Northwest Vision and Media, create the bigger picture
Northwest Vision and Media News Stories April - June 2007
April to June 2007
Temporary
Cumbria Film Liaison Officer
wanted
Northwest Vision + Media, the
screen agency for England’s Northwest, have a vacancy for a
Temporary Cumbria Film Liaison Officer to join our busy Film Office
team.
Date Posted: 29th June
True Dare Kiss
Debuts with Top Ratings
Debbie
Horsfield’s new six-part drama, True Dare Kiss, made its
debut on BBC 1 on Thursday 28 June with an impressive 4.4 million
viewers, comfortably claiming top spot in the ratings.
Date Posted: 29th June
Liverpool Soap For
BBC?
A new
Liverpool-based soap opera is being tipped as the BBC’s
replacement for Neighbours.
Date Posted: 29th June
The Region’s
Next Digital
Millionaire?
Northwest
Vision + Media is launching a series of unique Digital Academies to
develop the best innovative digital talent in the region.
Date Posted: 28th June
Temporary
Funding Department Manager
wanted
We have a
temporary vacancy for a Funding Department Manager to join our busy
team based within BBC Manchester.
Date Posted: 26th June
First Feature Film
from Iraq to be Shown in Liverpool
One
of the first feature films to come from post-Saddam Iraq is to be
screened in Liverpool, months before its national release.
Date Posted: 25th June
Northwest Youth Offered
Cash for Great Ideas
Northwest teenagers interested in making media projects are being
urged to act now, to claim cash from a multi-million pound
fund.
Date Posted: 25th June
Your Chance to be
in The Tournament
Manchester director
Scott Mann is currently filming The Tournament, a new motion
picture. The filmmakers need short DV action sequences to appear in
the film. Deadline: 4th July
Date Posted: 25th June
Digital
Departures Announces Stunning Short
List
A STUNNING, world-class group of
film and TV professionals have been selected as finalists in the
prestigious Digital Departures filmmaking initiative, created by
Northwest Vision + Media.
Date Posted: 20th June
UK’s First
TV Production Apprenticeships Offered in
Northwest
Some of the biggest names in TV are offering twenty Northwest young
people a fabulous - and unique opportunity - to break into the
business and work behind the scenes of the broadcasting
industry.
Date Posted: 14th June
08 Filmmakers’
Short List to be Revealed
Twelve Liverpool-based filmmaking teams are one step closer to
reaching the filmmaking destination of their dreams, by making it
to the short-list of Digital Departures.
Date Posted: 14th June
Bursaries
Available for Screenwriters’
Festival
Northwest Vision + Media are
offering eight regional writers the opportunity to attend the
excellent upcoming International Screenwriters’ Festival in
Cheltenham in July 2007.
Date Posted: 14th June
Northwest’s Leading
Audiovisual Organisation Named
Northwest Vision + Media today celebrated the announcement of its
newly-revealed company name.
Date Posted: 14th June
WFA's
Summer Showcase
Thursday 14th June
2007
Screening 2pm to 4pm with free food and drinks from 1 pm. WFA
extends a warm welcome to all at the summer screening of New Media
films produced by trainees and other associates attending courses
or using facilities at WFA.
Date Posted: 13th June
Hundreds
Attend Star Studded Northwest Film
Premiere
Hundreds of film fans packed
Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall last night as award-winning
writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s latest movie, Grow Your Own,
received its British premiere.
Date Posted: 12th June
Exodus Shorts Film
Festival
Exodus Shorts is a unique film festival that showcases the talent
of refugee filmmakers as well as short films that give a fresh and
diverse perspective on the lives of refugees and people seeking
asylum.
Date Posted: 12th June
Cornerhouse
Presents...Made in Hong Kong
Throughout June and July 2007, Manchester’s Cornerhouse is
presenting a season of films and related events timed to coincide
with the tenth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong.
Date Posted: 12th June
moves07
launched
moves07 kicks
off today for six days of films and videos, debates (including a
two-day conference) and networking events.
Date Posted: 12th June
Facility
of the Month for June
Thankfully
escaping the recent Dale Street inferno, October Films North are
one of the newest additions to the Northwest’s expanding
production scene.
Date Posted: 11th June
Location
of the Month for June
Over the last three years, the Borough of Trafford has experienced
a significant growth in filming activity, receiving a record 70
filming days for 2006.
Date Posted: 7th June
Crew of
the Month for June
Stockport director/writer Dan Turner has clinched the prestigious
Crew of the Month title from North West Vision, the region's
leading audiovisual agency.
Date Posted: 7th June
Premiere
For Northwest’s Home Grown Film
Tonight sees the star-studded premier of Grow Your Own, the
brilliant new British film.
Date Posted: 7th June
Lights,
Cameraphone, Action!
Do you have the Phone Factor? And have you got what it takes to
make movies? An exciting new initiative has just been launched for
future filmmakers to make their mark – using a mobile.
Date Posted: 7th June
Digital
Academies being developed for
Northwest
Digital media companies and
production companies in the Northwest are soon to get their own
Digital Academies – a chance to join forces and discover the
vast opportunities to be had in working together.
Date Posted: 7th June
Enabling North West Talent
trainee scheme success
THE Enabling
North West Talent (ENWT) scheme, designed to support people with
disabilities into the media industries, is now drawing to a
close.
Date Posted: 7th June
Welcome to Media Foundation
Placement Scheme Trainees
ITV Granada,
BBC Manchester and Lime Pictures have just welcomed new faces into
their buildings, as twenty trainees on the new Media Foundation
Placement Scheme (MFPS) have begun their year long
placements.
Date Posted: 7th June
10th RAI
International Festival of Ethnographic
Film
HOSTED by the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and the Centre
for Screen Studies, the 10th RAI Festival incorporates two events -
a series of Film Screenings, 27 June – 30 June and a
Conference, 30 June – 1 July.
Date Posted: 31st May
Competition
for designers to get their sting on propeller
TV
GRAPHIC designers, TV, film and video makers can enter a new ident
competition that will see the winning work shown on national
‘art-house television’ channel propeller tv (Sky 195)
later this year.
Date Posted: 31st May
Get it
while it's hot! Final Cut Pro workshops at 70%
discount!
THESE two day workshops with
an accredited Apple trainer are an absolute must for freelancers
interested in developing their editing skills.
Date Posted: 29th May
moves07 Festival
Launches Programme
MANCHESTER-BASED moves07 returns for the third year on 12-17 JUNE
2007 as the largest UK platform for screen-based work exploring
movement in the form of dance films, interactive installations,
animation and experimental shorts.
Date Posted: 29th May
BBC Commissioners at
b.TWEEN 07
b.TWEEN 07 Interactive Media
Forum is happening on June 14-15, at the National Media Museum,
Bradford. A range of BBC commissioners will be on hand at b.TWEEN
07 to meet new talent at Facetime, an exclusive one-to-one session
for delegates.
Date Posted: 29th May
The Radar Festival –
Call for Entries
18 JUNE 2007 sees the launch of the second Radar Festival, the best
competition anywhere for aspiring music video directors. This
unique international competition offers aspiring directors
worldwide the opportunity to start their career in the music video
industry.
Date Posted: 29th May
Queen Cotton hits the
screens again
A UNIQUE collection of films about Lancashire’s cotton
industry, some of which have not been screened for over half a
century, are to be shown by the North West Film Archive (funded by
North West Vision), at the Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI) in
Manchester.
Date Posted: 29th May
Invitation to
Tender for Re-Branding
A MERGER between North West Vision and Media Training North West
has taken place and now we’re looking for a new company logo
and style.
Date Posted: 24th May
An A-Z of
Northwest Film and TV Talent
THE Northwest has been presented with its first ever Talent Year
Book, with information on the region’s most dynamic new
filmmakers and writers being brought together for the very first
time.
Date Posted: 24th May
Liverpool’s Limelight in
Cannes
THE international filmmaking
industry has celebrated the success of Liverpool’s filmmaking
heritage, at a glitzy showbiz party hosted by North West Vision in
Cannes.
Date Posted: 22nd May
Northwest Wins at
BAFTAs
IT was a night of triumph for the
Northwest at Britain’s TV Oscars. BBC1 TV viewers across the
country watched Bury-raised comedy star, Victoria Wood, take two
top awards at the British Academy Television Awards.
Date Posted: 21st May
Executive Producer
for Digital Departures
LISA MARIE RUSSO
has been appointed Executive Producer for Digital Departures, an
ambitious plan which will produce three feature-length films in the
Northwest within the next 18 months.
Date Posted: 21st May
Lancashire Writers
and Directors Offered Training
WRITERS and Directors in East Lancs are being urged to apply for
the Distinct Voices Diverse Lives training scheme. First Take is
running this brilliant project, backed by North West Vision, the
strategic film, TV and digital media agency for England’s
Northwest.
Date Posted: 21st May
Liverpool Takes Centre
Stage in
Cannes
LIVERPOOL will
be taking centre stage at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,
with a special party being held to celebrate the city’s
prominence in feature filmmaking.
Date Posted: 15th May
155 Filmmaking Teams Bid
For Success
A TOTAL of
155 teams from across the Northwest have entered the prestigious
Digital Departures micro-budget filmmaking competition, which will
see three feature-length films being made in the region within the
next 18 months.
Date Posted: 15th May
Teenage
Identity Explored in Filmmaking
Competition
CHANNEL
4's 4 Talent and the NSPCC have joined forces once again to launch
the second Raw Cuts competition for 13-18 year olds. The winners
will take part in four day workshops at Channel 4's London
HQ.
Date Posted: 10th May
Lights, Cameras
and Everything Else!
ProVision recently opened its doors to the industry and welcomed
everyone to its Manchester operation’s first open day. The
place was mobbed. And the momentum has continued ever since.
Date Posted: 10th May
Talent Year Book
2007
THE Northwest is to get its own Talent Year Book, with information
on the region’s most dynamic film professionals.
Date Posted: 10th May
Digital Departures
Deadline
THERE are now only seven days to the Digital Departures submission
deadline, which ends at 1pm on Friday 11th May 2007.
Date Posted: 8th May
Badly Drawn Boy promotes
the Northwest
As part of a campaign to promote the Northwest to audiences across
the South of England, Manchester based Damon Gough AKA Badly Drawn
Boy, headed down to Castlefield to play guitar in front of a local
camera crew.
Date Posted: 2nd May
Filming in Bolton is Ding
Dang Do-able
BOLTON is in the middle of a filming boom this year, with the
filming of two commercials and major ITV drama Cold Blood having
already been supported by North West Vision.
Date Posted: 2nd May
CHANNEL K MAKES ITS
MARK
JUST under 18 months ago, Matt Tiller and Gus Bousfield arrived in
Manchester with the remit to set up an independent TV production
company in the city.
Date Posted: 1st May
THE MAGIC
OF ST GEORGE’S HALL
CENTRAL to almost every occasion Liverpool has ever seen, the
imposing St George’s Hall in the centre of the city has just
re-opened, after years of painstaking restoration.
Date Posted: 1st May
CARLISLE’S YOUNG
MEDIA TALENT OFFERED CASH
CARLISLE teenagers and youth organisations interested in the media
are being invited to a free roadshow on Thursday April 26 at The
Assembly Room, to hear how they can claim cash from a multi-million
pound fund.
Date Posted: 25th April
Shameless Makes
Its Mark
The Northwest’s television industry is celebrating the
landmark opening of a permanent set for TV drama Shameless.
Date Posted: 24th April
LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEDIA
TALENT OFFERED CASH
LIVERPOOL teenagers interested in the media are being invited to a
free roadshow on Tuesday April 24 at BBC Radio Merseyside, to hear
how they can claim cash from a multi-million pound fund.
Date Posted: 6th April
St. Helens' King of comedy
champions Northwest film and TV
COMEDY hero, Johnny Vegas, is among a host of Northwest film and TV
personalities currently singling out the region for praise.
Date Posted: 2nd April
