In 2003, a successful bid was made for the ‘development of the moving image’ in Lewisham. The project, a three-year experiment, became known as The Lewisham Film Initiative. It has three main aims:
- to establish film screening programmes, film clubs and filmmakers’ networks in a borough with, sadly, no dedicated cinema
- to sustain and develop the Lewisham Film Initiative Production Fund
- to raise the ‘film friendly’ profile of the borough nationally and internationally by encouraging location filming in the borough.
Launch of Lewisham Film Initiative at Laban Conservatoire, with Steve Bullock the Mayor of Lewisham