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MTV UK is currently in production of a new series of Dirty Sanchez that documents the lives of four professional skateboarders taking on incredible challenges and stunts. The show is currently in production, to be aired March next year.
Recent challenges that they have taken on have been fighting at a live professional wrestling match and playing against the Cardiff Ice Hockey Team. They have also bathed in a bath of spiders and swam with piranhas at London Aquarium to list but a few! In exchange all the companies involved have received excellent promotion on one of MTV and Channel 4 highest rating shows.
The latest challenge involves the boys playing a game of football against a prison football team. As with all our shoots the emphasis is on the Dirty Sanchez boys being thrown into the thick of things and in no way do we go out to make fun of the companies that provide their services to us? It would be fantastic footage and you would receive an end credit of the show. We are covered by our own insurance and have a Health and Safety officer that goes on all our shoots.
I very much hope you will be interested and
look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks for your time.
Damien Doyle | MTV UK Production
MTV UK & Ireland|
Hawley Crescent | London
NW1 8TT
+44 (0)207 284 6339
M: 07736 466925 F:
+44 (0)207 284 6465
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Film company want people!
GOING STRAIGHT - BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Last year we made a documentary inside Feltham YOI
and were struck by the talent and the potential many of the young men
possessed, and also by their determination never re-offend partly because
of the impact on their families and also because they simply wanted more
from life. However, one year on many of the people we met have gone back
to prison....
GOING STRAIGHT is a six part observational documentary series for
BBC TWO. The aim of our programme is multilayered; firstly, we
want to highlight the challenges facing people leaving prison who want
to go straight, and how outside of the immediate family there are often
few support mechanisms and strategies in place to keep people away from
re-offending. Coupled with the stigma of being an “ex-crim” it is little
wonder why young men in particular fall in to the cycle of re-offending.
The second aspect to our programme is to show how rehabilitation need not
just be the job of the professionals: social workers, parole officers the
probation service and such. Ordinary members of the community have
a role to play in being concerned about what happens to people when they
leave prison and through their own skills, perspective and life experience
can help to guide an ex-offender on a more positive life course; hence the
mentoring aspect of our programme. We will take 6 members of the
public who have never “mentored” before but who are willing to try and
make a difference by be-friending and guiding an ex-offender (aged 18+)
who has just left prison. Together they will design and implement a
programme to steer the man or woman along a more positive life course, and
provide practical as well as emotional support at this crucial period in
their lives.
Mentor and Mentee will first get to know each other at an initial meeting
(probably in jail) where they will establish common goals. The main focus
of our series will be the following months (late July to September), GOING
STRAIGHT will follow the process and developing relationship between
mentor and mentee as they work towards realising goals established. The
series will document the highs and the lows from both the mentor and the
mentee’s perspectives and examine the complex issues involved in
readjusting to life on the outside, as well as challenge some of the
misconceptions still widely held in society about the nature of
rehabilitation.
I hope you will be able to pass this information to individuals who use
your service (-who have left prison in the last 3 – 6 months). Although I
am keen to find people who would like to participate in our series;
initially, the people that I speak to will be under no obligation to take
part, and all calls will be in confidence.
If you have any further queries about the project please do not hesitate
to contact me. I can be reached on 020 7378 6106 or by email on century@dircon.co.uk
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Lion Television is making a major, new documentary series for Channel 4 which will follow eight ex-offenders as they set up and run their own business. We will record their progress from the earliest days of the venture, through the planning, launch and first period of trading. The ex-offenders will be men and women from a range of ages, backgrounds, convictions and skills. We are currently looking for people who are due to, or have recently been released and who would be interested in taking part in the series. We are due to begin filming on December 1st 2003, so are looking for people fairly immediately!
The ex-offenders will all undergo intensive, expert training to help them get the business off the ground. They will create a viable business plan, and will learn the practical and financial skills required to run the new business. The former prisoners will also undertake work experience at several well established outlets across London. Here they will be able to put their new skills to the test before they begin trading for themselves, and prepare for the challenges ahead.
The former prisoners will own the business, and make all the major decisions regarding its running and direction. It will up to them to market the company and seek out new business, while they build a customer base and extend their skills and services. In the early stages, however, they will be guided by a team of mentors who will help the ex-offenders get their business off to a flying start. The team will consist of both top business entrepreneurs, and professionals experienced in helping ex-offenders adjust to life outside prison. We hope that the support of these committed individuals, drawn from the spheres of both business and criminal justice, will provide a solid base from which the ex-offenders will not only be able to enter employment, but develop a lasting resettlement in the wider community.
We firmly believe that this will give the former prisoners a genuine and meaningful opportunity to take control of their lives and futures. Beyond supporting the participants in the programme, it is also our hope that the viewing public – and potential employers - will reconsider their attitudes and act upon the wealth of untapped potential that exists among ex-offenders.
As discussed, I'd be really grateful if you could put some information out to your database about the programme so that people can contact us if they're interested in taking part. The best number for people to contact me on is 020 8846 2142 (I can ring them straight back so they won't have to pay for the call, and they can also leave a message). They can also reach us by e-mail at onelastjob@liontv.co.uk.
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