Lancaster Film Initiative

02/10/2025

Some absolutely brilliant outfits on show at Dallas Road Community Primary School's non-uniform fundraiser for our upcoming short film project 'Angeline' - thank you so much guys!

Find out more at spacehive.com/angeline

11/09/2025

Huge thanks to Beyond Radio for this article on our upcoming collaboration with Dallas Road Community Primary School. Our crowdfunder for the new project can be found at spaehive.com/angeline - please do give a share and help spread the word!

https://www.beyond.radio/news/local-news/lancaster-school-pupils-and-the-thick-of-it-writer-team-up-on-time-travel-film/

Pupils at a Lancaster school and an Emmy-winning writer have joined forces once again - this time to make a film about time travel.

03/09/2025

Don’t forget to book your table for our quiz tomorrow! We’re raising money to help the pupils of the fantastic Dallas Road Primary School make a film 🎥

We’re very grateful to the wonderful for hosting, and we’re got Whaletail vouchers up for grabs! Phone the Whaley on 01524 845 133 to book.

28/08/2025

A perfectly ordinary afternoon’s activity…

23/08/2025

We’re extremely grateful to The Whale Tail Cafe for hosting a quiz to raise some cash for our project with Dallas Road Community Primary School, ‘Angeline’. Thank you so much folks!

Give them a call to book a space and find out more about ‘Angeline’ at spacehive.com/angeline

19/08/2025

We’ve had some wonderful news! Our film with Dallas Road Community Primary School ‘TIG!’ has been selected for the Wigan and Leigh Film Festival! We’re properly chuffed. Catch it on Saturday the 27th of September.

15/08/2025

HUGE NEWS!!! Sport and Culture Fund has pledged 45% match funding for Angeline, to the tune of £9.8k! That means we’re over three quarters of the way to our funding target!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us so far - the match funding pledge wouldn’t have happened without you. We’re so excited that Angeline is close to becoming a reality - thank you, thank you, thank you!

BUT… if we don’t reach the target we don’t get any of the funding, so we really need to raise the remaining £5147! We’ve got fundraising events planned (watch this space) but it’s still a mountain to climb, so please like, share, bother your friends and neighbours and spread the word! Here’s link to the crowdfunder: https://www.spacehive.com/angeline Thanks again everyone!

14/08/2025

‘Tig!’, our first film with Dallas Road Primary School, is now available to watch on YouTube! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znnO4nmafPA&fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMK-CZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp7N7Ch30Ug1QoUG93nL5_7P7EXCCCl-A2eweiY7fb9aGimySXNUNfS8Hu4c6_aem_JqG6-eBiIPOjt1KSbBwYTg

Please give it a watch and a share and if you enjoy it consider chipping in to our crowdfunder for the follow up, ‘Angeline’ https://www.spacehive.com/angeline Once again written by the students under the guidance of Ian Martin (), it’s a much more ambitious project which we can’t wait to get started on!

Watch this space for details on some upcoming fundraising events!

24/07/2025

We're absolutely delighted with the response to our crowdfunder for 'Angeline' - A new film with Dallas Road Community Primary School. As of today we have 111 backers and 111 days left, which feels significant somehow... Huge thanks go out to everyone who has donated so far!

It's very exciting to see the names of a few industry veterans on the backers list! Special thanks to Nigella Lawson, Death in Paradise writer Robert Thorogood, The Bay writer Daragh Carville, Shaun of the Dead co-composer Dan Mudford and Justin Edwards off of The Thick Of It for generously chipping in!

Every little really does help though, even likes and shares are a huge favour to us, so please continue to spread the word and let's make this project a reality!

'Angeline', a film by Dallas Road Primary School, created with Lancaster Film Initiative and Ian Martin.

21/07/2025

LA1 Shorts is getting bigger and better every year, and their spin-off Health and Wellbeing focussed event LA1 Docs is going into it’s third year! They’re on the lookout for submissions, so give them a bell if you’ve got any short docs that could fit the theme.

19/07/2025

We are blown away by the level of support we’ve had for our new film project with Dallas Road Community Primary School! Since Monday we have 94 backers and have raised over £2000! Just wow. Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s chipped in! We’re especially pleased to have the support of and - legends all! ❤️

But there’s a long way to go! So please, please give us a share, spread the word and badger your friends. We would love to reach 100 backers by the end of the week! 🤞🤞

EDIT: That was ruddy quick! We hit 100 backers 2 hours later!!

12/06/2025

Some screengrabs from our film ‘The Riverbank’. We’re really proud of this project! We took a group of young refugees from ‘s Refugee Integration Team’s Youth Voices Board and coached them through writing, planning and shooting this film… and they totally exceeded our expectations! They were fantastic!

You can see the film at next Tuesday evening (17th June) at the supported Roots Film Festival event, showcasing documentary and narrative short films concerning the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. It’s going to be a great event, so we’ll see you there!