Luke Brown has been appointed managing director of the events division at Brandon Hill Communications, the award-winning Bristol-based marketing agency. The move is part of a strategy to reinforce the management structure in the division, which was established in 2007 and has achieved strong year-on-year growth despite the economic...
Bristol’s pioneering African film festival Afrika Eye starts today and co-director and co-founder, Zimbabwean filmmaker Simon Bright, here selects his highlights for this year. All events take place at Watershed: * African Interactive at 2 pm today. A free event featuring a live link up with Kenyan capital Nairobi,...
Bristol marketing agency Synergy Creative’s annual quiz has raised more than £500 for local charity Alive! Synergy, which specialises in providing branding, employee communications and marketing services for clients across the UK, chose Alive! as its charity of the year in January following nominations and a vote by its...
Five young people taking part in a pioneering heritage film and broadcast project staged by Bristol’s urban music community radio station Ujima 98fm have been accepted onto BBC Radio’s Face 2 Face courses. The five – some of whom may be offered paid work with the BBC – have...
A ground-breaking live link-up between Bristol and Nairobi looking into how digital technologies can help expand the audience for the African moving image takes place next Friday as part of Bristol’s pioneering Afrika Eye film festival. The continent-spanning event follows on from an initial discussion at Bristol’s Encounters film...
Bristol-based law firm TLT is sponsoring the Playable City Award, a prestigious international arts competition launched by the city’s art and media centre Watershed. The pioneering award is part of Watershed’s exploration into the relationship between art and technology. Applicants are being invited from across the world to create...
Cycling-mad staff at Bristol product design firm Crux have the use of new bikes to ride to work under a tax-efficient scheme introduced with the help of Bristol-based chartered accountancy firm Whyatt Pakeman Partners. All directors and employees of the agency, based at Paintworks, are keen cyclists and Crux’s...
The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner is to be guest speaker at this year’s CBI South West annual dinner next month. He replaces fellow BBC journalist and world affairs correspondent John Simpson, who was originally booked to make the keynote speech to around 500 of the region’s most senior...
This year’s Afrika Eye film festival in Bristol is shaping up to be the most ambitious since its launch seven years ago. A core focus of the festival, which takes place between Friday November 9 and Sunday11 at Watershed, is dedicated to celebrating 50 years of independence for Jamaica....
Bristol digital agency Nameless’ work upgrading the Visit Cornwall website to meet spiralling visitor numbers has paid off with a trio of award wins and nominations. The site has been shortlisted for the British Travel Awards 2012 'Best UK Visitor Guide Website', and has won the prestigious TravelMole award...
Two Bristol film production companies and a natural history filmmaker scooped major awards at the prestigious international Wildscreen Panda Awards – the 'Oscars' of the wildlife film industry – which took place in the city last night. The Disneynature Innovation Award went to Tigress Productions for its hi-tech natural...
Corporate partners are being urged to back Bristol’s pioneering annual Afrika Eye film festival as it prepares to return for its seventh year. The unique festival, which takes place at Watershed over the weekend of November 9-11, will this year have an Afro-Caribbean theme as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of...
A campaign to encourage Bristol businesses to talk to each other more, make contacts and discuss business issues via social media has been launched today. The project, called #getbristoltalking, is the brainchild of Bristol Chamber of Commerce, part of business advice and services group Business West, which believes it...
