Platform Films
Platform Films has a long record of producing films, DVDs and on-line web videos for trade unions, the public sector and campaigning organisations. We have made films for RMT, NUT, UNITE, GMB, CYWU, the NHS, Amnesty International, the Communist Party of Britain, the Morning Star, the Green Party, Writers’ Republic/UNISON and educational film producer/distributor TV Choice.
Recent productions include a film for the GMB encouraging members’ political involvement, a history of the RMT to coincide with the centenary of the NUR, a promotional DVD for the Morning Star, a campaign film ‘Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets’, on-line reports on NUT pensions action and a film promoting childrens’ centres for Tower Hamlets NHS.
We have also made Party Political Broadcasts for the Green Party, the SLP, the CPB and No2EU-Yes To Democracy.
Our broadcast documentary credits also include a three part BBC2 series on disability and homelessness: ‘Who Killed Mark Faulkner?’, inserts for BBC2 Disability Programme’s Unit’s ‘From The Edge’, a five-part Labour History series: ‘The People’s Flag’ for Channel Four and C4 feature length documentaries on Northern Ireland and the first Gulf War.[1]
Founded by Chris Reeves.
Supporting Welsh communist candidates
REPORT OF WORK communist party congress November 2016;
Wales Assembly and Scottish Parliamentary Elections, 5 May 2016 47. The Party stood in each of the five regional list elections for the National Assembly of Wales. This entitled us to election broadcasts on BBC Wales radio and television, BBC Radio Cymru, HTV and the Welsh language channel S4C, in which four of the candidates participated. Special thanks must be expressed to comrade Chris Reeves and his co-workers at Platform Films who recorded and produced the broadcasts. The Party ran a vigorous if uneven campaign involving the launch of its updated programme Real Power for the People of Wales, leaflet distribution, hustings meetings organised by trade union and church bodies, and participation in some radion debates. The total vote achieved was 2,452 (0.2%).[2]