Film

£4m for West Mids Films

Creative Wolverhampton have posted the press release from Screen West Midlands about their securing “£4 million of additional production funds to invest in film and digital media production over the next four years.” The new Media Production Fund is open to film and digital media projects from across the UK and productions will be green-lit … [Read more…]

Big City Doc

You know that Big City Plan that Stef’s been blogging about? Well, part of that is a short film put together by Sarah Bagner of Squint Opera consisting of interviews with people from Birmingham. So far she’s talked to planners and architects and wants to widen the net a lot. After a brief chat at … [Read more…]

7inch November

The 7 Inch Cinema listings for November are online for your perusal. As usual, a film bias that bleeds into other things Ian and Pippa are into.

Digital Festival confirmed

Birmingham a pioneer of the digital age is the mildly eyebrow raising headline of this Post feature by Culture Secretary James Purnell about our Digital Film and Media Festival scheduled to take place in October 2008. The details of next year’s festival are still being put together, but I can reveal that it will be … [Read more…]

Kipple

Kipple is one of those events that beforehand you’ve got no sodding idea what it’ll be about or like but it’s intriguing enough to make you suspect it’ll be something special, or at least worth a punt. Kipple is a term popularised by insanely great sci-fi writer Philip K Dick referring to “unwanted or useless … [Read more…]

Script

Noted: Script – “the West Midlands agency for dramatic writers”. They give advice, run workshops and are based in the Custard Factory.

SWM Script Grants

The next round of script grants from Screen WM is open to submissions. The scheme offers writers based in the West Midlands region up to £5,000 to help develop ideas and treatments into original screenplays, improve existing drafts, or adapt an existing work. The deadline is Friday 5th November.