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