Felixstowe Films in 2007

Felixstowe Films is the site that now hosts all of the episodes of The Lost Sock - the only full-length feature film ever made in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

The original idea was to make another film, starting the initial scripting work during 2006. However, we've had to change that plan, essentially because it is so difficult to put together a package that everyone involved is happy with - and more to the point, willing to invest large amounts of personal time and energy into.

We were really lucky that so many factors came together for the first film - writers, director, producer, actors . . . it all happened.

But when the original producers, Giles Meehan and Chris Gosling, put up a request for a story idea that might make a new film, they didn't get the results they hoped for - not in terms of the intrinsic value of the ideas and themes that were offered, but in terms of their own interest in the ideas.

"I really only want to film a story that actually interests and entertains me as much as the last one did," says Gosling. "For instance, we've had a number of ideas for TV-style police precedurals, and these simply don't interest me personally. I have no doubt that the writers who proposed the ideas could do a terrific job with the story and the script, but I'm not planning to spend a year or two working on a film in which I don't have a strong personal interest."

That doesn't mean that Felixstowe Films might not help to support a project of that nature, if a director interested in it could be found to drive it forward. We have a small amount of money from TLS, surprisingly extensive production facilities, and an interest in marketing and promotion for film projects - along with a range of contacts which could be very helpful. So we can certainly say production support could be forthcoming, although we suspect that someone with sufficient drive to make a film would go ahead in some way, without any support at all!

"I think that it may be time to open the doors again for more story idea inputs," says Gosling. "There are one or two ideas that I still like from previous suggestions, but it would be good to have many more. Ideas need only to be a summary - a few dozen or few hundred words would be fine, as long as they sum up the story clearly. For a film that I'd want to do, the story needs to be more action and drama based than the last one, but retaining a sense of humour, and a distinctive local flavour."

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