Future Artists, proud recipients of an Off-Fest Nomination in 2021, return to Edinburgh for the 3rd straight year.
Coming to Bristol for the first time – the amazing Brick Dinos event! Step back in time with LEGO® Dinosaurs. Only at Future Artists Studios, Bristol, from October 22nd 2021. Enter the Jurassic period like never before and meet the dinosaurs face to face, each one masterfully built using LEGO®bricks. Working in close collaboration with a palaeontologist, artist Warren […]
Future Artists have created a 9000sqft immersive studio space in the heart of Bristol, in collaboration with the Galleries Shopping Centre.Future Artists Studio’s is an immersive events space, with a specially curated program of live events. Each curated season is a different story world, enabling the guest to explore culture via play in a unique and fun […]
For the past 9 Months Future Artists has not been able to run any live events, be it History of Videos Games or our Immersive Arts Lab due to Covid-19 (More info here on the Immersive Arts Lab Facebook Group) But in January 2021 – Future Artists partnered with Hopin.com, a technology start up which […]
Future Artists are consulting producers on Manchester’s ‘Scruff of the Neck TV’, and so, we thought we would tell you a little bit about it and what we are doing.
The Drive-in Cinema Club is an all in one immersive entertainment event by Future Artists Studios… we take cars on an immersive road trip…
Amazing World of Brick is a new touring exhibition of amazing Lego artworks created by Master Lego Builder Warren Elsmore and produced by Future Artists.
Buy tickets now! It’s time to go back… back to the future and experience the ‘History of video games’ with our London 1980’s Arcade Edition!
Book tickets now! The Future of Video Games is the ultimate virtual reality video game experience in Manchester! A new pop up virtual reality arcade in Manchester, launching at the same time as Steven Spielberg’s epic new film about VR ‘Ready Player One’.
History of Video Games is back – with a brand new summer edition that we are calling Volume 2! After a fantastic run over the Easter Holidays at Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, we are back by popular demand! History of Video Games Volume 2 is 3 times the size of our Easter event, we […]
VR Arts and Future Artists will be holding its first Virtual Reality Development Lab in Manchester from Wednesday, July 19th to Sunday 23rd July 2017 in partnership with the Digital Innovation MMU. Based in The Shed on MMU’s Manchester City Campus, alongside our technology partners Cooler Master, HTC Vive, CCL Computers and Unity with support from the BBC, VR Manchester, MMU, […]
History of Video Games : Manchester – all you can play for 12.95 – from 1977 to 1994
Future Artists Studios is a new platform for creative entrepreneurs, A place on a map, a space in the city and an environment to grow. We have decided that ‘Co-working’ space needs to be re-invented, even though this concept is quite new, ‘co-working’ is being talked about as the future of the workplace, we think […]
Future Artists – Conference / Talks and Workshop Information Introduction To Future Artists & Mark Ashmore FRSA TO BOOK E-MAIL INFO@FUTUREARTISTS.CO.UK ‘SUBJECT: TALKS’ Future Artists was founded in 2009, with a mission to be an artist-led film studio – inspired in part by the company, United Artists, founded by Charlie Chaplin and LucasFilm founded by […]
Across the world, power has fallen into the hands of those who wish to manipulate and control.
Corporations pursue economic gains at the detrimental expense of social, environmental and ethical concerns. Governments treat their own people as merely a statistic, and human rights are sold for a price that cushions the back pockets of the 1% untouchables. How do we claim our freedom back?
2014 was the year Future Artists as a collective came of age… find out how we did it and what is coming up next….
Future Artists takeover Great Northern Warehouse for 18months – Something’s happening here…. 2014/2015
Future Artists proudly introduce their newest production, Portal, a six-part web-series available exclusively on Dailymotion from the 31st March 2015. This is the first original scripted series to be released by the popular video platform, highly anticipated by their 250 million unique monthly users.
See It To Believe It – Future Artists Presents ‘Damaged Goods’, A New Exhibition Of Incredible Photo-Realistic Street Art By Clayton Whitter This December In Manchester
Future Artists proudly presents Drowned City, winner of Best UK Documentary at the London International Film Festival. Directed by Faith Millin, this gripping and intimate portrait of London’s pirate radio scene reveals the interesting lives of significant members of the pirate community and uncovers the risks taken and passion devoted in getting their sounds to the people. You can watch Drowned City today at via iTUNES
The space aims to provide a much needed mid-size venue for production companies in Manchester, and give a high-level of marketing support to independent North West talent. We aim to take away the barriers of a ‘theatre’ environment and engage new audiences with risk-taking, immersive productions, quality writing and brilliant showcase evenings.
Drowned City – opens london independent film festival
As Future Artists get’s ready to celebrate its 5th Year as a media collective, We thought it was about time that we collected all our award winning and critically applauded content, and put it on one page, easily tweet-able and liked , to be shared to the masses!.
What if a coffee shop was able to generate £100,000 a year in grants that will enable a community to grow – enabling exploration of the arts and sciences, benefiting health and well being, and being a space to meet, share and create…
Welcome to the reality TV programme with a warped and gory twist. The rules are simple: Kill your opponent; stay at the top of the leader board; win 10 million pounds. – Out on 17th Feb 2014 on all platforms
THE LOST GENERATION @ FACT PICTUREHOUSE, LIVERPOOL, 5TH FEB 2014 – 7PM WITH Q+A
In August 2011 – Mark Duggan was stopped by armed police and shot dead on the spot, this shooting, reported in the mainstream UK media sparked riots in Tottenham, London, within a few days – Riots, Looting and pitch battles with the police took place all over the UK – Today on Wednesday 7th January 2014 at an inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, the Jury ruled that he was Lawfully killed by the police
Be part of Future Artists in 2014 here is how As a Media Collective with a co-operative ethos we are always open to new people joining our ranks, if the project can accommodate you.
It’s that time of year again when we bring projects to a close, look back on past achievements and re-evaluate our future goals. 2013 has been a year of graft and hard work at Future Artists, and following the success of our recent pop-up Stewy exhibition and release of our new film The Lost Generation, we are definitely closing on a high.
Future Artists and Stewy present ‘Northern Souls’ a pop up street art show, in a secret Manchester location, this December 2013
Don’t get left behind in the traditional UK Film industry and Hollywood rut.
Angel Investor sought to take on the Hollywood machine. – Apply within
Be part of history – World Premiere ‘The Lost Generation’ 11/11/13 Offline and Online #Occupymedia
Get the ‘Lost Generation’ on DVD via Amazon.co.uk for world-wide shipping
Host our film The Lost Generation and help us #occupymedia and Culture jam earn some £££ too!
Future Artists video on demand allows you to become the distributer and earn up to £2.50 per view,
BOOK NOW – Future Artists are a media collective and co-operative network, as part of our pledge to help ‘Manchester’ become a global digital city, and boost the creative industries in our region we have created a series of workshops and masterclasses, at Future Artists we are committed to nurturing new talent.
Throughout 2013-2014 we will be bringing to ‘The Sharp Project’ in Manchester, a series of industry master classes to help you achieve your ambitions as a creative, storyteller or digital business.
Two years on from the riots that shook London, Dailymotion, the world’s second largest video portal, will exclusively screen the online premier of Riot from Wrong – a critically acclaimed documentary telling the unreported story of the 2011 London Riots from the viewpoint of the young people affected by them.
Own a bit of Future Artists history : Each design from Me&Yu is hand-drawn and hand-printed by us in our studio in an old Cotton Mill in Manchester.
Google Unveils Chromecast, New Video Device for TV’s
Future Artists are proud to be part of the release of ‘The Mill’ as behind the scenes producers, working closely with producer Caroline Levy and Endemol / Channel 4.
How to launch a creative start up – by Future Artists – An all day workshop on how we built future artists and you can too!
The Lost Generation – learn how to #occupymedia – support #indie #film now – host a screening online and off.
Future Artists are proud to present – RIOT FROM WRONG ***WATCH NOW / BOOK A SCREENING***
‘One thing I learned from Riot From Wrong is that 14 young people can get closer to the truth than 90% of working journalists’. Everyone in the UK who has ever expressed an opinion on the riots (namely everyone) needs to see this as soon as possible.
Dan Hancox / Guardian Newspaper
with an impressive client list building each month, including Channel 4, M&Saatchi, England football foundation and Endemol, things are looking good in east Manchester for the Future Artists media collective.
Future Artists are proud to announce that their latest feature film, The Lost Generation, has just been picked up for UK distribution by London-based Safecracker Pictures for theatrical and DVD release this summer 2013.
Future Artists are proud to announce that their latest feature film, The Lost Generation, has just been picked up for UK distribution by London-based Safecracker Pictures for theatrical and DVD release this summer 2013.
This follows on from the success of Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal, which Future Artists released last year to sold-out audiences across the UK from Bristol to Newcastle, whilst also being in the top 100 films on Amazon this Christmas.
The Lost Generation, a debut feature film by producer/director Mark Ashmore, takes a satirical look at reality TV and to what ends the media will go to in order to boost ratings. It projects an imaginative and suspenseful string of consequences inspired by real events with a thrilling theatrical twist.
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Channel 4 have been shortlisted by Out in the City Readers Award for the marketing of the Channel 4 Graduate Programme.
The news just keeps on coming – our friend and fellow film pioneer Pip Piper (who some of you might remember was a guest at last years Future Artists Film and Media Festival )- has this little gem to share with you – his film ‘Last Shop Standing’ is the OFFICIAL FILM FOR RECORD STORE DAY ON APRIL 20TH!
Invisible circus : no dress rehearsal WATCH NOW / BUY DVD / BOOK A SCREENING This stunning film has already enjoyed great success, having been presented with a Dynamo Doc award, invited to a Channel 4 HQ screening, selling out its launch screening at Bristol’s Watershed, as well as an official screening at the 2012 Olympics.
‘Future Artists on-demand’
We mobilise the power of the crowd, to launch projects
which challenge our world.
Future Artists on demand is a platform for the ‘Future Artist’ to launch
‘Art with Attitude’.
In January 2011, the producers of Future Artists decided to embark on a very big adventure and conceive of a very big idea, that would make up a project entitled ‘Project Lost Generation’, and got lost along the way.
It looks like Hollywood has turned its back on diplomacy, instead opting for the send the army in, and ask questions later, kind of gun ho politics, that saw the rise of the 80s action hero.
We are SAD!!!!! HMV Collapses and the entertainment industry is in turmoil – can Indies save us!
Shot over two years, the film features all the characters, shot for shot, with the original movie soundtrack over the top, so you get the real toy BUZZ LIGHT YEAR and WOODY as puppets, its a proper DIY film, with buckets of charm, this is a true fan film, made out of pure love of the story and the characters.
Future Artists on demand – FREE TO WATCH – Future Artists love it when fans of movies just get up off their sofa’s and decide to go make a story set in the universe of their favorite film, and so when we stumbled across this new LORD OF THE RINGS inspired film, around the same time as Peter Jackson’s HOBBIT hit the IMAX we knew we had to share this with you!
Future Artists on demand – bringing you the best films that celebrate the zeitgeist – we are watching SOUND IT OUT – Tucked just off the high street in Stockton-on-Tees, Sound It Out Records is one of the last surviving vinyl record shops struggling to keep afloat in the face of recession and changes in technology. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, this is a distinctive, funny and intimate portrait of the North, its men and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.
Want to know how to raise over 3 million dollars for your project! and do a Kickstarter campaign correctly!
Minecraft Documentary Producers Voluntarily Put Film on The Pirate Bay What’s that saying again? If you can’t beat ’em… 2 Player Productions officially debuted its big gaming documentary this weekend on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform, but before you get upset that you, a PlayStation or Nintendo Wii owner (or console hater in general), have […]
Minecraft Documentary Producers Voluntarily Put Film on The Pirate Bay What’s that saying again? If you can’t beat ’em… 2 Player Productions officially debuted its big gaming documentary this weekend on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform, but before you get upset that you, a PlayStation or Nintendo Wii owner (or console hater in general), have […]
After Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter, a gold rush began as indies funded their dreams with the masses. Facebook reported 235 million of its users play games each month. Nintendo launched a console that faced “second-screen” entertainment head on. A live-action series about Halo was watched millions of times on YouTube. These are but a handful of trends that forecast the future.
EXPOSURE TO THE STREAM of doom-impending headlines would make it easy to believe that the death knell is nigh for HMV
Looking for something from the ‘indie’ film-making scene that really hits the horror spot, well from the same kind of Blair Witch Project stable of ‘found footage’ film-making, comes this new horror film, getting rave reviews and blog posts online at the moment, we watched it and well, it scared us!!! so we thought we would share it with the Future Artists audience, this is defiantly ‘art with attitude’
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.
Future Artists recommends – ‘Factory as a ‘social experiment’, as a cultural force, as a manifestation of Tony Wilson’s ego: the kind of talk that Peter Hook calls “arty bullshit”.’ – Watch the ‘Factory Records’ documentary online now!
The Rough Trade story begins more than thirty years ago on 20th February 1976. Britain was in the grip of an IRA bombing campaign; a future prime minister was beginning to make her mark on a middle England in which punk was yet to run amok; and a young Cambridge graduate called Geoff Travis opened a new shop at 202 Kensington Park Road, just off Ladbroke Grove in west London. The Rough Trade shop sold obscure and challenging records by bands like American art-rockers Pere Ubu, offering an alternative to the middle-of-the-road rock music that dominated the music business.
Beginning October 31, people in the United Kingdom will be able to launch their projects on Kickstarter
Alan Moore, eccentric genius behind graphic-novel classics V for Vendetta and Watchmen, rejected big-movie riches. Now he has made a low-budget film in his beloved home town, Northampton
Future Artists will be launching its own ‘video on demand’ platform, a space that will allow you to access film, tv and video content that pushes the boundaries, deviates from the norm, challenges accepted view points and champions what we like to call ‘Art with Attitude’ –
Last Shop Standing inspired by the book of the same name by Graham Jones takes you behind the counter to discover why nearly 2000 record shops have already disappeared across the UK. The film charts the rapid rise of record shops in the 1960?s / 70s and 80’s, the influence of the chart, the underhand deals, the demise of vinyl and rise of the CD as well as new technologies.
FULL FILM LINE UP : Future Artists Film and Media Festival
Throughout the festival we will look at how technology has changed the story telling relationship with the audience. Future Artists have curated two days of workshops and screenings focused on giving you the tools, the knowledge and the confidence to become a successful indie film-maker.
Do you have an idea for a film or transmedia experience? Or an immersive cross-platform tweety, facebookey, tumbled, hash-tagged thing that needs new funding and distribution options?
Join us at our one year review festival, running from Monday 1st October 2012 to Sunday 7th October 2012
We decided to call the festival ‘Not Part of the Bullingdon Club‘ – we hope you understand why….? if you dig this, come and say hi.
7 days, 8 unique events, powered by the entreupernship, creativity and talent of the creative co-op that resides in and outside the Black Lion.
We have several networking events aimed at Film + Creative industries and our business community this September.
Indie Game: The Movie is the first ever foray by a documentary film into the somewhat cliquey and strangely-hidden world of indpenedent game design. Sounds obscure, right? But it’s a film that will appeal to anyone who’s had an idea that they’ve seen through from start to finish, and just how heartbreaking that can be sometimes.
Calling all ladies of the creative industries! UnderWire will be gearing up to host the north’s networking night for female filmmakers. Tickets are £6 from the eventbrite site, or are available on the door at The Black Lion. (Salford, M3 5BZ) UnderWire is all about giving a strong platform, a safe space and a community to female […]
Future Artists, Salford’s film studio, will be holding a unique social experiment in The Black Lion, to celebrate their 1 year anniversary at the venue.
We’ve invited award-winning Salford artist ‘Starvin Artist’ to launch a new gallery to celebrate The Black Lion. Starvin’ Artist has had residencies all over the world including Barcelona of late, and now he is resident curator at The Black Lion. The gallery launch will include artwork from renowned Manchester illustrator Barney Ibbotson and Chris Howker.
Town of Runners is a no-holds-barred feature documentary about young runners from the Ethiopian rural town of Bekoji, home to the current Olympic and World Champions Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele. The film follows three children as they move from school track to national competition, making that tumultous transition from childhood to adulthood. Town of […]
Kafka in the sink is a brand new black comedy drama brought to the Black Lion Salford and the Buxton Fringe Festival 2012 by Manchester based theatre company A Rebours Theatre Co. Since 2009, A Rebours Theatre Co. have been presenting edgy zeitgeist theatre to sell out audiences across Manchester and London. Kafka in the […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvcQ39OBzzo] THE FIRST RULE OF FILM CLUB IS…. http://futureartistsfilmclub.eventbrite.com/ COME TO THE CINEMA! The Black Lion pub in Salford is proud to announce the launch of its HD pub cinema. Inspired by some of the more special and one-off film theatres from across the world; from New York to Australia – we’re making […]
Have a read, and don’t forget to download your own pdf copy! Future Artists x
As Mark and Jenny head to Cannes this week sailing the good ship Future Artists, publicist Jane McConnell is well and truly representing back home. Here’s this week’s inspiration: Kevin Curtis Is A Hero
Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal makes it on Daily Motion’s front page – getting a record 100 views in 20 minutes!
Future Artists is delighted to be offering viewers the chance to see the film, Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal – for a limited period only – on Daily Motion. Smyth provides a no-holds-barred look into the world of street art and performance in the groundbreaking documentary movie, Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal.
Commissioned by The Space, the new on-demand digital arts service developed by the Arts Council in partnership with the BBC and produced by Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover, From the Sea to the Land Beyond, is a cross-platform interactive documentary to be delivered across cinema and online. With unparalleled access to over 100 years of BFI […]
Welcome to Salford’s very own Zoetrope studios (Francis Ford Coppola’s San Fransisco Studio!) to demonstrate the positive impact Salfordians are having as part of this new media city
#OCCUPYMEDIA: One Film Versus The World.
The Lost Generation.
BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970’s through the mid 80’s, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.
Renowned rock photographer Ian Tilton – who went partying with the Hacienda scene and took the world-famous photo of Kurt Cobain’s stage nerves – will make an appearance at The Black Lion for just one night only. For Future Artists’ Celebrate Photography! season, their venue The Black Lion will be hosting the Salford premiere […]
February is always a great month for film. Oscars, BAFTA hangovers, Goyas, numerous festivals, SXSW prep and a whole lotta releases from winter projects by indie filmmakers who’ve been working right through the winter to get their movies and stories released, like this stop motion film
The ever versatile Black Lion has since its opening in September 2011, been the new creative home to emerging talent on the film, theatre and arts scene, but now the lion is looking to the local and international musical communities to share in the Black Lion’s co-operative vision for allowing talent to have centre stage, thrive and survive.
Naomi Smyth’s UK street art film “Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal” has won the first place as winner of the Dynamite Dynamo Doc Award 2012
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and the profits from the night will help us to start the journey to realizing our dream of an arts venue for all.
From the independent films that we make – to the ones we support and love from across the world: Future Artists is proud to be backing a brilliant Oscar contender, WRINKLES.
Written by Jeff Bullas – YouTube is a modern phenomena. The social media platform’s original concept is rumoured to have been inspired by the idea of being a video dating site with the unlikely title of “Tune In Hook Up”. In the end it launched as a simple video sharing site that has helped reinvent the […]
————- It’s a few nights before Christmas, and I enter a busy pub in Salford, – inside a kind of Christmas bohemia fills the space, in the corner is the worst Christmas tree I ve ever seen, but it has some sort of northern charm, even though a drunk local, […]
Coming soon : future artists tour diary – in the meantime check out http://www.invisiblecircusfilm.com and our press/fan reviews http://theinvisiblecircusfilm.tumblr.com/
Film Director and Producer : Mark Ashmore Looks like we have been kicking up a storm in the worlds film industry, with this recent published essay by Future Artists MD Mark Ashmore on the Cinema du revolution and why you need to do your homework. Already read by over 10,000 people and re-tweeted around […]