What first inspired you to get into your craft?
I watched far too many TV shows and films as a kid and may well have rotted various parts of my brain as a result, but I had a very good time doing it, and subsequently tried to find a way to carry on doing that and also get paid for it.

BAFTA Guru: Tom Basden Q&A

sleepyheadedme:

Your car is so pathetic it couldn’t kill a child.

Oh, you know, just…plain…bread and butter flavour.

Simon, Jared and Duncan, from Party, Series 1 Episode 4.

I know Simon should have sat in the middle of the back seat and Jared probably in the passenger seat, but don’t know anything about a 2CV. So, it’s wildly inaccurate anyway!

Written by ex-Working Title development executive Matt Wilkinson, who now has a first look deal with Pathe and is producing the top 2011 Brit List script, and produced by Wilkinson and Emily Leo, creative executive at Shine Pictures, Worm is directed by female duo Bert&Bertie, who have a healthy CV of commercials and award-winning shorts (including a BAFTA) behind them. Tom Basden and Robert Glenister star.

The Kafka-esque drama about a man who thinks his recently deceased father has turned into a worm features some nifty special effects and modeling. [Continue reading at the source.]