July 2024
We have the pleasure of working with award-winning music-comedy duo Martha and Eve again (Martha D.Lewis and Eve Polycarpou, formerly known as Donna and Kebab) for an exciting three-day event 'For the Love of Cyprus', a celebration of the duo’s Cypriot roots and desire for unity and peace on the 50th anniversary of the division of the island.
Read MoreJune 2024
We're so excited to be back at Sheffield DocFest, the UK's leading documentary festival. This year, we're looking after the World Premieres of two outstanding documentaries, Britain's Forgotten Prisoners and Hakeem.
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May 2024
We are honoured to be working with the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) ahead of the 15th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s civil war (18 May 2009) on a collection of war poetry by Tamil exiles who all share inspiring stories of survival.
Read MoreMay 2024
We're working with Professor Raymond Playford, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of West London, who co-authored a commentary published in the respected Quarterly Journal of Medicine. The research urges doctors to warn patients about a previously unrecognised potential risk of prescribing ‘semaglutide’ weight loss drugs (like Ozempic or Wegovy) that may cause out-of-character behaviours.
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April 2024
We're thrilled to be working on SHOUT, the annual Ashford Place Mental Health Film & Arts Festival. Following the success of SHOUT LONDON, SHOUT LIVERPOOL will be taking place on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 April at Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre.
Read MoreMarch 2024
We're very excited to announce the shortlist for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2023, on the 45th year of the prestigious awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in London on April 29, 2024.
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November 2023
It has been fascinating working with the award-winning team behind Renegade Stories on Trauma Room One, a new eight-part hospital series available on 5STAR.
Read MoreNovember 2023
We're working with The University of West London ahead of International Men's Day on a ground-breaking research project conducted by Dr Ben Hine, Head of Applied Psychology at UWL.
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September 2023
It's inspiring working on the seventh edition of the London Georgian Film Festival: Reflections on the Black Sea at the Ciné Lumière.
Read MoreAugust 2023
Once again we are delighted to work with Andy Glynne, Founder and CEO of BAFTA award-winning production company Mosaic Films, who pioneered the use of animation to tell mental health stories using real-life testimonies voiced by their subjects.
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July 2023
We love working with the many dedicated researchers at The University of West London. For this project, we teamed up with Professor Graeme Atherton at UWL in the launch of a new report How Can Labour Level Up?
Read MoreJuly 2023
Newspapers, publishing houses, TV, and radio stations have all closed in most parts of Sudan as a result of the recent war. Most journalists have lost their livelihood, whilst some are intimidated and even killed.
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July 2023
We are delighted to be working with the award-winning music and comedy duo Martha D. Lewis and Eve Polycarpou who are celebrating their distinguished careers in a brand-new show Donna & Kebab are Martha and Eve – A Celebration!
Read MoreMay 2023
It's an honour to work with Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky and Emmy-nominated producer Shahida Tulaganova on Freedom of Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom.
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April 2023
Each year tpr media work with the André Simon trustees and assessors to promote the prestigious awards.
Read MoreOctober 2022
We have recently begun working on the launch of an exciting new ecological project which combines indigenous and modern knowledge as part of a new UNESCO BRIDGES initiative.
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August 2022
We began working with the University of West London team at the end of June 2022 on their Black Minority and Ethnic Early Career Researcher Conference co-hosted by King's College, London.
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At tpr media we love working on food and drink projects and they always inspire us to try new things. This summer we began work on Watercress, Willow and Wine by Cindy-Marie Harvey.
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June 2022
This month, for the first time, we have been working with Professor Katie Featherstone, Director of the University of West London's Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory on their latest in-depth research. Their new study shines a light on the taboo subject of continence care among people living with dementia.
Read MoreMay 2022
At tpr, we continue our work with the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), an inspiring human rights organisation who work to protect and promote justice and accountability in Sri Lanka.
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May 2022
We love working with the prestigious André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards and are delighted to announce this year's assessors. Fozia Ismail will judge the food books and Matt Walls will judge the drink books for the 2022 awards.
Read More22 April 2022
We recently worked alongside Director of the Foreign Press Association in London, Deborah Bonetti, to host a press conference at the Royal Over-Seas League for an uplifting campaign we're currently working on. It's a new book by LGBTQI+ Canadian-born artist Owen Grant Innes called Duty: A Love Letter to Queen Elizabeth II.
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February 2022
We're really excited to be working on a new documentary film The Tinderbox - Israel & Palestine: The Untold Story is the directorial debut from Gillian Mosely.
Read More10 December 2021
Since July we have been working with the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), an impressive international, non-profit human rights organisation that has been working since 2013 to protect and promote justice and accountability in Sri Lanka on behalf of victims.
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21 November 2021
We're delighted to be working again with Emmy award-winning filmmaker Joe Gantz on his latest feature-length documentary film (in April we worked on The Race to Save the World about climate change activists). Ending Disease explores a revolution in medicine, with research that affects every single one of us.
Read More10 November 2021
In the run up to COP26 we started working with Youth4planet: Earthbeat, a youth media movement which gives a voice to young people from all around the world in response to the climate emergency. On Friday 5 November they hosted a live COP26 Youth Day event at Glasgow’s IMAX cinema.
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5 August 2021
We're so excited to be able to announce the new appointment of Hannah Price and Mark Ravenhill as joint artistic directors of the King's Head Theatre ahead of the venue's 2022 historic venue move. tpr Media has worked with Islington's renowned pub theatre for over a year and a half now, it is fantastic to see visions for an even more inclusive and diverse future come to life. The new creative team pledges to produce work that: "Allows us all to imagine a better future".
Read More23 May 2021
We are delighted to announce that we will be sponsoring SMART – London's first international smartphone film festival. Launched by the team behind the first smartphone film to win an academy award – Missed Call, TV BAFTA 2019 – SMART celebrates the innovation, intimacy and diversity of smartphone filmmaking and will take place between 21‐25 June 2021.
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9 April 2021
We feel honoured to continue to work on such inspiring cultural projects and wanted to recommend some online events this month to keep you going until June!
Read More11 October 2020
At tpr we're really lucky to work with such diverse and creative clients, especially in these challenging times. We are particularly excited about these two must-see live streamed events coming up soon – make sure to get your tickets!
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17 June 2020
We hope you are well and safe. With so much uncertainty at the moment, we're proud to be working with some incredible clients who are powering through despite enormous pressure. Two of the most iconic venues in Islington: the Union Chapel and the King's Head Theatre are keeping culture alive as well as supporting their local communities.
Read More11 March 2020
On Wednesday 11 March, we were delighted to go to the River Café for the London launch of Burma: Food, Family & Conflict co-authored by brother and sister, Stephen and Bridget Anderson. The book centres around interviews with the authors' grandmother Gertrude (referred to as Grandy), the daughter of Sir William Carr, an English colonial high court judge and Ma Khin, a Burmese woman who rolled cheroots (cigars) for a living.
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Last Monday (20 January) the André Simon Food & Drinks Awards took place at the Goring Hotel in London. For over 40 years, they have been celebrating the very best in contemporary food and drink writing, and we're pleased to say that tpr media has been with the awards for six years.
Read MoreTeam tpr had a great time on Tuesday night (12 November), at the BFI Southbank where the fifth annual Research in Film Awards organised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) took place. These are the only awards entirely dedicated to showcasing the breadth of research in arts and humanities through film and five winners were selected from hundreds of submissions and a strong short-list.
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Under the Knife, NHS feature-length documentary, premiered on Thursday 19 September in London. The provocative film is being screened for free in over 50 venues across the UK. Anyone who wants to save the NHS must see this film. To book free tickets visit: undertheknifefilm.co.uk/screenings.
Read MoreI'm delighted to tell you about two new projects we're working on this spring: the Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington, London (28-30 June), and the UK cinema release (from 14 June) of Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, a film about the visionary Dutch landscape designer.
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The Hubb Community Kitchen, a group of West London women whose community was affected by the Grenfell Tower fire, won a prestigious award for their book Together: Our Community Cookbook on 40th anniversary of awards in a celebration of home cooking.
Read MoreIt was great to be contacted last week by Catherine Allen, a BAFTA-winning immersive media specialist and founder of Limina Immersive. She approached tpr media to promote an exciting VR-only arts festival, Limina VR Weekender, which is taking place at Picturehouse Central this weekend (1&2 December 2018).
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We were privileged to have been involved in the release of Dartmouth Films' new documentary The Ballymurphy Precedent in UK and Irish cinemas and Channel 4 this Sunday (9 September), directed by Callum Macrae.
Read MoreWe're thrilled to be promoting two BBC Storyville documentaries this summer Accidental Anarchist (Hopscotch Films) and Out Of Thin Air (Mosaic Films).
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In the run-up to London Fashion Week (17-21 February 2017), this two-part observational documentary series from Finestripe Productions takes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Dior's billion-dollar brand on its 70th birthday, providing a talking point for discussions about fashion and female identity.
Read MoreLast Tuesday evening the tpr team were involved in the screening of Fiona Murphy's new documentary-film, Remember Baghdad. This fascinating film tells the story of Iraq through the eyes of the last Jews of Baghdad, who lived there for 2,600 years until only a generation ago. With vivid home movies and footage from Iraq today, eight characters tell their remarkable story. We held the event at the impressive Jewish community centre, JW3, where almost 300 people attended.
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In the lead up to Al Jazeera English's 10th anniversary, we've been involved in the exciting launch of their new web-based app #HACKED: Syria's Electronic Armies. It's a ground-breaking project where investigative journalism is presented in a game format.
Read MoreLast week, the team tpr had great fun at Hyper Japan, the festival celebrating all things Japanese at Olympia, where we enjoyed learning lots about Japanese culture. We were working with NHK, Japan's English-language broadcaster.
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We've just returned from Sheffield Doc/Fest where we saw some inspiring films. tpr media is fiercely dedicated to documentary as art form and in the spirit of documentary filmmaking, we aim to create campaigns that open conversations and debate, working with talented and trusted journalists across print, broadcast and online to stimulate discussion.
Read MoreIn the usual heady rush of TV scheduling, we were contacted at the last minute a few weeks ago – just two weeks before transmission – to promote the thoughtful and provocative documentary Last Whites of the East End (Lambent Productions, BBC One, Tuesday 24 May).
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Last Thursday night we had a great evening at the Goring Hotel celebrating the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards, which showcase the best of contemporary food and drink writing.
Read MoreAt tpr, it's really important for us to work on projects that make a difference and we feel very lucky when we have the opportunity to share powerful messages that help to influence real political change.
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This week we're celebrating our client Newstag's success at the 2015 Asian Digital Media Awards in Hong Kong. The video news platform clinched an award for 'Best News Website', and we couldn't be prouder.
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