Dialogue is an independent television production company specialising in Broadcast Standard work. Most of our work is of an educational nature and is based within the West Midlands. We work with partners to raise funding for projects and typical sources include LSC’s, local authorities, public sector funds for regeneration, crime prevention and health promotion, the National Lottery, Arts Council and The Childrens’ Fund

Many of our productions have been featured on television and our films are used in schools and local authorities all over the U.K. We have produced several programmes in partnership with the BBC and we hold launch events at cinemas in the West Midlands.

Productions often include supporting written materials and we provide a full authoring, publication and distribution service, including CD-ROM. All productions are widely publicised and we have attracted features on Radio 4 Womans' Hour, in the Sunday Times, TES, local television news, the Open University and ‘Young People Now’.
Recent films have won recognition from the British Film Institute and are regularly featured at the Co-op Young Peoples’ Film Festival, in October 2003 we won Best Film award at the Birmingham Fresh film festival for films made with young people.

Dialogue is run by Jeremy Brown who previously worked in theatre for five years as a writer and director before becoming a partner in a Corporate Production company based in Birmingham. After gaining experience of over 200 corporate productions he went freelance in 1988 and established Dialogue.

Jeremy has been a visiting lecturer in Drama and Media at the University of Wolverhampton for the past twelve years. He is also director of the Dudley LEA Summer School programme for Gifted and Talented pupils and is working to develop Creative Partnerships across the Black Country with several schools.

Recent video projects have explored planning and regeneration in the Black Country and we are circulating 9,000 CD roms to pupils in Wakefield as part of the Aim Higher project over the summer holidays, this will allow them to link with Connexions and explore post 16 options through selected case studies.

Work in Worcestershire has been led by the Educational psychology service and Inclusion Steering group. The first in a series of inset films was launched to over 500 people at the Warner Village cinema in November ’03 and will be made available nationwide, it has been well received by the BBC.

We also run regular film-making projects with excluded and disaffected pupils and this aspect of our work is being developed in partnership with ALISS and Walsall Community Arts team.

Clients include Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Worcestershire, Birmingham and Telford.

For more details contact Jeremy Brown / Sian McFarlane