We originated and Associate Produced a BBC Network Panorama and BBC NI Spotlight programme following two Belfast families journey to China to give their daughters controversial stem cell treatment. Both broadcast during May '09 and available on BBC iplayer for a limited period.
The Channel 4 Big Art series (we filmed in Belfast Waterworks for them) also started broadcasting on Sundays in May '09.
We will be producing two new films for Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. One tackles the issue of racism and the other infection control.
We will be making five films for the Community Relations Council on the theme of 'Not Normal'- tackling issues of prejudice, sectarisanism and racism for an audience of 16-25yr olds.
We continue to push our cultural agenda with screenings of our work in mobile cinemas for New Lodge Arts and at Belfast Film Festival. Also promos and video installations for Prime Cut Theatre Co. and Maiden Voyage Dance . Check out our youtube page to view more.
We just wanted to share a few kind words that our client Elaine Roub from CRUSE Bereavement Care used to describe our work with them:
"I have REALLY appreciated the way you have handled this project Matt. You have a gentle and kind approach to the young people, your mellowness keeps me calm and you are a consummate professional at what you do. Thanks so much for everything." Elaine Roub
We were awarded second place from the judges at the Fifteen Second Film Festival screenings during the 2008 Belfast Film Festival at QFT for 'Any Bread', ahead of the likes of Roddy Doyle and Seamus McGarvey. We won lots of new Adobe software to play with....
Bluebird have been filming with New Lodge Arts and Carbon Media, London as part of the biggest arts television programme commission in the UK, ever - The Channel 4 Big Art Project. It's due to be broadcast this Autumn. We have also had two short docs accepted for Channel Four Fourdocs online.
After the success of the Belfast Titanic Trail we have been providing media content for the Armoy Armada and Titanic Interactive tourist trails. See www.armoyarmada.com and www.titanicisland.tv
Check out content on our youtube page at www.youtube.com/bluebirdmedia
Our series of short films on the Bill of Rights - Do the Rights Thing - with the Star Centre will be screened in Dublin as part of the very first Youth, Media and Democracy Conference.
We just completed a successful series of 12 business features and a promo film for the Passenger Transport Federation NI.
We already have several major projects lined up for 2008 including a
major commission for five films from the Community Relations Council
on cultural diversity and a film about the impending Bill of Rights
with young people from The Star Centre in the Newlodge area of Belfast.
Our short film Floating is nearing completion and will be available for public consumption from early '08. We are excited...
The latest presentation has been completed for Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulster) for screening across Europe and the USA.
We have been filming interviews and devising sequences for a new tourist trail in Armoy, Co. Antrim remembering the late, great road racers Joey Dunlop and Co.
Bluebird produced moving visuals for use on screens in AXA Insurances
new Belfast city centre branch.
We have been busy shooting the building and development of the new
IKEA store in Belfast for Street Monkey and Genesis Advertising
'Any Bread', our recent short film has been selected to screen in
cinemas across Ireland as part of the Fifteen Second Film Festival.