Morally Speaking - Directed by: Lawrence Coke
Time 2 Get Paid - Directed by: Uncle Ade
The search for BUFF - Directed by: Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe
With offices in Greater London, the company devised projects including ‘The Search for BUFF’, a reality-TV-talent contest designed to find people who ‘look buff’ who are then ‘appointed’ as ambassadors to promote the annual British Urban Film Festival. Filmed on location across the UK, the pilot was screened at the headquarters of ITVin London’s South Bank and made its Christmas Day broadcast debut on BEN Television in December 2005.
The first series aired from January – April 2006. The second series also aired on BEN Television from May – August 2007 in addition to the annual staging of the British Urban Film Festival – a unique event as it is the only one of its kind in the UK which is free to attend by the general public.
Although the annual festival is free to attend, it does charge entry fees to film-makers who wish to submit their films in what is, according to Film London, ‘an important and emerging genre which is not otherwise seen regularly in the capital’s cinemas’.