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So, there have been several enigmatic blog posts during the year about a project that has kept me occupied since January and which only recently came to fruition.   Well now, I can tell you all.   Last week in Birmingham at the NEC, I was privileged to lead a team who staged the event "Together 2021” for McDonald's Uk and Ireland. An integral part of the event was the showing of a feature film “As Good As All Of Us” which we shot during the summer. My first foray behind the camera and a project which has brought me a great deal of joy throughout the year.   To see a film one has created in glowing colour on a screen the size of an Imax in front of an audience of nearly three thousand people is a wondrous thing. A little frightening and yet awe-inspiring. Mercifully, as director my face wasn’t raised to such great heights, but I had the pleasure of sitting with some actors in the piece who had never seen their features in such gigantic proportions.   And as well as the story of

 So exactly 4 months to the day after the cameras rolled on the feature film project I've been working on this year, I sat in a rather wonderful cinema in a West End hotel with 40 or more of the cast and crew to watch the end results.  The film has already been approved by those who need to approve it, but sharing it with the people who made it is a special night. The role of director gave me a heightened insight to the contribution of everybody on a film set and I was as delighted to see boom operators, and make up artists as I was to see the wonderful guest stars and main cast who came along to share the evening. So often  cast and crew screenings are at 10 AM on a Sunday morning when one just has time for a quick coffee and a bacon roll after getting off the tube. The luxury of a screening at 7 PM on a Friday night in the centre of town after glasses of Prosecco and canapés was a real treat. And then to press the button and set the film rolling in front of those people who were