David and Keith Lynch, two film-making brothers born in South Shields, were amongst the team who won £250,000 this week-end at 'The Big Pitch' dubbed "the X-Factor of Film" - an innovative Skillset supported competitive training programme - that attracted over 200 applications from the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming filmmakers when it was launched as part of Northern Lights Film Festival 2007.
I entered my 3 page outline into a competition for the Northern Lights Film Festival Development Award for a feature film I have been longing to write, called the Concrete Cat.