Luton Movie Makers is a voluntary organisation that was formed in April 2002 by Paul Clarke, Matt Love and Hughie Byrne. It supercedes a club of a similar nature that existed in Luton some fifteen or more years earlier.

The Club aims to encourage people throughout the Luton area, to take up movie making in all its forms, to improve knowledge and skills in digital movie making, to produce movies of local and general interest and to provide shared facilities for the production and replay of movies including transmission over L&D Community Network.

It is affiliated to the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers (IAC) and contributes to their festivals and competitions.

It has run two courses, workshops for beginners and "Opportunities in Movie Making" for people considering taking up movie making professionally. Other projects have included maintaining the Luton Movie Library/Archive, putting on filmshows for the public and for Luton Community Groups and running a Volunteer Scheme to encourage disadvantaged people to try their hand at movie making in an informal way. The group has weekly meetings.

In 2003 the Group moved to the Sundon Park Community Centre where it has held weekly meetings throughout the year. A new committee was elected and Lottery funding was obtained to support the Volunteer Scheme and to purchase a video projection system.
The group was also fortunate enough to be able to use the E-Learning Centre, a high-tech centre with multi-media facilities for learning skills in computer-based music and movie making.

In 2004 we participated in filming for "The Way We Are" project for Anglia TV. This involved the production of fourteen video tapes of Luton as it is today by fourteen members of the club. The tapes are accessible to the public through the East Anglian Film Archives in Norwich.

In 2005 with the termination of evening opening at the E-Learning Centre, the Group joined the Cultural Network at the hat Factory Arts Centre and moved its weekly meetings there. Funding was obtained to run the "Movies in the Community" project, which takes advantage of our growing library of movies and our portable projection system to put on movie shows for a variety of community groups at their premises.

In 2006, we started running a regular series of film making sessions at the Hat Factory to attract new members. Chairman Scott Bailey, together with Frank McPartland have been the main drivers for this activity, which we call "Casablanca Club" because the films are of the humourous goings on at a fictional night club. This has proved popular with local students (of the University of Bedfordshire). It has also produced a good number of short films for showing at various festivals and competitions.
We won the IAC NTR Leslie Gillham Shield with Warriors of Hastings (Short Version) by Scott Bailey.
2006 marked the start of our migration into the use of High Definition - particularly for recording events for our movie archive.

In 2007, we re-started our Workshops for Beginners, running these at the Hat Factory on a Thursday Morning. Dapo Owolabi released his religious drama film "Divine Solution" and the club assisted in several public showings. The script of this has been published as a book for other groups who wish to do their own performances or make films.

In 2008, there was increasing participation by students from the nearby University of Luton and there was much interaction in each others movies.

In 2009, we put on three public shows at the Hat Factory Arts Centre for members' feature films.

In 2010, we gave our first "Lutonarium" digital movie exhibition on the theme "Discovering Places (in Luton)" using our digital movie archive as the source. We obtained a grant to film and exhibit as part of the "Cultural Olympiad" relating to the 2012 Olympic Games.
We won the IAC NTR Leslie Gillham Shield with "10:11 Train" by Tim Mason.
There was a renewed interest in Stereo 3D movies and we have experimented with production of Anaglyph Stereo 3D movies (requiring cyan-red glasses) until we obtain equipment for supporting newer forms of 3D movie.

In 2011, we continued work on the LMM Library/Archive of digital movies about Luton, which has grown to about 1000 entries, with over 100 of the new movies being shot in High Definition Video (HDV1080/25i). These have been documented on our website. Copies of movies are available for the public on DVD.

We progressed with our "Cultural Olympiad" Project. Overall the nationwide "Cultural Olympiad", a £90M arts project, aimed at creating support, interest and envolvement for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Our part of this involved filming Luton's potential Olympians. We filmed interviews with the athletes, their coaches and supporting friends and family, together with the athletes performing at qualifying events. We also filmed other Cultural Olympiad arts performances in Luton as a legacy.

Scott Bailey completed a fantasy feature film "Crystal of the Gods", made with members of the club and others. He used extensive green screen filming in the Hat Factory to overlay actors onto film locations such as Snowdonia, Ashridge and the Derbyshire Peak District. Dapo Owalabi has been working on a new film for his church.

In 2012, After completing his fantasy feature film "Crystal of the Gods", Scott Bailey has started on production of a sequel "Destiny of the Crystal" with members of the club and others. Two movie showings were given at the Gospel Pentecostal church hall: "Inspirations" and "Neighbours Together 3D".

In 2013, The LMM Library/Archive of digital movies about Luton has grown to 1350 entries, with over 150 being shot in High Definition Video (HDV1080/25i) and 160 in HD Stereo 3D (AVCHD1080/50p MVC). These have been documented on our website.

The club closed in June 2014.

Throughout this period members of the club have contributed towards the production of several full-scale feature films. These included:-
Warriors of Hastings, Version 1 (Scott Bailey, 2005, Drama, 1:30:00),
Greed (Scott Bailey, 2006, Drama, 20:00),
The Story of Luton (Frank McPartland, 2006, Doc, 1:30:00),
Warriors of Hastings, Version 3 (Scott Bailey, 2008, Drama, 1:38:00),
Divine Solution (Dapo Owolabi, 2007, Drama, 1:30:00),
In My Country (Frank McPartland and Aliakbar Campwala, 2008, Drama, 28:00),
Invaders (Scott Bailey, 2008, Fiction, 20:00),
Ali Baba and the Forty Sales (Aliakbar Campwala, 2009 Drama, 60:00),
The Story of Dunstable and Houghton Regis (Frank McPartland, 2008, Doc, 60:00),
Mad World (Scott Bailey, 2009, Comedy, 46:00),
Spirits (Scott Bailey, 2009, Thriller, 59:00),
and
Crystal of the Gods (Scott Bailey, 2011, Fantasy, 80:00),
Destiny of the Crystal (Scott Bailey, in production, Fantasy, 1:20:00)