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New Chapter for EM Media
For the last ten years EM Media has played a significant role in the development of the creative digital sector in the East Midlands and more recently in the East of England.
Our ten year journey has been the most amazing, inspiring and rewarding one...
Published: 29 September 2011
Changes to Film Lottery Administration
As from 1 October 2011 Creative England will be administering and managing all aspects of the National Lottery delegation relating to the Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE). Therefore, EM Media will cease to manage Lottery and Grant in Aid activity from midnight on 30 September 2011 and will no longer be able to respond to any enquiries relating to Lottery or Grant in Aid from this time.
Published: 28 September 2011
Creative England gets ready to launch
From 1 October Creative England will receive Grant in Aid funds from the BFI to support the development of film in the English regions, and will also become the delegated authority for the distribution of National Lottery funds for film, via the BFI.
Published: 27 September 2011
Nottingham City Council confirms The Dark Knight rose in Nottingham
It’s been the most exciting open secret in Nottingham for weeks – but Nottingham City Council can now officially confirm that Wollaton Hall will feature as a location in The Dark Knight Rises. Local movie fans will have to wait just over a year to see the local landmark in the eagerly awaited The Dark Knight Rises, the third film in director Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Batman trilogy, which is due for release next summer.
Published: 11 July 2011
New Establishment Board and Interim Establishment Director for Creative England announced
John Newbigin, Chair of Creative England – the body set to replace Regional Screen Agencies, has announced that the Chairs of the Boards of all the Regional Screen Agencies will join the Establishment Board of Creative England.
Published: 17 June 2011
Oranges and Sunshine back on screen by popular demand
Oranges and Sunshine, Jim Loach’s moving feature film about the forced migration of children from the UK to Australia, is back at Nottingham’s Broadway cinema for one day only.
Published: 17 June 2011
Mark Craig’s High Hopes screens in Leicester
High Hopes, the feature length-documentary by Grierson Award-winning director Mark Craig screens this week at Phoenix Square in Leicester. High Hopes charts the fortunes of a group of art and design graduates, enrolled at De Montfort University in the early 1980s. Now, 30 years on, we discover what became of the director’s student peers and all their youthful dreams and ambitions.
Published: 17 June 2011
Short films from the East Midlands to screen in competition at the The Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival
The Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival, renowned for showcasing the very best in world short films has just unveiled its official selection. East Midlands' filmmakers have long had a great association with the festival and this year is no exception with five films from the region screening in the official competition.
Published: 1 June 2011
Weekend scoops prestigious SXSW award
Andrew Haigh's EM Media-backed feature film, Weekend has scooped the Emerging Visions Audience Award at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Fim festival - and taken the festival by storm. Named a 'buzz' film by the festival, director Haigh is now heralded as 'officially an emerging talent'
Published: 17 March 2011
Don't miss Oranges and Sunshine! In cinemas across the UK from Friday 1 April
The latest EM Media-backed feature film is released at cinemas across the UK on Friday 1 April. Jim Loach's moving and inspirational film, Oranges and Sunshine charts the true story of Nottinghamshire social worker Margaret Humphreys' campaign to uncover one of the greatest social scandals of our time: the forced 20th century migration of British children to Australia.
Published: 31 March 2011
This Is England '86 picks up two Royal Television Society awards
Shane Meadows' acclaimed EM Media-backed series for Channel 4, This Is England '86, has picked up two prizes at the Royal Television Society (RTS) awards.
Published: 17 March 2011
Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur wins prestigious prizes and critical acclaim at Sundance Film Festival
Tyrannosaur is the much anticipated debut feature film from acclaimed British actor (and East Midlands resident) Paddy Considine. The EM Media-financed film has been awarded two top prizes at the internationally renowned Sundance Film Festival.
Published: 3 December 2010
EM Media demonstrates value of film and digital media to the local economy - worth £179m since 2002
New figures show that EM Media’s incisive support and strategic investment in the film and digital content industries has brought £179m of economic benefit to the East Midlands since 2002.
EM Media also reveals that in 2009/10 against a backdrop of economic uncertainty the agency’s activities generated economic benefit worth £12.8m, supported 780 creative businesses, and helped secure its future sustainability by increasing recoupment from previous investments by 27%.
Published: 16 December 2010
EM Media response to Creative England announcement
Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has set out the government's plans for the future of UK film policy. This includes a proposal to reconfigure the eight out-of-London Regional Screen Agencies as a single national body, Creative England. EM Media, key investor in British film and financier of 42 features to date, welcomes the move. Here's our full response.
Published: 29 November 2010
Filming wraps on six new short dramas made in the East Midlands - home to the UK's brightest new filmmaking talent
The latest additions to EM Media’s award-winning film portfolio have completed their shoots in the East Midlands taking the total number of short films made to an impressive 82!
Published: 17 November 2010
Wanted: Olympic torches. Deadline: 2012. You up for it?
The Olympic and Paralympic Games wouldn't be complete without their flame. The search is now on for a designer to help London 2012 deliver a remarkable, memorable and visionary torch design that will help more than 8,000 people carry the Olympic flame across the UK.
Published: 4 August 2010
Statement from Screen England in reponse to the proposed abolition of the UK Film Council
Screen England, the network of the nine screen agencies across England, has issued a statment in response to government proposals to abolish the UK Film Council.
Published: 28 July 2010
SKELETONS scoops Edinburgh's top prize
Derbyshire writer/director Nick Whitfield has won Edinburgh International Film Festival’s prestigious Michael Powell Award for his EM Media co-financed feature film SKELETONS. The film is the third EM Media-backed feature film to win the Michael Powell Award since 2006
Published: 26 July 2010
EM Media-backed short film receives international acclaim
Nottinghamshire artist/filmmaker Andy Taylor Smith's EM Media-backed short film is currently making waves on the international festival circuit.
Published: 26 July 2010
EM Media announces the commissioned films for DV Shorts 09/10
EM Media is delighted to announce the seven successful writer/directors to receive a commission through DV Shorts, the digital filmmaking programme run by EM Media in partnership with the UK Film Council.
Published: 26 May 2010
Legacy Film Festival – Call for Submissions 2010
‘Legacy Film Festival’ is a celebration of the achievements, contributions and issues of black minority and ethnic people around the world. Its focus is largely, but not solely on that of the African diasporas as part of Black History Month in October.
Published: 26 May 2010
British Airways offering free flights to 'Great Britons'
Are you determined, competitive and have the courage to follow your dreams? If you have a burning desire to visit a location that could advance your career then this could be your chance to get there.
Published: 18 February 2010
Our response to UK Film: Digital Innovation and Creative Excellence
Read EM Media’s response to the UK Film Council’s public consultation.
Published: 11 February 2010
All aboard the Space Ark!
Derby-based game developers Strawdog Studios are set to release the brightest and bounciest Arcade game of the year on Xbox LIVE® Arcade in spring 2010. Space Ark, co-financed by EM Media, is a classically addictive arcade game and a fun homage to the bright and bouncy arcade games of the late 1980s.
Published: 4 February 2010
Cultural Partnership: East Midlands
The Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has introduced a new framework for cultural agencies in the regions to work together, developing the work of Culture East Midlands, which was dissolved on 31 March 2009. In the East Midlands Cultural Partnership: East Midlands now brings together the region’s five key organisations in the field of culture and sport which form the East Midlands Cultural Agencies Group: Arts Council England, Sport England, English Heritage, EM Media, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
Published: 28 January 2010
Calling Derbyshire creatives! Get involved with likeminds at CIN's Creative Coffee events every fortnight
CIN wants to encourage more conversations between creatives from Derby city and the Derbyshire county. Not just conversations, but the collaborations that they could lead to.
Published: 25 January 2010
Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) release Digital Britain update
Following publication of the Digital Britain White Paper on 16 June, the DCMS has published an update note on implementation, with a number of accompanying documents.
Published: 30 June 2009
