Written by Kianna Best on Aug 1, 2024. Posted in Awards and Festivals

Yorkshire Content Fund reveals new major investments

Yorkshire is set to welcome a slate of new feature and television projects thanks to investment from the county’s Content Fund. These projects join BBC series Virdee which concluded production in Bradford. The upcoming projects shot across a number of Yorkshire locations, with involvement from BAFTA and Academy Award recognised talents.

“Yorkshire is enjoying an incredible summer of filming activity, and we are delighted that the Yorkshire Content Fund has been instrumental in attracting four such high profile projects to the region,” commented Caroline Cooper Charles, chief executive of Screen Yorkshire. “It really is an astonishing range of productions featuring an abundance of award-winning talent and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to give them all our warmest Yorkshire welcome.”

The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russel Beale shot across locations in West and North Yorkshire for the 1916 Yorkshire set project. The project, originally written by Alan Bennett, will be directed by Nicholas Hynter. Fiennes plays chorus master Dr Guthrie who recruits a number of teenage boys and girls to find comfort in the joy of singing amidst trying circumstances.

Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan, and Rose Ayling-Ellis star in the upcoming thriller Reunion, made by Warp Films for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Shooting in and around Sheffield, the film is written by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager. Reunion follows the journey of Daniel Brennan, a deaf man determined to right his wrongs, while unravelling the truth behind the events that led him to prison.

This summer, filming for The Nest will commence, starring Academy Award Nominee Andre Riseborough. The feature from BAFTA-winning writer and director Paul Andrew Williams tells the story of two women that are neighbours who strike up an unusual and questionable reliance between one another.

The final project from the investment of the fund is Good Boy, produced by UK producer and Academy Award winner Jeremy Thomas, and Academy Award nominees Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland. The feature film from acclaimed director Jan Komasa follows a football hooligan as he is kidnapped by a middle-class family seemingly intent on turning him into a ‘Good Boy.’

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