13 million people in the UK currently live below the poverty line, which is the combined population of London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester & Glasgow. Currently, under production, I Am Hunger is a film that will celebrate the vital work of individual volunteers, self-funded charities and community groups engaged in defending those most vulnerable citizens who find themselves hungry and without shelter. The film will also explore some of the route causes and possible solutions to the steep rise in poverty and homelessness, but ultimately this movie is about you and what you can do given the first step towards change is the one you decide to take.
Anthony Tombling Jr is the director of the film. Anthony is currently a self-funded independent filmmaker. Anthony first started producing music videos before moving into Documentary. Anthony originally comes from a music background. Some of Anthony’s musical work can be heard on the original Ex Machina soundtrack, which won 2016, Ivor Novello. Anthony is now concentrating on making documentary films that cover social issues affecting communities. His latest film A River follows the impact of a license to frack upon a much-loved river in Wales. Narrated by celebrated actor Michael Sheen OBE, the film has already been well received on the independent film festival circuit and was a feature at last year’s East End Film Festival. The film was also screened at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster and the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, taking the community’s story into the heart of British politics. Anthony’s work can be further explored here: unit3films.com
My Role
The artists and creative narrative for this film project are rightly with Anthony. My expertise is used to undertake research into the issues and the people who will ultimately be part of the movie. I also explore investment opportunities, establish the social media platforms, develop awareness campaigns of the film and provide overall project management of the project. Further information on the project can be found here
Here in the UK, we manage to produce more than 100 million tonnes of waste every year. In less than two hours, the waste we produce would fill the Albert Hall in London, every eight months it would fill Lake Windermere, the largest and deepest lake in England. The cost of cleaning up all that litter costs taxpayers almost a billion pounds every year.£1billion would fund 38,644 social care workers or pay the running costs of 4,400 libraries. Alternatively, it would enable the NHS to pay for 33,200 nurses or 26,900 paramedics or allow the fire brigade to fund 31,990 extra firefighters each year. The £1billion spent on cleaning our streets could pay for 704,200 elderly household electricity and gas bills for a year or pay for one billion free school dinners – more than enough for every primary school child in England for a year. The money could be invested in the green economy to help support more sustainable and healthy ways of life. Help make more than 333,000 homes more energy efficient or create more than 193,000 community food growing spaces.
algorithms. Trading algorithms are now so sophisticated they can feed on each other’s intentions and try to trick each other into making buys or sells favorable to the companies that unleashed the algorithms in the first place. Some trading algorithms, for example, can detect the electronic signature of what is called a V-WRAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price.) This important because V-WRAP’s are a trading benchmark used especially in pension plans, so they are relevant to the overwhelming majority of people. The detecting of the electronic signature is nicknamed ‘algo-sniffing’ and can earn its owner substantial sums: if the V-WAP is programmed to buy particular shares, the algo-sniffing program will buy those shares faster than the V-WAP, then sell them to it at a profit. Whatever the ethics, algo-sniffing is legal. Some trading algorithms are specifically designed to fool other trading algorithms. This process is called ‘spoofing.’ A spoofer might buy a block of shares and then issue a large number of purchase orders for the same shares at prices just fractions below the current market price. Human traders would then see far more orders to buy the shares in question than orders to sell them and likely to conclude that their price was going to rise. They might then buy the shares themselves, causing the price to rise. When it did so, the spoofer would cancel its buy orders and sell the shares it held at a profit. It’s very hard to determine just how much of this kind of thing goes on, but it certainly happens. In October 2008, for example, the London Stock Exchange imposed a £35,000 penalty on a firm (its name has not been disclosed) for spoofing.
Irregular Frequencies 