FILMING IN YORKSHIRE

ROBINSON CRUSOE - (NBC) - is shooting at various locations in York as well as Newby Hall, Newburgh Priory and Whitby. NBC's decision to film in the region was in part due to the positive filming experience of the location manager, Steve Harvey on his last visit to Yorkshire. Robinson Crusoe will be a 13-part TV series screened late in 2008.

HUSH - (Warp X) - shot in Sheffield and the East Midlands, supported by Screen Yorkshire's production fund. It is the feature film debut from writer/director Mark Tonderai and the third film to shoot from Warp X's production slate. The taut suspense thriller tracks a deadly game of cat and mouse on a deserted motorway, when Zakes Abbot's girlfriend disappears at a service station shortly after he narrowly avoids a collision with a truck. Hush is due for release in 2008.

1920 - (ASA Films) shot at Allerton Castle, Bolton Abbey, Ripley Castle and Bramham Park throughout October and November. The Indian supernatural horror story revolves around a cursed house. For years everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died under strange circumstances. Now Arjun, alongside his wife has been given the unenviable task of pulling it down and making a hotel. Screen Yorkshire provided production liaison support and crewing on the production which is due for release in 2008.

LOST IN AUSTEN - (Mammoth Screen) is shooting in Bramham Park, Wetherby and York throughout October and November. Screen Yorkshire has invested £180,000 in the production as well as providing production liaison support and crewing for the ITV1 production. Starring Alex Kingston (ER), Jemima Rooper (Hex) and Hugh Bonneville, the drama tells the story of a modern-day heroine who gets the chance to swap lives with a Jane Austen character and live her life in Georgian Britain. The ITV production is due to be screened late in 2008.

WHITE GIRL - (Tiger Aspect) - filmed in Leeds and Bradford June/July 2007. This is the inspirational story of 11 year old Leah McNeil and her family’s relocation to an entirely Muslim community in Bradford. A touching and emotional drama, which explores the hope as well as the tension that can arise when two very different cultures collide. White Girl is part of a season of documentary and drama on BBC2 focusing on the white working class in modern Britain.

BRITZ - (Mentorn) shot at various locations in Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield in November 2006. Britz is a gripping two-part thriller about a brother and sister, British-born and Muslim, who are pulled in different directions by their conflicting personal experiences in post 9/11 Britain. Britz was featured as part of Channel Four's 125th Birthday celebrations and was aired at the beginning of November 2007.

EXHIBIT A - A Warp Films / Bigger Pictures co-production, suspense thriller Exhibit A shot in Leeds and Suffolk in 2005, supported by Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund and Screen East. The film reveals the story of a normal family disintegrating into an unimaginable nightmare through a tape (exhibit a) recovered at a murder scene by the police. Filmed by fourteen-year-old Judith on her brand new camera, it starts as a home-movie of ordinary family life before turning into the chronicle of her father's descent into an increasingly psychotic state..

WILD CHILD (Working Title) shot in Robin Hood's Bay, Haworth & Harrogate throughout July 2007, supported by Screen Yorkshire's production liaison department. The feature film tells the tale of a rebellious Malibu princess shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father. The cast is led by up and coming young American actress Emma Roberts (niece of Julia). Filmmakers drafted in local school children to take the roles of extras. Due for release in spring 2008.

THE COTTAGE, Paul Andrew Williams (LONDON TO BRIGHTON) latest project, shot at Harewood House in Spring 2007. This black comedy horror is about two brothers who manage to bungle the kidnapping of the reviling daughter of an underworld boss, then stumble upon a dark rural secret. Screen Yorkshire awarded £250,000 to the film through its Production Fund.

ATONEMENT - Grimsby fish dock was chosen as the backdrop for a scene in the multi-million-pound film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Keira Knightley and Brenda Blethyn. Atonement, a Working Title film, went on general release in September 2007.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (Ecosse Films) shot at Castle Howard, York, throughout June & July 2007. Screen Yorkshire invested £250,000 in the feature film through its Production Fund and also provided extensive production liaison support. Set during the golden age before the Second World War, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmain family and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege that they inhabit.

HOUSEWIFE 49 (Granada) - is a television drama based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Shot at North Light Studios in Huddersfield and Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness during World War II.

MRS RATCLIFFE'S REVOLUTION - is set in Bingley and stars Catherine Tate. The film shot in Halifax and Leeds in August 2006 and was supported by Screen Yorkshire's production fund. Parts of the Pennine town were used for its cobbled streets and terrace houses. The film premiered in Yorkshire in September 2007.

PROVOKED: A TRUE STORY - shot in Scarborough prison, North Yorkshire in 2006, Jagmohan Mundhra's latest film PROVOKED (Eros International) tells the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who was jailed at Holloway prison for killing her abusive husband.  

MANSFIELD PARK - Company Pictures for ITV. Screen Yorkshire was instrumental in bringing Company Pictures to the region and securing the Newby Hall in Ripon as the location. A lively adaptation of the Jane Austen classic starring Billie Piper was shown on ITV in March 2007.

DRIVING LESSONS - Driving Lessons used locations in North Yorkshire. The film is a coming-of-age comedy starring Harry Potter's Rupert Grint and a great, flamboyant performance from Julie Walters and marks Jeremy Brock's directorial debut.

THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK - (Ruby Films for ITV/supported by Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund) - from the novel by Kate Long. The film was shot in and around Leeds at the beginning of November 2006. Starring Catherine Tate, it tells the story of a year in the lives of three generations of women - daughter, mother and grandmother - none of whom can quite believe how things are turning out...Both hilarious and wise, it is a clear eyed look at motherhood (and childhood) in all its many guises.

FLYBOYS (Electric Entertainment) stars Jean Reno and James Franco and was released in 2006. The film tells the story of young Americans who, before the U.S. entered WWI, volunteered for the French military and became the country's first fighter pilots. Fighting a war that wasn't theirs, these young, naive adventure-seekers learned the true meaning of love, brotherhood, heroism, courage and tolerance. The feature used locations in East & North Yorkshire.

THIS IS ENGLAND (Warp Films) shot in Grimsby in September 2005. The film is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year old who joins a gang of skinheads and soon finds himself embroiled in a battle of good and evil which will change his world forever. This is England is supported by Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund. 

GARFIELD II (Twentieth Century Fox) was filmed in York in the summer of 2005 and was released in 2006.

HISTORY BOYS is a remake of the Alan Bennett play for the big screen. The film used locations in West Yorkshire. Screen Yorkshire provided crewing and locations support.