The green screen backgrounds of our recent drama shoot will soon be disappearing and making way for a cardboard world – the studio’s filling with planes, trains and armoured automobiles and a ballroom rises out of the rubble of an imagined city and the real junk of modern life. If anyone has a collection of old wallpapers, carpet backing, brown paint/varnish, old brushes, broken chandelier bits, red carpet scraps do get in touch.

Exciting news for the film in progress – we are just in the process of launching our channel on Babelgum – you’ll be able to catch up on our progress with relaunching the empire as a social enterprise vodka, by tuning in here!

http://www.babelgum.com/vodkaempire

We’ll be releasing new short clips every week or two from the launch.

Thanks to all the participants – musicians, poets, performers, artists and film makers who made Optimistic Immigrants at the Jewish Museum London (Sunday 28th March) such a great night. Thanks to Gina Borham for looking/being fantastic as ever and providing some amazing props and music in the form of a gramaphone playing beautiful 78inch records. Thanks too to Eriko for running our bar and of course Shiri Shalmy and all at the Jewish Museum and Polska! Year for inviting and supporting us. Photos of the event are now up on the myvodkaempire flickr site.