17/02/14 Working on something new!
We’ve begun work on a new project, working with travelling horseman, musician and tinsmith Michael and his gypsy cob Tarateeno. We met Michael during the filming of ‘Taking The Michael’ and the project has been bubbling slowly over the last 2 years. Filmmaker Ian Nesbitt will be following Michael over the course of 2014, meeting […]
27/9/13 ‘Underground Music’ at Sensoria Festival
We’ve been invited to curate an event on Friday 28th Sept as part of Sensoria Festival. You can read an interview about the project with director Ian Nesbitt for Sheffield blog Our Favourite Places here. As well as inviting Creswell Colliery Band over for a gig, and showing ‘Underground Music’ the film Ian Nesbitt collaboratively […]
10/6/13 ‘Taking the Michael’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest
We’re very happy to announce that ‘Taking The Michael’ has been selected for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Videotheque 2013. The festival is on from tomorrow but unfortunately it’s only available for viewing in the delegate only section so you’ll have to buy a delegate’s pass for £250 or, ahem, buy a DVD from us.
23/3/13 The Gathering blog goes live
image courtesy of Laura Page Photography We had a blog launch/St Patricks/end of project celebration for the Gathering yesterday. It went brilliantly, loads of familiar faces and a few we hadn’t seen before coming out of the woodwork. The most amazing John Dowling and the Shamrock Band gave us a few numbers and there was […]
22/3/13 DVDs available
At last! We’ve got round to producing some DVDs of ‘Taking The Michael’. It’s been a while but they are now available at the price of £12.99 with free copy of ‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ for good (temporary) measure!!!! Here’s the trailer
17/1/13 The Gathering
Since October we’ve been quietly working away collaborating with Sheffield’s older Irish community, meeting every other week with a group at St Vincents Catholic Mens Society on Solly St. We’ve been supporting the group to get together, share food, songs ,stories, music, and anything else anyone wants to bring along. We’re going to start filming […]
7/1/13 Out/Side/Film collaborator Don in the Guardian
image courtesy of Laura Page Photography Don Coging, who we’ve been working with for some time, lives in homeless accommodation in Nottingham. He is a 67 year old man. He’s travelled and lived all over the world working as a banjo player and gardener for the last 30 years or so. We met him in […]
17/10/12 ‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ on TV
‘Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys!’ is being aired on TG4 Irish television 8.30 pm tonight 17th December. The film documents a road trip made in late summer 2008 by an unusual and memorable band of travellers. At its core lie the experiences of a group of Irish working men who travelled to the UK as very […]
26/11/12 ‘Underground Music’
We’ve been working on a commission for Junction Arts in North Derbyshire the last couple of months. The resulting film ‘Underground Music’, made in collaboration with Creswell Colliery band, will be shown at Creswell Miners’ Welfare on Wednesday 28th Nov 7-9pm. All welcome! ‘Underground Music’ is a short documentary about the past, present and future […]
10/10/12 Junction Arts Commission
Out/Side/Film director Ian Nesbitt is currently working on a short film provisionally titled ‘Underground Music’, a short documentary made in collaboration with the people of Creswell, North Derbyshire about the past, present and future of the Creswell Colliery Band and the community surrounding it. Creswell is a small former mining village on the border of […]
30/9/12 ‘Taking The Michael’ screenings Autumn 2013
We’ve got a few screenings booked up and down the country over the next couple of months. They’ll be in all sorts of outdoors and indoors venues from galleries and independent cinemas to pop-up spaces, pub backrooms, barns and living structures. Come see! OCTOBER Saturday 6th, The Space, Kings Road, St Leonards on Sea, 7pm […]
10/9/12 ‘Taking the Michael’ Premiere Screening
It’s the premiere screening of our new film ‘Taking the Michael’ on Fri 23rd of this month. Here’s a bit about it: “Matt is an improbable hero for uncertain times. He’s not sure how, or even why, but he knows he needs to go on an important journey. ‘Taking The Michael’ is the story of […]