NOVEMBER 2008
AEROPLANES
Short animated interpretation of Rebecca Goss' poem will be screened on Sky Channel 166 at 12.30pm week commencing on 17th November.
Made with Ade Jackson as part of Liverpool's poetry in the City Festival.
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NOVEMBER 2008
GLENBURN SPORTS COLLEGE
Eek Films will be working with a group of twenty KS4 pupils from this brilliant school to write and create four short animations.
It's a massive project and one that will ensure we hit the ground animating in 2009!
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OCTOBER 2008
BEING MUM
We're making a documentary with a group of young Mums in Kensington.
These strong young women are talking honestly and with humour for the benefit of other young Mums-to-be for a dvd funded by The Culture Company
BURIED ABOVE GROUND has made it to the small screen as well as the silver screen
Tune in to Open Culture 167 on SKY at 12.30pm
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SEPTEMBER 2008 - GREAT NEWS!
Well done to us!!
BURIED ABOVE GROUND has been selected as one of only ten young people's films that will be screened as part of the MADE UP IN LIVERPOOL event.
The big night is November 20th at FACT
Might even wear me tux!
Well done everyone - you've made us proud!
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SEPTEMBER 2008 NEWS
What a year 08 is turning out to be! Buried Above Ground is just about finished after all the young lads from De La Salle put in a big effort. Now we are hoping to get a screening during the Biennial festival, fingers crossed eh...
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AUGUST 2008 NEWS
Working with the Liverpool Poetry in the City festival on a short animation which interprets AEROPLANES a poem by Rebecca Goss.
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APRIL 2008 NEWS
Working with the lovely people at Knowsley’s Children and Family Service producing an animated drugs awareness DVD for young people. It's called BOBBY GETS COOL We worked with two primary schools in Knowsley on the character designs. It's a 15 minute resource for use in the classrooms of Knowsley.
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JANUARY 2008 NEWS
Had a BRILLIANT time at the MODERN TOSS premiere in London. Eek Films is very proud to have been involved with such a genius programme!
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DECEMBER 2007 NEWS
To round off a fantastic year for Eek Films Limited, the company has been commissioned by Knowsley Education Development Office to produce an animated film all about drugs awareness for young people. You can follow the film's progress, which is being developed with initial brainstorming at Nine Trees Primary school in Liverpool, at the blog: Knowsley Drugs Awareness. 2008 promises to be another great year with Eek Films definitely going in the right direction. All the best, let's hope it's a good one!
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OCTOBER 2007 NEWS
ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to have been funded by First Light Movies to make an animated film in collaboration with Alt Valley Vision and De La Salle School. The Film will be called BURIED ABOVE GROUND and will tell the story of William James McKenzie, The Rodney Street ghost!
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SEPTEMBER 2007 NEWS
Working with Alt Valley Vision and some clever young people at De La Salle School in Croxteth to produce a comic called The Valley Voles You can follow its progress online, you can also see the designs that have gone into making the brilliant piece of work that has got the whole of Norris Green talking!
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JULY 2007 NEWS
Proudly doing animation for the brilliant Channel 4 TV series Modern Toss.
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JUNE 2007 NEWS
Started work with the young people at Central Youth Club on our mini gangster film 'The 08th Wonder of Kenny'
It's an animation - live action combo about...well you can follow our progress at the BLOG!
The 08th Wonder of Kenny.
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APRIL 2007 NEWS
BRILLIANT NEWS! A short film made with some young people from Kensington Central for a BBC Sport Competition has WON THE COMPETITION! It was screened on Football Focus and you can view it on the BBC website.
It's Traore's Own Goal and two lucky lads are off to Wembley on May 19th.
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MARCH 2007 NEWS
GREAT NEWS! Eek Films with Kensington Youth Central have been funded by the Liverpool Culture Company to produce a short animation - live action combo film called The Eighth Wonder of Kenny. The project will involve young people from Kensington writing, directing, acting, animating and editing a film based around the Kensington area and it's past glories! Phew!
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FEBRUARY 2007 NEWS
Working with Knowsley Youth & Play Service Intervention Scheme and our old friends up at Toxteth TV on a 10 minute film.
It's a black comedy/drama and is about risk taking in youth culture with a big crash in the first act!
You can read about OUT COLD here:
at knowsley online..
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DECEMBER NEWS
Tony Ealey has been based once a week at De La Salle in Croxteth as WRITER in RESIDENCE; teaching a course on 'screenwriting for animation'. The programme is part of the ongoing work of the Writing Together partnership. With funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, NAWE (The National Association of Writers in Education), are running the three year programme. The course has been a huge success and you can view the production blog here: dls-screenwriting.blogspot.com
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AUGUST NEWS
Tony Ealey, Eek Films director was this month presented with the ENTREPRENEUR'S AWARD 2006
at the MEDS annual ceremony.
It was attended by the lord Mayor of Liverpool and the High Sheriff amongst the many other VIPs!
MEDS is the Muslim Enterprise Development Service based in Liverpool and they do great work for the whole community.
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JULY NEWS
Recently finished
animation on a feature length film produced by Hurricane Films. It
is called UNDER THE MUD and was written and conceived by young Merseysiders
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Gala Premiere at the Philharmonic Hall on Feb 9.
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