ON LOCATION/NOW FOR THE HARD PART

You would have thought that there was some respite somewhere along the line in the arduous business of film-making. And you would be forgiven for thinking one of those times might come after you had used a few dozen over-priced lawyers to piece together the funds for you to signal a date for "principal photography" and actually get on location.

Alas, as with so much of film-making, this is only the beginning of the hard part.

Cue rain, mud, transport strikes, script re-writes at midnight, faulty cameras, overly officious lawmakers, ad nauseum (often literally, in the form of sick actors or, just as bad, crew.

Yes, amazingly, against the odds, films do get made. So who is out there now and how are they finding it? Britishfilmmagazine talks to several films currently spooling.