Feature films The Choral, The Nest, Good Boy and TV drama Reunion have won investment from the Yorkshire Content Fund.

The investment is administered by Screen Yorkshire; the first production fund was launched in 2003, a year after the film office was established.

Since then, the Yorkshire Content Fund has generated more than £225m production spend through backing over 60 film and TV projects, with credits including Peaky Blinders, All Creatures Great and Small, Ackley Bridge, The Duke, Ali & Ava and Official Secrets.

Currently in post, The Choral is a new film written by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale. Set in 1916, Yorkshire locations used included the UNESCO World Heritage Site village of Saltaire near Bradford, which ‘plays’ the fictional village of Ramsden where the film is set.

Revenge thriller Reunion (see cast picture above) is written by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager, and is currently filming in and around Sheffield. Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan, and Rose Ayling-Ellis star in the 4 x 60’ series, that is made by Warp Films for BBC One.

Due to begin filming soon, The Nest is a feature film starring Andrea Riseborough and directed by Paul Andrew Williams, about two women who are neighbours and who strike up an unusual reliance on each other.

The fourth project, Good Boy, is from producers Jeremy Thomas, Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski The feature is directed by Jan Komasa and follows a football hooligan as he is kidnapped by a middle-class family seemingly intent on turning him into a ‘Good Boy.’

Caroline Cooper Charles, chief executive of Screen Yorkshire, said of the current activity: “Yorkshire is enjoying an incredible summer of filming activity, and we are delighted that the Yorkshire Content Fund has been instrumental in attracting four such high profile projects to the region.

“It really is an astonishing range of productions featuring an abundance of award-winning talent and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to give them all our warmest Yorkshire welcome.

“Screen Yorkshire is incredibly proud of the strong legacy it has built supporting world class film and television. With a recent industry survey pointing to high levels of unemployment we need to do everything we can to support our local workforce by attracting production to the region.

“These latest titles, along with the BBC series Virdee, which is also supported by the Content Fund and recently concluded production in Bradford, emphasise the important positive economic impact we can bring to the Yorkshire economy.”