Glamorous lifestyles aren’t usually words you’d associate
with the University of Bedfordshire press team but following a
couple of months of hard slog we were allowed out of the office to do a bit of
socialising.
Caroline our Communications Officer and I went along to the cast
and crew screening of Winterlong in
London at the beautiful Regent Street Cinema. We’ve been talking about it for
so long it was amazing to finally get a chance to see the film in its entirety.
Winterlong was written and directed by Senior Lecturer in
Media Production David
Jackson. It gave the opportunity for students and staff from the School
of Media and Performance to get first-hand experience of what it is really
like to make a feature film.
We all loved it; it was hard to believe this full length
feature film starring Game of Thrones actor Francis Magee, Smack the Pony
actress Doon Mackichan and Coronation Street actor Ian Puleston-Davies had
started life as a Student
Experience Project.
‘Steps’ projects were a way for students make changes to and
enhance their experience at Bedfordshire. Students provided the ideas, knowledge
and leadership while the University provided the financial backing and guidance
to turn ideas into reality.
It was great to see the film all badged up as a University
of Bedfordshire production with a long list of thanks to all the staff who had
helped it get this far. There were more than a few tears shed when credits rolled
and the auditorium erupted with a standing ovation.
We wish all the cast and crew of Winterlong the best of luck
in getting into a major international film festival and look forward to seeing it
in a cinema very soon.
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