Local Indie Feature Film

May 8, 01:37 PM by Kate Taylor

The film will be shot and produced in York and Manchester, UK. Premiere screenings to be held this summer. Check it out here or on IMDB search ‘Ex Cathedra’ Great project.

For more information about it click here

Produced by young professionals trying to beat the system
and take full advantage of guerilla filmmaking!

Put yourself on the map

Jan 29, 05:51 PM by Kate Taylor

Are you an individual looking to grow your ideas? Want to put you or your company on the moving image map of the North East? Then Northern Film & Media wants to hear from you. To help us fully understand, support and develop you or your company, we want to know the kind of environment that you thrive in. To do this, we have developed a new interactive website that allows you to plant yourself in the Northern Film & Media garden by taking a quick ten minute quiz that tells us just the kind of flower you are and how best to help you blossom.

We are looking for anyone working in creative media businesses (Venues, Exhibitors, Schools, Galleries, TV, film, new media, graphics, web, advertising, design, games, events) to register. Take the quiz and become a bright blossom in the NFM Garden in just five minutes. Having found out exactly what flower you or your business is Northern Film & Media wants to help you or your company to be seen, promote yourself, make contacts and join in on a vibrant on-line community.

And as an added incentive, everyone that registers on the Put Yourself on the Map website will be invited to a networking event in early 2009 where there will be fun and frolics to help grow your ideas a little further. Visit the Put Yourself on the Map website and take the quiz to find out what kind of creative flower you are. Contact the head gardener, Joanna Makepeace at Northern Film & Media for more information joanna@northernmedia.org.

Five Miles Out

Jan 23, 09:24 AM by Kate Taylor

For two years, Comma has been commissioning very short films based on poems that we, and other North West presses, publish. Last autumn we started to step this project up from poem-films to short-story-adaptations (short stories being our real forte as a publisher). The very first of these projects was an adaptation of a short story by previously unpublished Manchester writer, Sarah Tierney, commissioned as part of Comma’s first ‘new writer’ showcase, Bracket (2005). The story was adapted by new director Andrew Haigh and funded by Film 4 and the UK Film Council, through the Cinema Extreme programme.

The resulting film, Five Miles Out stars Dakota Blue Richards, rising British screen talent, and star of The Golden Compass. The story concerns a teenage girl coming to terms with her sister’s battle with life-threatening anorexia whilst on holiday. We’ve just heard that the film has been accepted into this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It will premier in the UK at the Edinburgh Film Festival. For more information about Comma and this film, see our website www.commapress.co.uk.

Digital [Re]Generation: Youth documentary film project

Jan 16, 02:06 PM by Kate Taylor

Aged 13 – 19 and live in or near Barrow? Are you a youth offender or often in trouble with the police? Are you at risk of being excluded from education OR have you been, or are currently, excluded? Want to do something amazing this winter? Then Signal Films wants to hear from you.

If you live in the Barrow or Ulverston areas and are aged 13 to 19 you can join Signal Films for free film production workshops leading up to a documentary film shoot in February half-term. Young people are invited to get in touch for more information on this exciting new project which gives you the opportunity to learn how to make your own film and gain new skills in directing, production, camera, sound and editing.

We really want to hear from people who are sometimes labelled as ‘anti-establishment’ or a ‘social nuisance’ by their community. For example young people who: truant; have been excluded from school or are at risk of being excluded; are often in trouble with the police or youth offenders; and young people who take part in activities often dubbed as social ‘nuisances’ e.g. skateboarding, BMXing, graffiti.

We want to give you a voice to share your thoughts with your community. Assisting you in this project will be successful film and music video director Karen Bird who is currently working on a multi-million pound deal to make three feature films. Once completed, the finished film will enjoy its own web page as part of the Signal Films website and will be showcased at a local premiere event. On top of this, your professional film will be submitted to international film festivals and hopefully win lots of prizes! To find out more or register an interest please contact Kate on
signalfilms@gmail.com or 01229 839983. Deadline 23 January. www.signalfilms.co.uk

Vote now for the north east’s most romantic film at the Tyneside Cinema

Jan 16, 02:00 PM by Kate Taylor

Film onscreen Saturday 14 February. Voting is open until 31 January at www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/love.

Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, based on Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, is currently wooing the people of the region for their choice for the north east’s most romantic film, to be screened on Valentine’s Night in a special one-off show. Visitors to the Tyneside Cinema’s website have been choosing their own favourites and sending in their choices via a special ‘love page’ online. If you would like that chance to see your favourite romantic film on the big screen and want to vote for it, voting is open until Saturday 31 January. The most popular movie will be announced and tickets will go on sale on Monday 2 February at the Tyneside’s Box Office, by calling 0845 217 9909, or are available online at www.tynesidecinema.co.uk

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