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Hull residents recreate Hollywood film scenes to celebrate becoming city of cultureLos Angeles Herald
Hull residents recreate Hollywood film scenes to celebrate becoming city of culture
Photographer Quentin Budworth recreated iconic scenes from some of the people of Hull and East Yorkshire’s favourite films to mark the city’s status as 2017 City of Culture in the Hullywood icons project.
Today we are in the Daily Telegraph
Hull turns to Hullywood as iconic film scenes recreated on Humber
It may lack the glamour and sunshine of Los Angeles, but that has not stopped hardy Hull residents using the city’s landmarks to recreate famous movie scenes in celebration of its 2017 status as UK City of Culture.
Braving biting North Sea winds rather than paparazzi, local film buffs have temporarily turned the Yorkshire port into Hullywood.
Well known scenes recreated for the Hullywood Icons project include Tom Hanks appearance in the film Castaway recreated under the Humber Bridge by Jim Wardlaw.
Quentin Budworth, the photographer behind the project, said: “Poor old Jim, it was freezing on the day we did the shoot.”
Other pictures include a recreation of Ursula Andress’ bikini-clad emergence from the balmy waters of the Caribbean, transplanted to Hessle Foreshore on the banks of the estuary.
A huge firework display and the opening of a city-wide installation signalled the start of Hull’s tenure as UK City of Culture on New Year’s Day.
Organisers of the hundreds of events planned for Hull in 2017 have said they are ready to welcome visitors from around the world as well as include all of the Yorkshire city’s 250,000 residents saying: “The stage is set, we’re ready for showtime”.
Hull is the second city to be given UK City Culture status, following Derry-Londonderry in 2013.
The city was selected in 2013 amid some surprise, from a shortlist which included Dundee, Leicester and Swansea Bay.
Organisers of Hull 2017 and local politicians have explicitly linked the cultural plans for the year with the economic transformation of the city, symbolised by the £300 million investment by German tech firm Siemens in an offshore wind manufacturing plant at Alexandra Dock.
Stephen Brady, council leader, has said more than £1bn of investment has flowed into the city since the UK City of Culture announcement, including £100m of capital investment in the cultural and visitor infrastructure.
Day 3 of Projections Silver Street
The crowds were amazing, we had a fantastic and enthusiastic response. We couldn’t access the first floor offices to draw the curtains so we had some gaps in the projection surfaces but we’re hoping we can remedy this tomorrow. We want it to be brilliant and will relocate if we can’t draw the curtains. This is after all is Hullywood and stars must shine!
Zebedee Budworth’s musical ‘Score of Scores’ had people dancing in the street not a small thing on New Years Day and opening night… Pete Massey Director, Yorkshire & The Humber at the Arts Council mentioned the music as being fantastic.
At 4.pm on New years Day I released the Hullywood Icons film into the Twittersphere and Facebook realms with a digital release.
At 4:21 The Hull Daily Mail shared it on their website. You can read the article and see the film here . Please note the article incorrectly states that there are 40 Hullywood icons there are in fact over 120.
At 11:42 the Hullywood film release tweet was retweeted and the Hullywood Icons film was shared by Darren Henley Chief Executive of the Arts Council Arts Council leaving me feeling deeply honoured and supported. Delighted he is a Hullywood Icons fan.
The Star is the car meet Priscilla
Meet Priscilla and her owner the remarkable Chris Broadwell, a wizard with light engineering and live sound.
Priscilla is a customised 1963 series2 long wheelbase 109 Safari Station Wagon built by Landrover. If my maths are right that’s 55years old. Priscilla does not pay any Road Tax as she is exempt due to her age. In Priscilla’s career she has taken the groom to be and 20 of his best friends to assorted public houses in Hull, appeared at a millenium rave and now is one of the stars of the Hullywood Icons team.
Priscilla almost came to an untimely end when the modifications for the Hullywood sound and light projection systems set fire to her dashboard (it’s a welding thing) on Christmas eve but she now has a new wiring loom and is rocking and rolling with the good people of Hull.
The Hullywood Icons
I realise that many people who have followed the Hullywood Icons project over the internet will not be able to get to Hull, Beverley or Bridlington to see the projected images. The project is all about the images and the wit and imagination of the participants and not the manner of viewing them and for this reason I present for your amusement The Hullywood Icons online film.
Hullywood Icons Makes BBC Breakfast show on New Years Day.
Hullywood Icons Make BBC National News on New Year’s Eve
Projections at Archbishop Sentamu Academy December 30th 2016
Here are some photos from the projections at Archbishop Sentamu Academy on Preston Road in East Hull. We had about 100 visitors during the course of the evening quote of the night ‘This is our first City of Culture Event what a great start’. We used a wide angle projection lens to get the coverage on the building. To say it was cold would be an understatement.
It was really great to see Chris Sharp and his family who appeared out of the mist and stayed for ages watching the film you may recall Chris did the original Ghostbusters shoot a while back.
Hullywood Icons 