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John Henshaw joins cast of Rochdale Pioneers, about birth of Co-op movement
Submitted by the Co-operative Group (with edits)
It started with 28 men in Rochdale in 1844. Now there are over a billion members of co-operatives worldwide - with combined turnover each year in the UK alone of £33bn. A new film from the British Youth Film Academy, funded by the Co-Operative Group will tell how it all began. Filmed in the Greater Manchester area as part of The Co-operative’s a...
Doddle and Handheld Production Tools
The very first business plan for Netribution back in 1999 included online call sheets that automatically filled in certain details like location maps and contact details. It never happened, so it's good to see it finally reality in DoddlePro, but this time without having to print the call sheets as it's using smart phones. Brent Burdick submitted the skinny - Ed.
doddlePRO (doddleme.com) is a ...
A Film Industry First? British Movie ‘Love/Loss’ Offers Audiences a Live Link-Up with the Film Set
On Friday 21st August 2009 Gadabout Productions are streaming live behind-the-scenes action from the set of the new British movie ‘Love/Loss' staring BAFTA-winning actors Virginia McKenna and Keith Michell. Film fans will be able to watch live, unedited footage of cast and crew on set by clicking on the Love-Loss website www.love-loss.com. The webcam will follow all the rehearsals and filmin...
Mohamed Al Daradji's Son of Babylon feature wraps filming in Baghdad
Film looks at Saddam regime's 'modern holocaust'
- second feature from Leeds based Oscar-shortlisted producers Human Film
- 400,000 bodies in mass graves found since 2003 from over 30 years of rule
- cast and crew are made up of many survivors of regime
- includes lead actress Shazada Hussein; the only woman to witness against Saddam during his trial
'If we forget the past, there is n...
The sun shines in Cannes on a New Voice in World Cinema
"Religion is something private, it's
about you and your God. You respect me, I respect you - we live together
this fantastic life. This is why God made us different. If he made us
the same with one religion, it would make life boring. That's why he
made us different: white, black, yellow, brown." Mohamed Al Daradji *
It was Laurence Boyce, actually, who alerted me...
The rise of low-budget: Paramount spends $25m on 2008 tentpole
Prospective blockbusters are not usually built this way. From the NY Times
Rob Moore, the executive who oversees Paramount Pictures' marketing
and distribution operations, had an open date in his movie schedule. He
had just watched a little step-dancing film called "Stomp the Yard"
clean up over last year's Martin Luther King's Birthday weekend, and he
figured his company ...
BBC and Pathe to Produce Kipling’s Jungle Book Movie
The BBC has joined forces with French film studio Pathe to co-produce a $50m (£24.8m) movie based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. The film will be shot as live action and CGI techniques will be used to appear to make the animals in the story talk. Director is to be BBC natural history filmmaker John Downer, who filmed the Emmy-nominated drama documentary Pride. Michelle F...
Midlands production company wins 15th award of past two years
iceni, a Midlands business video production and broadcast design agency, is celebrating after scooping two awards at the prestigious US International Film and Video Festival in Hollywood. This takes the company’s worldwide award haul to fifteen in 2006 and 2007.
The Staffordshire based production company received Certificates of Creative Excellence in the Advertisin...
Broadcast Video and Corporate Film Production Services go Climate Neutral
iceni®, a Midlands business video production and digital design agency, is offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from every mile of road, rail and air travel, on every project in 2007. This offsetting is offered at absolutely no extra cost to clients.