Tim and Ally spent 3 days in Graz last week, as part of the Touch project. This was the third Graz trip of the project and it was great for the team to be back. It was off the plane and straight to a student radio station to film Helmut and Anna, from the West Midlands European Service in Brussels, being interviewed. Although the interview was in German, we heard Chocolate Films mentioned a couple of times!
The next day, Helmut and his team at Caritas hosted a big conference for all the partners of the project. This was an opportunity for everyone involved from Graz, Cologne, London, Birmingham and Bradford, even members of the European funding team, to all join and discuss the project so far and get a first glimpse of a rough-cut of the footage from the first Cologne trip last June. This was extremely well received by everyone and so the editors are looking forward to cracking on with the rest of the footage.
Our final day saw everyone head to city hall, a very impressive building with stunning interior, for a Mayoral reception lunch (although unfortunately we didn't see the mayor!). Here the Touch team heard the good news that a policy had been passed (whilst everyone had been in Graz) that the city council are going to build more housing for under privileged families of the city. And it seems that having the whole Touch team in the city was gaining interest as another radio station came to speak to some of the team for a pre-recorded feature. We ended our time at city hall by having the opportunity to stand on the mayors balcony and look over the square. A perfect GV and photo opportunity for Tim and I!
The next time all the partners will be together is in April, for the London conference. We look forward to seeing everyone then.
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