the last film you saw… Although I really can't remember the last film I saw (either I'm sketchy or I have a healthy disrespect for cinema, you decide). I've seen some fantastic films this year and there's been some great documentaries too. What about you?12
BEYONDTV NEWS 08.11.05 * STra$b0urG - Dem0n$raTi0n....>>12th Nov..
* IndYmediA night - in Manchester.. 13th Nov
Dancehouse - Iraq Special
* Video ACtivist Workshops at - Beyondtv Film
Festival - Swansea - November 25th-27th 2005
* Gran Action - New film online.
* New g8 Video - Rural Riot
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It should be a really interesting bunch of people that
turn up to Strasbourg to make some waves following the
Police battering of ravers at the Czech Tek. Hopefully
a lot of on the case people, who are quite tuned in,
all in one place.
12th November - 12h Strasbourg -
14:00 Place De la Republique.
There is information about everything happening being
co-ordinated at this website!
http://www.soundcirkle.info/europe/
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here's a note from the website
"The manifestation will start at 14:00 (13:00 GMT) but
we can access the Place de l'Universite at 12:00
(11:00 GMT) to prepare the mobile sound systems.
Ending would be around 19:00 (18:00 GMT).
Then we'll do a short Teknival..."
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Event against arbitrary repressions of named
"Teknival" and "Free Parties".
Those events just are the expression of free Art and
Cultures, without commercial purposes, open to ALL
PEOPLE, helping them to share, develop and enrich
those cultures.
An Event to ensure that what happend in Tcheck
Republic never happens again anymore !!
In an emerging constitutional Europe, we won't
tolerate member nations scorning places of creative
freedom or destroying them with Police brutality or
security laws.
We can't give up in front of those kind of
discriminatory acts.
We won't abdicate ahead of intolerance.
We won't accept to be silenced.
We just have to go ahead and spread informations.
For this, we need U... .. .
o)
Indymedia Film Night at The Dancehouse - 13th Nov
Full Press Release Here.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2005/11/327033.html
Film - A letter to the Prime Minister : Jo Wilding's
Diary from Iraq
Jo Wilding's remarkable journey from forming a
children's circus in Iraq to travelling into Falluja,
when even Al Jazeera had left, to stand alongside
civilians trapped and targeted by US Forces.
Indymedia Film Night - Sunday 13th Nov
The Dancehouse, Oxford Rd
free / donation - 7 pm door
This is gonna be a good one!!
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Beyondtv Annual Film Festival -
Me and Sara from Manchester are going to be doing
Video activist workshops at the Beyondtv Film
festival. Obviously it'll be great. And there are
three other worshops to look at.
There is a whole host of films to check out -
Programme is online here.
http://www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv/
Workshop details -
Phone 01792 463980 to book workshop or you can
register your interest at an online form -
http://www.clearerchannel.org/underc/mail_form.php
Workshop A
Low Tech High Spec- Mick Fuzz & Sara show how to get
the best out of a camcorder. With short films &
presentation
Workshop B
Peer2Peer News - Hamish Campbell of Undercurrents
shows you how to get an audience of 200,000 people for
your films (more than Channel5!)
Workshop C
Girls on Decks- Learn how to DJ with Wicca and Flame.
Explore the art of beatmatching and much more.
(Women and girls only as part of the Broad Horizons
project)
Workshop D (Sunday morning November 27th)
Clown Rebel Army- learn how activists and you can use
clown techniques to protest.
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Films Online -
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Gran Action -
Granaction is a new direct action group. It's aim to
cross frontiers of protest, age and gender with an aim
of scrambling the minds of the powers that be. The
powers that are currently stopping freedom of protest
by over-policing.
On October 16th we took over a McDonalds dressed as
raging grannies!
Direct link -
http://media.beyondtv.org/movies/granactionfull.mpg
More info -
http://beyondtv.ourvideo.org/act_test/video/page.php?id=19&prefix=video
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Rural Riot
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http://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/156.shtml
This is an entrant to the Undercurrents BeyondTV6
Festival. We have used some xvid/divx footage that was
uploaded here in the film and we are contacting those
authors to get a hold of mini dv versions for the 3rd
edit. If you have footage that you think will go well
with this film please contact us at the above email,
please do the same if you have any suggestions or
comments. The film itself covers the day of blockades
in an agit prop, music video style. It tries to
explain the frustration of the previous 2 days of
being " penned in " by the police at protests and the
contrast between the direct action blockades and what
was going on at Live 8. Tech stuff: This video was
encoded with the Xvid open source codec.
Install Xvid on Pc
http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe
--/Social justice doesn't happen by itself, you know!/--
http://www.ourvideo.org >> community video toolkit
http://www.beyondtv.org > contact 0161 237 1832 > 07950118553 [sms only] post: box29, 22a Beswick St, Manchester, M4 7HS
help with movies hi
being a complete technophobe (I mean technology not music of course;)
I can't figure out what i need to do to watch some of the movies you've got archived. anything with an avi or wmv i can't seem to download - more specifically, when i click on an avi it takes me to some download page where i'm not even sure what i need to download - eeek!
I'm using a mac with OSX (I think)
can anyone help??
thanks
vicky12
TV Cream Apologies to non UK readers.
Check out this great little site and let the memories flood back.
http://tv.cream.org/
I'm sure GLighting has seen this already though!
Got a bit carried away when it lead me to ebay and I bid on the whole collection of streethawk episodes.
fake cctv bomber pics! More badly planned staged and executed scenarios tircking the public into racial tension, terror and ultimately ther own self policed work camp.
http://www.legitgov.org/cctv_image_of_uk_suspects_240705.html
UK : Wales/Cymru : its "action" for S Wales Valleywood film studios! 1700 jobs created by this - pity though the project was delayed initially by bureaucrats in-fighting
Curtain up on Valleywood studios
Work is beginning on an ambitious £330m film studio complex in south Wales, following months of delays. Construction on the first stage of the 1,700-job scheme, dubbed Valleywood, will start at a former open cast mine site at Llanilid, Rhondda Cynon Taf. The project, backed by actor and producer Richard Attenborough, has secured European Objective One funding.
The first phase of work at the 317-acre site will build five stages, which are due to open in February 2006.
Lord Attenborough - star of such films as Brighton Rock and Jurassic Park, and director of Gandhi and A Bridge Too Far - will be joined by RCT council leader Russell Roberts to launch the scheme officially on Wednesday morning.
Lord Attenborough, the chairman of Dragon International Studios, said work on the main studio complex would start before October 2005.
"This will mean that we are able to offer a whole range of further facilities to house television production, international feature films and multimedia businesses by the spring of 2007," he said.
Developer Stuart Villard said the work starting on Wednesday was just the starting point.
"I would like to emphasise that this facility, to be known as Dragon Plus, represents just the initial phase of a far larger major film studio development at Llanilid," he said.
"There is a huge demand at the moment for facilities to house TV drama production, particularly in Wales.
This development is not just good news for Rhondda Cynon Taf, it is good news for Wales and firmly places us on the world stage
Councillor Russell Roberts
"The five stages we are starting to build, in association with Dragon International Studios, will go a long way towards meeting that demand. The first stages will open at the end of February 2006."
Construction had been held up by delays in securing grants, and by the discovery of rare dormice on the site.
But it is finally going ahead after the confirmation that Objective One funding would be provided from the Welsh Assembly Government.
Plans opposed
RCT leader Mr Roberts said he was "delighted" to be involved.
"This is one of the largest inward investment projects in Europe and we can all be proud that this prestigious scheme is being created here in Rhondda Cynon Taf," he said.
"This development is not just good news for Rhondda Cynon Taf, it is good news for Wales and firmly places us on the world stage."
Welsh Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies said the studios would become "a major economic catalyst for the area".
The film studio scheme was first put forward in 2001 but plans were initially opposed by the Welsh assembly.
These objections were withdrawn in October 2002 and an initial planning application was approved by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council in December that year.
Gwaith yn dechrau ar stiwdio ffilm
Mae'r Arglwydd Richard Attenborough y tu cefn i'r cynllun
Mae'r gwaith o adeiladu stiwdios ffilm gwerth £330m yn ne Cymru yn cychwyn ar ôl misoedd o oedi.
Dyma fydd y cam cyntaf yn y cynllun i droi hen waith glo brig yn Llanilid ger Pen-y-Bont ar Ogwr yn stiwdio a pharc ffilm.
Mae'r cynllun yn cael cefnogaeth yr Arglwydd Richard Attenborough ac mae wedi derbyn arian Amcan Un o Ewrop.
Mae disgwyl i ran gyntaf y safle fod ar agor ym mis Chwefror 2006 gyda rhan gyntaf y gwaith yn cychwyn ddydd Mercher.
Bydd y safle 317 acer yn cael ei adeiladu mewn pump cam.
Bydd yr Arglwydd Attenborough ac arweinydd Cyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf, Russell Roberts, yn bresennol yn y seremoni swyddogol ddydd Mercher i gychwyn y gwaith.
Dyma gatalydd economaidd allweddol i'r ardal
Andrew Davies, Gweinidog Datblygu Economaidd y Cynulliad
Mae disgwyl i'r gwaith greu 1,700 o swyddi.
Dywedodd yr Arglwydd Attenborough, cadeirydd Dragon International Studios, y bydd y gwaith ar y stiwdio ei hun yn cychwyn cyn diwedd mis Hydref 2005.
"Fe fydd hyn yn golygu y gallwn gynnig amrywiaeth o adnoddau ar gyfer cynhyrchu rhaglenni teledu, ffilmiau a busnesau aml gyfrwng erbyn gwanwyn 2007," meddai.
Eglurodd Stuart Villard, Cadeirydd Westair Properties, y datblygwyr, mai'r cam cyntaf yn unig sy'n cychwyn ddydd Mercher.
"Hoffwn danlinellu y bydd y cam yma, a fydd yn cael ei adnabod fel Dragon Plus, yn cynrychioli'r cam cyntaf mewn prosiect llawer mwy ar y safle yn Llanilid," meddai.
'Balch'
"Mae 'na alw enfawr ar hyn o bryd am yr adnoddau yma i fod yn gartref i ddrama deledu yng Nghymru.
"Fe fydd yr hyn y byddwn yn ei wneud, mewn cydweithrediad â Dragon International Studios yn mynd ymhell iawn tuag at y galw."
Cafodd y gwaith ei atal am gyfnod oherwydd bod angen sicrhau grantiau ac fe gafodd math prin o lygod eu canfod ar y safle.
Fe fydd y stiwdios yn cael eu hadeiladu ar safle hen waith glo brig
Dywedodd y Cynghorydd Roberts ei fod yn falch iawn o'r cynllun.
"Dyma un o'r buddsoddiadau mwyaf ac fe allwn ni fod yn falch iawn bod y cynllun yma yn cael ei greu yma yn Rhondda Cynon Taf.
"Mae'r cynllun yma yn newyddion da i'r sir ond mae hefyd yn newyddion i Gymru ac yn ein gosod ni ar y llwyfan rhyngwladol," meddai.
Dywedodd Andrew Davies, Gweinidog Datblygu Economaidd y Cynulliad, bod hwn yn "gatalydd economaidd allweddol i'r ardal."
Cafodd y cynllun ei gyflwyno gyntaf yn 2001 ond fe wrthododd y cynulliad y cynnig gwreiddiol.
Cafodd y gwrthwynebiad ei dynnu yn Hydref 2001 cyn i Gyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf gymeradwyo'r cynllun ym mis Rhagfyr 2001.
UK : Anglia TV studios (Norwich) to close! another British TV studio bites the dust...
apparently its because Trisha (their main output) went to Five and they are using another studio now (somewhere in London? no idea as i don't watch that sort of crap)
sad really as thats yet another place where new entrants used to start their careers. Wonder what Rapture will do now? mind you they were supposed to be back on air months ago....
Film funding fiascos.. (from the Grauniad) Funny how he should mention "being treated like a kid" - always felt that was the case when applying for work experience etc in media places
for those who are not conversant with terms used in finance - "Equity" means investment either from a groups own capital or via sale of shares to outside investors.
Auntie spending 84% on US films? That's fucking outrageous IMO though..
[font=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Cinema levy call to save film industry[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Owen Gibson, media correspondent
[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Tuesday May 10, 2005
[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Guardian
[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The respected film producer Michael Kuhn last night warned that the "hour is dark" for the British film industry, accusing the lottery-funded Film Council of treating producers like "ralcalcitrant schoolboys". [/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]He said that unless urgent action was taken by the government, the BBC and others, indigenous British film-making could die out. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The former president of Polygram Films, which revolutionised Hollywood in the 1990s and enjoyed a string of hits including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fargo and Notting Hill, said that the situation had appreciably worsened in the past five years despite £323m of lottery money investment by the Film Council. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Mr Kuhn, who now runs Qwerty Films, warned that indigenous British films costing under £10m were being squeezed by a number of factors. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"As many of these sources of funding are expiring or are themselves dependent on tax regimes, there is less equity about. So the hour is dark. Darker I think than most years in my lifetime," said Mr Kuhn, delivering the inaugural Pact Film Lecture in London last night. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]He calculated that even hit films like Shaun of the Dead failed to bring in any money at the cinema, and without extra investment would be left to rely on domestic television rights and video sales just to claw back production costs. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The film industry is lobbying against proposed changes to the tax regime that will cut investment in British movies, and is attempting to persuade the government to force the BBC to invest more in British films as part of the charter renewal process. Another solution, Mr Kuhn suggested, would be a levy on those who "benefit directly and indirectly from the UK film industry", especially cinema owners. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Pointing to the level of current interest in acquiring cinema chains among venture capital companies, he said that such a levy would "offend no one and benefit many" and generate £70m to £80m a year. Mr Kuhn's speech, which he said was "born out of rage", also hit out at the Film Council, the quango established in 2000 to boost the British film industry. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"To many of us it seems that this Janus-like body, representing us to the government but not representing us; representing government to the industry but helpless in light of, and blindsided by, recent tax changes, not hearing criticism, is in need of reform itself," he said. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Setting out an action plan to save the industry, Mr Kuhn said that the Film Council should take a more strategic approach to its investments. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]It should immediately launch a new fund dedicated to lending the "last £1m that a film needs to get into production", underwrite a borrowing facility against foreign sales and start a central fund to pre-buy digital rights. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]In the medium term, the government should look at his levy idea and force the BBC and other broadcasters to invest more in British films. Research commissioned by Pact last year showed that the BBC spent 84% of its £73.2m acquisition budget on US films. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]In the long term the industry should face up to the opportunities and challenges offered by digital distribution and video on demand over the internet. [/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]"It can happen if they [the Film Council] will change and see the production community as partners in this great endeavour and not ralcalcitrant schoolboys to be whipped into shape," he said.[/font]
tv news partyvibe was on the southeast local tv evening news . I saw half of the item and it was about the two who shot up a party nr dorking. partyvibe was used as an example of the places people go to get info on parties.12
Apache (old TV safety film from 70s/80s) Probably one for those in their late 20s/early 30s - but does anyone else remember being thoroughly freaked out by this? it was TX'd amongst the kiddies programmes years ago on Southern TV and may have also been shown in Anglia and Westward regions (there being lots of farms there...); the kids were killed off to a soundtrack of a childrens choir singing "ten little indians.."
The film would also have shown in schools on 16mm projectors and early video equipment (including obligatory 28" telly in brown wooden case on a large stand :) ) and may have been used well into the 1980s - perhaps untill 1986/7 or so!
it did its job, I can remember it 20+ years later and it still unnerves me..
from http://tv.cream.org
Quote:
APACHE (late 70s)
ITV
NIGHTMARE-inducing production, shown to kids in school assemblies to learn them of the dangers of arseing about with dangerous farming equipment. No doubt there was a rash of this kind of thing, what with The Wurzels in the charts and everything. Also shown on Southern TV in the summer of 1978, as recalled by Jeremy Kinsman: "It was narrated by a teenager and concerned a group of his friends playing on a farm. Here's the gruesome bit - each one of them dies or is killed in the most unpleasant circumstances: one is chopped up in a combine harvester, one drinks some poison, one drives over the cliff in a tractor, one has his head smashed in by a heavy metal gate post! Nothing was left to your imagination either and all this during the school holidays at about 10am in the morning. I can't believe that the IBA allowed it to be broadcast but I guess as a warning about the dangers of messing about on a farm it was very, very effective."
