News: March - April 2010
Busy times at Silverfish, here are the headlines…..
Projects being processed include an exciting project which we shot in Ghana and films for the Royal College of Nursing, The Howard League for Penal Reform, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, The Equality and Human Rights Commission and the European Climate Foundation.
Silverfish Media celebrated its 4th birthday this month. We are all looking forward to raising a glass when things aren’t so busy!
At time of writing we are waiting for the first of our Labour Party Election broadcasts to go on air on terrestrial TV.
“The Road Ahead” stars Sean Pertwee and features the voiceover talents of David Tennant.
News Archive
December - January 2010
We had only got back from Asia, America and Africa when Christmas arrived! In Zambia we filmed for DFID to extend our North South Corridor film where we filmed the opening of the new border in Chirundu and a ministerial conference in Lusaka.
On the same trip we met Vincent Phiri who we sent to school in September with the help of our clients. This year we have also decided to donate to a school in Africa to make sure that every child there has a proper meal.
Coming back from the long break we have a lot to do again. During the first week of the year (despite the extreme weather conditions) we filmed across Britain for The Royal College of Nursing.
Our web work is keeping us busy as well - we are currently working on 4 different sites for celebrities and charities.
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November 2009
In case you missed it last month….our Chairman Stewart, is now the proud owner of film company Icon.
Some of the crew went to Rwanda this month and filmed the fascinating story of the country’s reconstruction.They also bumped into the inspirational figure – Rick Warren, and filmed a clip with him about 21st century faith.
Asia and Africa continue to central to lots of our work – we’ll be filming in Zambia at the end of the month and we’ve just done a web film for SABMiller on the work they do in India. President Koroma of Sierra Leone was met by the team very recently and spoke about the Africa Governance Initiative.
Plans are in place for filming James Cracknell for the Tony Blair Sports Foundation and Alastair Campbell at the Mind Awards.
Our conference film ‘Against the Odds’ received amazing response and led to a public led demand to see it on television as the next broadcast.
October 2009
Thanks to saving 7 trees from recycling last year, saving over 500 tapes a year through moving to tapeless technology and going paperless on our marketing....amongst other things such as cycling to work - we are Islington Council's Green Champion for Small Business!!
Our Chairman Stewart, has just bought film company Icon.
This month has included a mixture of corporate and public sector work. We've cut a film for ARHAG for their 30th anniversary, NHS Tower Hamlets on the swine flu vaccine, Kofi Annan's Foundation and Tony Blair's Faith Foundation which has included a trip to Israel.
We, and Lewisham Homes are ecstatic as we've finally come to the end of their epic project - a 30 min film translated into 7 languages with British Sign Language, English Subtitles and Audio Description!
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September 2009
Summer is over and after having some rest in August we are busier than ever.
We’ve been filming in New York at the General Assembly of the United Nations and the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. We’ve captured interviews with Bono, Naomi Campbell, Kofi Annan and Sir Nicholas Stern over the last month…just to name drop.
We are also working on a promo for Skillset to promote the value of training and skills within the film industry. Stars of the film will include Eddie Izzard, Kevin Loader and Justin Marciano.
Our Bangladesh Climate Change footage featured on the BBC news, and with great help from our clients filling out our Home of Hope questionnaire we’ve sent a young boy - Vincent Phiri to school in Africa! We filmed with Alastair Campbell and Jade Johnston and keep producing video content for his blog.
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June/July 2009
The news hasn’t been written for a while because the Silver-Fish have been rushed off their fins!
We’ve filmed in Tanzania, Chile, Brazil, USA, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Cameroon and... Scotland.
The main cause of our travel has been a fantastic project for the United Nations Development Programme on the Business Call to Action. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a new client of ours, and we’ve completed 7 projects for them over the past three months.
Our Documentary for Zambian television on the North-South Corridor is nearly completed and will raise even more awareness of the importance of improved infrastructure and border control organisation in Southern Africa.
We’ve also done jobs for the Girl-Guides, Greenwich Council, Lewisham Homes, Alastair Campbell and the National Screening Committee. The edits have been busy too with projects for Fleishman-Hillard and Leukaemia Research.
January - February
A very productive start to the year! We've produced three websites: Alastair Campbell's new 'fully integrated' cyber space – www.alastaircampbell.org, plus EPLP’s new site and our new post-production arm – Silverpost.
We filmed an epic documentary for DFID in Zambia. The film looks at the horrific conditions for traders travelling in southern Africa and poses some solutions. Check out the film.
Kevin Spacey and Eddie Izzard were the centre of some of our attention in some short promotional films we’ve done for free theatre tickets. Have a look one of the videos here.
On top of this we’ve done a highly technical promotional film for Oxford Academic Health Science Centre, filming for Lewisham Homes and helicopter shots of East Lothian, Scotland!
October – December
Many media companies experience a lull during the winter months. Not us fishies, we’ve been swimming in all sorts of waters lately...
The films we’ve been working on include ones for the 2012 Olympics conference, Islington’s adult social services, Greenwich beacon awards, English, Scottish and Welsh versions of the Queen’s speech broadcast, and a piece for the Sun featuring Alan Sugar and Gordon Brown.
Website work has also taken off for us.
We’re re-designing and building the EPLP website, a new site for Alastair Campbell and we’re getting ready to launch our post production arm of Silverfish with a new website – Silverpost!
