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Mason & Son
Green lit Media are proud to become Associate Producers on a new feature film set in Bristol. Bourne meets Equaliser in this Bristol-based gritty Get Carter-ish revenge thriller, starring Paul McGann, Hollywood star Kelly Le Brock, Toyah Willcox with soundtrack by Daddy G Massive Attack with Robot Club. We join former SAS operative Mason and his wayward son, on a relentless crusade to track down the international drug dealers responsible for his wife and daughter’s death. Set against Bristol’s dark subterranean waterways from its slave-trade legacy, Mason discovers that there are other victims the law has failed that need his services… starring Kelly Le Brock and Paul McGann. Here is a recent interview with one of the stars as well as the writer of this gritty drama.
Scrapheap Challenge
The new look Scrapheap Challenge, now in its 11th series, is out and about this summer as new presenter Dick Strawbridge challenges scrappers from all over the country to take him on!
From water-powered machines to mobile mortars, jousting to giant golf, blow football to caber tossing and super surf boards, Scrapheap’s challenges are as whacky as ever. Each show comes from events all over the UK where the teams race each in specially-designed challenges to win the chance to go head to head with Dick’s Diamonds.
An iconic show! We’ve been asked to work with the bristol based production team to create animated graphics as an extra device to explain the mechanics of each ‘build’.
Short Film
In between some exciting productions Green Lit Media are currently in production with a cracking short film. ‘Strap on Owl beak’ is written and Directed by one of the ‘Green Team’, Daf Palfrey. More of Daf’s genius can be seen on his own web site www.10pence.com
Green lit Managing Director, Pete Levy says, “Bristol is a real hub for the short film genre being home to the world famous ‘Encounters Short Film Festival as well as the brilliant support cluster ’Cineformation’. We were initially asked to read the script which made us all laugh out loud. This gives us the chance to work with a group of really talented crew whose combined credits range from the ‘Sopranos’, ‘Sex in the city’, ‘Bleak House’ and the ‘Hogfather’ to name just a few.” The project is now mid production so watch this space and laugh out loud with us.
MIP/MILIA
We recently attended the MIP and Milia festivals in Cannes. This was primarily to attend as many keynote speeches and conferences as possible to investigate the developments in technology driving the 360 convergences within the industry. We where lucky enough to hook up with Films@59 as well as South West Screen. During our visit we maintained a daily blog which can be accessed at: http://bristolmediamilia2008.tumblr.com/
Light up Bristol
Green Lit Media where pleased to be involved in the recent Light up Bristol event. This dazzling event, from Bristol Media and the West of England Design Forum, was involved in projecting 400ft festive moving images across the whole of the Council House, College Green and the Cathedral. Green Lit Media created two productions amongst a number of Specially created films and animation by some of Bristol’s leading creative talent. For the entire week College green became a winter wonderland involving festive films, snow and mulled wine.
