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_Independent vampire film to pr...

21st Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A graduate filmmaker is hoping leave his mark on Stoke-on-Trent with the premiere of his vampire drama. Staffordshire University graduate, Chris Stone, will open the Stoke Your Fires Film Festival wit...

_From Coventry to California: t...

20th Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ Media Production students from Coventry University have set themselves the ultimate movie-making challenge of creating a crowd-funded, full-length feature film to be shot on location in the UK and in ...

_Joseph Foote Trust Hits a High...

20th Feb 2012 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ A one woman operetta about social networking by acclaimed London composer Anne Chmelewsky has raised more than £2,000 for local brain tumour charity The Joseph Foote Trust. The composer chose the Sol...



Turning Point West Midlands secures extra investme...

17th Feb 2012 ⁄ Turning Point West Midlands (TPWM), the network that works to strengthen the visual arts in the West Midlands, has been awarded funds from Arts Council England to deliver TPWM Projects over the next two years...

Coventry University hosts international film festi...

16th Feb 2012 ⁄ An international film festival celebrating East Asian cinema will see Coventry University’s Ellen Terry Building revert to a picture palace for the first time since the Coventry Odeon closed its doors over 12 years ago...

Emma Johnson to join Orchestra of the Swan

16th Feb 2012 ⁄ One of England's best-loved clarinet players is to perform one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire with Orchestra of the Swan next month. Emma Johnson will be playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the leading UK chamber orchestra at Town Hall Birmingham...

Fast Fwd reports success in Ann Summers re-launch ...

13th Feb 2012 ⁄ Birmingham-based Digital Agency Fast Fwd Multimedia Ltd has completed work on a brief from Ann Summers to develop a new microsite and supporting mobile apps to launch a model competition as part of its consumer brand re-launch in Autumn/Winter 2011...

Animators Dice Productions Celebrate Win at the Lo...

7th Feb 2012 ⁄ Dice Productions are celebrating their latest award win for their short film All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) after picking up the Best Comedy Short award at the 9th London Short Film Festival. The Birmingham-based animators and writers are also finalists...

Young blood in tune with the countryside at Border...

6th Feb 2012 ⁄ A stirring new documentary rooted firmly in the Herefordshire landscape, Tune for the Blood, will screen for the first time on Sunday 26 February as part of Borderlines Film Festival’s 10th anniversary opening weekend...

Digital agency helps reality star go global

3rd Feb 2012 ⁄ A Stoke-based digital firm has been enlisted by one of the nation’s rising reality TV stars to ensure that the ‘desperate scousewife’ gets more than her fifteen minutes of fame. The latest regionalised reality series, Desperate Scousewives...