Reflecting on Recent Successes

This is written on the eve of the techo’s mag deadline, and therefore in the midst of the Covid-19 maelstrom... thankfully this is a wrap of the last quarter and not a forecast of the next! Looking back, the trend away from med/lge TVCs and towards longer format continues: Longer format productions ‘One Lane Bridge’ wrapped up in Dec, and ‘The Power of the Dog’ rolled into the region in Jan. Both of these productions were filmed on location in this beautiful region, and they have left a truly great impression of the film industry in some local communities. I hope that I speak for all in the region for offering up BIG THANKS to some of the people instrumental in bringing these productions here and engaging local industry & crew: Dame Jane Campion, Chloe Smith, Moira Grant, Pip Hall, Philip Smith, Raluca Cozariuc, Anna Randall (and equally apologies to all the influencers un-named).

Commercial Production stalwarts including Batch Film, Flying Fish, OPT, Film Construction, The Search, Godmother, 35mm & Big Pictures, and the quiet achievers (Zoom, Summit, Reel, Two-Bearded-Men, Storyworks, Local Action et al) have all also kept crew and industry interested/interesting over the last few months. Again and again, our thanks to all the hours and hard work pitching-pitching-pitching...

Thinking forwards... I see some silver linings :) Population boom (just stating the obvious). And a real appetite for more ‘content’ - all this time in isolation will leave lots of time for watching TV, film, devices, content, gaming. Surely our industry will be inundated shortly!

See you out there.