Choices Local - Launch July-August 2017

also backstage at the Wembley concert. I
did that and that was amazing because,
obviously, apart from being just a few feet
away from Michael Jackson and capturing
him at the Guildhall and a couple of other
events, at Wembley backstage, everyone was
there and everywhere you
turned, I was bumping into
film stars and footballers and
so forth. So that was great.
"
The more I think of the
names like meeting Jazzie B
and working with Kylie
Minogue and the then
heavyweight champion of the
world Lennox Lewis, I've just
been very privileged in my life
to have done something which
I didn’t set out to do at the
start, and it's something that I've really
enjoyed. I would say to anyone who's
considering working in this business, is that
it's a fantastic industry to be in. Sometimes
you may not always make a lot of money
but the experience and things that you get
out of it, I just think is first class and it's just
worth being part of a journey that is never
ending.
Every day I meet new and interesting people
and there's always journeys that you go on
and some stories to tell.
What have you learned about
yourself, Lloyd, on this journey?
There's so many things I've learned. You
know, I've learned maybe I should have
listened to myself a lot earlier, you know,
before I knew what I know now. But I
know, one thing I've learned is that life takes
you through difficult things and you learn a
lot when times are difficult. I've learned that
it's really about believing in yourself and
sticking to your values. So at least, at the
end of the day, when things don’t go right,
you can't say I blame this person for telling
me this or telling me that. You know, don’t
blow with the wind. You have certain values
and certain goals and
You have certain
values and certain
goals and certain
attitudes, stick to them
because, at the end
of the day, they're the
things I think that's
going to make you
successful or not
certain attitudes, stick to
them because, at the end
of the day, they're the
things I think that's going
to make you successful or
not.
I like that. What are
you working on now?
"
Well, we're in a very
interesting position at this
time. It's taken us a while
to get here but we have a number of
projects in development. We're in the early
stages of doing some initial research on a
little film. I say a little film because it's a
Tottenham film. It's a true story set in
Tottenham and we'll be employing some
actors locally. And then there's a couple of
other film scripts that we have which
hopefully will kick off on the back of this
film, which we're hoping to take into
production early next year.
We're running training programmes and
working with some schools in Haringey and
Barnet, running animation programmes and
digital photography programmes with some
young people. And we hope to see a feature
film coming out of Wood Green fairly soon.
Wood Green Films
Chocolate Factory 2, 4 Coburg Road,
London, N22 6UJ. Tel: 020 8829 8931.
www.woodgreenfilms.co.uk
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