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This week is Refugee Week (15-21st June), a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. To mark this increasingly relevant and growing global movement Bridge+Tunnel creative Director Tina Gharavi shared the following: “10 years ago, we made I Am Nasrine, using all the community resources we could find. I had developed the…

Meet Wambui Hardcastle, one of the many talented young filmmakers that has walked through our doors here at Bridge + Tunnel. Below she recalls her experience with her recent project Mayonnaise Girl which she filmed with our support in late 2019: “I’m an 18-year-old biracial actor and writer based in Newcastle-most of my experience is…

A recent placement student discusses his experiences with Bridge + Tunnel  “During my time at Bridge + Tunnel, I have had the opportunity to work on both creative and administrative tasks, and get a better insight into how a media production company produces their content. In accordance with their aims to produce culturally sensitive and…

Thrilled to announce #PeopleLikeUs will be part of this year’s Official Selection at Ethnografilm, in Paris from April 11 through April 15.

Out of 1,300 films, #PeopleLikeUs has been chosen for this year’s DC Shorts Film Festival, we are thrilled! http://festival.dcshorts.com/

So proud to announce that #PeopleLikeUs won the #award for Excellence in Filmmaking Anthem Film Festival we love this short film, which has such a powerful message, and are thrilled they loved it too!

Always lovely to get an Award! ‘People Like Us’ is a Bridge + Tunnel Productions experimental documentary short bringing to light the plight of those who have served long sentences in prison for crimes they did not commit

We are delighted to be screening I Am Nasrine at Newcastle University’s Fine Art Lecture Hall on Tuesday 21st June from 5-7pm as part of Refugee Week 2016

Free this weekend? It is time for the10th annual LateShows weekend- the biggest culture crawl in Newcastle and Gateshead, across the weekend of 13–14 May. Our Bridge + Tunnel team has been very busy producing short films with different young people’s groups and we are very excited to be screening two of them at The…