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03/10/2008

Rotherham Joins TV Destination Campaign

Rotherham has signed up to a campaign to win more film and TV fame for Yorkshire.
The council is one of 17 local authorities and tourism partnerships across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire to sign up to a Film Friendly Partnership Charter, aimed at making the region the number-one destination for film and television production in the UK.
Screen Yorkshire has been working with Rotherham and other key organisations over the past year to establish the Partnership, which sets out a code of best practice to ensure that the locality and the region get the maximum benefit from the publicity, press and tourism opportunities that filming can bring.
The initiative also aims to ensure that filming in Rotherham happens as easily and effectively as possible, so that production companies have a positive experience of filming to the borough and return for their next projects.
The Charter signing coincides with one of the busiest periods of film and television production in recent years, such as the industry recognises that the facilities and support are on hand to support any scale of project. Over the past two years, Screen Yorkshire has attracted film and television productions worth over £50 million to the region.
Screen Yorkshire Chief Executive Sally Joynson said: "We are delighted that so many of our partners have come together in support and recognition of the value that film and television production can bring to the cultural and economic wealth of the region.
"Local employment in the film industry does not stop just at traditional local crew and services. Productions can also reap long-term tourism benefits - Castle Howard is still welcoming visitors on the back of Granada's 'Brideshead Revisited' television series more than 20 years after it screened and the release of the new film is certain to revitalise in one of the UK's most stunning stately homes."
The new 'Brideshead Revisited' film was filmed at Castle Howard last summer and was supported by Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund.
Director Julian Jarrold is back in Yorkshire this month with one of the films from the 'Red Riding drama trilogy for Channel 4, which has been adapted from a series of books by Yorkshire writer David Peace.
Production on the three feature-length films, based on the world of the 1970s and early '80s at the time of the Ripper murders, has taken film-makers to locations across the region.
Filming also took place in Leeds and Bradford over the summer on Peter Morgan's adaptation of another David Peace novel, 'The Damned United', the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United.
Mammoth Screen came to Yorkshire for the second time in a year recently to film an adaptation of Wuthering Heights for ITV after the success of their shoot for 'Lost In Austen', shown on ITV last month.
(KMcA)
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