The HULL Story

A FI LM ABOUT KI NGSTON- UPO N - H U L L’ S PA ST PRE SE N T A N D FU T U RE

BY HOLLYW OOD SCREENW RI T E R

The Hull Story is a feature-length documentary which will bring together the past and present of the city through the eyes of novelist and screenwriter Gavin Scott, who was born in Hull in 1950.

Through his mother, now 95, he’s able to extend the city’s story back through the war years to the 1920s, and through his grandfather back through the First World War to the Hull of the 1880’s. By combining a visual exploration of Hull with archive film and photographs and interviews with his own contemporaries and the generation before, Gavin will create a mosaic of the city’s story in popular memory – and a vision of how it is adapting to the future.

Gavin filming the introduction to The Hull Story trailer at the Rank Mill on Holderness Road, August 2016.

Gavin and his family leaving Hull for New Zealand in 1961.

Much of Hull’s image beyond East Yorkshire is based on the rise and fall of fishing, but The Hull Story will emphasize the city’s much more complex industrial past, present and future. Gavin’s mother worked for Reckitt’s, his father for Waddington’s and he is fascinated by how Hull came to be an industrial center and how today’s industry is evolving. He’ll talk to people who remember the industries of the past and the people, from engineers to entrepreneurs, who are shaping the industries of the future.

The Hull Story will also look at how Hull’s industrial personality comes from its geographical position - on the flat Holderness plain which led to the monastic windmills and the milling industry and on the edge of the North Sea, which brought it into the Baltic trade and now link it to Britain’s offshore wind farms.

Siemens new Blade factory at Alexandra Dock.

Paul Durham remembering stories of past colleagues at the old Rosedowns engineering works, now De Smet Rosedowns Ltd.

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A Rosedowns leaflet from 1914.

Those Baltic shipping routes also made it one of the first ports of call for refugees fleeing persecution in Russia and Eastern Europe right up to the First World War, and a significant proportion of the Jewish Diaspora turns out to have made their first landfall in Hull.

The Hull Story will explore the memories of their descendants too, and the city’s links to the entertainment industry through such diverse personalities as Maureen Lipman, Tom Courtenay, Ian Carmichael, and J. Arthur Rank.

For Gavin, with childhood memories of exploring Wilberforce House, the warehouses on the River Hull, High Street, Dinsdale’s Joke Shop and the Land of Green Ginger, Hull is a magical place, and with his screenwriter’s imagination he can conjure up the city that was the fulcrum for King Edwards’ wars against the Scots, that defied Charles I in a crucial phase of the Civil Wars, and that stood up to the worst Hitler had to throw at it during World War II.

J. Arthur Rank, founder of Pinewood studios, originally started making films to promote his Methodist Christian values.Going on to make many well know British films.

One of the Rank family’s windmills still stands on Holderness Road.

Despite the depredations of the Luftwaffe there is still plenty of Hull’s architectural heritage left, and The Hull Story will explore it with the aid of a wealth of archival photographs and early film footage curated by the Yorkshire Film Archive and British Pathé, balancing the achievements of the past with Hull’s contemporary architectural experiments as seen in the Marina and The Deep.

The Hull Story will be a celebration of the city through the eyes of a master storyteller, weaving the memories of its people into a picture of how the city evolved, how it works today and how it will work in the century to come.

Hull was the second most bombed city in World War II.

Hull Fish house worker Lillian Bilocca fighting for improved safety standards on British Trawlers.

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The creative destruction of the City Centre in preparation for Hull’s 2017 City of Culture year.

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Co-Production: The documentary is a

Estimated Budget: Consistent with BBC

Funding: Production funding will be

collaboration between L.A. based Novelist

rates for the 90min film.

from a combination of revenues from our

and Film Screenwriter Gavin Scott and Hull based Creative Producer Paul A. Dennis of Hull Independent Producers.

Broadcast: We are exploring opportunities for broadcast in late 2018 on mainstream media channels in the UK, the United

Schedule: Filming begins in the second

States, China and those European countries

quarter 2017, final edit date is scheduled

with a past and present link to Hull’s

for September/October 2018.

culture and trade.

MINI-DOCS series and local prominent business and civic sponsors.

Gavin Scott is a Novelist and Film Screenwriter based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

His most recent film project was as co-writer with Terry Jones of “Absolutely Anything” starring Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale, released in 2015. He has worked alongside George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and Robin Williams. Previous writing credits include “The Borrowers, Small Soldiers, War & Peace (TV). Along with over 200 documentaries and short films for the BBC and commercial TV. His latest novel “The Age of Treachery” (Titan Press 2016) Follows Hull born ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window. A don is suspected and arrested for the murder, but Forrester is not convinced. (Available on Amazon).

Paul A Dennis of Hull Independent Producers is a Creative Producer and Director based in the heart of Hull’s Old Town.

He is passionate about building Hull’s future as a centre for the Creative Industries, especially Film, Theatre and the Arts. Connecting ideas from Hull Writers, Directors, Actors, Musicians and Technicians with funding and production partners, as well as with leading industry contacts from around the world.

He is the creator of the websites: WWW.HULLIP.COM | WWW.LUVULL.COM

Hull’s 2017 City of Culture Year will provide an unprecedented amount of exposure to Hull both nationally and internationally. Its £32m budget is being spent effectively to showcase ‘UK Culture’ from Hull. A city that has for and produce the content many years been overlooked. Toforamass the final documentary the producers will be researching, collating content and making mini individual stand-alone films of varying length of the local companies involved in Hull’s key industries.

FOOD

MANUFACTURING

TOURISM

PHARMACEUTICALS

DIGITAL & TECH

FISHING

RETAIL & DEVELOPMENT

TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS

These MINI-DOCS will be paid for by the

Each Corporate MINI-DOC will be

Famous people from sport, film, politics,

featured company and will vary in length in

researched, written and presented by Gavin

and the arts.

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graphics.

• A graphic timeline of the company’s history.

• Scripted voiceover on the founders and key personnel.

• An overview of the key products and services, past present and future.

• On-site interviews with a selection of managers and workers.

• Interviews,

as appropriate with key

customers or clients.

• Footage and photography from the

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CREATING A MIN-DOC OF YOUR OWN,

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He is passionate about building Hull’s future as a centre for the Creative Industries, especially Film, Theatre and the Arts. Connecting ideas from Hull Writers,

Directors, Actors, Musicians and Technicians with funding and production partners, as well as with leading industry contacts from around the world.

He is the creator of the websites WWW.HULLIP.COM & WWW.CREATIVE1HULL.UK

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