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Welcome To WAG ScreenWe are a community group who specialise in making films about history and heritage – especially the heritage of Lincolnshire, where we are based. We raise funding to make our own films, which include The Luttrell Psalter Film and The Lady of Shalott, as well as working in partnership with museums. We have film and costume departments and are backed up by historians and researchers.
NewsFor more news and articles please visit the WAG Screen Blog, and for more information on the costumes used in our productions, visit the Period Wardrobe Blog. 21-01-10 Excellent news! WAG Screen has just been awarded a grant from Lincolnshire Community Foundation to cover the cost of purchasing a new computer, screen and editing software. This means that we can now offer our volunteers training and experience in editing as well as camera work.
27-10-09 A Victorian ChristmasThe WAG Screen production of The Lady Of Shalott Film would make the perfect stocking filler for Christmas 2009! For more information, come browse our shop.
01-10-09 The Mini-ProjectsWe have been commissioned by local museums to produce two short films. The first is for Church Farm Museum in Skegness, Lincolnshire, and offers a glimpse of life on the farm as it might have been in the 1900s.
 Above: Screengrab from the St Katherine's Visitor Centre film. The films will be available to view at their respective museums soon.
22-08-09 The National Portrait Gallery and The Lady Of ShalottNick Loven, director of The Lady of Shalott Film, recently gave a talk in the Ondaatje Wing Theatre of the National Portrait Gallery in London on the making of the film.
06-08-09 Tennyson's Bicentenary2009 is the bicentenary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's birth. Alfred Tennyson was born this day 200 years ago in Sommersby, Lincolnshire - 6th August, 1809. 24-06-09 The Lady Of Shalott DVD is available to buy now in our new secure on-line shop.
'And around the prow she wrote, The Lady of Shalott'.
13-06-09 The Lady Of Shalott Patron Is Knighted We at WAG Screen would like to pass on our congratulations to our patron, the former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, on his knighthood. We are all delighted, Sir Andrew, that your important contributions to the world of poetry have been given proper recognition.
01-06-09 The Lady of Shalott Film is now showing at The Collection - Lincoln's museum. Lincoln's Central Library is also hosting a ten day exhibtion on the making of The Lady of Shalott Film which includes the loom, the costumes, photographs and a children's corner where kiddies can dress as the Lady of Shalott or Sir Lancelot. 17-05-09 The Lady of Shalott Film premiere was a great success - thank you everyone! Click Here to read the Lincolnshire Echo's article on the premier!
15-05-09 The Lady of Shalott Film premieres today at the Odeon, Lincoln, at 10am!
09-05-2009 The Lady of Shalott Film premiere is now fully booked.
16-04-2009 The Lady of Shalott Film Premiere date released! The Lady of Shalott Film Premiere will be held at Lincoln's Odeon Cinema on Brayford Wharf on the morning of Friday 15th May at 10am. The event is free, but ticketed - we have a few tickets put aside for fans of the poem let us if you want us to reserve one for you. Coffee will be held afterwards at the New Life Conference Centre, Lincoln.
23-03-2009 Tennyson Reading WAG Screen has just successfully completed a two-day film shoot at Ashby Hall. We filmed Ben Poole as Tennyson narrating his poem The Lady of Shalott to a Victorian audience at Christmas 1856. It was our biggest event yet, having a cast and crew of over fifty people including drama students from Bishop Grosseteste University College and students of period hair and make-up from Retford College. Many thanks to Linda and Eran Bauer for their continued generosity in allowing us to use Ashby Hall as our location (below, the Oak Room) and to everyone who pulled together to make the weekend a success.
20-03-2009 WAG Screen Newsletter No 2 - click here for the PDF copy
16-03-2009 WAG Screen and the Time Team, Sunday 22nd March 2009 ,Channel 4. On a very cold weekend in April 2008, WAG Screen joined Time Team at a deserted medieval village in Ulnaby, County Durham. Episode 12, The Holloway, features our Luttrell Psalter plough and ploughman (archaeologist - Neil Parker) and some of the Luttrell Psalter costumes.
For more on archaeologist Neil Parker: Click here for his CV 24-01-2009 The Lady of Shalott WAG Screen’s latest project is the filmed dramatisation of The Lady of Shalott. As before, the film will be made for The Collection, Lincoln’s museum, and will complement their Tennyson bicentery exhibition. Their exhibition will include many of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings that his poems inspired. Our film will take inspiration from a number of paintings, but especially those of John William Waterhouse. 
Above: The damsels on location at Ashby Hall in Lincolnshire. 19-05-2008 WAG Screen wins an award! WAG Screen has been "awarded recognition as a Highly Commended nomination for the Marsh Archaeology Award for Community Archaeology". They passed on their "congratulations on the efforts of WAG Screen which are a real credit to community archaeology in the UK". We will be receiving a certificate signed by leading figures from the Council for British Archaeology and the Marsh Christian Trust. Well done everyone!
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