Five new members join BFI Board of Governors

Written by The Location Guide on Apr 8, 2022. Posted in General Interest

The BFI has revealed that five new members will join its Board of Governors. The appointees are: writer, producer and director Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead); producer and co-founder of Number 9 Films Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol, Made in Dagenham, Little Voice); Scott Stuber, Head of Global Film at Netflix; Laura Miele, Executive Vice-President and COO of Electronic Arts; and Monica Chadha, board advisor and consultant with over 25 years’ experience in the creative industries. Each Board member serves a term of four years and starts in May 2022. BFI Chairman Tim Richards worked closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) during the recruitment process.

ITV’s five-part drama Desire to film in Sheffield

Written by Tom Deehan on Mar 9, 2017. Posted in On Location / Production News

ITV’s upcoming drama Desire, produced by Mammoth Screen (Poldark, And Then There Were None), will be shot on location in Sheffield. Split into five parts, the series will be penned by Jeremy Brock (Casualty).

True-life Victorian drama Dark Angel to film in North Yorkshire

Written by Nick Goundry on Jun 9, 2015. Posted in On Location

Victorian serial-killer drama Dark Angel will be filmed in North Yorkshire and County Durham in northern England from this August. Yorkshire has hosted several recent period dramas, including Northern Ireland drama ’71 and First World War memoir Testament Of Youth.

Screen Yorkshire to develop adapted film studio in northern England

Written by Nick Goundry on Jun 5, 2015. Posted in On Location

Screen Yorkshire is setting up an adapted film studio to boost northern England’s production appeal. Yorkshire is regularly used as a filming location – mainly for UK shoots – and has recently doubled for London in A Royal Night Out, and as Belfast for the taut war drama ’71.

Epic BBC drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell films in Yorkshire

Written by Nick Goundry on May 8, 2015. Posted in On Location

The BBC’s epic spring drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell spent four months filming on location in Yorkshire in northern England. Set in an alternative early-19th century England, the series tells a story of practical magic being brought back into the world.

BBC to film in Yorkshire for TV adaptation of classic novel An Inspector Calls

Written by Nick Goundry on Jan 30, 2015. Posted in On Location

The BBC will film on location in Yorkshire for a new TV adaptation of the classic novel An Inspector Calls. Yorkshire has become a popular UK filming location and recently hosted BBC Films’ First World War drama Testament Of Youth.

BBC Films bases war memoir Testament Of Youth on location in Yorkshire

Written by Nick Goundry on Jan 19, 2015. Posted in Production News

A feature adaptation of famous First World War memoir Testament Of Youth based its location filming in Yorkshire, northern England, but also shot in Oxford and London. The film tells the story of Vera Brittain’s experiences as an Oxford student and then as a battlefield nurse.

Sam Worthington to film Hunter’s Prayer on location in Hungary and Yorkshire

Written by Nick Goundry on Jul 24, 2014. Posted in On Location

Australian actor Sam Worthington, star of James Cameron’s Avatar, is set to film new feature Hunter’s Prayer on location in Hungary and in Yorkshire, in north-east England. The movie will tell the story of a lone assassin protecting a small girl as they're pursued across Europe.