The Kent Film Office and Screen South hosted a reception to celebrate the premier of ‘The Calling’ starring Brenda Blethyn. Brenda congratulated Gabrielle Lindemann and her team at Kent in their work; we were please to hear her mention the MovieSite databases.

Geoff has just had an interesting couple of days at the film tourism conference organised by ODIT and Film France. All the stages of film tourism were covered, from Film Friendly to tourism after distribution.

We, at Open Brolly, had the opportunity to discuss our model for a sustainable and quality Tourism product using our work with MovieSite and Social Media.

Northern Exposure

On Monday 8th June Northern Exposure went live. It is the combined crew and services database for Northern Film and Media, North West Vision and Media and Screen Yorkshire. Open Brolly have worked with the three agencies to harmonise their service over the winter and spring.

Friday 21st May, 2009 - Cannes Film Festival, France

Open Brolly agreed a contract to provide software to the Abu Dhabi Film Commission yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and is building a major film and TV production centre for the creative industries as an investment for when oil revenue declines. It is only one of two film commissions in the Middle East and as well as looking to attract Hollywood it is also looking towards the rapidly growing Bollywood market. It has one of the biggest presences of all the screen agencies from around the world in Cannes this year.

We discover all sorts of interesting things along the way. One of these is social media (see below) and have set up a company to deal with this at 4tm-services.com.