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Screen WM, the regional screen agency, is proud to announce their investment in feature film TOAST, through the agency’s Advantage Media Production Fund, supported by regional development agency Advantage West Midlands and the European Regional Development Fund, which begins shooting this week.
TOAST is the ultimate West Midlands nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Wolverhampton. Based on the heart-wrenching bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, TOAST is a delicious retrieval of the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.
This is a major coup for the region and forms part of a wider strategy by Screen WM to secure and create a more sustainable screen media sector in the West Midlands. This film reinforces Screen WM’s strategy to support and invest in genuine regional films.
The investment means that TOAST, produced by Ruby Films and commissioned by BBC One and BBC Drama, will also be filmed entirely in the West Midlands. A fantastic local story, the film will be shot in and around Birmingham and Wolverhampton, with key scenes being filmed at the famous Black Country Museum.
The film is also a welcome investment for the regional economy. TOAST will provide an estimated 35 jobs for local film crew – invaluable at this challenging economic time.
As with all Screen WM’s Advantage Media Production Fund investments, the production will spend at least twice our investment amount directly into the local economy through employing local crew and utilising local facilities such as locations, caterers, hotels and restaurants throughout the 4-week shoot.
The production will also be taking on four local trainees to gain valuable on-set experience as part of Screen WM’s Production Placement Scheme. The scheme launched in Autumn 2007 to assist people wanting to take the first steps into Film & TV Production, the scheme provides on-the-job work experience for those looking to get into the industry and focuses on providing skills for regional film producers of the future.
Members of the supporting cast has also been found locally, including Birmingham School of Acting alumnus Sarah Middleton, and Frasier Huckle who plays Nigel’s school friend Warrel.
This latest announcement positions the West Midlands as an important hub for UK film and TV production. The film brings an all-star cast to the region including Alice in Wonderland’s Helena Bonham Carter and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Freddie Highmore, cementing Birmingham and the region’s reputation as a centre of excellence for drama production following last year’s relocation of major BBC series Hustle and Survivors as well as Land Girls and Doctors produced at the University of Birmingham Drama Village..
Suzie Norton, CEO, Screen WM says: “We are delighted that Ruby Films has made Birmingham and the Black Country its home for the production of TOAST. The film will make excellent use of the region as the backdrop to a unique and touching story, and the benefit of the additional economic impact, whether through employing local crew or using local facilities and locations, cannot be underestimated.”
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Light House offers a range of creative workshops covering Video Production, Animation and Multimedia. The workshops aim to support clients to develop a mixture of skills including personal, creative and technical, enabling them to progress either into the media industries or higher education. Throughout 2010 there is a range of introductory workshops for beginners to learn a new skill, alongside more advanced workshops designed for professionals looking to upskill. All workshops are delivered by media industry professionals using industry standard equipment.
Women’s Workshop - Introduction to Video Production:
Tuesday 27th July 10am - 4pm
Cost: £45 + VAT
Women’s Workshop - Introduction to Post Production:
Tuesday 3rd August 10am - 4pm
Cost: £65 + VAT
Introduction to Lighting Techniques for Video and Photography:
Friday 13th August 10am - 4pm
Cost: £45 + VAT
Women’s Workshop - Advanced Post Production:
Tuesday 24th August 10am - 4pm
Cost: £65 + VAT
Introduction to Film Studies - The Essentials:
Tuesday 24th August 10am - 4pm
Cost: £45 + VAT
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Now in its third year the Graduate Fellowship Programme fast tracks the careers of up to 11 emerging leaders from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups through professional development support including training placements lasting up to one year in leading film businesses, coaching and mentoring, master classes and workshops with top industry executives and filmmakers. Fellows also receive a training grant equivalent to £17,000 per annum.
So far the programme has supported 20 Fellows make the transition from unemployed to full-time employment. Past 'graduates' have been kept on by their host company and/or gone on to work on feature films and TV drama's such as Chatroom, directed by Hideo Nakata starring Nowhere Boy’s Aaron Johnson and Imogen Pots; Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me starring, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Cassey Affleck, Toni Grisoni’s famed Red Riding Trilogy for Channel 4 as well as Silent Witness and Waking the Dead for the BBC.
The Graduate Fellowship Programme is funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund.
It is also supported by heavy weight film companies including Film Four, Focus Features, ICON Entertainment, Ruby Films, Vertigo Films and Revolution Films, offering a variety of placements from Script Development through to Distribution.
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We came across this great little article in The Times and thought that you may find it interesting.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7105934.ece
On Tuesday evening 20 April, in London at the British Film Institute's South Bank Centre, the ground-breaking producer David Rose was honoured with one of the BFI's most prestigeous awards - a BFI Fellowship.
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