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About us
South West Screen is the development agency for film, television and digital media in the South West of England and it’s our role to make filming here as straightforward as possible. We cover Bath & Bristol, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Our region is home to idyllic rural villages, historic houses, impressive cities and a natural landscape few can rival with 60% of the nation’s entire stock of heritage coastline (i.e some great beaches).
The Locations Team
Fiona Francombe, Production Services Manager
Fiona joined South West Screen as Filming and Locations Co-ordinator in August 2007, having spent over 17 years in the television industry. She was promoted to Production Services Manager in January 2009. She started her career in theatre stage-management before moving into television, and joined the BBC as a Floor Assistant, working in the eight studios at Television Centre in London before transferring into the BBC Drama Department. In 1993 Fiona was allocated to Casualty as Location Manager in Bristol. She left the BBC to go freelance shortly afterwards and for 14 years based a very successful Location Managing career in the South West region from Bristol. Credits include numerous episodes of Casualty, I Saw You, Bertie & Elizabeth, Teachers 1, Servants, Afterlife 1 & 2, Persuasion and immediately before joining South West Screen she was responsible for setting-up the BBC series Lark Rise to Candleford which is entirely filmed in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
Kate Reeves, Production Liaison Assistant
Kate joined South West Screen as a Film graduate from the University of Kent. She has recently completed an internship with the BBC Film department. She has a locations background, with previous roles as a Location Assistant and Assistant Location Manager for television and film. Kate handles the day-to-day location and filming enquiries for South West Screen and oversees the Locations and Crew & Facilities databases.
How we can help
If you’re considering filming in the region, South West Screen is your first point of contact. We can draw on our wealth of experience to help you find locations, production bases, crew, facilities, council contacts and more. We’re also negotiating preferential hotel rates for visiting productions and conducting a review on available warehouse space for set builds. We have an online locations library and a directory of crew and services.
And our services are free.
For more information about what we do you can check out some of these:
And an archive of past activities in the South West as reported in our Quarterly Newletter
News from South West Screen’s Filming and Locations team
You can register your property as a filming location with our Online Database
You can find crew anywhere in the South West with 1,800+ entries on our Production Guide
You can track what the Locations Team has been up to with our new Blog
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South West Screen | St Bartholomews Court
Lewins Mead | Bristol | BS1 5BT
(t) 0117 952 9977 (f) 0117 952 9988
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