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A KEIGHLEY film maker is celebrating after his latest work was named as a finalist in a global festival.

LOCAL film makers have been given the opportunity to produce cutting edge short films thanks to grants awarded by Channel 4 and Bradford Council.

DIRECTED by Danny Hardaker, this well-made 10-minute documentary is very much a taster for what could be a much longer film. Tvins tells the story of the two German-Jewish brothers who arrived in Bradford in 1938 as Fritz and Hans, returned from Canada as Fred and John and then settled into Bradford life, married and raised children. At the time of their flight to safety, Europe was in chaos and in Germany the Nazis were in power. The brothers, from a privileged background, were sent by their father to Bradford to escape the fascist threat in their home country and their story is told through...

BBC News Published image captionJohn (Hans) Toczek gave very few details of his wartime experiences to his son A film about twin Jewish boys who escaped Nazi Germany and made new lives in Bradford is to be premiered on Sunday. Called Tvins, it tells the story of Fritz and Hans Toczek who took the names Fred and John after settling in England. Their path to freedom included being interned in the Isle of Man and sent to Canada before eventually returning. John's son, Nick Toczek said his father "hardly spoke about it at all". The film, directed by Danny Hardaker and told through the eyes of th...

IN 1938 twin brothers Hans and Fritz Toczek arrived in Bradford, having left their old lives in Germany. With Nazism casting its shadow across Europe, the Jewish boys’ father decided it would be safer for them in Britain. It was a decision that saved the twins’ lives. Their father and older brother later died in the Holocaust, along with 40 other family members. But although Hans and Fritz found initial safety in the UK, when the Second World War got underway they were, along with other German citizens, arrested and interned. The boys were shipped to Canada, where they lived in a pris...