Screen Yorkshire News April 2014

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TABLE OF CONTENTS • Screen Yorkshire News - April 2014   • 'Jamaica Inn' - Yorkshire On Screen This Easter   • VE Day Feature Film 'Girls' Night Out' Films in Hull   • Vera Brittain’s Iconic WW1 Memoir 'Testament Of Youth' Films Extensively Across Yorkshire   • Sheffield Doc/Fest Opens with 'Pulp': A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, on 07 June   IN OTHER NEWS   VIDEO: Exclusive behind the scenes footage from 'Girls' Night Out' See the first exclusive moving images from VE day feature film Girls' Night Out as BBC Look North's Anne-Marie Tasker goes behind the scenes in Hull to interview Screen Yorkshire Chief Executive Sally Joynson and Location Manager Tom Howard. Watch   BAFTA Nomination for 'The Great Train Robbery' Screen Yorkshire backed drama The Great Train Robbery has been nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in the Mini-Series category!  The drama, which filmed in Yorkshire and screened over Christmas, is up against Southcliffe, The Fall and In The Flesh. Winners will be announced at this year’s ceremony, which will be held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London on Sunday 18 May. View the full list of nominations.   'Tools of Directing Seminar'- Leeds, Saturday 17 May Are you a filmmaker or TV director living/working in the English regions? Be part of the Tools of Directing training seminars with Simon Phillips + make use of the opportunity to train, network and receive mentoring for a week in London this summer. This scheme is organised by the Directors Guild of Great Britain, with funding support from Creative Skillset’s Film Skills Fund. Book your place>   BAFTA and Rocliffe are looking for emerging comedy screenwriters The British Academy of Film & Television Arts and Rocliffe are on the hunt for fresh UK writing talent. The successful writers will showcase their work for some of the biggest names in the UK and USTV industry at two major international television festivals:  the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) & the New York Television Festival (NYTVF). Deadline for applications 19 May 2014. More   Yorkshire Content Fund The  Yorkshire Content Fund is supported by the European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013.   Screen Yorkshire News - April 2014 Welcome to our newsletter for April 2014, bringing you all the latest news on productions supported by Screen Yorkshire's Yorkshire Content Fund.   'Jamaica Inn' - Yorkshire On Screen This Easter An epic screen adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s critically acclaimed gothic novel Jamaica Inn, funded by Screen Yorkshire, premiered in the prime-time evening slot on BBC One this Easter Monday (now available on iplayer) with episodes 2 & 3 screening at 9pm on 22nd & 23rd April. The 3 x 60 minute part TV drama produced by Origin Pictures has been adapted by Emma Frost and directed by BAFTA award-winning director Philippa Lowthorpe. A significant part of the production filmed in Yorkshire at locations including Crow Edge, Penistone, Farnley Tyas, Tong, Keighley & Bradford, with filming also taking place in Cornwall, where the novel is set and Cumbria. Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) stars as Mary Yellan with other key cast including Matthew McNulty, Sean Harris, Ben Daniels, Joanne Whalley and Shirley Henderson. 'Jamaica Inn' is backed by Screen Yorkshire through the Yorkshire Content Fund. More>   VE Day Feature Film 'Girls' Night Out' Films in Hull Filming has got underway this month in Hull on Girls’ Night Out, a major new period feature film that reimagines reports that the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were allowed out of Buckingham Palace to join the VE celebrations in 1945. The feature film is directed by Julian Jarrold and stars Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Rupert Everett, Emily Watson & Jack Reynor, alongside over 1500 local extras! Girls' Night Out is filming primarily on location in Hull, East Yorkshire, with additional scenes shot in Belvoir Castle, Chatsworth, London and Belgium. 'Girls' Night Out' is backed by Screen Yorkshire through the Yorkshire Content Fund. More   Vera Brittain’s Iconic WW1 Memoir 'Testament Of Youth' Films Extensively Across Yorkshire Filming continues this month on the Heyday Films and BBC Films production of Vera Brittain’s iconic and powerful WW1 memoir, Testament Of Youth. The production, which commenced principal photography on 17 March 2014 is filming at a great range of urban and rural locations across the region in North, South & West Yorkshire, following investment from Screen Yorkshire. Alicia Vikander plays the iconic writer, feminist and pacifist, Vera Brittain and Kit Harington plays Roland Leighton, Brittain’s fiancé. The all star cast also includes Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Joanna Scanlan, Hayley Atwell, Jonathan Bailey, Alexandra Roach and Anna Chancellor. 'Testament of Youth' is backed by Screen Yorkshire through the Yorkshire Content Fund. More   Sheffield Doc/Fest Opens with 'Pulp': A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, on 07 June On Saturday 7th June at the magnificent City Hall, the 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest will officially open with the European Premiere of PULP. A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, attended by the director Florian Habicht, producer Alex Boden of Pistachio Pictures Production and band-members: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber. By turns funny, moving, life-affirming and (occasionally) bewildering, PULP is a music-film like no other. Florian Habicht unveils the deep affection that the inhabitants of Sheffield have for Pulp, and the formative effect the town has had on the band’s music (and front-man Jarvis Cocker’s lyrics in particular). PULP is backed by Screen Yorkshire through the Yorkshire Content Fund. More