore

Freelance journalist | Editor | Copywriter | Public relations

Film, television and theatre

I've written extensively about film, television and theatre, including previews, reviews, interviews and features.

I'm always open to commissions. If I can help, please get in touch.

The New European •

The joy of revolution: the enduring power of Man with a Movie Camera

A founder of the Kino-Eye philosophy, Vertov identified the opportunity offered by film to provide a new truth, one linked to Soviet ideology, which would bring “creative joy to all mechanical labour” and “men closer to machines”.

Film-maker Dziga Vertov rode the agit-trains during the Russian civil war, producing pro-Soviet propaganda films – agitki – to spread the Bolshevik message to the masses, and worked on a similar series of newsreels in Moscow.

Yet his crowning achievement, 1929’s rema
EDP Norfolk Magazine •

When Hollywood festive film Jingle Jangle came to Norwich's Elm Hill

When David E. Talbert wrote the script for Netflix’s festive musical extravaganza Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, he pictured a fictional, magical cobblestone town as the centrepiece of the film.

“Little did I know, this town already existed,” he said of Norwich where historic Elm Hill was transformed into the vibrant Victorian town of Cobbleton at the height of last summer.