The BFTVI is an exciting three-year programme designed to develop enterprise and employment in the film and television industries in Hastings and Bexhill.

Funded by the Government's Local Enterprise Growth Initiative, the programme aims to support a wide range of media-based organisations in their development plans, whether through direct investment in facilities, productions or equipment, or via in-kind support for training, skills development and marketing.

Working in partnership with an array of private, public and voluntary sector partners, the Initiative's goal is to help build economic activity and business success in this rapidly-growing sector, creating good, stable jobs in the region, reducing unemployment, raising skills and income levels in the process.

Our sector covers a wide field - from high-level production companies working on major TV dramas or feature films, right through to local electricians erecting lighting or caterers keeping film crews well-fed.

Whether you're an external production company looking for that great location, or a budding film-maker wanting that first break in the industry, talk to us -

We're here to help you achieve your goals...

 

 

A Historic Hastings Figure: John Logie Baird (1988 - 1946)

The Baird Film and Television Initiative celebrates the historic invention, in Hastings 1925, of the world's first televsion system. John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer who came to Hastings in 1923 to recuperate from a period of ill health. Working from a small workshop, first at his home in Linton Crescent and then in an arcade in the town centre, he conducted a series of experiements to transmit pictures across a room using a rudimentary electro-magnetical system. The transmission of the first true televsion image took place in his studio in 1924, proceeding to demonstrate his new invention - which he called 'television' - in Frith Street, Soho, the following year.

Baird's early successes in the industry swiftly led him onto working the BBC at Alexandra Palace and to the creation of his own television company. He also became the first person to broadcast teleivsion across the Atlantic, transmitting images from Western Scotland to New York.

Although the system eventually adopted worldwide used a different technique, Baird's early successes in demonstrating working televsion breoadcasts earned him a prominent place in television's history.

For further infomation about this historic Hastings pioneer, please visit:

http://www.hmag.org.uk/johnLogieBaird/