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Objective Productions will start filming the fourth and final series of Channel 4’s Fresh Meat this week at The Sharp Project, which has been its home since the first series.

The twice Oscar nominated animation studio will initially have 40 staff based in their Manchester studio by January 2015. The Manchester studio will build on Brown Bag Films’ track record by implementing a long form 2D animation pipeline using Toon Boom Harmony and Storyboard Pro software throughout and expanding their current output of animation production to the North West of the UK. Having decided to move to the city, Brown Bag Films very much appreciated the welcome and support given by both MIDAS and The Sharp Project. This is Brown Bag Films third studio, with the others located in Dublin and Los Angeles.

SharpFutures Manchester CIC, is delighted to announce that Tom Rothwell, aged 22 from West Gorton in Manchester - one of the social enterprise’s apprentices - has been Highly Commended at a national television industry awards ceremony at BAFTA’s headquarters in London, which took place on the evening of Thursday 7th November.

Sue Woodward, OBE, FRSA, the Founder of The Sharp Project and The Space Project, Manchester’s iconic and pioneering homes to digital entrepreneurs, creatives and production companies, is to be awarded the prestigious RSA Bicentenary Medal.

Award winning Manchester PR agency Bird Consultancy has relocated from its City Centre office in Manchester to The Sharp Project after they were invited to consider moving to the east Manchester creative, digital and production hub.

The Sharp Project, Manchester’s digital content production complex, has won the Government’s Enterprising Britain Award in the ‘Improving the Business Environment’ category and is one of only two UK entries chosen to go forward to the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) for 2014 held in Naples in September.