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Remember the time ( ⬆️) I whipped up a whole thing with the awesome team at Leeds Film City and they met me at their Town Hall office to discuss the prospect of touring an amazing documentary I saw at LIFF 2018? In amongst such a busy year of hopeful voluntary projects and freestyle freelancing, when I’ve gone from a physically demanding bill paying day job to a spare time-sapping but easy shift pattern grind it’s actually been pretty hard to remember some of the little pursuits I took punts on back during the dark days of midwinter, but this one may actually come to something pretty fun.

Should my dip into independent film programming come to pass it’ll be largely thanks to my new friend Jamie McLoughlin, who revived the idea after getting inspired at a meeting I was unable to attend with the Leeds branch of Scalarama Festival. I met Jamie through South Leeds Radio earlier this year and after selling him some kind of wafer thin vague outline of my creative credentials we started getting stuck in to a load of non-sequiturs including establishing the short-lived pro-South Leeds ‘bro’ brand Beestie Boys, going to goth and pop punk nights, taking in lindy hop dance lessons, co-writing a remix alternate reality version of Titanic, asking ultimately well-received meandering questions to John Thomson at a media/tech panel event and putting ourselves forward as social media specialist with the Leeds For Climate action group.

Many of those escapades went unfinished, but as one of our common bonds is our unyielding desire to get to a point where we can stand a chance of reaching our potential – ideally in a professional context (AKA being paid to do whatever that might be) – it feels about right that it was at another little loose end of an event is what has led us to where we are now.

Both of us are in touch with the producers of King Skate in Prague, CZ, as well as the likely venue (it might be a space I made a radio show about back in January… 🛹) and who I can only assume are really important diplomatic types from ‘The Czech Cultural Centre’ in London.

Mid-September is the likely screening date. Czech it out!