Liverpool Film Office unveils reel to mark 35 years of productions

Liverpool City Council’s Film Office has called it a wrap on its 35th anniversary celebrations, with a showstopping celebratory showreel.

Produced by the award-winning, Liverpool based, LA Productions, and lovingly curated by creative director Chris Bernard, whose debut film Letter to Brezhnev was released the same year the Film Office was established, the showreel attempts – in just over two minutes – to depict 35 years of the Liverpool City Region on film.

Over the last five years the Film Office has been responsible for driving £168 million inward investment into the local economy by supporting 1,564 productions (equivalent to 6 a week since 2020) and generating more than 5,279 full time equivalent jobs.

The Film Office also manages the LCR Production Fund which was launched by Liverpool City Region’s Mayor Steve Rotheram in 2019, and has to date invested in 10 high-end TV dramas including This City Is Ours, the Time series one and two – the first of which won a BAFTA – and Emmy Award-winning The Responder.

As the second most filmed UK city outside of London, Liverpool has earned its place as one of the most sought-after locations for productions looking to shoot their stories for screen. With its grand architecture, industrial docklands along with its idyllic beaches and countryside, the Liverpool City Region has it all, making it an appealing prospect for any filmmaker.

The showreel has been launched as part of VisitLiverpool’s The Ultimate Setting campaign, in conjunction with VisitBritain’s Starring Great Britain campaign.

The slogan at the end of the video, the World in One City was first coined as part of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture celebrations back in 2008.

For more information head to the Liverpool Film Office website.

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