On tonight’s episode of Inside Out (BBC One, 7.30pm) presenter Ashley Blake will be exploring the recent successes in the West Midlands film industry. Ashley Blake goes on set of forthcoming Northern Soul film ‘Souled Out’ during its filming in Stoke-On-Trent, and explores other recent feature films shot in the region such as up-market chiller-horror … [Read more…]
Vote again for CiB – last few days Thanks to some fantastic support CiB has a slim lead in the voting. Polls close on Tuesday 13th at 10pm. Please vote daily (and encourage others) until then Screen WM – Birmingham filmmaker shortlisted for the Auteur Award “Birmingham filmmaker Steven Rainbow’s short film ‘A Small Silent … [Read more…]
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The sit-down comic An interview with Birmingham’s Laura Howells – the Beano’s first ever regular female artist (hat tip to Andy Mabbett) John Garghan, exhibition in the new year The guy who takes the fasinating photos of torched cars. He’s getting ready for an exhibition at the Solihull Arts Complex … [Read more…]
New ‘Creative’ guide launched for West Midlands entrepreneurs I can’t find a copy but it looks like it could be a blimmin interesting/useful document to get your mitts on. Can anyone find this online? Young People Arts Project: New Project Opportunity – Audiences Central “Audiences Central, with arts consultant Kerry Endsor, is looking to develop … [Read more…]
Faintheart, the user-generated film that Screen WM had a hand in bringing through, will be shown free of charge in 150 cinemas and on MySpace on 27 Jan 09 with a DVD release a week later. The locations for the screenings will be decided by visitors going to the Faintheat MySpace page and putting their … [Read more…]
Festive Film Showcase by Screen WM – Mon 8th Dec @ Radisson Birmingham “On Monday, Screen WM are generously putting on a (FREE) day long series of screenings and events, leading up to the featured screening of ‘The Children’ with a masterclass and Q&A session from its director Tom Shankland” Brumcast 113 ‘One Cup of … [Read more…]
trying to arrange a british tumblr meetup Substrakt’s Tom Martin would like to organise a British tumblr meet-up. If you work for any sort of digital agency in the city/region then it’d be worth getting in touch and lending him a hand Screen WM Acronym Glossary (SAG) Might be of use to someone (this is … [Read more…]
Wrote Under Wrote Under, the open mic night for music, poetry, comedy, stories and such has a blog here. The next event is Sat 22 Nov at The Spotted Dog from 8.30pm Crescent Theatre Blog The Crescent Theatre has a blog. Hoorah! Punch – BASS 09 Commissions “The aim of this year’s theme is celebrate … [Read more…]