BAFTA Winner Directs Birmingham Short Film: award winner Natasha Carlish creates short film celebrating creative business success in Birmingham
BAFTA Winner Directs Birmingham Short Film: award winner Natasha Carlish creates short film celebrating creative business success in Birmingham
BAFTA award winning director Natasha Carlish has created a short film celebrating the success of individual artists and creative businesses in Birmingham. The film includes the story of the poet Giovanni 'Spoz' Esposito and his path to becoming Birmingham's poet laureate, and his personal account of how the arts business support programme "Equal II: The Last Mile" changed his life.
Birmingham, UK October 31 2007 -- BAFTA award winning director Natasha Carlish has created a short film celebrating the success of individual artists and creative businesses participating in Equal II: The Last Mile programme. This creative business support project was established in 2005 to develop the creative industries as a route to employment for creative talent and arts professionals in Birmingham (http://www.creativecompass.co.uk/index.php) focuses on a small number of creative individuals and partners in order to examine their personal stories and journeys. The film includes the story of poet Giovanni 'Spoz' Esposito and his path to becoming Birmingham's poet laureate for 2006 - 07, and his personal account of how the Equal II: The Last Mile programme changed his life. The film can be viewed on the Creative Compass (www.creativecompass.co.uk.
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� Audiences Central aims to work with and inspire arts organisations, agencies, practitioners and audiences in order to increase and diversify the market for the
arts in the West Midlands.
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Staffordshire).