Bradford - City of Film

Focusing on a film future in 3D

The National Media Museum is staging the 3D In Your Face conference next month

9:01am Monday 20th September 2010

Jim Greenhalf looks ahead to a nationwide conference here in Bradford

Places to help your career path

11:02am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Where to learn film-making in Bradford and beyond.

Where to find help with your funding

11:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010

So you’ve got a killer idea. You’re girlfriend will be the leading lady. Your dad will make the set. Even your mum said she’ll be in your movie. How are you going to finance it?

The scene’s now set for a boom in the tourist trade

Tricia Tillotson

10:56am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Getting Bradford behind the City of Film is only half the mission – the rest of the world needs to know about it, too.

We’ve got location, location, location

Screen Yorkshire’s Andrew Craske

10:54am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Bradford might not be Hollywood yet, but give it ten years.

Three Cs the key in learning curve

Sarah Mumford says the aim is to improve’s people’s understanding of film from an early age

10:51am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Enjoying film might seem like a passive activity, but for those with a passion to find out more about movies, there are a wealth of opportunities in the Bradford district.

‘We’ll take film out into district’s communities’

Colin Philpott, director of the National Media Museum, says that the City of Film designation could really put Bradford on the international map

10:45am Wednesday 17th March 2010

As you might expect for the head of the National Media Museum, Colin Philpott is evangelical about Bradford’s City of Film status. And his enthusiasm is infectious.

A cinematic history that can beat even Hollywood!

Movies made in and around Bradford include Billy Liar

10:49am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Why Bradford? Why not? Aside from the huge work that the bid team put in to secure the City of Film title from UNESCO, and the programme of events, both immediate and long-term, which is being unveiled this week, Bradford has a long and illustrious history of film-making.

An opportunity for us to grasp with both hands

10:38am Wednesday 17th March 2010

You might expect the world’s first UNESCO City of Film to be LA, London, Mumbai or Cannes. You’d be wrong.

The face of iconic cinema

John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in 1984, inset, will talking about his films with Tony Earnshaw at the National Media Museum

8:45am Monday 15th March 2010

Jim Greenhalf talks to John Hurt, whose genre-spanning career is celebrated with a top film festival accolade

Making films 'part of Bradford's beating heart'

Bradford City of Film director Peg Alexander

8:13am Monday 11th January 2010

What’s planned to help Bradford live up to its City of Film accolade

The future is bright for girls on film

Sophie McShera in Cinderella at the West Yorkshire Playhouse

12:54pm Friday 4th December 2009

Jim Greenhalf takes a look at how women are shaping the city’s film industry

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