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GroupDo – Helping your GroupDo more! / Press Release

October 18, 2012 Apps, Film Comments Off

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What Is GroupDo? GroupDo is a new iPhone app with over 250 icebreaker & team builder games with a unique search filter to help select a game that best suits your youth group. Select the type of game, how long you have, the group size, the difficulty level and also if it needs to accommodate [...]

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BNL Awarded Investors In People Status

September 10, 2012 Investors In People Comments Off

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We are delighted and honoured to have been notified that BNL have been awarded “Investors in People” status, following a series of visits by the standard’s assessors in June 2012.  To gain the award we undertook a number of initiatives over the past two years to support and encourage the team to adopt a healthier working [...]

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Kings of Concrete Capture Kings 2012

September 3, 2012 Film Comments Off

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BNL Crowned Nikon Capture Kings for 2nd year in a row Last weekend BNL returned to the Kings of Concrete Urban Arts Festival in Dublin, which this year ran in conjunction with the Dublin Tall Ships Festival to compete in the Nikon Capture Kings competition. The ideas is to compete alongside other production teams from [...]

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BNL secure grant through Destination Local project

June 29, 2012 Apps, Film Comments Off

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BNL are truly delighted to announce that we have received a significant grant to develop an iPhone app for Craigavon Borough Council partnering with Queens University. We were 1 of 10 successful companies chosen from 165 applications across the UK. We can’t wait to get started! Thank you to NESTA, #destinationlocal.   Check out our [...]

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Social networking success for No More Traffik films

June 8, 2012 Film Comments Off

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BNL sponsored the No More Traffik On Our Streets campaign by producing two films for them. The campaign was to inform and raise awareness of the problem and reality of Human Trafficking here in Northern Ireland, we even got undercover footage of this happening in Belfast. The first film was a multi camera shoot of [...]

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BNL Produce 44 films in 4 days

May 29, 2012 Film Comments Off

44 films in 4 days

In 2008 BNL secured a 3 year contract with NICVA’s Community Leadership Programme to produce a promotional film for each of their 100 groups across Ireland. This year BNL decided to do everything on site and had all the films proofed, embedded and onto YouTube before leaving the 4 central filming locations.   Producer Nick [...]

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Week long documentary shot in Belgium & edited the next week

March 28, 2012 Uncategorized Comments Off

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Commissioned by the Inishowen Development Partnership from Donegal, BNL had the opportunity to follow a group of young people from Inishowen, Derry/L’Derry and Belfast on an historical World War I educational visit to the Belgium Battle fields. The journey captured their feelings and emotions about the conflict and what they felt they learned from the [...]

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BNL get another “Foot In The Door”

February 7, 2012 Uncategorized Comments Off

BNL get another "foot in the door" with 2 more Housing Executive films

BNL get another foot in the door with 2 more Housing Executive films. The first 10 minute short film “A foot in the Door” was produced in conjunction with the NIHE & the Northern Ireland Youth forum, it aimed to give tips to first time tenants on what to do and what not to do [...]

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BNL ‘Taken To The High Court’

January 31, 2012 Uncategorized Comments Off

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BNL were given special access to film in the High Court, to make a film for the Housing Rights Service Northern Ireland. The film is to encourage attendance at repossession hearings, to inform people on the procedures and what they can expect when they go to court, ultimately to show how it’s not as threatening [...]

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Leah McFall Music Video Goes Live!

January 23, 2012 Uncategorized Comments Off

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BNL were invited to Sonic Visuals Recording Studios in Ballymena to record a music video for the soul jazz singer Leah McFall from Belfast/London. Leah, ‘who dresses like your Grandad’, sang a live recording for the video. Shot in a few hours we had a lot of fun filming it, and enjoyed doing something in [...]

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