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Boat Stories Celebrates with Gala Screening

8/9/2015

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A gala screening event at the Landmark Theatre in Ilfracombe on Friday 4 September 2015 celebrated the completion of Boat Stories, a series of short films about local people who live their lives connected to boats and fishing in North Devon.  This was the first chance for the public to see the whole series of ten, five minute films on the big screen with the added bonus of hearing from and chatting with some of the characters in the films and the film makers themselves.

Boat Stories collaborated with the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon's Fishing for History Project to organise the Ilfracombe Event and Museum Development Manager, Alison Mills commented: 
" the films have done a great job in capturing the way in which North Devon people interact with our landscape - which is such an important part of how this area has become the beautiful place it is." 

" I would single out the salmon fishing (Salmon Netting on the Taw & Torridge) & Steve Perham (Fishing for Clovelly Herring) films as vital in capturing what may be the last few practitioners of traditional fishing methods, but I also greatly enjoyed the other films - and the obvious concern of the other fishermen about how they can protect as well as prosper from our maritime resources."

The production of these insightful and professionally produced films was made possible in large part by funding from Northern Devon FLAG.  Steve Pitcher, Chair of Northern Devon FLAG and North Devon Coast AONB Partnership applauded the work of film producer Jo Stewart-Smith: "The films are inspirational and are a great showcase for the beauty and activity that are found on the North Devon Coast. Above all it is the people talking about their lives and livelihoods that makes them so good. As the Northern Devon Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) we were very pleased to support the making of these films and to secure funding for them. Apart from the high quality of the films they are also an excellent record of the strong fishing heritage we have here in North Devon. Everyone should see them!" 
This may the completion of the production phase of Boat Stories but it is by no means the end.  Amanda McCormack, Creative Director of North Devon Moving Image (NDMI), says the objective of all NDMI's projects is to create, collect and share short films about life in North Devon.  She says "The first eight films from Boat Stories are available now to view on the Boat Stories website. 

​The complete series will be available online following our final free public screening event at Bideford Cinema on Friday 16 October 2015.  Beyond this we are hoping to distribute compilation DVDs to libraries, museums and information centres so as many people as possible can get to see these valuable (and entertaining) local social documentary films."
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Exciting times for Boat Stories

30/8/2015

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One of our toughest challenges has been to get the last three films finished for the Sea Ilfracombe festival premiere on Friday 4th September. With the deadline looming, I planned to choose less ambitious, simpler films. Instead, we've taken on greater challenges. In April we started following the work of the Bideford Pilot and crew as they head out to meet big ships and escort them into the estuary. I'd seen the pilot boat at work many times - but until I started researching this film, I had no idea quite how dramatic and skilled their job is.. Watch this evocative trailer from Matt Biggs, Artaura Productions - coming soon!

THE BIDEFORD PILOT - TRAILER from Matt Biggs on Vimeo.

The Bideford Pilot will premiere at Sea Ilfracombe and then we will hold it back to show again in Bideford Friday 16th October.

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Several of our followers asked us to make a diving film. I was wary, because as soon as you start filming underwater professionally, stringent health and safety rules kick in, adding to the cost of the film. However we had an offer we couldn't refuse from Rich Stevenson and his professional dive team from Diving and Marine Solutions. They wanted to work with boat stories and bravely agreed to film both topside and underwater.


We also had a lovely welcome from Shaun Galliver and Ilfracombe Sub Aqua Club. The result: a lively, colourful film, Every Dive is an Adventure will also premiere at Sea Ilfracombe and be released shortly after.

August has seen us working once again with Mark Brindle and Stu Gaunt from Maniac films and jumping on a boat from Ilfracombe harbour. Right from the beginning I wanted to make a film about a young fisherman starting out in a tough industry.

We were lucky to find eighteen year old Ben Bengey. I showed him and his family a version of our final film 'A Life in the Day of a Young Fisherman' at the end of last week. He tweeted 'epic to see my film, can't wait for everyone else to see it #exciting times'  Phew! He likes it! It is always a worry. (Now we just have colour grade, music and sound mix to go...)

So we are nearly there!

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I promised that every film would be different. But after we released our first film Lobster Potting and Berried Hens, last June to an amazing reaction - the big question for me was would we - could we keep up the quality?  Judge for yourselves by coming along to one of our FREE film events, with a chance to hear from some of the filmmakers, fishermen and skippers. Details on our home and events page. As I write the stalls have already sold out at the Landmark, Ilfracombe, so don't forget to book your free tickets.

I'm getting that sinking feeling - the realisation that I've been out on our last boat stories - boat trip - unless I can think of any more excuses!!
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OUR FIRST NINE MONTHS

2/1/2015

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Wow – what an incredible nine months from when we set sail in mid March when we finally got our go-ahead to start making our films. As so many people have reminded me – ‘time and tide wait for no man’ and we’ve been chasing the seasons all year. I knew when I set out to film a series on working boats that it would be tough to call the weather, the wind and the swell, but I had no idea how crucial the exact timing and height of the tide would be for each story – with for some films the shooting window coming round only once a fortnight.
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A berried hen which was tagged, then released.
So to the famous show business adage ‘avoid working with animals or children,’ I’m adding ‘be wary of boats and tides’. But I will not be adding the fishermen – they couldn’t have been more helpful and generous with their time and open to what I was trying to do. We don’t have the budget to charter fishing boats or filming boats so when lobster fisherman Geoff Huelin agreed our film crew could come aboard on a working day to film life as it happened I was relieved and excited in equal measure. Letting us film him at work was the easy part for Geoff – I had a much harder challenge for this modest, unassuming, brilliant fisherman – I wanted him to tell his story in his own words –so no voice over – no presenter.

I started out wanting to tell the story of Lundy’s marine reserve and no take zone –how it was the first in the country, how it was the fishermen themselves who helped set it up. The reward for encouraging the fishermen to tell their own story – is that Geoff gives us a unique take - revealing a fisherman, passionate about conserving the lobsters he is fishing –and so the film became ‘Lobster potting and the berried hens’.  And as so many people said to me – Geoff is a natural – a total pro on camera! These short films are documentaries – yes I do research and plan them – yes I do know the story I’d like to cover – but even for a five minute film the story can change out on the water –and we go with what we get.  The one thing I keep promising is that all our stories will be different.
For our second film ‘Salmon netting on the Taw & Torridge’ with ‘old age pensioners’  Sheila (76) and Stephen (84) I faced a different problem. Stephen Taylor is so knowledgeable, so eloquent on the history of salmon netting, the characters, so full of fascinating and funny anecdotes that it is difficult to get him to stop talking.  I could have listened to him for hours but I needed him to tell the story in five minutes so the audience could follow what was going on. At the end of the shoot they were tired and wet after rowing the open boat and lugging the heavy net that after a short ‘piece to camera’ we had to ‘wrap’. I planned to return to film an interview about fishing techniques and history to help link the story together. But (the joy of working with radio mics!) watching the rushes Simon (the cameraman) and I found ourselves laughing out loud.  I decided that it was more important to let their characters, their banter and their humour shine through rather than worry too much about the detail. If you haven’t seen it, take five minutes to watch a very funny, interesting little film.  
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The subject of our third story, Dave Gabe, is my local fishmonger and having taken my family on his boat trip up the river Torridge, the inspiration behind the series tag line ‘every boat tells a story.’ He was also extremely reluctant to be filmed on camera but off camera, I knew he had a fascinating story for every boat we passed along the river: it’s history – who sailed it – who had fallen in love and then broken up and left the boat abandoned to rot..  I warned our cameraman, Matt Biggs, before we sailed, that we would have to get the story out on location. As we passed each boat,  I planned to draw out Dave’s own fascinating life story – a life spent working on many different boats working his way up from ‘deck boy’ on the tugs, to the deep sea trawlers, lifeboats, Lundy boatman and his own trawler out of Appledore . We couldn’t fit Dave’s story into five minutes – instead we mix in a bit of history and anecdote and wildlife as we follow the route the river takes us.  On the rushes I can hear Dave saying, “no you don’t want to hear about me – the story’s about the river.” If you watch ‘Life’s Journey on the Torridge,’ I believe you’ll agree – our title may be boat stories – but our stories are about the people who sail them.
For our fourth film ‘Fishing for the Long Haul’ we had to spend much longer out at sea. I’d been warned when I was trying to get the series going that none of the commercial fishermen would let us film on their trawlers. So I was hugely grateful to Scott from S&P fisheries who agreed we could go aboard as long as we were prepared to spend several days out at sea in tough conditions. For me this film was the biggest learning curve –the hours fishermen work – the fickle nature of the fish and the sea –decisions whether and where to fish made at the last minute and every time they came into harbour a new regulation or ban awaiting them. After several weeks when filming was on then off, Paul Stone skipper of the Sparkling Star generously agreed to take us out squid fishing and to land our cameraman, Mark Brindle, back – along with the squid – after 24 hours provided we were ready to board at 2am in the morning.

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My original pitch was to follow the squid and ask why so few people in North Devon were buying and eating this wonderful local seafood. But even back in July, when the sun was shining, the crew were seriously considering whether they could continue fishing and I became far more interested in the people and their dilemma than the fish! By the time we returned to film S&P fish shop, the squid had disappeared and the Sparkling Star was landing ray –which allowed me touch on another story – the local trawlermens’ efforts to protect the nursery grounds for ray and make this a sustainable fishery.  And then just as we were completing the film – the blow that took the heart out of the North Devon fishery - a (hopefully temporary) ban on landing ray (60% of their catch and their main money fish for the winter) which meant that the Sparkling Star and her sister trawler could no longer make a living in the Bristol Channel and spent the rest of the year fishing from the south coast. So a few choice comments which we didn't show –and I came away with total respect and admiration for the guys we worked with.  I had no budget to change the film once we heard this news –but it does make this a very current, poignant story. Again, as so many have remarked, a reluctant star proved a total pro on camera and I hope we revealed a bit of Paul's sense of humour which kept the crew going through their roller coaster year. I’m really pleased that Paul is now keen to make another film to show the sustainable ray fishery in the Bristol Channel -in more detail.  Watch a new outtake below to see Paul in action cooking a healthy supper on the boat..

No sooner had we got this film out – the herring run started in Bideford Bay. We went from filming 24 hours on a trawler to a couple of hours in a small open boat as Stephen Perham tells us on camera ‘we either row or we sail’.  I wrote some articles on Clovelly several years ago, so I knew Stephen’s quest to revive the small herring fishery and get more local people eating herring would make a great short film. 

As Stephen says ‘it would be hard to find a more sustainable fishery’ and yet the way of life you witness in ‘Fishing for Clovelly Herring’ is also threatened by a ban. Detailing the complexities of the proposed EU ban on drift netting would have scuppered my five minute film –but in the video blog accompanying the film Stephen explains the reasons behind the ban and why Clovelly should be exempt. 

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Each film raises more questions than it answers and during each edit so much beautiful footage hit the cutting room floor or stayed on the hard drive! So for those who want to follow the stories in more depth, I’ve written a ‘the making of’ video blog around each film.

Women feature in all the films we’ve released so far but save for the lovely Sheila (who almost has equal billing with Stephen) they are all led by men. The next two films we have in production are led by women!  Our film of the Appledore ladies gig rowing crew was overtaken by the herring film (because herrings are only available until Christmas) but I like to think of it as our ‘sunshine and champagne film’ –memories of a  lovely sun-kissed summer and champagne –well you’ll have to watch the film when it comes out early in the new year.

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As for our other film –about Lundy island –thereby hangs a tale… Lundy is proof that Boat Stories wasn’t all plain sailing and of the fantastic support we’ve had from North Devon’s fishing and boating community. We travelled to Lundy on the Oldenburg as she is part of our story. We planned our main shoot with Beccy the warden, for the next day, when we had a generous offer from Andrew Bengey to film from his dive boat, Obsession. The day we arrived had the best sunshine forecast so Simon and I headed up the east coast, walking along the coast path to get a shot of the Oldenburg tied up at the Quay.  The short of the long is that we lost our main film camera over the cliff! We were not on the cliff edge – it did not drop dramatically into the sea. But it did roll (Lundy is made of granite) and spill its guts – ending up as a mangled mess of electronics and plastic scattered and hidden under tall bracken. The team on Lundy and the boat skippers couldn’t have been more helpful.

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While we tried to track down a spare camera, they tried to find a boat which could get it to the island. But the forecast was poor and the only boats braving the channel the next day were fishermen. Andrew offered to meet one of the potting boats out at sea – but the camera (from Dorset) would have to be driven through the night to catch the boat leaving at dawn and we wouldn’t receive it until a couple of hours before dusk. Reluctantly we decided to postpone the main scenes with Beccy and shoot what we could with our spare camera and Gopros. I took the opportunity to go swimming with the local seals -one was so friendly it swam right round the dive boat! But with the seals entering their breeding season and the first white-coated pups appearing on the beaches we decided to postpone until the Spring. Even with our little mishap, Lundy was a highlight in an event full year so a big thank you to Beccy and co for agreeing to have us back and the boating community for once again doing their best to help us!
One goal of Boat Stories was to work with local talented crews (rather than bringing film crews in from Bristol or London.)  So I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of working with three different freelance cameramen who were all lovely to work with. They each like to work differently and have different styles and as you can see from their work they are all talented and together we make a successful team. So a huge thank you to Simon Vacher, Matt Biggs and Mark Brindle for also taking a punt on this project and helping to make it reality. If you are looking for someone to make a film, their details are on our crew page.

Yet another target was to work with young or new talent and for every film we have found someone with a different style to create the music - so thanks to them for their enthusiasm and creativity and willingness to work on our tight budget. We’ve also taken young talent out with us on location on sound and camera throwing them into the deep end to help us cover events such as Appledore gig regatta or the Clovelly herring festival. The ‘deep end’ is probably not a good analogy for boat stories – only Matt came close to landing in the brink when ‘Locky’ from the Appledore Gig vets team gave him a piggy back and threatened to give him a dunking.

I owe a huge thank you to our supporters and funders, listed below. Particularly to Amanda McCormack who agreed to host Boat Stories under the umbrella of North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) which she had only just founded when I first approached her and which has become a thriving community film-making organisation in little over a year. She was totally enthusiastic about my idea, but she did let slip as she waited for the first film to come off the production line ‘the whole project is just one big experiment’!
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In the beginning, with the knowledge that anyone with a mobile or digital camera can make films it was difficult to explain boat stories – why it was needed –who would want to watch films of fishermen or working boats -  how they would be different. Now I hope the films, blogs and the fact that we are revealing people who wouldn’t normally be on film or have a voice - speak for themselves. We welcome aboard new funders: the West Country Rivers Trust and the Clovelly estate and we are still looking for funders who would like to be part of Boat Stories and help match fund our next four films or final celebratory film show events. We have also received a huge amount of in-kind help from organisations like Lundy or Bideford Film Society. One of many unexpected delights of the year is the fact that Bideford Cinema show our films on their big screen before their main feature. Other organisations like Appledore Book festival, Petroc, Devon Maritime Forum and several local film societies have shown the films and Barnstaple Museum ran a special event and exhibition around the salmon film– a reminder that they are yours to show and share.  Don't forget to follow us on facebook boat stories north devon or twitter @boat_stories for updates on new events and films.
So my final thank you goes to you the watchers and supporters for sharing and commenting on our films. The support, comments and enthusiasm have been fantastic and beyond my wildest imagination and kept me going!  Please continue to show or share boat stories on social media or send the link to people outside of North Devon. It’s always difficult to watch your own work but for the first time over Christmas, I sat still and watched all five films together with family and visitors. The response was rewarding and it’s lovely to see how everyone has a favourite and everyone champions a different film!

Which leads me to our final films. I have about ten ideas for the remaining three stories but if there’s a story you think we should be filming we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for interesting people who have fascinating stories to tell. The story must be set in North Devon, feature a working or heritage boat and it must be filmic. By that I mean we want to get out and film an active story on location –on the water! And we’ll do our best to keep up the standard.
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More events planned for 2015
I’ve had such fun this year meeting and working with so many lovely people and making films on and about my own patch. Happy New Year to those who have let us briefly into their lives to share their stories and to everyone else who has joined our adventure on the rivers and the high seas. I hope you’ll stay with us to continue the journey and that 2015 is good to you.           Jo Stewart-Smith   January 2015

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The Squid are back!

4/7/2014

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The squid are blooming off the North Devon coast. I'm not sure if blooming is the correct term but when Boat Stories spoke to Paul Stone, skipper of the Sparkling Star, in Ilfracombe this week, his crew were unloading 50 boxes of squid.  Paul told us that he always looks forward to the squid fishing every year because the catch rate is good, they can work locally on shorter trips and their fuel bill is down. “It’s uncanny,” he told me “how they appear the same time every year – only two days different from last year.” About a fortnight ago I met up with Marcus White, known as Tats who gave me a guided tour of Our Olivia Belle, the second trawler in S&P’s fleet – at that point Tats was waiting for the squid to arrive.

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A group of tourists watched the catch being unloaded, hidden in ice. “Do you think they’ve got fish fingers in there?” one father asked his son. Helpfully, Paul produced a squid for everyone to look at but the youngster didn’t want to touch it. I thought Paul immensely cheerful and patient with the tourists (and me) considering he'd been on the go for 48 hours and had a two hour turn-around in harbour before they were back fishing again. No-one else in Ilfracombe got a look at the squid, they were loaded straight into a lorry bound for Appledore. The driver told me they would be processed overnight and sent abroad – probably to Italy.

Although it was nearly 9 in the evening, Clare from S&P fishshop turned up to collect her box of fresh mixed fish ready to sell in the shop the next day. Even she didn’t want squid – as she had some from the other boat.  I love eating squid – and as fish goes it’s amazingly good value. So why does 90% or more of our local squid catch go abroad? The fishermen would like it if more of their catch was eaten locally - but even they don't seem to like squid. So maybe there isn't the demand? A question for Boat Stories to try and answer? Meanwhile I went on the hunt for squid for supper in Ilfracombe. It was late – but I couldn’t find any. I would have happily settled for squid and chips. But I did find delicious sea bass and chips – with the fish supplied by S&P fishshop.
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If like me you enjoy squid and want to eat local, seasonal catch now is the time to ask your fishmonger for squid. Dan the Clovelly fishman is bound to have some. If you’re not sure what to do with it, ask your fishmonger (details on our fish page) or try some of SeaDog’s delicious streetfood. Jim and Beth are trying all sorts of internationally inspired recipes using North Devon’s seasonal catch – including squid!
 I love their fish pasties and their menu seems to have something mouth-wateringly different on it every week. I wish their red trailer stopped at the end of my street. Look out for Seadog at festivals, the street food market in Barnstaple and in Braunton on Thursday evenings. They often tweet their latest menu: @seadogfoods
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Back In Business

1/4/2014

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Watching the boats safely inside Ilfracombe harbour, begin to play a gentle dosey-doe with their moorings as the evening tide slowly rises, it’s difficult to imagine that only a few weeks ago this was the scene of “a dangerous nightmare” as crews battled to save their boats. Ilfracombe inner harbour walls are shaped like a pair of outstretched arms – ready with a welcome hug to offer a safe haven. But in the worst of the storms surges, giant swells rolled around inside these walls, bucking and jostling these same boats, lifting them right to the top of the wooden palings, bashing them against the walls and causing some serious damage. “We would have moored the boats in Bideford,” Scott Wharton owner of ‘S & P fish’ who runs a small fishing fleet from the harbour told me but “we didn’t get a break in the storms to move them. So his crew manned the boats “night and day using incredible skill to keep them safe” with the only respite at low tide.

The fleet is still counting their losses out at sea with about 200-300 crab and lobster pots missing and others “tangled and rolled up into a giant ball.” All along the harbour wall, each boat has a tale to tell of the storms. John Balls who runs a potting boat from Clovelly harbour described the force of the sea “smashing pots and rolling them together like a bunch of grapes.” When he was able to get out (the sea piled up a load of shingle partly blocking Clovelly harbour) he searched for his pots, ‘grappling’ with a giant hook on a long pole, to salvage them from the sea bed. He lost 25% and when Boats Stories found him he was in his shed “mending and making new pots.” There was pressure on the fishermen to get out in the lull between the storms but it wasn’t that simple because the fishing grounds were affected by the constant pounding. I met one young fisherman in Appledore who had just come ashore from several days on a trawler which came home “practically empty.” Fishing crew are on a percentage of the catch and a percentage of nothing is nothing!

“So what was it like during the storms for the fish?” I asked the fishermen. “You know when you walk barefoot on the beach, sometimes the falling tide has sculpted hard ripples in the sand,” Bideford based, trawler owner Dick Talbot, explained patiently. “Now imagine those sand ripples rising over 70 feet high into giant sand banks, that’s what much of the seabed is like out in the Bristol Channel.” Dispersed amongst these giant sand waves or hugging the coastline are patches of gravel or mud and weed. And then imagine as Scott said “a washing machine constantly churning everything round and round.” Add in the mud and silt which came down the rivers, as if you are adding laundry liquid through the dispenser and you create an entire water layer full of silt, sand and weed. Some predatory fish which rely on sight may have headed further out to sea. Geoff Huelin who runs a potting boat from Ilfracombe thought that lobsters might have trundled slowly into deeper water, whereas “crabs or whelks would bury in deep to sit out the worst.” I realised it was perverse to continually ask people who’d earned nothing all winter what it was like for the fish. “I reckon fish in the Bristol Channel are used to wild tides and stormy seas – if they didn’t like it rough they’d be living elsewhere,” one salty dog, who’d spent nearly seventy years, facing the waves off the North Devon coast, twinkled at me.

Happily during the last weeks of calmer weather, the tide has begun to turn. The boats are finding fish. Boat Stories was out researching films in Appledore and took this picture (above) of the Sparkling Star heading to the fish dock to unload her catch. In Ilfracombe even as I write, the boats have risen on the water and the Olivia Belle is preparing to cast her moorings and head out to sea. Meanwhile

Scott said it could take his business three or four months to recover and others fared far worse. So now is the time to buy fish and support your local fishing industry. Geoff will be shooting his first pots tomorrow, planning to have lobsters and crabs ready for Easter. S & P wet fish shop and cafe, just across the harbour from where I’m sitting, plans to open tomorrow: April 1st for business. Head to Ilfracombe to watch the boats rise or fall gently with the tide, or the harbour at work, while you eat a crab sandwich, at the licensed café, out in the sunshine.

A big thank you to all those fishermen and women who took time to speak to Boat Stories while they were trying to get their businesses back on track after the storms. See our fish page for a list of suppliers selling locally landed fish and seafood. We will be adding to it and talking about different types of sustainable fishing, seasonal fish and the fishing grounds our local fishermen voluntarily protect as the project progresses.

Jo Stewart-Smith March 31st 2014

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FLAG Funding Launches North Devon Boat Stories Film Project

16/3/2014

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We are delighted to announce that Northern Devon Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG) have offered funding to enable us to begin the Boat Stories short film project.  Boat Stories, produced by local film writer Jo Stewart-Smith, will be six short films about life on and around the water in north Devon.

The project will be managed by North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) and will enable us to engage talented local film makers, help to promote the local fishing industry and entertain and inspire audiences with some very special stories on film.  We are also really grateful to Bideford Bridge Trust, Tarka Trust and North Devon Plus for their support and contributions.

On the Boat Stories website you will be able to keep up to date with the project, find out about the stories behind the films and see some snippets of footage as the project progresses. 

You can also like and follow on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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