• New Website launched
    • 10.03.2011
    We're delighted to launch our new website that's hopefully easier to navigate, easier to find content and plays video full screen. And if anyone has any feedback - we'd love to hear from you.
  • Congratulations to BAFTA winner - Until The River Runs Red
    • 13.02.2011
    We're proud to be associated with a fantastic project "Best of British Shorts" - now in it's 3rd year, as "Until The River Runs Red" picked up the BAFTA short film award. And as the project grows, we're looking to launch dedicated mobile apps and a website later this year.
  • 'Wobbly Stan' featuring Mark Benton from BBC's 'Early Doors'
    • 08.02.2011
    Having completed a series of drug related animations on Cocaine, Heroin and Hepatitis C, we're now animating in the world of valiies or diazzies, wobblies, benzos and blues. Voiced by the fantastic and unmistakeable Mark Benton (Eddie from Early Doors), we're hoping this short might help enlighten some to these highly addictive drugs. More to follow soon.
  • We've moved Office!
    • 08.01.2011
    After over 10 years on Princess Street, we've made to move to the Northern Quarter. We are now located in Shudehill in a recently converted bespoke duplex. The new office benefits from having a cosy edit suite upstairs, a chill out room out back and all the culinary delights of the Arndale Market next door.

    Our new address is: Box, 2nd Floor, 19 Shudehill, Manchester M4 2AF

  • The Stadium Legends Project
    • 08.10.2010
    Working with Nine Lives Media and director Jim Anderson, we've just finished editing 'The Stadium Legends Project' - three short archive films for the big screens in three of the North West's sports stadiums.

    The three films are 'Vintage Claret' for Burnley Football Club, 'Pride of Preston' for Preston North end and 'Wheels of Fire' for the Manchester Velodrome.

    This project has been enabled by Vision+Media and the UK Film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund, supported by the National Lottery, and aims to bring sports archive to new audiences through the medium of big screens located in stadiums across the North West.
  • FC United iPhone App Released
    • 13.09.2010
    As part of our community involvement a project that we've been working on for the previous 5 years - FCUM.TV / FcumRadio.co.uk now has it's own iPhone app, available through iTunes.
  • Parklife Festival
    • 12.06.2010
    Box took over the big screen at Manchester's ParkLife Festival. We installed a high-bandwidth wireless internet connection at the event, enabling the crowd to send their mobile phone photos directly to the big screen and also to watch the England World Cup match.
  • The Ballad of the Two Charlies
    • 11.05.2010
    As a way of developing a style of affordable animation and to promote the work of Lifeline Publications the animation 'The Ballard of The Two Charlies' was produced, based on Lifeline's comic book. The film aims to accelerate the process of understanding the problems caused by drug use by drawing on the stories of a group of people engaged in crime and drug use, and communicating their experiences to a younger audience who are on the fringes of this lifestyle.