Welcome To WAG Screen
We 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.
We are a non-profit distributing organisation with a strong community ethic.
News
For 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.
21-07-10
WAG Screen wins an award!
We recently attended the Linconshire Heritage Awards and were
surprised and delighted to receive, on behalf of WAG Screen and Orchard
House Wardrobe, a ‘Commendation for Special Contribution to Museums’!
Our film 'Life at Church Farm' was also commended.
17-06-10
Gainsborough Old Hall
WAG Screen is currently making a film for Gainsborough Old Hall. To find out more you can go to BBC Lincolnshire http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lincolnshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8743000/8743365.stm
or to find out more about the cloth of silver gown worn by Queen Catherine Howard go to the Period Wardrobe blog: http://periodwardrobe.wordpress.com/
27-10-09
A Victorian Christmas
The 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.
Above: Lydia Staniaszek & Lizzy O'Reilly in The Lady Of Shalott Film's 1856 Christmas scene.
Picture: John Bennett
01-10-09
The Mini-Projects
We 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 Church Farm Museum film.
The second is for the new
St Katherine's Visitor Centre in Lincoln. The film depicts life on the Gilbertine Priory that once existed on the site.
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 Shalott
Nick 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 Bicentenary
2009 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'.
Above: Victoria Rigby as the Lady of Shalott.
Picture: John Bennett
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.
Above: Andrew Motion was appointed as Poet Laureate in May 1999.
Photograph By: Andrew Mealing
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.
The exhibition closes on 11th of June, 2009.
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.
Above: Nick Loven, director, with the cast from the reading of The Lady of Shalott.
Photograph By: John Bennett
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.
Above: The Time Time crew directed by Ben Knappett (left) with Mick Aston (centre) and the Luttrell Psalter ploughman, Neil Parker (with the plough).
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!
