Digital Drama are the commissioners for FilmMerton’s season of new short films.
Are you a young or established filmmaker and want to make a film that reflects life in the London Borough of Merton?
If so, click on the link below to find out how you could be commissioned.
Digital Drama’s Kate Valentine got the Bronze Award for Best Drama Producer at the Audio Production Awards 2018. Great to be on the medals podium!
Digital Drama’s production of Kate Barton’s new play Fast opened this week at theSpace Triplex venue at the Edinburgh Fringe. Already we are getting great audiences for this dark psychological drama about the true story of ‘Dr’ Linda Hazzard who advocated fasting for the cure of all ailments. Having received four star reviews for our previews at the Brighton Fringe, we are delighted to be bringing this chilling drama with a ‘Black Mirror vibe’ (Broadway Baby) to the Fringe.
For tickets click here
Digital Drama’s Alison Ramsey has won one of only 5 awards presented at the Imperial War Museum’s Short Film Festival for Deeds Not Words; Suffragette Surgeons of WWI.
Close to 700 films were submitted this year, with 38 short listed and 5 awards given at the Festival’s launch event at the Imperial War Museum London. Director Alison Ramsey of Digital Drama was awarded the prize for Best Use of Archive Material for the short film made as part of the larger Heritage Lottery funded project Deeds Not Words exploring the women who set up and ran the first military hospital in WWI in London’s Covent Garden. Particularly praised for bringing these inspiring women’s stories alive through the use of archive media and additional sound, the film features medical historian Dr Jennian Geddes, Annie Fox, granddaughter of a young orderly working at the hospital and is narrated by Women’s Hour presenter Jane Garvey. The film is showing as part of the IWM Short Film Festival in November 2017, will be shown at the Picture House in Soho on the 6th of December and is also available to watch on line below and on the Deeds Not Words project website.
Tickets for Deeds Not Words – the interactive drama in Covent Garden – are selling fast. The performance explores the lives of the Suffragettes who ran the Endell Street Military Hospital and the soldiers they treated.
To book your ticket for the 7th or 8th of July, go to Eventbrite and select your performance.
Digital Drama’s short film about the Endell Street Military Hospital can be seen here.