Media: TV
Category: Public interest
Client: CityVerve
Agency: Chime Tech
Production: Sweetshop
Country: United Kingdom
Director: David Petch
Creative Director: Marc Allenby
Copywriter: Jack Simpson
Producer: Phil Szomszor
Producer: Theo Youngstein
DoP: Rik Burnell
CLIENT DIRECTOR: PHIL SZOMSZOR
LEAD: GALEN DRIVER
PLANNER: LEE MENZIES-PEARSON
PR: HOLLIE BRIDGLAND
PR: ALIX VONK
MANAGING DIRECTOR: SPENCER DODD
POST / TK: THE MILL
SOUND: 750 MPH
EDITOR: KEV PALMER AT TEN THREE
Published: June 2018
Synopsis:
CityVerve, the UK’s smart city demonstrator in Manchester, has released a short film via Chime Tech, called "Manchester: City of Firsts." Directed by writer and filmmaker, David Petch, the film celebrates how many of the world’s milestone innovations have and continue to be pioneered in Manchester. Featuring over a dozen Mancunians, the film pays homage to innovations, such as the first public library, passenger railway, football league and first life through IVF. The cast includes Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter of suffragette movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst; University of Manchester engineering students Alex Agboola-Dobson and Sebastian Preston-Jensen; and seven times gold medal winning Paralympian Jody Cundy.