Regional mayor Richard Parker said: “We’re unlocking the potential of homegrown creatives to get their ideas off the storyboard right here in the West Midlands. <\/p>\n
“These are the kinds of opportunities that create jobs and attract investment.”<\/p>\n
The mayor recently signed an agreement with the BBC to nearly double production spend in the region to \u00a340m a year, creating more screen industry jobs and training opportunities.<\/p>\n
Local film-makers Ch\u00e9 from Wolverhampton and Anton from Birmingham, who run Acclaimed Content, are examples of the fund’s impact. <\/p>\n
Their BBC Three documentary Queen of Trucks followed Shannan Paterson running an HGV driving school in Willenhall. The project helped them secure further commissions, including a Channel 4 gameshow, Family Face Off.<\/p>\n
Ch\u00e9 said: “Getting the chance to develop Queen of Trucks was vital. It gave us our first commission and got us in the room with commissioners. Now we’re working with multiple broadcasters.”<\/p>\n
Ed Shedd, chair of Create Central, said the next phase of the fund would provide more opportunities for regional production companies to develop original ideas. <\/p>\n
Paul Ashton, head of film & TV at Creative UK, added: “Development funding is crucial for regional screen companies to turn ideas into successful projects.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional mayor Richard Parker said: “We’re unlocking the potential of homegrown creatives to get their ideas off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-432637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115223023212679247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}