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i success Video & Film graduates (2007) Matthew E Carter and Manjeet S Gill screen new film at Light House Cinema
includes invigilation. The studio is also available to rent on an hourly basis. Fotofilia, 20 Regent Parade (off Caroline St), Birmingham, B1 3NS
Luv’in the Black Country is a short cinematic documentary that travels down the romantic Black Country canals speaking to five different people who pass along the way about the first time they fell in love. The film is a lyrical love letter to the Black Country, its people and their fading identity. Written and directed by University of Wolverhampton alumnus Matthew E Carter.
Illustration alumni student success
e: fotofilia@hotmail.co.uk w: www.fotofilia.co.uk
Congratulations to Lenka Hrehova who has had her work featured on the front cover of a children’s magazine published in Slovakia. Lenka who graduated in BA (Hons) Illustration in 2010 also had three double page spreads for the same issue published in October 2010.
The film has been funded by the UK Film Council and Screen West Midlands and has been produced by Birmingham Salute Media Productions Ltd in association with Black Country Cinema. For more information please visit: www.blackcountrycinema.com/ luvintheblackcountry
Photography graduate David Rann opens the doors to his gallery ‘Fotofilia’ in Birmingham As a mature student leaving University with a photography degree and an MA Fine Art, I decided the surest way of getting work in a photographic studio was to start my own, which I did, initially in Oldbury, then Wolverhampton Science Park, and ultimately various premises in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. When I was a student it was clear to me that there is a dearth of available, permanent (and affordable) gallery space in Birmingham for photographers and photography students. Eventually I found premises which could not only accommodate a sizeable studio for my own expanding photographic and training work, but also a photography-only gallery, with over 130 feet of wall space which can be divided up into smaller areas if necessary. The gallery has already hosted some exhibitions I’m very proud of and I plan to continue offering the space for free to certain invited photographers. In addition, the gallery is also available to rent on a weekly basis. Unusually for a hire space, the fee even
Above left: David Rann ‘Fotofilia Gallery in Birmingham Left: Christophe Dillinger’s Square Magazine.