Welcome to Backyard Productions, who have been making amateur films since 1993.

(Click for more details) Star Wars: The Emperor's New Clones and now... you can see the whole film and numerous trailers and related clips on Youtube! (use the player below, or click to go to our YouTube page)

It's also worth checking out our very popular first Star Wars Fanfilm: The Empire Strikes Backyard (TESBY) and Doom Raiders, our last hilarious action adventure! Now available on DVD!

01/08/07 DOWNLOAD THE FULL DVD OF TENCLO! Now available via Bittorrent: tenclofilm.torrent (TESBY torrent also available: tesbyfilm.torrent)

14/07/07 RICK McCALLUM PERSONALLY ACCEPTS COPY OF TENCLO To everyone involved with TENCLO; your hard work is now in the hands of the producer of the REAL Star Wars movies. Second only to George Lucas himself, it doesn't get any better than this!!!!! Here's what happened, in our Director / Producer Darren Scales's words… I was at the Star Wars "Celebration Europe" convention this weekend; and queued to see Rick McCallum. So I was sitting down watching Rick at his guest appearance and plucked up the courage to ask him a question. "What happens to fanfilms that are sent to LucasFilm?" He said, "You know that final scene in Raiders with the warehouse where the Ark is locked away never to be seen again....!" After the audience laughed, he went on to say "But hey, if you have a copy with you..." "As a matter of fact I do!" I hastily replied. "Well bring it up" gestured Rick. So I ran down to the stage, shook his hand and gave him a copy of TENCLO. I can't remember everything we said (I was so shocked), except for his parting remark... "I will watch it!" WOW!!!! Will he watch it? I don't know. But hey, at least he has a copy of TENCLO!!!!! (Many thanks to our quick-witted friend Bart Barenbrug, who snapped these pics of Darren's special moment!) YAY and WELL DONE ALL!!!!! (and... if any episodes of the upcoming Star Wars TV series involve song-and-dance routines, or egg-whisk hands, we'll all know the truth....!) The whole event was a fantastic experience - Darren and Luke and Steve also got to meet some familiar characters!

10/09/06 TENCLO PREMIERE HUGE SUCCESS!! The wait was finally over on September 9th when Star Wars - The Emperor's New Clones received its world charity premiere. With over 350 people attending, we are proud to have raised over £850 pounds of cash donations, all of which will go to our chosen charity - UNICEF. The evening kicked off with a great warm up from the brilliant Saxutopia, playing some great familiar John Williams favourites, whilst our guests enjoyed pre-show drinks. Everyone enjoyed the show, including ITV's calendar team, who came to review the evening for local TV. It was great to finally see the film on the big screen, and Whittle Hall at RAF Cranwell provided a perfect venue for the event. The after show party was a great opportunity to reflect and enjoy discussing the film with the cast and crew, and documentary footage from the production was shown during the rest of the evening. You can now view and download the film from TheForce.Net, who are kindly hosting it for us. Feel free to read and participate in discussion of the film on the TFN forums, or send us your comments through our contact page. 02/08/06 TENCLO TRAILER 2 RELEASED The second and final trailer for The Emperor's New Clones is now available for download. You can download the 18mb MOV file HERE. There's also a sneaky peek of our TENCLO Mockumentary (What would a BYP film be without one!).... Enjoy!   15/07/06 TENCLO PREMIERE - 9th SEPTEMBER The wait is almost over! Star Wars - The Emperor's New Clones will have its world premiere on 9 September 2006 at Whittle Hall, RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The event starts at 7:00 pm and the film will be shown at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free, but audiences will be invited to give donations to the charity UNICEF. The premiere will include music from a live band, refreshments, displays and documentaries showing how TENCLO was achieved.  This promises to be a great night's entertainment; so if you'd like to book a seat, contact the box-office on 01522 565882 (weekdays, 9 am –4 pm). Alternatively, contact Morag Ellis using our "Contact us" feature here. If you have any questions or concerns, the box-office will be more than happy to help.

30/04/06 TENCLO Battle of the Heroes Video In the great tradition of the Star Wars prequels, Backyard Productions has produced its own 'Battle of the Heroes' music video, showing making of documentary clips, as well as previously unreleased footage from the film itself. TENCLO Battle of the Heroes ( Approximtely 20MB file 4.5 minutes Quicktime) YouTube Link