08/03/2013 - Production house’s 10th anniversary focus of Made In Britain season

Production house Warp Film’s 10^th anniversary celebrations are at the centre of the British Film Institute’s Made In Britain season (March 29-April 29), an annual exploration of contemporary British Cinema. The season will launch with Shane Meadows’ Dead Man’s Shoes (2004), which will screen with a live music accompaniment – featuring musicians from UNKLE and Clayhill plus Jah Wobble.

BAFTA-winning films like Meadows’ This is England [+see also:
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Warp Records launched in Sheffield in 1989 and the label’s output made an impact on British culture with its innovative artists and diverse electronic music. The label’s lodestone was a commitment to innovation and independence. In 2001, founding partners Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett, with the help of producer Mark Herbert, founded Warp Films with the same pioneering principles. Herbert produced the BAFTA winning short My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117, starring Paddy Considine and directed by Chris Morris. Herbert encouraged Considine and director Shane Meadows to develop a new project. The result was Dead Man’s Shoes, and with the ecstatic reception accorded to the film, Warp embarked on a journey that is now 10 years young.

Warp’s most recent production, Berberian Sound Studio [+see also:
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Photo: Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur