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Checking out the new lounge at the Enliven Lorna Home for hospital level dementia care at The Croft Rest Home complex in Timaru are Presbyterian Support South Canterbury staff, from left, Kirsty Burnett, Mark Manit and Helen McLeod.
Residents from the soon to be closed Talbot Park care facility are being readied for a move to the new $2.2 million Enliven Lorna Home wing at The Croft Rest Home complex in Timaru. Work on the project started in late 2019 and was completed recently after being interrupted in 2020 by Covid-19. It was officially opened on Friday and blessed on Monday by Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua upoko (head) Tewera King and Presbyterian Support South Canterbury (PSSC) chaplain Reverend Alan Cummins.
Students from Elstree Screen Arts Academy met with Sky Studios COO Caroline Cooper on site to sign a piece of steel, that will become part of the structure of the first studio erected on site The developers behind the Sky Studios complex in Borehamwood have partnered up with a college for a nine-month project to celebrate Elstree & Borehamwood’s rich film and TV heritage. As part of the partnership, students will create four, ten-minute documentaries centred on the new Sky Studios Elstree project, with each documentary looking at a particular theme; film & TV heritage, sustainability, diversity & inclusion, and the construction process itself.
I am very much looking forward to seeing the films that these talented young people create, and hope it inspires them into a career in film and television.”
As part of the nine-month project, local ESA students will also receive masterclasses and workshops from members of the team at Sky and Sky Studios on documentary research, marketing, PR and distribution, and planning and production.
Each class will develop their skills and help them progress their films.
When it opens in 2022, Sky Studios Elstree will house 13 sound stages, creating 2,000 jobs in the local area. It is expected to attract £3bn of production spend over the first five years of operation alone.
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