It was my Dad’s 60th birthday a couple of week’s ago so me and Gavin (brother) set about finding some old footage on Youtube from the year he was born and cut it together with some modern footage and some clips of us just larking about to create this spoof newsreel from 1950. We had [...]

The following trailer is for the finished movie made from the www.itsourmovie.com project. Due to be released in selected cinemas and on DVD shortly.

Since taking over as Chairman of Creative Republic I have been working on identifying the purpose and goals for the organisation in 2010. Along with the building of a new team and a few other initiatives is the main project concept for summer 2010. I have outlined the initial conversation starter below that the team [...]

Saturday 29th May 2010: Birmingham Book Festival Spring Thing: A Festival in Day – Carol Ann Duffy (Poet Laureate), Helen Dunmore (novelist and winner of the 2010 National Poetry Competition), Stuart Maconie (travel writer and broadcaster), Jo Bell (poet and performer), Jenn Ashworth (novelist, blogger), Aifric Campbell (novelist), Samantha Harvey (novelist) and Amanda Smyth (novelist) [...]