Future Artists, proud recipients of an Off-Fest Nomination in 2021, return to Edinburgh for the 3rd straight year.
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Coming to Bristol for the first time – the amazing Brick Dinos event! Step back in time with LEGO® Dinosaurs. Only at Future Artists Studios, Bristol, from October 22nd 2021. Enter the Jurassic period like never before and meet the dinosaurs face to face, each one masterfully built using LEGO®bricks. Working in close collaboration with a palaeontologist, artist Warren […]
Future Artists have created a 9000sqft immersive studio space in the heart of Bristol, in collaboration with the Galleries Shopping Centre.Future Artists Studio’s is an immersive events space, with a specially curated program of live events. Each curated season is a different story world, enabling the guest to explore culture via play in a unique and fun […]
For the past 9 Months Future Artists has not been able to run any live events, be it History of Videos Games or our Immersive Arts Lab due to Covid-19 (More info here on the Immersive Arts Lab Facebook Group) But in January 2021 – Future Artists partnered with Hopin.com, a technology start up which […]
Future Artists are consulting producers on Manchester’s ‘Scruff of the Neck TV’, and so, we thought we would tell you a little bit about it and what we are doing.
The Drive-in Cinema Club is an all in one immersive entertainment event by Future Artists Studios… we take cars on an immersive road trip…
Amazing World of Brick is a new touring exhibition of amazing Lego artworks created by Master Lego Builder Warren Elsmore and produced by Future Artists.
Buy tickets now! It’s time to go back… back to the future and experience the ‘History of video games’ with our London 1980’s Arcade Edition!
Book tickets now! The Future of Video Games is the ultimate virtual reality video game experience in Manchester! A new pop up virtual reality arcade in Manchester, launching at the same time as Steven Spielberg’s epic new film about VR ‘Ready Player One’.
History of Video Games is back – with a brand new summer edition that we are calling Volume 2! After a fantastic run over the Easter Holidays at Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, we are back by popular demand! History of Video Games Volume 2 is 3 times the size of our Easter event, we […]
VR Arts and Future Artists will be holding its first Virtual Reality Development Lab in Manchester from Wednesday, July 19th to Sunday 23rd July 2017 in partnership with the Digital Innovation MMU. Based in The Shed on MMU’s Manchester City Campus, alongside our technology partners Cooler Master, HTC Vive, CCL Computers and Unity with support from the BBC, VR Manchester, MMU, […]
History of Video Games : Manchester – all you can play for 12.95 – from 1977 to 1994
Future Artists Studios is a new platform for creative entrepreneurs, A place on a map, a space in the city and an environment to grow. We have decided that ‘Co-working’ space needs to be re-invented, even though this concept is quite new, ‘co-working’ is being talked about as the future of the workplace, we think […]
Future Artists – Conference / Talks and Workshop Information Introduction To Future Artists & Mark Ashmore FRSA TO BOOK E-MAIL [email protected] ‘SUBJECT: TALKS’ Future Artists was founded in 2009, with a mission to be an artist-led film studio – inspired in part by the company, United Artists, founded by Charlie Chaplin and LucasFilm founded by […]
Portal – Season 1
Across the world, power has fallen into the hands of those who wish to manipulate and control.
Corporations pursue economic gains at the detrimental expense of social, environmental and ethical concerns. Governments treat their own people as merely a statistic, and human rights are sold for a price that cushions the back pockets of the 1% untouchables. How do we claim our freedom back?
2014 was the year Future Artists as a collective came of age… find out how we did it and what is coming up next….
Future Artists takeover Great Northern Warehouse for 18months – Something’s happening here…. 2014/2015
Future Artists proudly introduce their newest production, Portal, a six-part web-series available exclusively on Dailymotion from the 31st March 2015. This is the first original scripted series to be released by the popular video platform, highly anticipated by their 250 million unique monthly users.
See It To Believe It – Future Artists Presents ‘Damaged Goods’, A New Exhibition Of Incredible Photo-Realistic Street Art By Clayton Whitter This December In Manchester
Future Artists proudly presents Drowned City, winner of Best UK Documentary at the London International Film Festival. Directed by Faith Millin, this gripping and intimate portrait of London’s pirate radio scene reveals the interesting lives of significant members of the pirate community and uncovers the risks taken and passion devoted in getting their sounds to the people. You can watch Drowned City today at via iTUNES
The space aims to provide a much needed mid-size venue for production companies in Manchester, and give a high-level of marketing support to independent North West talent. We aim to take away the barriers of a ‘theatre’ environment and engage new audiences with risk-taking, immersive productions, quality writing and brilliant showcase evenings.
Drowned City – opens london independent film festival
As Future Artists get’s ready to celebrate its 5th Year as a media collective, We thought it was about time that we collected all our award winning and critically applauded content, and put it on one page, easily tweet-able and liked , to be shared to the masses!.
What if a coffee shop was able to generate £100,000 a year in grants that will enable a community to grow – enabling exploration of the arts and sciences, benefiting health and well being, and being a space to meet, share and create…
Welcome to the reality TV programme with a warped and gory twist. The rules are simple: Kill your opponent; stay at the top of the leader board; win 10 million pounds. – Out on 17th Feb 2014 on all platforms
THE LOST GENERATION @ FACT PICTUREHOUSE, LIVERPOOL, 5TH FEB 2014 – 7PM WITH Q+A
In August 2011 – Mark Duggan was stopped by armed police and shot dead on the spot, this shooting, reported in the mainstream UK media sparked riots in Tottenham, London, within a few days – Riots, Looting and pitch battles with the police took place all over the UK – Today on Wednesday 7th January 2014 at an inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, the Jury ruled that he was Lawfully killed by the police
Be part of Future Artists in 2014 here is how As a Media Collective with a co-operative ethos we are always open to new people joining our ranks, if the project can accommodate you.
It’s that time of year again when we bring projects to a close, look back on past achievements and re-evaluate our future goals. 2013 has been a year of graft and hard work at Future Artists, and following the success of our recent pop-up Stewy exhibition and release of our new film The Lost Generation, we are definitely closing on a high.
Future Artists and Stewy present ‘Northern Souls’ a pop up street art show, in a secret Manchester location, this December 2013
Don’t get left behind in the traditional UK Film industry and Hollywood rut.
Angel Investor sought to take on the Hollywood machine. – Apply within
Be part of history – World Premiere ‘The Lost Generation’ 11/11/13 Offline and Online #Occupymedia
Get the ‘Lost Generation’ on DVD via Amazon.co.uk for world-wide shipping
Host our film The Lost Generation and help us #occupymedia and Culture jam earn some £££ too!
Future Artists video on demand allows you to become the distributer and earn up to £2.50 per view,
BOOK NOW – Future Artists are a media collective and co-operative network, as part of our pledge to help ‘Manchester’ become a global digital city, and boost the creative industries in our region we have created a series of workshops and masterclasses, at Future Artists we are committed to nurturing new talent.
Throughout 2013-2014 we will be bringing to ‘The Sharp Project’ in Manchester, a series of industry master classes to help you achieve your ambitions as a creative, storyteller or digital business.
Two years on from the riots that shook London, Dailymotion, the world’s second largest video portal, will exclusively screen the online premier of Riot from Wrong – a critically acclaimed documentary telling the unreported story of the 2011 London Riots from the viewpoint of the young people affected by them.
Own a bit of Future Artists history : Each design from Me&Yu is hand-drawn and hand-printed by us in our studio in an old Cotton Mill in Manchester.
Google Unveils Chromecast, New Video Device for TV’s
Future Artists are proud to be part of the release of ‘The Mill’ as behind the scenes producers, working closely with producer Caroline Levy and Endemol / Channel 4.
How to launch a creative start up – by Future Artists – An all day workshop on how we built future artists and you can too!
The Lost Generation – learn how to #occupymedia – support #indie #film now – host a screening online and off.
Future Artists are proud to present – RIOT FROM WRONG ***WATCH NOW / BOOK A SCREENING***
‘One thing I learned from Riot From Wrong is that 14 young people can get closer to the truth than 90% of working journalists’. Everyone in the UK who has ever expressed an opinion on the riots (namely everyone) needs to see this as soon as possible.
Dan Hancox / Guardian Newspaper
with an impressive client list building each month, including Channel 4, M&Saatchi, England football foundation and Endemol, things are looking good in east Manchester for the Future Artists media collective.
Future Artists are proud to announce that their latest feature film, The Lost Generation, has just been picked up for UK distribution by London-based Safecracker Pictures for theatrical and DVD release this summer 2013.
Future Artists are proud to announce that their latest feature film, The Lost Generation, has just been picked up for UK distribution by London-based Safecracker Pictures for theatrical and DVD release this summer 2013.
This follows on from the success of Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal, which Future Artists released last year to sold-out audiences across the UK from Bristol to Newcastle, whilst also being in the top 100 films on Amazon this Christmas.
The Lost Generation, a debut feature film by producer/director Mark Ashmore, takes a satirical look at reality TV and to what ends the media will go to in order to boost ratings. It projects an imaginative and suspenseful string of consequences inspired by real events with a thrilling theatrical twist.
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Channel 4 have been shortlisted by Out in the City Readers Award for the marketing of the Channel 4 Graduate Programme.
The news just keeps on coming – our friend and fellow film pioneer Pip Piper (who some of you might remember was a guest at last years Future Artists Film and Media Festival )- has this little gem to share with you – his film ‘Last Shop Standing’ is the OFFICIAL FILM FOR RECORD STORE DAY ON APRIL 20TH!
Invisible circus : no dress rehearsal WATCH NOW / BUY DVD / BOOK A SCREENING This stunning film has already enjoyed great success, having been presented with a Dynamo Doc award, invited to a Channel 4 HQ screening, selling out its launch screening at Bristol’s Watershed, as well as an official screening at the 2012 Olympics.
‘Future Artists on-demand’
We mobilise the power of the crowd, to launch projects
which challenge our world.
Future Artists on demand is a platform for the ‘Future Artist’ to launch
‘Art with Attitude’.
In January 2011, the producers of Future Artists decided to embark on a very big adventure and conceive of a very big idea, that would make up a project entitled ‘Project Lost Generation’, and got lost along the way.
It looks like Hollywood has turned its back on diplomacy, instead opting for the send the army in, and ask questions later, kind of gun ho politics, that saw the rise of the 80s action hero.
We are SAD!!!!! HMV Collapses and the entertainment industry is in turmoil – can Indies save us!
Shot over two years, the film features all the characters, shot for shot, with the original movie soundtrack over the top, so you get the real toy BUZZ LIGHT YEAR and WOODY as puppets, its a proper DIY film, with buckets of charm, this is a true fan film, made out of pure love of the story and the characters.
Future Artists on demand – FREE TO WATCH – Future Artists love it when fans of movies just get up off their sofa’s and decide to go make a story set in the universe of their favorite film, and so when we stumbled across this new LORD OF THE RINGS inspired film, around the same time as Peter Jackson’s HOBBIT hit the IMAX we knew we had to share this with you!
Future Artists on demand – bringing you the best films that celebrate the zeitgeist – we are watching SOUND IT OUT – Tucked just off the high street in Stockton-on-Tees, Sound It Out Records is one of the last surviving vinyl record shops struggling to keep afloat in the face of recession and changes in technology. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, this is a distinctive, funny and intimate portrait of the North, its men and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.
Want to know how to raise over 3 million dollars for your project! and do a Kickstarter campaign correctly!
Minecraft Documentary Producers Voluntarily Put Film on The Pirate Bay What’s that saying again? If you can’t beat ’em… 2 Player Productions officially debuted its big gaming documentary this weekend on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform, but before you get upset that you, a PlayStation or Nintendo Wii owner (or console hater in general), have […]
Minecraft Documentary Producers Voluntarily Put Film on The Pirate Bay What’s that saying again? If you can’t beat ’em… 2 Player Productions officially debuted its big gaming documentary this weekend on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform, but before you get upset that you, a PlayStation or Nintendo Wii owner (or console hater in general), have […]
After Double Fine’s record-breaking Kickstarter, a gold rush began as indies funded their dreams with the masses. Facebook reported 235 million of its users play games each month. Nintendo launched a console that faced “second-screen” entertainment head on. A live-action series about Halo was watched millions of times on YouTube. These are but a handful of trends that forecast the future.
EXPOSURE TO THE STREAM of doom-impending headlines would make it easy to believe that the death knell is nigh for HMV
Looking for something from the ‘indie’ film-making scene that really hits the horror spot, well from the same kind of Blair Witch Project stable of ‘found footage’ film-making, comes this new horror film, getting rave reviews and blog posts online at the moment, we watched it and well, it scared us!!! so we thought we would share it with the Future Artists audience, this is defiantly ‘art with attitude’
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.
Future Artists recommends – ‘Factory as a ‘social experiment’, as a cultural force, as a manifestation of Tony Wilson’s ego: the kind of talk that Peter Hook calls “arty bullshit”.’ – Watch the ‘Factory Records’ documentary online now!