Writer/Director/Editor - Scott Quin, will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Friday 12/3/21 2pm
For more about Scott’s work see guest page here: http://poool.co.uk/scott-quinn
Guest Seminar - Alix Taylor BFI Network South West - Friday 12/3/21 11.30
ALIX TAYLOR
Alix Taylor - BFI Network South West, will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Friday 12/3/21 at 11.30 (Teams).
Alix is the Talent Executive for BFI NETWORK in the South West. Prior to joining at Watershed, she was with Calling the Shots, where she was Project Manager on New Creatives (South West), the BBC Arts and Arts Council talent development scheme.
While working on New Creatives, Alix oversaw the selection, production and delivery of audio, film and interactive projects from artists aged 16-30 for BBC platforms. Managing a network of regional partnerships across the South West to deliver mentoring, training, development and support to artists locally.
Previously she programmed the digital education courses and specialised film screenings of short film, artists moving image and alternative features for the multi-arts venue, Exeter Phoenix, as well as developing new talent through their short film commissioning schemes.
BFI NETWORK – Watch past work & events
Watch BFI NETWORK Funded Shorts: https://network.bfi.org.uk/funded-by-network
Listing for upcoming BFI NETWORK Webinars: https://network.bfi.org.uk/news-and-features/industry-insights/online-resources-emerging-filmmakers
Watch past BFI NETWORK Webinars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzjCHSBT0COpFKOqei3YTG44
Watch past BFI Film Academy Labs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzgbLMRQLe-MmYT4JZrsEmzo
Short Film Funding
The Short Film Funding from BFI NETWORK supports projects with directors based in the South West. Funding of up to £15,000 is available to support the production costs of fiction films, in both live action and animation of up to 15 minutes.
Closed for applications – opens again in April 2021
Early Development Funding
The Early Development funding from BFI NETWORK supports projects with writers based in England who have an exciting and bold idea for a feature film – particularly if you’ve not yet teamed up with a producer. This scheme offers funding and support for treatments and research for feature films in early development.
Closed for applications – opens again in April 2021
For more information and to apply for funding please visit the BFI NETWORK website.
Ways to keep in touch in the South West
Book a 1:1 Talent Exec Meeting when they are announced for April (check back for slots from late March), or email us to arrange a 1:1 session directly on bfinetwork@watershed.co.uk
Check out all our upcoming BFI NETWORK South West events, training and networking opportunities
We share news of 1:1’s, BFI NETWORK South West events and opportunities, and wider industry opportunities through our twitter, facebook and our monthly newsletter
Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Arts Lab International - Collaborative arts projects
Rebekah Tolley - will be joining us again for a guest seminar on Monday 25th January 2021. This seminar will be focussed on the Collaborative arts projects Rebekah does as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/
Watch recording of Meeting on Teams here (you will need your student ws login)
ArtsLab international is a studio / laboratory, for collaborative art projects.
Founded in the UK by artists: Darryl Georgiou & Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou.
Joining the Dots…
Georgiou & Tolley work across lens based media, technologies and platforms, to visualise and realise their ideas. ‘Joining the dots’ and gathering data, in an attempt to understand the past, and set a wider context for making new work in the here and now. Exploring the language of art, image sound and radio, often researching the hauntology of ‘how places feel’ (Genius loci).
More about Rebekah’s other work
From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.
Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.
Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.
Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'
Rebekah’s previous seminar, Thursday 10th December 2020, focussed on Documentary Film
UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).
Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:
Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.
The Stones in the Park
The Beatles - Live at The Cavern
Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.
Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool
Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)
I was a soldier (1970)
We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley
Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.
Other Films Rebekah spoke about:
Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.
Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott
Other notes:
Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”
Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’
Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.
Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)
PETER CAPALDI - Actor/ Writer/ Director/ Dr Who - Christmas Special - Guest Seminar - 23/12/20
PETER CAPALDI - Actor/ Writer/ Director/ Dr Who
Wed 23rd Dec 3:00pm
Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Peter's extensive CV also includes Paddington, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Hour and upcoming Suicide Squad.
Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On.
Peter Capaldi also closes Stone Foundation’s 2020 album, ‘Is Love Enough’, with a spoken word meditation written by Vincent van Gogh on the subject of love :) !
TeaAt3 is supported by NAHEMI http://nahemi.org/
#TeaAt3WithMamFromage #XmasTreat #NoTiersHere
Merry Christmas
Guest Seminar - Rebekah Tolley Georgiou - Documentary Film
Rebekah Tolley - joined us for a Guest Seminar, 1.30pm - Thursday 10th December 2020
This seminar focussed on Documentary Film - aimed at Year 1 FdA Film but open to all year groups.
UCW Film students can access the recording of the meeting and see links from seminar here (or via meeting in Teams Calendar).
From 2006-2010 Rebekah Tolley was an Executive Producer/Director for UK super indie TV production company, Tinopolis. Responsible for concept development, creative and production input on wide variety of video and interactive projects for clients such as the United Nations, BBC and Channel 4. As an independent producer, she has worked on a variety of projects for BAFTA LA, BAFTA UK, Five TV and Oxford University.
Rebekah’s professional photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine, Radio Times, AG Photographic, The Magazine (Santa Fe’s magazine for the arts) Annual Best of World Photography edition 2005, Photography magazine, BAFTA Academy magazine and BAFTA Annual Report 2005-06.
Rebekah is a MA graduate in Design & Digital Media/Media Arts from Coventry University (one of the oldest digital arts courses in Europe) and of the EAVE European Producers programme for 2011.
Rebekah began working with the celebrated Documentary Film maker Michael Grigsby during the making of his documentary, Rehearsals, in 2005. They later went on to make 'We Went to War', which revisits the stories of David, Dennis and Lamar - veterans of Vietnam war 40 years after their return, when Michael first filmed them for the award winning film, 'I WAS A SOLDIER'
Some notes and links to Films Rebekah shown/ spoke about:
Michael Grigsby - BFI Wiki IMDB.
The Stones in the Park
The Beatles - Live at The Cavern
Enginemen (1959) - Watch Enginemen - on BFI Player. This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.
Rebekah spoke about Michael’s mentor Lindsay Anderson and ‘Free Cinema’. Read More about ‘Free Cinema’ on Poool
Tomorrow's Saturday (1962)
I was a soldier (1970)
We went to War (2012) - Michael Grigsby and Rebekah Tolley
Some notes from Michael Grigsby said in video interview- "Rightly or wrongly, I am known for making films with people with 'no voice' “.
“I learned about: 'Shutting up', 'Letting people be' , ‘No interuption’, ‘having no agenda’, ‘Silence, space in between is important’, ‘listen to their world’.
Other Films Rebekah spoke about:
Okhwan's Mission Impossible - The story of a man on a bicycle, overcoming the borders of continents and body to reunite Korea. Bicycle road movie about a man and his epic 10 year journey around the world.
Life in a day - Kevin MacDonald / Ridley Scott
Other notes:
Rebekah: “Always remain curious, be passionate, give people a voice”
Also spoke about Iranian cinema including Directors Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi , speaking about his ‘This is not a Film’
Use of sound in Films, ‘Listen to their world’, ‘Don't load your films with music’.
Rebekah will be back in 2021 :)
Rebekah will be doing another session in New Year - aimed at Lens Based Media students - which will be more focussed on their Collaborative arts projects as Georgiou Tolley - https://www.artslabinternational.com/