First Take

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First Take is an award-winning independent production and training organisation, which specialises working with diverse communities and distinct new voices, creating innovative ground-breaking films and programmes.

11/02/2025

🕸️Welcome to the haunted house!🕸️ After so many months on our Art Filmmaking course our RQ crew had their shoot ... and it was wild! We had so much fun from writing to shooting this piece at the last week with so many amazing performers and themes we are simply dying to see the results 😈 Stay tuned for BTS of our horror art film soon! 🦴☠️🕸️🕯️

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28/01/2025

Since the end of September First Take have been working with the and to teach and shoot a short film with a group of young people from the region. We are incredibly proud of all the hard work the kids have put in and the final films we have made with them. We are so excited to be screening it at in a couple of weeks and give them all the credit they deserve ✨

16/01/2025

Still thinking about how much fun we had last year making "Movement Megaphone 📣 " with for the

02/12/2024

✨ITS A WRAP!🎉 After working so hard all year on our Reel Q***r shorts its time to party!💖

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17/11/2024

🌈POV you work at First Take and no two days are the same✨

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13/11/2024

✨ Recreating the past ✨

This was such a beautiful dance dream sequence to film with and and choreographed by to capture the passage of Graeme ( Previous Artistic Director of the ) and Peter's ( Director of That Theatre Group ) relationship over time.

The film will follow Graeme and Peter's life and struggles to once again show "Krapp's Last Tape" at the Unity this past summer, complete with flashbacks all the way through to current day.

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07/11/2024

✨Basic Documentary Filmmaking Class of 24✨ Back in August we had a great time running our second Reel Q***r Basic Filmmaking Course but this time with a new twist; Documentary!!! 🎥 With course tutor .x the group shot and edited an important documentary highlighting the importance of Q***r creative spaces in our current society which we hope to send to festivals in the near future 🏳️‍🌈

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14/10/2024

🌈The satisfaction of collaging is real ✨The first session of our Art Filmmaking course was pure art class fun and self expression, getting us into the head space to make our Art Film next year 💖

07/10/2024

Shooting "The Moment" scene in our second Reel Q***r short Saccharine 💕

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03/10/2024

🌈Reel Q***r season 2 Coming Soon! Exclusive to First Take✨ Another year, another round of courses and we are so happy to be welcoming so many new faces as well as seeing our first year q***rs take on even more courses , projects and films.Watch this space💕

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25/09/2024

✨The New Renaissance ✨ ... Back in April we ventured into our first Reel Q***r short shoot . A massive beautiful learning process for all the cast and crew involved who all pulled together to create a film telling the story of the importance of chosen family 🌈

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16/09/2024

🩷💜💙 Happy Bisexual Awareness Week 💙💜🩷 "This is such an important week I feel due to the current levels of Bi erasure and prejudice both outside and within the LGBTQIA+ community itself towards bisexual and pansexual people. It's a sexuality often overlooked and frowned upon purely because of its fluidity and also misunderstanding of the term "Bisexual" itself as overlooking non binary and trans people which it doesn't. It's important to me as an artist to project this problem into my art and film work as a way of bringing love and understanding within our community while adding just a sprinkle of magic along the way ✨" - .x First Take's resident bisexual witch.

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11/09/2024

🎪BTS the First Take Circus🎪 We had so much fun filming micro short 'Petit Pierrot' complete with hula hopping crew 😂

Thank you to taking all these hilarious photos📷

09/09/2024

Over the past few months we have been working on such an important drama short right at the heart of Liverpool's theatre community; capturing the lives of Graeme (Previous Artistic Director of the Unity) and Peter ( Previous Director of the Rathbone) and their journey to show "Krapps Last Tape" again at the .

Working with now current Artistic Director of the Unity to create beautiful flashback movement pieces showing how the two first met and grew together with playing Graeme and
playing Peter complete with 80s mullet and all ✨

Also massive thank you to Paula Simms for recreating Graeme's flat as a set in First Take , with so many details from the time and a full pallet bed which we will definitely miss having in the office! And yes! We had to tape up the windows outside to make it look like a night time scene which got some hilarious side eyes, but it's all in the name of film!

27/08/2024

🎨Art Inspo🖌️second session vibes for our Art Filmmaking course took us round one of current exhibitions by an amazing installation which got all the ideas flowing💡

23/08/2024

🍬Meet Team Saccharine!!!🍬 Our beautiful cast and crew ready to make another amazing Reel Q***r shot✨

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1 Maryland Street
Liverpool
L19DE

Telephone

+447746260277

Website

http://www.firsttake.org.uk/

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Since last month as part of our Reel Queer programme, we have been running a Microshorts course; teaching the entire filmmaking process from pre production to post to create one minutes shorts. @bradleywils idea was first up to be filmed, and we were so impressed with how well the team worked together on such a tight shooting schedule. We can't wait to see the results in the coming weeks! #LGBTQ #firsttake #liverpoolart #Liverpoolfilm #queerfilm #microshorts #filming #onset #BTS