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Summer Film School for Herefordshire Teens
Dated 02-07-2010
The Rural Media Company's Film School returns again this summer, it will be bigger and better than ever, lasting a whole two weeks between 26th July and 6th August excluding weekends.....
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Same But Different
Dated 19-04-2010
The Rural Media Company are a launching a new awareness-raising project about diversity and equality in our rural county, called 'Same But Different'. They will explore attitudes to 'difference' through film-making and on-line storytelling, with individuals and groups who have been at the sharp end of ignorance or prejudice, whether it be because of their age, disability, race, faith, gender or sexual orientation.....
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Over The Hill
Dated 12-04-2010
A new campaign, highlighting the challenges faced by older people in rural areas, needs to hear from communities that are already addressing the problems of the rapidly greying countryside.....
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Bromyard Film to be highlighted at Regional Conference
Dated 18-02-2010
The Rural Media Company's latest community project, Rural Lives, which involved over 300 people last year from the small market town of Bromyard in Herefordshire, is to feature at a major regional event next month.....
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Bromyard film is chosen to be the Christmas Day Movie
Dated 12-12-2009
Still Life, the community film production made by the people of Bromyard and The Rural Media Company has been chosen to be the big Christmas Day movie for national broadcast on The Community Channel.....
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Young Shoots brings cinema and filmmaking to Herefordshire
Dated 29-09-2009
Young Shoots is a new project from The Rural Media Company. One of only twelve national pilot projects funded by the UK Film Council through the Film:21st Century Literacy initiative and Herefordshire Children's Services, Young Shoots aims to develop a stronger film culture for young people aged
5-19 years across the region.....
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'The Book' is back
Dated 21-08-2009
Travellers' Times, the national magazine for Gypsies and Travellers in the UK will re-launch this winter, following the intervention of the Government's Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).....
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Lord Puttnam backs Bromyard Film
Dated 23-07-2009
Oscar winner and BAFTA Fellow Lord Puttnam has very high praise for the latest Rural Media community film project, Still Life, that was created over a 12 month period with the people of Bromyard.....
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Travellers cross the digital divide
Dated 08-04-2009
TT Online launches on International Roma Day - 8th April 2009 - with news, films, radio, learning and comment by, for and about Britain's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
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Sites and Rights
Dated 20-03-2009
A new DVD, Sites and Rights, looks beyond the headlines and presents a powerful argument for providing more Gypsy and Traveller sites.....
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Fieldwork - Farming memories from the 20th century
Dated 18-03-2009
Produced by The Rural Media Company, 30 digital stories from farmers and their wives, war time land workers and labourers tell of a lost way of life that was wholesome, romantic and rewarding but also labour intensive and often harsh.....
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The Rural Media Company enhances outreach service
Dated 13-03-2009
Thanks to a unique scheme run by the Herefordshire Access to Services Partnership, The Rural Media Company has been able to expand its outreach work in the county. The local communications charity has purchased a new van with support from Advantage West Midlands, Herefordshire Council and Community First.....
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Fieldwork-Everyone has a story to tell
Dated 09-01-2009
“Wonderful, engaging stories from rural Herefordshire …. What a joy!” says comedienne Jo Brand of The Rural Media Company's Fieldwork project, to be premiered locally by Bromyard and Eardisley history societies this month....
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Looking for Bromyard Film Stars!
Dated 03-11-2008
A dedicated group of Bromyard locals have been working with the Rural Media Company to develop the script for a mini feature film set in the town. The production is now looking for local people from Bromyard and surrounding areas, to play the characters and insist that they are not expecting people to have previous experience of screen acting or even theatre acting...
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Anti-poverty Measures - Ask the Experts!
Dated 27-10-2008
Startling video testimony made by rural people living in poverty is being broadcast on the Community Channel from 1st November 2008. Show & Tell brings unfamiliar voices to the TV screen and exposes the hardship and stigma of surviving on a low income in the countryside.....
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A Cut Above The Rest
Dated 08-08-2008
A new film produced by The Rural Media Company was presented to Prince Charles at the Royal Show, this month. Jane Jackson, Rural Media's Director of Production was there to meet the Prince, along with the Hedgelink partners, who commissioned the film.....
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£330,000 to create a national Gypsy & Traveller web portal
Dated 30-05-2008
The Rural Media Company has been awarded over £300,000 to create and manage the first dedicated educational web portal aimed at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community. The new on-line resource will also support public and voluntary sector agencies that provide services for these communities.....
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Powys pupils film to premiere at the Hay Festival!
Dated 30-04-2008
Young people at Gwernyfed High School, Three Cocks, Powys, are taking their first steps onto the film making ladder under the guidance of The Rural Media Company and are set to star in their own film, entitled Dirty Bandages.....
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Exploring the science of the teenager!
Dated 14-04-2008
The Rural Media Company and St Mary's High School (Specialist Science College) Hereford, are embarking on an innovative science and media project in the summer term of 2008, entitled Teenology.
Teenology will explore the science of adolescence through a multi-media installation that uses film, photography, music and graphics.....
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Special Education Project Valued Above Rubies by Herefordshire Head Teacher
Dated 11-04-2008
The Rural Media Company launches the results of Gaining Ground, a remarkable two-year digital media research project with staff and students in the county's three Pupil Referral Units, next Thursday 17 April at The Aconbury Centre, Hereford.....
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Bromyard - The Movie
Dated 10-04-2008
Bromyard is set to be the location for a mini feature film, inspired by the town and its inhabitants. The movie, which is described as a Community Film Project by local producers, The Rural Media Company, will give residents of Bromyard the chance to work alongside professional filmmakers, photographers and scriptwriters, to research stories and characters and shape a film script.....
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New 'Show and Tell' research exposes myth of the Rural Idyll
Dated 09-04-2008
The Rural Media Company and the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies have recently undertaken innovative research to demonstrate what it is like to live on a low income in a rural area. The Research called 'Show and Tell Multimedia Testimony on Rural Poverty', which was funded by the Big Lottery, has used film to enable research participants to describe their own lives and experiences.....
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Birmingham Post features Show and Tell project
Dated 17-03-2008
New research to be unveiled in Birmingham tomorrow will show that for one part of society - the rural poor - the grass is no longer greener, as Jane Jackson, Director of Production at The Rural Media Company, explains...
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Award winning film maker Ken Loach supports Herefordshire community film project
Dated 22-10-2007
Award winning film maker Ken Loach, winner of the Palm d'or and director of films such as Kes, The Wind that Shakes the Barley and It's a Free World, is supporting the Crafta Webb community film project produced by The Rural Media Company.....
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Celebrities help Young Gay People living in the Sticks
Dated 14-09-2007
Herefordshire's Rural Media Company is launching STICKS AND STONES, a lottery funded project, to combat homophobic bullying in rural areas.
Project managers have recruited gay celebrities to take part, many expressing on the website how they have dealt with homophobic bullying in the past and how it effects their public life now.....
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New opportunities to work, train and volunteer on County's Leading Youth Magazine
Dated 03-09-2007
Youth Times - the youth-led media project that provides a voice for young people in Herefordshire is seeking volunteers and people interested in training or working on the project.....
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Herefordshire's Youth E-magazine, InSITE Wins Top Award
Dated 13-07-2007
Herefordshire's youth e-magazine InSITE has won this year's Young People Now Positive Images award for 'Best interactive media produced by young people for young people.'.....
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Sir Digby Jones speaks out at the Media Literacy Conference
Dated 26-06-2007
Speaking on Monday 18 June at the Birmingham launch of 'Switching On To Media Literacy: a media literacy strategy for the West Midlands' Sir Digby said.....
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Media Talent Awards 2007
Dated 06-06-2007
Herefordshire based The Rural Media Company has been presented with the Outstanding Achievement award at the West Midlands' premier Media Talent Awards 2007...
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Crafta Webb Community
Dated 05-06-2007
After 12 months dedication and hard work the Crafta Webb community film will finally begin shooting on the 10th June for eight solid days...
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Rural Media tackles big rural issues Posh or Poor?
Dated 03-05-2007
The Rural Media Company has successfully won grants from the Big Lottery and The UK Carnegie Trust for two new projects, Show and Tell and Migrant Stories respectively, which address particular rural issues in Herefordshire - social exclusion and the influx of migrant workers.....
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Young Film Makers Borderlines Premiere
Dated 28-03-2007
Four young film makers from Herefordshire are getting the taste of the limelight when they premiere their films at The Borderlines Film Festival. Ruben Robinson, Freya Ernsting, Flo Silver and Dieter Mittleholzer (aged 17-18) all successfully applied to be part of the First Light Filmmaking
Partners scheme run by The Rural Media Company.....
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New Design for InSITE
Dated 28-03-2007
Herefordshire's youth e-magazine InSITE is re-launching its new site on 22nd March, with a brand new interactive mutli-media website showcasing the latest work from young people across the county.....
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Costa del Marches Film Premiere
Dated 28-03-2007
COSTA DEL MARCHES, The Rural Media Company's new cinema short is to premiere at Borderlines Film Festival. The 5-minute film is a comedy, set on a Herefordshire farm, where Bob, an ambitious farmer plans to diversify and profit from climate change by turning his land into a seaside resort.....
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New Look Travellers' Times
Dated 12-12-2006
One of the Rural Media Company's successful projects, Travellers' Times, received a new three-year grant from the Big Lottery to help it develop into a more traveller-led publication.....
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Staunton School re-animate lost village
Dated 12-12-2006
Children from Staunton Primary School have been helping to bring the lost village of Crafta Webb back to life through the magic of stop-frame animation.....
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RMC Open Day
Dated 01-09-2006
The Rural Media Company will be holding their Open Day at the water.shed on 15 September...
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Summer fun with a media twist
Dated 14-07-2006
Are you a news hound or budding photographer? Want to know what it's like being a journalist or the paparazzi - chasing stories, interviewing real people and getting your work published.....
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Movies Myths and Magic
Dated 01-06-2006
The Odeon cinema, Hereford, will host the premiere of Magic, Movies and Myths a film project that explores the darker stories and tales behind Herefordshire's more mysterious rural heritage. Admission is free.....
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InSITE Issue 8 23.05.06
Dated 01-06-2006
The latest issue of Herefordshire's only online youth magazine InSITE (www.insitemag.net) was published this week. Informative, eye-catching and never dull, InSITE has its finger on the pulse of what young people in the county want to say.....
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Travellers Remember-To be published Summer 2006
Dated 21-04-2006
In an innovative Rural Media Company project, children and young people from 25 different Traveller families in the West Midlands have recorded the personal reminiscences of their parents and grandparents.....
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Herefordshire Local TV 31.03.06
Dated 31-03-2006
The BBC's West Midlands local TV pilot is not the only way forward, concluded panellists at this week's Borderlines Film Festival.....
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Movies Myths and Magic 09.03.06
Dated 09-03-2006
The myths and magical folklore of Herefordshire life will be recreated on film with a modern twist thanks to a £25,000 award from the Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund.....
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Travellers Remember 08.03.06
Dated 08-03-2006
A major new digital project featuring the reminiscences of Traveller families regarding their lives on the road in the 1960s and 1970s has just been completed.....
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InSITE Wins Lottery Funding 07.03.06
Dated 07-03-2006
A three-year grant from the Big Lottery has just been awarded to Youth Times - the Rural Media Company's youth-led media project that provides training, skills and a voice for young people.....
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Crafta Webb 17.02.06
Dated 17-02-2006
The Rural Media Company and the communities of Bredwardine, Brobury, Staunton and Letton are embarking on a remarkable year-long community film project to uncover the mystery of the lost hamlet of Crafta Webb.....
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InSITE Story Days 01.02.06
Dated 01-02-2006
Want to see yourself in print? Do you see yourself as the next Rageh Omaar or John Simpson.....
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InSITE Welcomes New Gapper 01.01.06
Dated 01-01-2006
Herefordshire's youth e-magazine InSITE have taken on a new fresh faced person to undertake their pioneering Gap placement scheme.....
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InSITE Issue 7 01.12.05
Dated 01-12-2005
Despite causing violent uncontrollable shaking for some and three days of nightmares, for others the drug Ketamine is one of the biggest phenomena to hit Herefordshire.....
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BBC Film Project 24.10.05
Dated 24-10-2005
The BBC is about to launch a Local Television service in the West Midlands and it needs you.....
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InSITE Issue 6 Bullying 01.10.05
Dated 01-10-2005
With National Anti-Bullying Week coming up on 21-25 November, the new issue of Herefordshire's youth e-magazine InSITE features a timely lead article on bullying.....
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InSITE Issue 5 Launch 18.07.05
Dated 18-07-2005
Herefordshire's youth e-magazine InSITE has been relaunched this week with a brand new.....
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InSITE Birthday Gig 25.04.05
Dated 25-04-2005
InSITE, Herefordshire's only youth e-magazine, published by The Rural Media Company, is celebrating its first birthday on.....
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First Light Film Awards 14.02.05
Dated 14-02-2005
A panel of celebrity judges - including Alfie star Jude Law - is busy deciding whether films made by young filmmakers from Herefordshire.....
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