About Us
Over 25 years of Professional Support and Services to Practitioners and Audiences of the Moving Image
During the last 25 years Sheffield Independent Film Ltd has confidently established itself as a strong foundation for a community of freelance filmmakers, production companies and artists. Faces, both familiar and new, visit our organisation to benefit from a large multipurpose studio space, complemented by a comprehensive list of camera, sound and lighting equipment and accessories as well as production facilities including an HD Post-Production Edit Suite and production office space available on request.
SIF's work has been awarded with a prestigious Lottery funded grant from Arts Council England to rejuvenate the 5 Brown Street HQ. The grant is part of an exciting £3/4M project to refurbish and re-equip the long standing centre for film and video with the latest cutting edge technology. Plans are in full development for a significant regeneration and investment in the CIQ and the growth of the Creative and Digital Cluster in South Yorkshire.
Daren Eagles, Executive Director at SIF commented “I recently looked at the number of people and organisations that have benefited from being based at Sheffield Independent Film over the past 16 years. With this amount of use its no wonder the place needs refurbishing!”
The site has some prohibitive building restrictions on it due to its proximity above the Sheffield City Archives but innovative designs by Tatlow Stancer Architects have produced a solution the will see Sheffield Independent Film well into the 21st Century.
At the centre of the plan is the development of the Studio into a digitally enabled multipurpose space that can be used for screenings, conferences, training and live events as well as its traditional use as a film studio. The studio with be complemented by a range of production facilities including edit suites, sound post-production and production offices.
“This project will give us a fully digitally kite marked building; improving efficiency and workflow between the disparate creative practitioners in the building and the wider CIQ. It’s about using technology to foster collaboration and leverage maximum benefit both in terms of creativity and commercial opportunity.
We plan to invest strategically in technologies that compliment those of our user-base and ramp up the production capacity of the sector. At the same time we need to ensure the so called digital divide is addressed and that’s where partnerships with organisations such as SHIFT and a strong social inclusion ethos are essential” - Daren Eagles
