Leeds is where the movies were born, and it could also be where your career in film also starts.
There is an opportunity to be a volunteer background artist in the latest production by Leeds based production company Oxygen Films and Leeds based writer and director Gage Oxley.
Gage and Oxygen Films, which is a community interest company, have made a name for themselves making films that deal with the issues that affect young people including mental health, sexuality and identity. A quick search of the internet shows that their past productions have been more than well received by the critics.
Gage is also involved in the Leeds International Film Festival
The film simply called Pulse will be filmed in Leeds 6 on 31st July 2017.
Pulse is one of a series of six films that Oxygen are producing in collaboration with several international charities and other organisations to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967.
Gage tells me that he is looking for all types of people, so regardless of your age, size, shape, or good or bad hair day there is an opportunity for you to be involved in what will be a four-minute single shot screendance film.
Single shot means that the aim is to shout action once and film the action once as if it was live.
Screendance is a form of dance that is designed to be best seen on a screen rather than a stage, and where the movement of the dancers rather than dialogue is the dominant form of expression.
But don’t worry no one will be asking you to pirouette as a background artist, but you will be what Gage describes as morphing into different characters behind and around the dancers.
Although background artists will not be paid for Pulse, the production is an ensemble cast so everyone who appears on film will be credited.
If you would like to be involved please visit the Oxygen Films web site.