VW Passat Pitching Competition - Four Docs

It's good to start the new year on a high! I’m excited to start 2009 with my short doc Steel Town on the Four Docs shortlist in the VW Passat pitching brief. Four Docs teamed up with Passat to set the competition: to pitch a documentary based on the theme 'beautifully engineered'. The prize? £5,000 to get the film made!

Steel Town is currently on the Four Docs player: http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/F/fourdocs/video/video5.html

When I shot the pitch I was really in a place of awe; the Steel Works are really quite amazing. Not something I thought I'd hear myself say, growing up in Scunthorpe under the shadows of it's cooling towers. I had to complete a site induction before I could even draft a storyboard – there being so many ways a young filmmaker could meet his maker! It’s a place that puts you in touch with your own mortality and stacks up the pages of any risk assessment.

So here's to 2009 and to working on new projects, with new people in new places!