Featured Video – Billykirk

It is about two brothers who are leather craftsmen. The film focuses on their motivation as well as their relationship. It is really engaging, funny, inspiring, and from my own film maker perspective it is also a very well shot and constructed piece.

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David Savage – On Design and Fine Furniture Making

Every year 12 students enrol on a one year course to change their lives. At the David Savage Atelier not everyone succeeds. “It takes hard work, perspiration, deep practice and inspiration.”

Artisan Media visited David at his International Woodworking School in Devon, England, to find out more. This short film reveals some of the school’s secrets: It is a remarkably inspiring place!

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Filming Road Trip, continued..

Our road trip continued, meeting and filming with the incredibly talented Fine Furniture Maker and Teacher, David Savage. Next day we met up with David Charlesworth, an English Gentleman as well as an inspiring woodwork teacher. Finally, heading back north, we called in to shoot a short film with Jeremy Atkinson, England’s last surviving traditional clog maker. Quite a filming trip!

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Filming Road Trip

Dave and Lynwen are just back from a week long filming road trip in the south of England. We met up with some really inspiring craftsmen along the way; some of England’s finest woodworkers and England’s “last surviving” Clog Maker. But first call was to Tom Clark’s workshops in Somerset.

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Artisan Film on TV Tomorrow

In case you are wondering what the Artisan team get up to when they are not actually making films and books about master craftspeople – well – what we tend to do is make other films. One of these has it’s TV premiere tomorrow in the UK.

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