Wildscreen 2022: Creative Sector
This film showcases the vibrancy of the creative industry in the West of England. Featuring insights from key regional creative organisations such as Channel 4, Watershed and Silverback, it highlights the exceptional talent and innovative projects flourishing in the area, underscoring the region's growing influence in the creative industry.
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The West of England is innovative, vibrant, unique, forward-thinking, dynamic, authentic, just a magical place. Here in the West of England, our world-renowned creative sector is crucial to our region's economy. In the past five years alone, turnover in Bristol and Bath's film and television industries has increased by more than 100%, now worth more than 300 million pounds per year. The combination of the region's thriving creative ecosystem combined with its robust talent pool ensures we always get a seat at the table.
My own company, 96% of our income comes from the rest of the world. There's a great feeling here because it's new and vibrant and cool, but it's built on a rich and layered history of filmmaking. The creative opportunities are really limitless, from premium natural history, adventure travel, ob doc, feature doc and children's. It's all here in the West.
The region has a huge amount of talent and that talent isn't coming from one place. There's a huge diversity of storytelling, from animation to live action to immersive experiences. There's huge potential to grow the creative industries in the West of England. The region is the creative sector and the technology sectors collaborating together, really thinking about how we can do things differently for global audiences.
The region is home to established names such as BBC, Aardman Animations and Channel 4. Channel 4 moved here to be closer to the incredible talent in the region, and this has allowed new and exciting independent creative companies to blossom. As UNESCO City of Film, Bristol in the West of England region is better connected on the international stage than ever before. The region is truly going from strength to strength with investment in production infrastructure, the expanding Bottle Yard Studios, increasing skills development across the industry, and more regional stories being told on screen in the emerging drama sector.
Commissioners are coming in their droves to the South West: Netflix, Disney, National Geographic. Because you need to be close to all the talent, the technical expertise, if you want to deliver the highest possible quality of content. That is now here, all in the West.
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