Creative Industries and Innovation

At the Creative Investment Roadshows yesterday at Fazeley Studios a lot of the funders referred to ‘innovation’ in their presentations without really defining what it meant in the context of their investment or grant schemes. So I put the question to the panel at the end ‘what do you mean by innovation?’ What came back [...]

Festive Film Showcase

No it wasn’t a screening of comfy Christmas Classics. Organised by Lee Thomas and his team from Screen WM it was an opportunity to learn what you need to get there, what it was like, and tips for how to make it work, from four people whose films the screen agency had recently supported.
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The Digital Divide

Last Saturday I had the privilege of chairing a panel discussion at Deaffest, the annual film and tv festival for the Deaf community held at the Light House in Wolverhampton. The theme of the session was ‘What is the future for moving image media with sign language?’ and our panel was drawn from broadcasters, funders, [...]

Serious chatting

Fifty years ago I guess nobody would have thought you could make a living out of chatting, or take it seriously. It’s what you do over a coffee, a  pint or waiting for a bus. If you wanted to rant you got on a soap box in Hyde Park. Now you have chat shows, blogs, [...]

Electric dreams

The Creative Networks event at tic last night saw Tom Lawes in great form talking about his life and career as musician, composer, sound designer, film producer and more recently cinema owner. His experiences over the last four years of refurbishing, relaunching and developing the Electric Cinema provide a great example of what you can [...]

Creative Media Networking Event – 13th November

Popped along to show my face at this – its only 5 minutes from where I live, and the offer of free coffee and biscuits was enough to get me out of the house.  Turned out it was organised by those nice people from Creative Launchpad. When I got there Dave Roberts was in the [...]