MADE IN YORKSHIRE

Below is a list of the major productions which have filmed in Yorkshire over recent years, showing the vast array of locations available.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - (Heyday Films/Warner Bros. Pictures) shot partly in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in winter 2009. Grassington Moor and the limestone crag of Malham Cove will feature in the film which will be shown in two parts in November 2010 and July 2011. Heyday and Warner Bros return to Yorkshire after filming scenes from the first two Harry Potter films at Goathland train station in 2001 and 2002.

THE KING'S SPEECH - (See-Saw Films/Bedlam Productions) saw The Damned United Director Tom Hooper return to the region in December 2009 with this feature-length depiction of the unorthodox relationship between England's King George VI, to be played by Colin Firth, and his Australian speech therapist - Geoffrey Rush - who helped him to overcome his stammer.

THE TRIP - some of Yorkshire's most stunning locations and finest restaurants are showcased in BBC 2's comedy series The Trip, which sees Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite with director Michael Winterbottom   for a romp cross Craven District and the Yorkshire Dales, as it documents the duo on their acerbically witty trip through the English countryside.

DCI BANKS - AFTERMATH, starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Grafters) is based on the hugely successful novel from award-winning international crime writer Peter Robinson, who was born in Leeds. It is understood that a recommission for Left Bank Picture's DCI Banks is firmly on the cards after the two-part drama, starring Stephen Tompkinson, averaged an impressive 5.7 million (23%) viewers.

THIS IS ENGLAND '86, directed by Shane Meadows and produced by Sheffield's internationally renowned Warp Films, is now available on DVD. Screen Yorkshire backed the films through its Production Fund and supported Warp Films to crew up locally for the Sheffield shoot.

FOUR LIONS is the hugely anticipated feature film debut from Brass Eye's Chris Morris.Chris joined forces with Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong alongside Warp Films producers Mark Herbert and Derrin Schlesinger, who shot the jihadist comedy at locations around their home city Sheffield.

A PASSIONATE WOMAN - (Rollem Productions) Set in Leeds and written by local screenwriter Kay Mellor, A Passionate Woman stars Billie Piper as a young wife and mother who falls in love with her Polish neighbour in 1950's Britain, only for her affair to implode 30 years later on her son's wedding day. Screen Yorkshire invested in the film through it's Production Fund.

THE GEMMA FACTOR - (Freeform Productions for the BBC). BBC Three comedy The Gemma Factor follows the story of the ambitious Gemma Collinge as she attempts to find fame before the age of 21. The Gemma Factor filmed in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall in 2009, with Screen Yorkshire providing crew and locations support.

THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER - (Oxford Film and Television). Dubbed ‘the story of the first modern lesbian', Maxine Peake stars in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister; a bold and passionate drama for BBC Two. Filming took place throughout winter 2009 at locations in North and West Yorkshire.

FIVE DAYS - (BBC) returns for a second series in 2010, and filmed in Leeds, Wakefield and Dewsbury in summer 2009, with Screen Yorkshire providing crew and locations support. Suranne Jones and David Morrissey head up the ensemble cast, both returning to Yorkshire after filming Unforgiven and Red Riding respectively here in 2008.

MARRIED SINGLE OTHER - (Left Bank Pictures) is a new six-part romantic comedy shot in Leeds for ITV. Married Single Other, which explores the lives, loves and loathes of three couples, marks the renewal of a partnership between Screen Yorkshire and Andy Harries' Production Company Left Bank Pictures following the success of their shoot for The Damned United in the region in 2008.

SPANISH FLU - THE FORGOTTEN FALLEN (Hardy Pictures) tells the story of one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. Locations included Saltaire Village nr Bradford; Armley Mills Museum in Leeds and Dewsbury Town Hall. The two-part drama screened on BBC4 in 2009.

PULSE is a tense supernatural medical horror for BBC 3 filmed at locations across West Yorkshire. St Timothy's is one of the UK's top teaching hospitals, home to some of the country's most promising trainee doctors,but beneath its veneer of medical normality lies a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science with potentially horrifying consequences...

1066 - (Hardy Pictures) is an ambitious historical re-enactment of one of Britain's bloodiest periods in a drama. Screen Yorkshire provided locations and logistical support during filming, which took place at Bolton Abbey and Flamborough Head in 2008.

RED RIDING - (Channel 4) adapted from local author David Peace's cult noir novels, the Red Riding trilogy is an ambitious, dark, and thrilling trilogy of interlinking films set in the dark and paranoid world of 1970s and early 80s Yorkshire at the time of the Ripper murders. Filming took place at various locations around West Yorkshire in 2008, including the Yorkshire Post building in Leeds and the Brudenell Social Club.

UNFORGIVEN - (Red Production Company) the 3 x 60 minute drama for ITV, written and created by Sally Wainwright and supported by Screen Yorkshire's Production Fund, is the story of Ruth Slater (Suranne Jones), a woman released from prison on license after serving 15 years for the murder of two policemen. Filming took place in Halifax and Huddersfield in 2008.

SURVIVORS - (BBC Drama Productions) set in the present day, the drama series focuses on a handful of survivors struggling to stay alive in the wake of a devastating virus which wipes out most of the world's population. Survivors shot partly at The Earth Centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

THE DAMNED UNITED - (Left Bank Pictures) is based on the David Peace novel of the same name charting Brian Clough's troubled 44-day tenure at Leeds United. Set during the 1960s and 1970s, filming took place at Elland Road with support from the Screen Yorkshire Production Fund. The film was released in 2009 and is now available to buy on DVD.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS - (Mammoth Screen) - is a two-part drama for ITV which filmed over seven weeks at Oakwell Hall, Bramham Park and Stockeld Park and in Sheffield. This classic adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is supported by the Screen Yorkshire Production Fund.

SPOOKS CODE: 09 - (Kudos) is a follow-up for BBC 3 to the popular BBC 1 drama. Set in 2013 after a nuclear bomb forces the evacuation of London, the country's power base shifts north. Supported by Screen Yorkshire, filming took place at former Bradford police station The Tryls as well as locations across Leeds.

CRUSOE - (NBC) shot 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. Crusoe is a 13-part TV series screened in the US in 2008 and 2009.

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. The film was released in Spring 2008.

THE COTTAGE - (Steel Mill Pictures) is the second feature film from Director Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton) which filmed in West Yorkshire in 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.

ATONEMENT - (Working Title) 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.

EXHIBIT A - A Warp Films / Bigger Pictures co-production, this suspense thriller reveals the story of a normal family disintegrating into an unimaginable nightmare through a tape recovered at a murder scene by the police.

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.

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 out now on DVD.

1920 - (ASA Films) shot at Allerton Castle, Bolton Abbey, Ripley Castle and Bramham Park throughout October and November 2007. 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 was released in 2008.

LOST IN AUSTEN - (Mammoth Screen) shot at Bramham Park, Wetherby and York throughout October and November 2007. Screen Yorkshire invested £180,000 in the production as well as providing production liaison support and crewing for the ITV1 drama. 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 was screened late in 2008.

SUMMER - (Sixteen Films) starring Robert Carlyle, filmed in Sheffield at the end of September 2007. The latest feature film production from Ken Loach's Sixteen Films, Summer is a compelling account of three very different characters and how the actions of children can have deep and lasting impacts on the adults they become.

 

WHITE GIRL - (Tiger Aspect) filmed in Leeds and Bradford in 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 formed 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.

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 - (Eros International) shot in Scarborough prison, North Yorkshire in 2006, Jagmohan Mundhra's latest film Provoked 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 - (Rubber Tree Plant) 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.

THE HISTORY BOYS - (Free Range Films) 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.