BLAK WAVE
@BLAKWAVEPRO
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Production Company #TV #Film #Online #blackowned cofounders @MichealDJenkins @menafombo
Bristol, UK
Joined September 2019
For #BHM24, we’re spotlighting Blak Wave Productions (@blakwavepro), a powerhouse in Black-led storytelling. 🎥 Founded by Michael Jenkins & Somina ‘Mena’ Fombo, they’re creating shows like Pickney & We Are Not The Virus that challenge norms and reclaim Black narratives.
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With great pride we present the new Bristol UNESCO City of Film showreel, showcasing the incredible breadth & depth of Bristol's award-winning screen industries🎥📽️🎬 We are the sum of all our parts💖 #BristolFilmCity #BristolGlobalCity #UNESCO #UCCN #CitiesofFilm #WATCHMAKELEARN
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Excited to have some of our clips in this showreel to showcase #Bristol @BLAKWAVEPRO
With great pride we present the new Bristol UNESCO City of Film showreel, showcasing the incredible breadth & depth of Bristol's award-winning screen industries🎥📽️🎬 We are the sum of all our parts💖 #BristolFilmCity #BristolGlobalCity #UNESCO #UCCN #CitiesofFilm #WATCHMAKELEARN
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I’ve been struggling to find the words to explain how I feel about this. This is a big move for me. #pickney has been selected to screen at the @vamuseum this Friday 25th Aug. It’s the @guapmag takeover for 75 years of windrush, films selected by the @hairounafilmfestival
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2 more days left people get those applications in. This is an amazing opportunity !!
Got a 5-minute film idea? 🎥 Apply to New Voices, and access script development, mentoring and support in applying for BFI NETWORK funding. We are so excited to be partnering with @BLAKWAVEPRO, @LBL_Films & @grey__moth Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/tj3klWUfgI
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Let’s go !!!
Got a 5-minute film idea? 🎥 Apply to New Voices, and access script development, mentoring and support in applying for BFI NETWORK funding. We are so excited to be partnering with @BLAKWAVEPRO, @LBL_Films & @grey__moth Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/tj3klWUfgI
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I need to shout about how good this #NewVoices scheme for underrepresented writer-directors is: ✅ Industry Mentoring & pro script development ✅ Events ✅ Workshopping your script @BristolOldVic Theatre School ✅ New creative contacts Apply now! 🎬 https://t.co/4Y3xeCNuU0
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#Newvoices is back people, find out more below
Got a 5-minute film idea? 🎥 Apply to New Voices, and access script development, mentoring and support in applying for BFI NETWORK funding. We are so excited to be partnering with @BLAKWAVEPRO, @LBL_Films & @grey__moth Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/tj3klWUfgI
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Would you like to meet other south west based filmmakers? Come along to our shorts showcase at @exeter_phoenix + afterparty with live music from Stone Club. 🗓️19th April https://t.co/En9O2Ozw0u
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We've supported some great shorts in the South West through @bfinetwork short film funding. Applications for the new round of funding close on 23 May. https://t.co/TPzvltoi7c
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Well what an amazing event. Screening Pickney to a packed out cinema in @BrxHouseTheatre was an experience I won’t forget. @weareparable There’s nothing that beats being in a room of your peers and celebrating each other. Big up all the #momentum alumni. Truly inspired
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Really excited to be heading to London next week showing #pickney on Momentum Day (31st March) as part of ‘Experience Over Everything’ the 4 day takeover by @brxhousetheatre by @weareparable #WeAre10 #WeAreParable #ExperienceOverEverything
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Sign up peeps 🙏🏾🙏🏾
This week is our latest 'Career Pathways in Film & TV' event, in partnership with @Channel4 and @BLAKWAVEPRO Productions. If you are at early-stage career level and identify as a woman of colour, register your place via link https://t.co/RUCDc9QzxH
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We got selected @CaribbeanUp can’t wait to show #pickney to more Birmingham audiences #blakwave #bfinetwork #film
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Big up Corrine Walker and good luck on this wicked project with @CTSdoFilm
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We off to Canada again, with Pickney being officially selected for 17th Annual @CaribbeanTales_ This is our last international film festival with Pickney and I'm so excited for more people in Canada to be able to watch it on the big screen. #blakwave #bfinetwork
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Britains Secret War Babies: Tune in TONIGHT at 9pm on Channel 4 to watch this amazing, little known story of the black presence in the uk during the war. Such an important film and i was honoured to be able to shadow the director @alexthomasvisuals @Channel4 #secretwarbabies
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Wicked write up on @bbcnews about Pickney playing in Brazil the other week at the @UNESCO cities of film festival. Humbled to have #pickney selected to rep #bristol #film #bfi #blakwave @bristolfilmcity @aardman @blakwavepro @networkfhsw
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Three Bristol-made films are to be shown in Brazil at the UNESCO Cities of Film Festival.
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Really pleased to see @bfinetwork backed film from @MichealDJenkins at @BLAKWAVEPRO screening in Santos, #Brazil as part of the Cities of Film showcase at the annual #UCCN Conference 🌍💫
2⃣Pickney: a film by award-winning Bristol filmmaker @MichealDJenkins. Leon is a mixed-race teenager trying to work out where he fits in. When he meets the Jamaican side of his family for the first time he begins to understand identity is more than just skin deep @pickneyfilm 3/4
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