First data from the 2024 Looking Glass Survey shows mental health is worsening for many when measured against the 2022 survey.
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A lovely community of camera crew in the North of England.
It was lovely to meet many of our GBCT members based in the North of England at ProVision's Manchester Open Day 2024. We saw other familiar faces, who were promoting their products and services.
Many thanks to our proactive North of England based Board member, Richard Bevan and to the many others who attended and shared stories with those who were already in the industry, encouraged students who were either studying at university, had recently graduated or those were currently working as trainees who wanted to know more about the GBCT Camera Trainee Scheme
Attendees in the picture - from left: Steve Gardner (GBCT: camera operator), Richard Bevan (GBCT: Board member and camera operator), Jazz Rivans (GBCT: 2nd AC/Loader), Jon Head (GBCT: Level 3 Grip), Lorraine Luke (GBCT office) and Liam Lyall (2nd AC/Loader and poss future GBCT member).
Due to Richard's magnetism, we have three new applications for consideration by the Board.
Well done Richard!!
The newly-elected mayor of the West Midlands said the plans had the backing of Steven Knight.
The mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, has called for a new filming unit at the West Midlands Combined Authority.
As reported by BBC News, Parker stressed that the area would benefit from a dedicated film office, saying: “This region lacks a production office or unit that can help not just directors and others that want to invest in the industry here, but understand this region, find locations, and secure road closures.”
Parker, who was elected Labour mayor in May, hoped the new office could be operational by the end of the year, and said it had the backing of Steven Knight, whose much-anticipated Peaky Blinders film is due to start shooting “in the next ten days”.
The feature will be based at Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios, as well as utilising various locations across the West Midlands, including the Black Country Museum. It will star Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson and Barry Keoghan.
Knight, who joined Parker as the mayor laid out plans for boosting the region, also said he hoped to create up to 760 new jobs in the film industry in the city.
The seasoned screenwriter said: “We’re now at the stage where we have made incredible progress to take a beautiful place like this – the beautiful Victorian architecture, the warehouses that are here, the canal system – and do with it something no other industry can do with it.
“What we want to do is plant a new industry here and not plant it like a spaceship and put barbed wire around it. We want this to be part of the community.”
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