Have you caught any of the PUSH ME shorts on the BBC Big Screens yet? They went in to the Big Screens play lists on the 15th September, and have all been playing several times a day on all 22 screens throughout the country since then, and they will continue playing daily until the end of November. [...]
It’s been a week since I worked with the fabulous voice artist and describer, Willie Elliott to hone and record the 30 minute audio description (AD) for our PUSH ME documentary Total Permission in Bristol. Ironically when we first sat down to script the piece, there seemed to be more space than ever to fill [...]
We’re delighted to hear this week that The Space will now continue for a further six months. As part of this, the team will be looking more closely at people’s engagement with the pilot platform and the PUSH ME team will also be looking at the impact of our commission on those involved. Tony Ageh, [...]
Fantastic to see PUSH ME’s Claire Cunningham and Caroline Bowditch alongside Marc Brew featured in this great blog by Kelly Apter at the scotsman.com. Shows such as Ménage à Trois not only give the younger generation of disabled dancers something to aim for, they play a crucial role in helping audiences to see beyond the [...]
How great to see two more PUSH ME – The Journey films uploaded by the The Space team yesterday. Join Sue Austin as she plunges into cold local waters in Dorset early this summer making a spectacle of herself to the delight of local audiences. And when you’ve dried off , move through the concrete [...]
A few days back I spent a morning perfecting another new skill – burning some of the PUSH ME short films onto dvds. I’ve never been involved in that side of production before and now have a new found respect for anyone who hands me a dvd – I now know how long it might [...]
We were delighted to hear in The Guardian earlier this week that The Space and our PUSH ME films will now have an afterlife beyond the original designate 31st October deadline for the pilot project. We are currently negotiating how this will effect how and in what way we are able to show our PUSH [...]
So we left the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank with over 24 hours of footage shot, totalling one terrabyte of media – that’s the equivilient of all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital or 50,000 trees made into paper and printed! (Thanks James Huggins, for the comparisons). How does all that – plus all [...]
PUSH ME has been sighted at a handful of events in the last month and it’s been very exciting to guage people’s reactions to the first 12 short films in the PUSH ME Collection and to see what people make of them under the radar. At DigitalBrighton on the 4th September we were able to [...]