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 meetings. A new committee was elected and 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.