Completed Projects
Workshops and Productions (during last 12
months)
We held regular young people's performance workshops in comedy
improvisation and filmmaking Attleborough, Bungay, Horstead,
Dereham and some special one-offs for Big Arts Week at Hevingham
and Marsham. We also worked in partnership with the John Innes
Institute and Arts & Business East to produce an amazingly
successful a grand youth Theatresports style competition with
over 80 young people competing. We also hosted another similar
competion for the new cut in Halesworth which was reviewed
in a very positive light by the BBC.
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Current Projects
Workshops
Were running junior drama and filmmaking
workshops in Bungay as after school activities at the St Edmunds
RC Primary School. The workshops are open to all six to eleven
year olds in the town. and are held on Mondays between
3.30pm to 4.30pm for drama and between 4.45pm and 5.45pm for
filmmaking.
Productions
Thin Man in a Shed.
We're in the early stages of developing a series
of short film scripts with The Observer journalist and
humourist Will Buckley based on impressions of Norfolk life through
the eyes of a 're-located' national newspaper sports journalist
from London. It's pure fiction ... honest!
Bluebell Woods
Recently our friend, colleague and fine singer Bryan McNerney,
presenter of Anglia TV's Bryan's Upstairs DownStairs, invited
a bunch of us to plant bluebells and snowdrops, for the enjoyment
of future generations, in a woods near to where he lives in Norfolk.
Well, when there's a bunch of like minded slightly leftist to
liberal loonies planting flowers on a late icy afternoon in November
ideas start to bounce around. Somehow the conversation got around
to holiday camps and ... we're now in pre production for a short
comedy about four educated liberal minded mums who form an acapella
singing group and enter a holiday camp talent contest.
(Both Thin Man
in a Shed and Bluebell Woods will premiere at the Bungay
International Film Festival).
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In the pipeline
Anti-Bullying
Recently we were approached by the Therapies Manager at Eaton
Hall Residential School and asked to pilot an anti- bullying
project for the pupils there. We spent a morning working with
the boys. The staff were astonished that even the most disturbed
participants were able to fully engage with the work. The morning
was an opportunity for the participants to begin to use film
to investigate the nature and effect of bullying both from
the victim’s point of view and that of the bullies themselves.
We used drama games and improvisation to get to the point where
basic film making techniques could be explored.
We have been asked if we could develop this
into an ongoing project to benefit schools across Norfolk and
Suffolk and we are currently investigating funding.
Bungay Youth Films Workshops
As part of the Single Gateway Project and with
funding from Suffolk County Council beginning in February 2006
we are embarking upon a series of filmmaking workshops for 15
- 22 year olds in Bungay. The sessions will cover shooting and
editing music videos, short dramas', documentaries and short
information films. Later in the Year (provisionally the second
week in August depending on the Fisher Theatre having completed
it's renovation) some of these entries will be screened in the
Bungay International Film Festival.
The Bungay International Film Festival
The idea started off as a bit of fun for the
town where we would make a film from any idea scribbled on the
back of an envelope by any member of the Bungay Community and
then enter it into their own Film Festival. Well, that's how
it started and it's developed where amongst the local offerings
there will be some submissions from previous BAFTA winners and
from festivals in Vilnius, Amsterdam, Oslo and Pittsburgh - that's
the international bit. So watch this space.
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