Matthew Hubbard
Reels in Motion
www.reelsinmotion.co.uk
Stoke-on-Trent, England
Age: 24
Three partners, all recent graduates in media from Staffordshire University, started Reels in Motion in late 2004. It was a classic entrepreneurial gambit. “Given how creative we wanted to be, we felt we wouldn't be doing ourselves justice to give our talents to a larger organization,” says co-founder Matthew Hubbard. “So we just went for it.”
The trio found office space in a local business incubator supported by the Enterprise Fellowship Program, which provided administrative support and a business mentor. They started to make a name for themselves producing educational and training DVDs, especially in the area of special-needs education. Hubbard knew the subject from personal experiences.
Now business is starting to come in over the transom. Turns out there's healthy demand in the West Midlands for the talents of three ambitious filmmakers who wanted to go their own way from the start.
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