2007, a momentous year

we helped to establish a sister Unit at St Marylebone Girls School in London in September

we screened at the Dinard Film Festival in France

we won “Best Documentary” at the New Shoots Festival at Wheatley Park School

we made the trip to Cambodia to make a 30 minute documentary.

we were published in “Vertigo” magazine and the leading French Film magazine “Cahiers du Cinema” in January

we were invited by the Swedish Film Institute to present a seminar on our work

we set up our own websites (abingdonfilmunit.com and reelspaces.com)

we established the reelspaces project to connect with young filmmakers in other countries (eg developing links with groups in Bethlehem and Marseilles)

we made our first 16mm film

we made our first fiction films

we made our first situation comedy

Geoff Dunbar and Paul Mayhew-Archer (“Vicar of Dibley” comedy writer) joined our team

we went “co-ed” for the first time as two senior pupils from St Helen’s joined the Unit