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Wrote Under: The Movie – what, why, how and who

12 May 2009 Leave a Comment

by lizzypiffany in Wrote Under: The Movie Tags: community, creativity, feminine principle, growth, humanity, Wrote Under

So yes, I think it’s time to fill you in on where this whole crazy venture came from and why we’re doing it and where it’s going and all that, in the hope that the short bits we’re releasing on the blog will make a bit more sense to the general public!

It all started when a friend of Wrote Under set up a meeting between us and Adrian Goldberg of The Stirrer and TalkSport Radio. Adrian also has his own film production company, Kick in the Grass, and our friend suggested we might be able to convince him to make a film about the weird and wonderful goings-on at our monthly open mic, The Sunday Xpress. What we didn’t realise was that the world of filmmaking isn’t quite as simple as that! As we’re now learning, it takes a huge amount of time and effort to make a film, and a crew of busy professionals quite rightly can’t work for free. But Adrian’s a helpful sort of the most humbling kind and encouraged us to have a go at it ourselves – even offering ongoing practical and moral support to help us get there.

So off we went brimming with ideas and renewed love of humanity, and came up with a plan. A wildly ambitious and overblown plan involving a cast of thousands and stopping at nothing short of a full survey of Birmingham’s underground open mic scene and the strange array of characters who inhabit it, plus an in-depth study of our members’ mental health issues past and present to demonstrate how great Wrote Under’s been for us. More