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Cat Woman

| Quentin Budworth

I’m wandering around the C4DI building on the last day of the Made in Hull event with Darth Maul and Cat Woman, it’s dark and there are thousands of people watching the projections at the Deep (Arrivals and Departures) and in the C4DI building Car Park (Hullywood Icons).

We find a quiet spot and start to play Sue Caulfield is hilarious, probably one of the earthiest people I know. She is an artist and maker from Hull and has dressed up in fine style for the shoot, her shiny black PVC outfit and horse whip make her look  more like a dominatrix than Cat Woman as she takes position. We put the horsewhip to one side and take this picture.
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The Karate Kid

| Quentin Budworth

When my nephew James Lowe rang me up and said hey uncle Quentin I want to make one of those Hullywood pictures it made me smile. He was brought up in Hull and he is always good for a laugh. He teaches in China now. It was his last day in the UK before returning to work. We had to move quick we arranged a time to meet on a bitterly cold wet day during the Made in Hull event. The light had gone already and I was worried we wouldn’t get the shot. On the jetty near the Minerva Pub.
James stripped off we dried the top of the condensation covered bin and made this image.

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I’ve shot a few family members for the Hullywood Icons series they are Amanda Lowe my  ex wife and good friend as Mary Poppins,  Amelia Budworth daughter number 1 as The Girl with a Pearl Earring , Zebedee Budworth as The Big Lebowski and Sarah Winn as Rocky.

Child’s Play – Chucky

| Quentin Budworth

When Louise Harman said she wanted to be Chucky I thought long and hard about  an iconic Hull location. Where would Chucky live in Hullywood? A tricky question but after a few pints it came to me, of course Dinsdales Famous Joke ,Trick & Fancydress Shop in the Hepworth Arcade. The natural home of mischief, tricks, magic and on this occasion killer dolls with attitude.

We tried a few shots but they just didn’t look right. So I suggested that Louise should take her shoes off and kneel on them … like a sinister Toulouse Lautrec. Angela Dinsdale-Jackson who is a member of Hull’s legendary Dinsdale family watched with great amusement at our epic fails.

I then got Louise to channel her inner Chucky, which was quite difficult as  fits of giggles had made earlier attempts to be Chucky less than convincing. We nailed this shot just as the local Police Lady strolled up to watch the fun. I said it’s not a real knife and she looked at me, smiled and said that’s alright I’m not a real policewoman.

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Quadrophenia

| Quentin Budworth

I arrive at the Raine Club in east Hull. Anna Dinsdale is waving me in. Documentary film maker Les Drake is capturing my arrival. Anna who played Audrey Hepburn in Hullywoods Roman Holiday ushers me into the club. There are  22 men and women of a certain and delightful age dressed up in their finest mod gear. The atmosphere is amazing, it’s a bright sunny morning in January but it feels like a bank holiday weekend in Brighton. Spirits are high and we know we are going to have fun.

I grab a quick cuppa and Anna starts to organise the guys and girls outside the pub, there is a lot of laughter and banter and we make these images.

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Tony Mainprize, Paul Dinsdale, Rich Brumby, Chris Murphy, Jaime Eton, Karl Knott, Ian Rimmington, Gary Cook, Paul Garmston, Anna Dinsdale, Michelle Donno Melton, Tony Clark, Reverend Andy Simpson, Thomas William Pawson,  Martin Gibbs, Jack Rimmington, Pete Jones, Brian Stubbs, Susan Sewell, Frank Melton, Jez Cooper, Pete Brown

One of the actors in Quadrophenia was from Hull his name  Garry Cooper.

Call Out for Participants for Hullywood Shoots on 19th & 21st January

| Quentin Budworth

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This weeks Hullywood photo shoot days are as follows:

Thursday 19th January 8am – 5pm
Saturday 21st January: 8am – 5pm

Shoots take about 20 minutes.

Here are the guidelines:

To book a shoot

  1. I will need the name of your film, your character, film moment and iconic Hull location
  2. You will need to get permission from the location and make any necessary arrangements if required. Book in a time with them as soon as you have a confirmed shoot with me.
  3. You will supply all costumes and props for the shoot. If you are struggling with this put a call out on facebook or try ebay or amazon.
  4. Email me or Facebook PM me when you have done this with a proposed time on one of these days and your telephone number.
  5. I will confirm time and place of shoot and see you there on the dayThat’s it. Come out to play and have fun. If I am shooting you late in the day bring cake as I often do not get time to eat on shoot days.

    Email address quentinbudworth@yahoo.com

The Stepford Wives

| Quentin Budworth

I look at myself in the mirror god I look rough, the surgery from yesterday’s op has bruised and swollen, I look like Robert Di Nero in Raging Bull or Rocky Balboa on a bad day. I’ve been doing paperwork and admin since 3am, it’s now 6am and I have an appointment to meet The Stepford Wives at Tesco’s Super Market in the St. Stephens Shopping Centre in Hull. I pack my car with the gear I need for the day, a step ladder, PA gear my laptop, bits and pieces for tonights projections at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s Church my car always untidy resembles a skip.
I arrive at St Stephens and i’m greeted by a cheery Nick Carolan, I clock the name and ask, hey Nick your not related to Turlogh are you. He smiles and says how did you know. I am a direct descendent of turlogh O’Carolan the family dropped the ‘O’ years ago. I smile Turlogh O’Carolan is my favourite composer from the Irish Tradition an 18th century blind Harper the stuff of legends and exquisite musical beauty.
I grab a coffee. I’m a little early and at 8am I go down stairs to meet Jo and her friends who are recreating a still from the  movie they look amazing strangely out of place in their 1970’s dresses and summer hats, it’s the middle of January in Hull, the year is 2017. A few early shoppers stare, Nick takes me on a recce of the aisles we choose a suitable one, full of shiny plastic bottles, the Wives have filled their shopping ful of consumer branded items. We go to the aisle a strange procession; step ladder, 70’s glamour, shopping trolleys and smiling shop manager . I climb my stepladder and we make this picture.

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The Stepford wives are: Jo Cole; Kay Gamble, Carol Johnson, Sarah Jenkins, Rachel Iveson, Melissa Brolls and Jo Franklin. They are thoroughly modern Hull women from Hull who love irony and have a great sense of humour.

Stepford Wives I salute your creativity, humour and Irony. Nick Carolan Tesco’s Manager at St.Stephens I thank you for letting us cause chaos on the soft drinks aisle early on saturday morning in Hullywood.

 

Hats off to Nancy and Kevin Young

| Quentin Budworth

Kevin and Nancy Young are amazing Hull characters and really nice people. They talk about their  Hullywood experience  in this lovely piece from the Holderness Gazette a paper published east of Hull in the incredible area known as Holderness. Where at certain times you can see huge North Sea Ferries traversing wheatfields.

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Surgery, Buzz Feed and the I Newspaper

| Quentin Budworth

I came out from surgery this morning feeling a little shaky to receive a call from BuzzFeedNews and the I Newspaper and have spent the afternoon sorting out content for these substantial pieces  both publications are big fans of the Hullywood  and the Hullywood Icons.

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Here is the link to the Buzz feed feature BuzzFeedNews

If you see me over the next week or two I haven’t been in a fight I have had what they think is a BCC (Basal Cell Carcinoma removed from near my eye – the surgeons has done a great job but I look rough.

I will be resting tonight and shooting in Hull and projecting in Beverley at the St.Mary’s tomorrow saturday the 14th. The Icons film for the Minster and St Mary’s has been edited to take into account the sensitivities of the potential audience so please don’t be disappointed if you are not include it’s not you just your props – guns knives etc.

Kelly’s Heroes

| Quentin Budworth

I’m parked up outside the gates of  Fort Paull catching up with myself, the article Hullywood Twitter genius Emma Palmer set up yesterday with inews has been published. It’s lovely and all about the Hullywood Icons.

I’m fielding texts and FB messages from 10 potential Hullywood Icons and trying to help out on an emergency shoot at 4pm in Hull for soon to be Hullywood Icon and Soul Diva Ruth Toynton.

I get out of the car and check the gates, they are locked, I turnaround and a joinery van pulls up Kristian Stephenson gets out and makes a call. ‘They’re coming to open up’ he says. I ask him why Kelly’s Heroes and he says it’s ‘one of his favourite films’, it’s also one of mine.

Gareth one of the maintenance guys from Fort Paull appears and we ask about the American World War two tank. ‘It’s gone, someones nicked it’. This raises a number of questions for me but I’m here to shoot Kristian as Telly Savalas, so I put them aside.

‘Why Telly Savalas?’ I ask,  ‘it’s my hair or lack of it’, he replies. I take my woolly hat off and look him straight in the eye saying  ‘hair is overrated’ we both laugh and find a place to do the shoot.

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