As a producer I used to work with a writer-director who was incredible at pitching - he just oozed imagination but more importantly was really good with words and could articulate his ideas not only with accuracy and narrative structure, but also with a degree of contagious passion. It probably...
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the idea of generating revenues from Twitter-based drama - like Such Tweet Sorrow - by protecting tweets from individual key characters and charging nominal amounts, (59p, £1, whatever), to unlock them.
This idea has been buzzing round my head ever since...
We Are Eastside, an online and printed guide to the artists, collectives, promoters and spaces helping to transform Birmingham's industrial heartland into a thriving creative playground, is set to launch in Eastside on Saturday 27 March, as part of a major open weekend featuring free activities,...
Skillset Media Academies are transforming the landscape of continuing professional development (CPD) training in the Creative Industries with the introduction of the revolutionary Build Your Own MA programme.Build Your Own MA – being offered through ten Skillset Media Academies in England...
The Royal Television Society (RTS) Midlands Centre in partnership with Screen WM has announced the shortlist for its 2009 Awards, celebrating the region’s top media talent.A total of 44 individuals and productions feature in the shortlist, across 11 different categories including Best Digital...
Gypsies and Travellers regularly hit the news: ‘How Gipsies got £5million Lottery to beat planning rules’ (Mail Online), ‘Despair as travellers invade rural idyll.’ (Telegraph) ‘Locals outraged as illegal gypsy camp allowed.’(Mail) ‘Sun War on Gypsy...
New York African Diaspora Film Festival Honours the Birmingham Feature Film Director Khaled El Hagar
Khaled El Hagar is that rare thing - a Birmingham based international feature film director. Acknowledged in his home country Egypt as the most controversial movie maker of his generation, Khaled...
In the second of our guest-blogger reports from the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, producer Rachel Carter recounts her experiences taking digishorts 'Momster' and 'Caterpillar' to the festival and market...
My journey home from Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2009...
UK Film Council awards new consortium £400,000 to run Shropshire Rural Cinema Pilot SchemeLONDON – 26 July 2010: A newly-formed consortium has been awarded Lottery funding by the UK Film Council to bring the latest in digital cinema to local venues across rural Shropshire.The Shropshire...
The Next Big Presenter Competition
Are you the next Steve Jones or Davina McCall?
If you’re over 16 and have been presenting or a presenter in the making, then send us a link to your showreel of no more than two minutes. Prizes include a chance to do backstage reporting and award presenting...
Six of the West Midlands’ most promising up-and-coming filmmakers will receive funding by Screen West Midlands to support their production through the digitshorts scheme. The final six filmmakers were selected from over 130 entries to the annual scheme which offers funding of up to...
I’ve had one of those weeks when I’ve started to wonder whether I’m in the right job. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do and there’s no better place than Screen WM to be doing it. But I finally hit breaking point on Tuesday when I was invited to sign up for yet...
This November, Light House has a packed Media Education programme featuring a broad range of screenings and discussions. From the best in short films by disabled filmmakers to the latest Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Also this month there will be a chance to put your questions...
Case Studies - Feature Films & Televison Productions
Screen WM supports the development and production of feature films and major television productions by West Midlands writers, producers and directors, and also inward investment into the regional economy by encouraging major productions to...