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MONDAY 4TH MAY 3:00pm
GRIERSON / RTS AWARD WINNING EDITOR – ZOE DAVIS / CALIBRATE FILMS
Since coming to London in 2004, Zoe has edited award-winning films for high profile networks, including Netflix, BBC, Channel 4, CNN, Al Jazeera English Channel and National Geographic. She recently completed a brand new 4-part Netflix Original series, Alien Worlds, which is due for release later in the year. A career highlight recently was working with the legendary Walter Murch on the multi award-winning feature documentary, COUP 53. She later went on to edit the RTS-nominated Extraordinary Rituals (BBC Studios/BBC2) and The Parkinson's Drug Trial (BBC2), which won both the Grierson and the RTS Award for Science Documentary in 2019. That same year, she was delighted to be invited to join BAFTA as a full member, a lifelong ambition.
TUESDAY 5TH MAY 3:00PM
EMMY-AWARD WINNING WILDLIFE PRODUCER / WILDSTAR FILMS - VANESSA BERLOWITZ
Vanessa co-founded Wildstar Films in 2018 after 28 years of running teams and making award winning wildlife films and documentaries. She is currently an Executive Producer on a number of new series and is working on a film with Mark for Disneynature. Vanessa spent the first 24 years of her career working at the BBC Natural History Unit and made over 15 films for 5 internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning, landmark series – Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, Life of Mammals, Land of the Tiger and the Human Animal – as well as for major long-running strands and series such as The Natural World, Wildlife on One, Animal People and Postcards from the Country.Vanessa won a Primetime EMMY as the Series Producer of Frozen Planet and then went on to become a lead Executive Producer for the BBC, developing and winning Great Bear Stakeout, Life in the Air and Planet Earth 2.
WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY 3:00PM
RTS AWARD WINNING FILM COMPOSER/ MUSICAL DIRECTOR – MIKE SMITH
Mike has a proven track record in writing music for film and tv. Most recently, he wrote, produced and performed some songs for Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep:Farmageddon (2019) and won an RTS Best Music Award for his score to the Bristol Based hit indie film, 8 Minutes Idle He arranged the score for The Kid Who Would Be King (2018) as well as award-winning Broken starring Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy. He orchestrated the score for GORILLAZ’ hit opera at O2; Monkey King – Journey to the West and was music supervisor for the show
Mike works and tours with Damon Albarn and he has recorded and toured extensively with household names such as Blur, Gorillaz and The Good The Bad and The Queen. An original member of GORRILAZ live band, he was Musical Director for the box office-busting GORRILAZ 2010 world tour.
THURSDAY 7TH MAY 3:00PM
BAFTA-NOMINATED WRITER/ DIRECTOR - AMIT GUPTA
Amit is director and writer for theatre, film and television. His recent directing work includes Sky One's top rated drama comedy, DELICIOUS, starring Dawn French, Emilia Fox, Iain Glen and Sheila Hancock. His two part adaptation of Cecilia Ahearne's bestselling novel THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, which he wrote and directed for ZDF, premiered in September 2019. Amit's first feature, RESISTANCE, starred Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha and Michael Sheen and was nominated for three BAFTAs, the WGGB Best First Feature and the CineVision Award at Munich. His second film, JADOO, a drama comedy adapted from his own Radio 4 play premiered in Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013 and latest feature, ONE CRAZY THING, was the Opening Gala at the East End Film Festival.
ZOOM LINK for ALL of this week’s Tea@3 talks:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7952613779?pwd=VndyblVQNGxKSkN6dURrMDJDS3RmUT09
Meeting ID: 795 261 3779Password: TEAAT3