After a turbulent, fractured year we are anxious to increase our output in 2021 and work safely with community groups, actors, and others across a variety of non-fiction and fiction projects.
As we have previously mentioned, we hope to bring our fiction/non-fiction hybrid production featuring Ayrshire-based village, Fairlie, and its honorary Italian Mayor, portrayed by Marco Piva to your screens early 2021. We hope you will enjoy its unusualness and treat any facts or figures presented with an open mind! We are also carrying over our true crime mockumentary production, A Mature Amateur, to 2021. It is our plan to begin production on this as soon as schedules and weather forecasts permit in January.
Back in October we had begun planning our next non-fiction project, inspired by people we met through our Compassionate Inverclyde feature. The tightening of restrictions across the central belt of Scotland resulted in us delaying this but we aim to resume where we left off and begin production in early 2021. Through this, we can highlight some of the hidden stories in Inverclyde and the growth and support of small community groups.
We plan to resume our Routines series, recording an even wider range of people and covering new and different professions. The fourth part of our Routines series will appear in early 2021 with the fifth part following soon after. Other projects utilising the Equal Cinema form may also be initiated Covid-19 permitting.
It is our intention to explore the opportunities of working with other community groups to highlight their positive work, and to investigate further into the environmental issues we all contribute to but want to address.
Pre-production has begun for a fictional surreal environmental work based around the eponymous Mr. Litter, who claims to have dropped all of the litter in the Glasgow area, and is keen to show off his litter-dropping skills and techniques.
Other fictional projects will be fully dependent upon Covid-19 restrictions but we plan to begin pre-production for other Martin McGrath episodes when it is safe to plan them out on the scale that will be required. These will see Alastair Rennie reprising his role as Martin and will involve Martin’s past and his journey to the next upcoming election.
Our production, Accessibility, released earlier this month, the form of which consisting only of landscape shots, will inform one of our new projects looking at the way inequality invades and settles in our landscape, the resulting product of which germinates in our consciousness revealing widely-accepted and recognised stereotypes.
As always, we are constantly thinking of new and exciting topics to explore and we envisage this will be no different in 2021 so it really is prudent of us to say the following: and lots and lots more!
We desperately want to continue highlighting the brilliant work of communities, to focusing on political, environmental, and social issues, and to creating new fictional content with something to say. In order to commit to these projects, we need all the help we can get. Please donate to us via Ko-fi or subscribe to our Patreon and gain access to a wide range of new exclusive content, set to continue and increase in 2021.
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