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 Directory: FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION
FILM MAKERS
:: LenZflare -
producing solutions for clients looking for high-quality & creative films. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: The Maclagan Men Ltd. - a video production
unit based in Stoke.
:: McGovern Productions
- video producers based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Inspired Film and Video -
a video production company based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: ST16 - specialists in community video production. Sentinel newspaper business awards 'Business of the Year' 2008 winner.
:: Reels in Motion - a video production company from Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Junction 15
- specialist video production company, based at the Parkhouse Industrial Site in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: StaffordAV - a video production company run by Steve Bradbury, who is fresh from spending the last ten years in charge
of a video production unit at Staffordshire University.
:: Bomark Studios - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Viva Film Productions - making short
issue-based films. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: NK Williams, Film and Graphic Design.
:: Real2Can.
:: Casual Productions.
:: The Chameleon Project
:: inSignificant Productions - based at Keele. Interactive-video authoring.
:: Eclipse Broadcast - broadcast technical experts based on the
Parkhouse Industrial Site at Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Ray Johnson -
Ray has been making films in the area since 1972, with documentaries broadcast on TV channels
and many now on DVD. He also founded and runs the Staffordshire Film Archive, and
is on the Board of Screen West Midlands.
:: Stoke Cine and Video Society - a long-standing
group, which puts decades of practical experience to use in regular film productions.
ANIMATION
:: SMA Studios -
a highly-experienced character-based animation studio, creating
work for commercials, TV, and features. Based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Koko Digital are one of the UK's leading digital marketing specialists, strategically located at Keele.
:: Daniel Baddeley,
a 3D-character creator and animator, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Big Red Studio Animation, an animation provider based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Eye Studios - specialists in producing audio for animation.
:: Carse & Waterman. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, C&A
have clients including The Prodigy and Santander.
:: Wow Digital Media - based in Biddulph.
:: DB Digital 3D - 3D modelling an animation with Maya, Photoshop, RealFlow.
CREATIVE SERVICES:
:: No Redemption, a gothic / industrial-metal band from Stoke-on-Trent who in 2010
wrote and recorded the music for the Philip Gardiner/Warner Brothers' film The Stone.
Their MySpace page has links to press coverage and to a
BBC Radio Stoke interview. The band also have a YouTube Channel.
:: Dark Arts - an alternative model agency based in Stoke-on-Trent, and is run by photographer
and performance artist Asha Tank.
:: Model and Scenic Animations.
:: Steve England is
your voice-over expert, with his own specialist studio.
:: All4One Music - provides production music for film, TV, video productions and websites.
:: Direct Dogs - based in
Stone. Supplies and trains dogs for films, TV and
advertising, and can also supply facilities for still photographs
for print adverts using dogs. Recent filming includes
Brookside and BBC Six Nations Rugby.
LOCATIONS:
:: Screen West Midlands,
the regional film & video development agency can help with finding locations
for feature-films and TV. Screen WM is due to be replaced, probably in 2011.
:: Stallington Hall Farm
provides a specialist Tudor/Georgian film-shooting location just outside Stoke-on-Trent.
:: For areas to the north of Stoke and in adjacent Cheshire/Crewe,
try the North West Vision agency.
EXTRAS:
:: Stoke Gothic,
"the website for goth, cyber, industrial and darkwave scenes"
in the area, and can provide extras from your horror
film or music promo.
:: 7 Casting - has an office in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Stoke Repertory Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
:: Circuit Personal Management, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Claire Atherton, extra actress and crew.
:: Stoke Film Theatre is Stoke-on-Trent's long established 212-seat 'art-house' cinema, with good links
to local art cinema fans.
ARCHIVE MATERIAL (for documentaries, etc):
:: Staffordshire Past Track (formerly the Staffordshire Film & Multimedia Archive).
:: Midlands Moving Image Archive.
:: The Staffordshire Film Archive.
NETWORKS
:: Stoke-on-Trent Filmmakers Network,
for professional filmmakers and film companies based in... "Stoke-on-Trent, and surrounding areas".
:: The Crewe Big Cheese Film Club.
TRAINING
(See Creative Stoke's Courses page.)
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