New venture to boost
international film and TV production in Wales by £100m
The Welsh Government is joining forces with Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner –
the former BBC executives responsible for Doctor Who, Torchwood and Da Vinci’s
Demons – to support a new UK/US production company BAD WOLF co-sited in South
Wales and Los Angeles to produce high-end TV and film for the global television
market.
BAD WOLF will have its production base at a permanent studio in South Wales,
and is forecast to attract in the region of £100 million to the economy of
Wales over the next ten years through an ambitious production slate and
partnerships with international broadcasters.
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Support for Red & Black Films’ supernatural thriller
“Don’t Knock Twice” – the supernatural thriller starring Katee
Sackhoff (“Oculus,” “Riddick,” “Battlestar Galactica”) from the award winning
team at Red & Black Films - is the latest feature film to get backing from
the Welsh Government’s £30m Media Investment Budget, which is advised by
Pinewood Pictures.
Cardiff based Red & Black Films is the first Welsh company to
benefit from the Media Investment Budget which is funding a significant
proportion of the production’s budget. The Welsh Government is providing
additional grant support and Ffilm Cymru Wales provided support from an early
stage with much needed development funding.
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World class facilities puts Dragon ahead of the game
An investment to create a world
leading film post-production, restoration and digitisation facility, which
will create highly skilled jobs for Welsh graduates,
is being supported by Welsh Government.
The £445,000 project by South Wales & London based Dragon
is in world class picture post technology, powerful computing and digital
storage systems creating a unique twin location facility for film &
television.
Dragon’s investment is backed by £200,500 from the Welsh
Government’s Economic Growth Fund, creating thirteen new jobs and safeguarding
seven existing jobs.
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Welsh
games development sector boost
Welsh
Government is funding the Wales Games
Development Show for the next two years.
Economy
Minister Edwina Hart said funding support will ensure the show remains a national and international showcase to promote
Welsh talent and expertise in the UK Games calendar and will build on its
successes to date. Read more
Supported by Welsh Government, the 4th Wales Games Development Show took
place on 22nd June. Fifty exhibitors including leading Welsh games companies,
makers of games-creation tools and retro games sellers attended. The show also
featured one-to-one surgeries with experts on funding, legal & accounts. Find out more
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Welsh Government’s creative industries
hub is full
GloWorks,
the Welsh Government’s flagship hub for the creative industries in Cardiff Bay
is now fully let.
BAFTA
award-winning visual effects company Milk recently signed a lease on the last
remaining office space in the building.
GloWorks
is a 32,000 sq ft development directly opposite Roath Lock Studios, the BBC’s
170,000 sq ft drama production studio complex in Porth Teigr and just a few
miles from Pinewood Studio Wales.
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Set Fire to the Stars US Premiere
Set Fire To The Stars,
supported by the Welsh Government, had its
premiere in New York on 9 June ahead of its US wide release.
Starring Celyn
Jones as Thomas and Elijah Wood as American poet and university lecturer John
Malcolm Brinnin, the story centres on Dylan Thomas’s first tour of America in
1950, where Brinnin struggles to keep Thomas in line.
The film was
entirely shot in Swansea in just 18 days and boasts a soundtrack and score by
Gruff Rhys.
View more here.
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ECTARC
programme in Creative Industries
ECTARC Wales is currently seeking placements within
the creative industries sectors - including
video editing, film making, web design, graphics, industrial design and
journalism.
The language
and training centre is part of the EU Erasmus+ vocational training programme.
It works with partners across Europe providing high skilled work placements for
students and graduates aged 24 to 40 years for a twelve week work placement in
Wales.
If
you are interested in being part of this successful programme, please email Chelsea
Moth or
James Griffiths.
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Web area improvements - can you help?
We are
currently looking to improve our Creative sector content on the Gov.Wales
website and would value your feedback.
If you have 5 minutes
please help us highlight relevant and more up to date content by
visiting Optimal Sort website.
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Book launch
marks new chapter in Eiry’s creative career
Eiry Rees Thomas’s interactive educational apps have
been adapted this month for print books in the UK and USA for international
distribution.
A grant from the Welsh Government’s Digital
Development Fund was the catalyst that prompted Eiry to create the series of
interactive educational apps for teachers and learners that were published
by Apple to rave reviews.
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New online marketing guide
Whether it’s
information on selling through Twitter and Facebook, generating positive media
coverage free of charge, or getting the best advice on handling customer
complaints, all the answers are in Business Wales’ new online Marketing Zone.
Hundreds of
guides and videos of top tips, stories of marketing triumphs (and examples of
how to recover from marketing failures) and expert advice, provide Welsh
businesses with all you need to know about putting together successful and
profitable marketing campaigns.
Visit the Business Wales Marketing Zone
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The Welsh Economy: in numbers
The Welsh
economy is performing reasonably well over the medium term compared to many
other parts of the UK and is materially improving the well-being of citizens in
Wales, according to a new website launched today.
‘Welsh
Economy: in numbers’ provides a high level, easily accessible, broad picture of
the Welsh economy and economic outcomes in Wales. It brings together for the first time a
rounded picture of economic performance for eight key indicators – over time
and in comparison with other parts of the UK.
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Business Rates Relief Scheme extended as Welsh Enterprise
Zone job total reaches 7,000
A popular business rates relief
scheme for companies based within Welsh Enterprise Zones has reopened for
applications as the total tally of jobs created or safeguarded within the seven
Zones exceeded 7,000.
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Full devolution of Non-domestic rates
marks a major first milestone for fiscal devolution
The full devolution of non-domestic rates in Wales from 1
April marked a major first milestone for fiscal devolution in Wales, Finance
and Government Business Minister Jane Hutt said.
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New Sell2Wales website
Have you visited the new Sell2Wales information and procurement portal?
Set up by Welsh Government, it helps businesses win contracts with the public
sector across Wales and enables public sector buyers to advertise and manage
tender opportunities. On the site you will find contracts for public
sector goods and services from a wide range of publicly-funded organisations
including Welsh Government, local authorities, NHS Trusts, colleges and
universities.
New website shows how
Welsh laws differ from rest of UK
A new website has been launched to help people understand the
way laws in Wales are starting to diverge from the rest of the UK. The National
Assembly can pass laws for Wales in 20 specified devolved areas of economic,
social and cultural importance to citizens, including health, education,
agriculture, transport, housing and the environment.
The Cyfraith Cymru / Law Wales site has been spearheaded by the
Welsh Counsel General, Theodore Huckle QC to raise awareness of the growing
body of Welsh law being passed by the National Assembly for Wales and made by
the Welsh Ministers.
Read more and visit website.
Mexican Business Summit, 24-29 October 2015, Mexico
City/Guadalajara, Mexico
Welsh Government is inviting companies to
participate in a trade mission to Mexico Business Summit in Guadalajara, which will
be attended by leaders from the business community, academics and political
arena.
The mission, supported by Welsh Government, offers
an exciting occasion to connect with businesses in one of the World’s fastest
growing economies. This is an opportunity to look at exporting to, or
increasing your exports to the world’s 11th largest economy with a population
of over 112 million.
Other
trade missions we are supporting include -
MIPCOM – 12-15 October 2015, Cannes,
France
WOMEX – 21-25 October 2015,
Budapest, Hungary
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