Press and media

Press and media.

A community interest company at Pinewood Studios, opening the screen industry to people it has left out, built on fifteen years of technical and production work inside HETV drama and feature film. Its method is production simulation: working units that behave like real ones. Press enquiries: press@futuresinfilm.com, deadline in the subject line.

Company facts

The details that belong in a standfirst.

The production-simulation method was built on a 2021 pilot run by Pixeleyed Pictures in Blackburn with Darwen. Please attribute the pilot to Pixeleyed Pictures.

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Legal nameFUTURES IN FILM C.I.C.
Company number14621615
StructureCommunity interest company, limited by guarantee, asset-locked, registered in England and Wales
Registered office167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF — correspondence only
Operating basethe Ken Adam Building, Pinewood Studios
Where we workPinewood is the base. Hubs in London and Liverpool; work across England, Wales and Scotland
Press contactpress@futuresinfilm.com

Futures in Film Ltd is not us. MR Helix Ltd, Pixeleyed Pictures Ltd and Screen Sisters CIC are separate companies. Please attribute work to the company that did it.

Subjects

Subjects.

Entry routes into the screen industry

What stops a capable person getting a second and third job.

Production simulation as a training method

Running a training exercise as a working unit: call sheet, risk assessment, chain of command, kit and turnaround.

Faith inclusion and cultural safety on set

Prayer, diet, dress, observance and family obligation planned into a schedule. We wrote a production standard for it.

Shooting on 35mm

Stock, lab time, processing capacity, and how a film shoot schedules.

AI tools and workflows in production

Where the tools help a department and where they are oversold, from inside camera, sound, edit, VFX, art, production and virtual production.

The North West screen sector

Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, Manchester and Sheffield.

What we will not comment on

What we will not comment on.

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Interviews, images and filming

Interviews, images and filming.

Requests go to press@futuresinfilm.com: the outlet, the angle, the deadline and whether you need pictures. Programme and access enquiries go to the same address.

Ateeb Malik, Technical and Production Lead

Kit, prep, what happens on a unit, shooting on 35mm, and applied technology in the camera department.

Images, filming and consent

Stills of our own units, crew and kit, with captions and credits. Filming is welcome with notice; Pinewood issues passes ahead of the day. Consent is asked for separately from a person’s place and can be withdrawn.