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Developing a TV Drama Series
The WM Screenwriters' Forum presents a workshop session: 'Developing a TV Drama Series' with Tony Jordan and Kudos Film & Television
Discuss how to develop a TV drama series proposal and what drama commissioners are looking for right now.
This is a fantastic opportunity for Producers’ Forum members to join members of West Midlands Screenwriters’ Forum to spend an afternoon with some of the leading lights of television drama: Tony Jordan (creator of Hustle and Moving Wallpaper, co-creator of Life on Mars) and Karen Wilson (Executive Producer on Hustle, Spooks, Holby Blue).
30 March 2010
Venue: The Bond,180-182 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE
2.00 pm Registration/Drinks
2.30 – 5.00pm Workshop
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Re-building the TV Drama industry in WM
The WM Screenwriters' Forum invites you to a public meeting : 'Re-building the TV Drama industry in the West Midlands'
With TV drama series like Hustle and Survivors now filming here, we look at how we can rebuild our TV drama industry in the region. Come along to The Bond to hear a stellar panel of TV drama names give their views.
This is an unmissable event for local screenwriters, directors, producers and anyone who cares about the future of television drama in the West Midlands.
30 March 2010
Venue: The Bond,180-182 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE
6.00pm Registration/Drinks
6.30pm Panel : 'Re-building the TV Drama industry in the West Midlands'Find out more about “Re-building the TV Drama industry in WM”
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SONS OF CUBA Screening
The award winning documentary, SONS OF CUBA will screen at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham on the 30th March and the 1st April (http://www.theelectric.co.uk/booking/index.php?film=136#film_136).
The project has been a labour of love for young director Andrew Lang who spent a year living in Cuba in order to gain unprecedented access to the legendary Havana Boxing Academy, the state institution that breeds future boxing champions for the island that has dominated Olympic medals in the sport for the last few decades.
SONS OF CUBA follows the stories of three young hopefuls through 8 dramatic months of training and education as they prepare for the biggest event of their lives so far: Cuba’s National Boxing Championship for Under-12s. But during the season, crisis strikes: Fidel Castro is taken ill and all of Cuba’s Olympic boxing champions defect to the USA. As the championship draws closer, the Cuba that the boys have been taught to believe in is at an historic crossroads.
As well as being nominated for a British Independent Film Award, SONS OF CUBA was the opening night film at last year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the US and has since gone on to win “Best Documentary” at the Rome International Film Festival, the “Youth Jury Award” at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and was awarded “Best Film on Latin American by a non-Latin American” at the recent Havana Film Festival, as well as picking up “Best Documentary” by the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema.
It’s been described in the press as:
“Extraordinary” and “a must see” BBC
“A spectacle of yearning and heartbreak” The Guardian
"Affecting & entertaining. It has all the makings of an arthouse hit" Hollywood Reporter
“A gem of a picture" Empire
“As moving and insightful a film as you'll see this year" The Telegraph
“Beautifully structured story of sacrifice, companionship, grief and glory" Time Out
"A truly top notch documentary" Eye for Film
You can get more details at our website www.sonsofcuba.com and/or join the film’s Facebook fan site at http://www.facebook.com/pages/SONS-OF-CUBA-The-film/66764915059.
