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19/02/2004
Channel 4 development deal for Belfast TV company
Belfast-based DoubleBand Films is to benefit from a £260,000 company development deal, funded by Channel 4 and the NIFTC Company Development Fund, a joint venture between Invest Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC).
The company will use the funding package to finance expansion plans, including the establishment of a dedicated network development team incorporating four new jobs to generate more programme ideas for UK-wide broadcasters.
The partnership was announced today at an industry event at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.
Channel 4's champion of the 'Creative Cities' strategy and Director of Nations & Regions, Stuart Cosgrove, said: "DoubleBand Films is a successful production company that regularly pitches to Channel 4. We are keen to help improve production performance in Northern Ireland and so rather than invest in an ad hoc, programme-by-programme basis, we are investing a lump sum to help the company better plan their business and appoint key staff to work on developing new ideas. The company attracted further funding from the new Company Development Fund and we backed their entrepreneurism."
As part of its Creative Cities strategy, Channel 4 committed a package of cash and in-kind support worth £65,000 to DoubleBand. Over £100,000 has been committed from the NIFTC/Invest NI Company Development Fund while the production company itself is also investing a significant amount of funding in its growth strategy.
Creative Cities is Channel 4's collective name for its ambitious programme of activities throughout the regional cities of the UK and partnership projects are a key part of this strategy.
DoubleBand is one of Northern Ireland's most creative independent television production companies and is a regular supplier to Channel 4. Recent programmes for the broadcaster include ‘George Best's Body’, ‘Seven Days That Shook Sven’ and ‘Beckham and the Battle With Argentina’.
The company has also just completed ‘War in Mind’, another documentary for Channel 4, following a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease who undergoes a pioneering operation.
(GB)
The company will use the funding package to finance expansion plans, including the establishment of a dedicated network development team incorporating four new jobs to generate more programme ideas for UK-wide broadcasters.
The partnership was announced today at an industry event at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.
Channel 4's champion of the 'Creative Cities' strategy and Director of Nations & Regions, Stuart Cosgrove, said: "DoubleBand Films is a successful production company that regularly pitches to Channel 4. We are keen to help improve production performance in Northern Ireland and so rather than invest in an ad hoc, programme-by-programme basis, we are investing a lump sum to help the company better plan their business and appoint key staff to work on developing new ideas. The company attracted further funding from the new Company Development Fund and we backed their entrepreneurism."
As part of its Creative Cities strategy, Channel 4 committed a package of cash and in-kind support worth £65,000 to DoubleBand. Over £100,000 has been committed from the NIFTC/Invest NI Company Development Fund while the production company itself is also investing a significant amount of funding in its growth strategy.
Creative Cities is Channel 4's collective name for its ambitious programme of activities throughout the regional cities of the UK and partnership projects are a key part of this strategy.
DoubleBand is one of Northern Ireland's most creative independent television production companies and is a regular supplier to Channel 4. Recent programmes for the broadcaster include ‘George Best's Body’, ‘Seven Days That Shook Sven’ and ‘Beckham and the Battle With Argentina’.
The company has also just completed ‘War in Mind’, another documentary for Channel 4, following a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease who undergoes a pioneering operation.
(GB)
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