GUEST FILM TALKS - #TeaAt3withMamFromage Week 5

Invite to Film talks with Freya Billington - PLEASE JOIN BY 2:58PM AND MUTE YOURSELVES

Also previous chats are on YouTube channel now.:

MONDAY 20TH APRIL 3:00pm

PRODUCTION DESIGNER MAX GOTTLIEB

Max Gottlieb is a production designer and art director, known for films like Blitz The Full Monty and Shopping and Television including Marcella, The Tunnel and The Royals.

https://zoom.us/j/7952613779?pwd=VndyblVQNGxKSkN6dURrMDJDS3RmUT09

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779

Password: TEAAT3

TUESDAY 21ST APRIL 3:00pm

SARA PUTT – HEAD OF THE UK’S TOP CREW AGENCY

Sara Putt Associates is the leading independent UK agency for film and television heads of departments within feature films, TV drama & entertainment. In 2011 they launched our own trainee scheme providing opportunities to those at the start of their careers. Because of our passion for nurturing talent it felt vital to develop our relationship with BAFTA in this area, and hence we sponsor the BAFTA Breakthrough Talent Craft Award. Sara Putt Associates also support BAFTA Crew, the Film Market and Generation Next, and continue to offer CV clinics and online Q&A sessions.

https://zoom.us/j/7952613779?pwd=VndyblVQNGxKSkN6dURrMDJDS3RmUT09

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779

Password: TEAAT3

WEDNESDAY 22nd APRIL 3:00pm

Broadcaster / Documentary Maker MIM SHAIKH

‘FINDING DAD’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cn857

Mim Shaikh is a radio broadcaster, actor and spoken word artist. He has loved to entertain since he was a child, but there's always been something, or someone, missing.

When Mim was just six months old his mother left his father in the West Midlands, taking Mim with her to south London. Mim never saw or heard from his father again. In this film Mim embarks on a deeply personal journey, delving into his family history to discover the truth of what happened to his parents' marriage. His main quest is to find his dad and ask him why his mother had to leave all those years ago - and why he's never been in touch.

https://zoom.us/j/7952613779?pwd=VndyblVQNGxKSkN6dURrMDJDS3RmUT09

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779

Password: TEAAT3

THURSDAY 23rd APRIL 3:00pm

MASTERCLASS with PHILIPPA LOWTHORPE on MISBEHAVIOUR

Misbehaviour is a 2020 British comedy-drama film set in 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World.

Misbehaviour is available for digital download now any of the following Sky, Amazon Prime Video, Itunes, Google play, Chilli, Rakuten, BT tv.

https://zoom.us/j/7952613779?pwd=VndyblVQNGxKSkN6dURrMDJDS3RmUT09

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779

Password: TEAAT3

GUEST FILM TALKS - MORE - #TeaAt3WithMadamFromage

THIS WEEK TeaAt3WithMadamFromage

ALL FILM STUDENTS WELCOME - PLEASE JOIN BY 2:58PM AND MUTE YOURSELVES

Mon 6th April

RUSSELL T DAVIES

JOIN HERE: https://zoom.us/j/391844850

Often described as a genius, Russell T. Davies is one of the leading British television writers of his generation, who specializes in emotional dramas, frequently with gay and sex-related adult themes.

His first series for Red was the ground-breaking adult gay drama Queer as Folk (1999) screened on Channel 4 in early 1999. In 2001 he followed this up with Bob & Rose (2001) and in early 2003 he wrote the religious telefantasy drama The Second Coming (2003) which cemented his position as one of the UK's foremost writers of TV drama.

Most famously, he is the chief writer and executive producer of the BBC's big budget revival of Doctor Who (2005), as well as the spin-offs Torchwood (2006), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007) and subsequently created more gay drama with Cucumber (2015), sex-themed documentary series Tofu (2015), prescient series Years and Years and recently wrote Award winning A Very English Scandal (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203961/

Tues 7th April

ROB SAVAGE

JOIN HERE: https://zoom.us/j/648360729

Rob Savage is a multi-award winning writer/director and 2013 Screen International Star of Tomorrow, working in shorts, features and commercials. He wrote, directed, shot, co-produced and edited micro- budget feature film Strings at age 18, which has screened at a number of prestigious International Festivals, including Raindance for its UK premiere and the Rome Film Festival for its European and won a British Independent Film Award. Rob is a Berlinale Talent Campus alumnus and has won a number of awards for his short films, including the BFI Future Film Award for sci-fi short "Sit in Silence" in 2011. Most recently he directed several episodes of Britannia.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3699074/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Wed 8th April

ALEX MACKIE

JOIN HERE: https://zoom.us/j/755363471

Alex Mackie, ACE, is a BAFTA, EMMY, and EDDIE nominated film editor. She is currently based in London, but also works in the US. Alex received a BAFTA nomination for Aisling Walsh's award-winning TV drama 'An Inspector Calls', starring David Thewlis, and was nominated for EMMY and ACE awards for the Golden Globe winner 'RKO 281', starring Liev Schrieber. Alex was also nominated for EMMY and ACE awards for editing the pilot for the multi-award winning series 'C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation'.

The many feature films cut by Alex include 'The Young Americans' ‘Judge Dredd' 'Out of Blue' 'St Trinian's' 'The Heart of Me' and her ecent TV drama work includes 'Elizabeth is Missing' which won huge critical acclaim.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533491/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Thurs 9th April

VANESSA TAYLOR

JOIN HERE: https://zoom.us/j/213716803

Two years ago, post house Molinare appointed Vanessa Taylor as a senior colourist. Taylor’s CV spans films and dramas such as Red Joan, Swimming with Men, The White Princess, Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Great Gatsby.

She began her career in online editing and VFX before moving into DI and colour grading. Molinare head of grading Gareth Spensley said, “Vanessa’s talent, knowledge and experience across features and high end drama makes her the perfect addition to our already outstanding team of colourists.”

https://www.vanessataylor.co.uk

(Invited by Freya Billington, 'Important to clarify due to concerns about GDPR (zoom) I set this up as a personal response to the current situation and not as part of the UWE_FILM Course.')

GUEST FILM TALKS - #TeaAt3withMamFromage

Invite from Freya Billington at UWE to #TeaAt3withMamFromage a daily 30 min chat over a cuppa with #FilmFolks for currently dispossessed #FilmStudents Just click on zoom to join in.

REALLY GOOD 30 MINUTE TALKS WITH GUEST FILM MAKERS - Do take full advantage and tune in.

Mon 30th March - Friday 3rd April 

MEETINGS ALWAYS AT 3:00PM WHATEVER ZOOM SAYS

NOTE YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CAMERAS ON BUT MUST MUTE YOURSELF (!!)  

Monday 

CASTING DIRECTOR- VICTOR JENKINS

 Runs his own agency and has cast Fleabag, World on Fire, Broadchurch, Episodes, The Spanish Princess, Grantchester to name just a few 

https://zoom.us/j/866854710

Tuesday 

 HEAD of BFI DOC SOCIETY/ PRODUCER - LISA MARIE RUSSO 

Lisa Marie’s production credits include Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City, Gillian Wearing’s Self Made and Andrew Kotting’s Swandown. In 2009, she launched a production company Fly Film with Kate Ogborn. Since 2015, her company has executive produced 72 short films by young people for Screen South Ignition Random Acts Network, supported by Arts Council England and Channel 4. 

https://zoom.us/j/756363478

Wednesday 

DIRECTOR JOE LYNCH (joining us from LA) 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1362570 

Joe is a lifelong genre film fan (especially of horror) whose work includes films like Knights of Badassdom, TV show Holliston, with director Adam Green, action/thriller Everly, Mayhem and last year's Netflix produced Point Blank.

https://zoom.us/j/426397840 

Thursday 

BAFTA-AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR PHILIPPA LOWTHORPE 

Philippa has directed a huge range of work including just released MISBEHAVIOUR, THREE GIRLS, SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS, THE CROWN 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1339400/

https://zoom.us/j/851416266

Friday 

SOUND MIXER DEAN HUMPHREYS 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401981/

The Ghost Writer, Resident Evil, The Pianist, Donnie Brasco, Event Horizon along with many others 

https://zoom.us/j/104780125

Dirigo 2020 - 6th International Student Film Festival

More than 120 films were submitted to this year’s UCW Dirigo International Student Film Festival – making the sixth edition of the competition the biggest so far.

UCW Film and Media Arts Production students sought submissions for the festival and then organised and hosted a showcase of the best films at the Arnolfini Arts Centre on Monday 27th January.

Student filmmakers from around the world submitted their short films and then competed to win prizes in categories including Best in South West, Best UK Film, Best International Film and Best Animation.

Entries were received from Spain and France and also as far afield as the Maldives, Iran, the United States and Australia.

The 20 films chosen to showed at the Arnolfini tackled difficult subjects including the climate crisis, sexual harassment, globalisation and the taking away of disability benefits.

However 18-year-old Emmanuel Li won the Best Young Filmmaker award for his film Have You Seen Buster? about a boy trying to find a missing dog to impress the girl next door.

Other winners included Petroc Menuhin’s Offcut in the Best Animation category, and My World Is No Longer The World I Knew by Canadian filmmaker Weiye Su won the Best International Film prize.

Festivalgoers decided on the night to give the Audience Award to The Quiet – an animation about an astronaut directed by Radheya Jegatheva from Australia.

Cerys Swift, who studies at UCW and helped organise Dirigo, said: “It was rewarding to see the room full of people who share the same passions as we do.

“Being able to bring these films to the big screen and showcase all of these talented, inspiring and innovative up-and-coming filmmakers is something really special.”

Please click HERE to find out more about the degree in Film and Media Arts Production at UCW delivered in partnership with Bath Spa University.

Dirigo International Student Film Festival 2020 winners

Best Young Filmmaker: Have You Seen Buster? by Emmanuel Li

Best Animation: Offcut by Petroc Menuhin

Best in South West: Heartthrob by Chloe Law

Best UK Film: Grounding by Oisín-Tomás Ó Raghallaigh

Best International Film: My World Is No Longer The World I Knew by Weiye Su

Audience Award: The Quiet by Radheya Jegatheva

Inside Out - Photography Symposium - RPS

‘Inside Out’ Photography reclaiming identity in a complex society

Who are we? What do we believe? And what are our values?

With questionable histories to refer to and our online presence increasingly reflecting a negotiation between manufacturer and marketer rather than a meaningful identity, where does true expression of the self exist?

In a world which encourages us to rapidly adopt and shed identities, through consumption and self- publicity, to what extent can we be expected to know ourselves? If we treat these new technologies within the context of photographic tradition and practice, we may better understand how they function. Contemporary photographers often work in the space between traditional visual arts and current vernacular practices, questioning each in attempting to define meanings for themselves.

Presented here, these research led photographies explore notions of personal and social identity as a critique of the ‘now’ and an attempt to reach out and make meaningful connections with our past and future through performative and poetic personal anthropologies.

Speakers

Dr Dawn Woolley is a visual artist using photography, video, installation, performance, and sound. She completed an MA in Photography (2008) and PhD by project in Fine Art (2017) at the Royal College of Art. Her practice encompasses photography, video, installation and performance. 

Woolley uses photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation in relation to consumer culture and stereotypical gender representations. Her research examines the relation between people and objects, to explore how and why different objects and bodies are valued in popular and consumer culture. Her central argument is that commodity culture turns everything into adverts, from seventeenth century still-life paintings to selfies. She considers social networking sites to be the commercial space where commodity culture invades our social interactions. 

Her photographic work blurs the boundary between self-portraiture and still-life, producing inanimate bodies and seemingly animate objects. The practical outcomes of her research include photographic and installation works, but also public interventions in physical commercial advertising spaces in cities and in virtual ones on online social networking sites. 

Heather Agyepong is a visual artist, performer/actor and maker who lives and works in London. Her art practice is concerned with mental health and wellbeing, activism, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive. She uses both lens-based practices and performance with an aim to culminate a cathartic experience for both herself and the viewer.  Agyepong adopts the technique of re-imagination to engage with communities of interest and the self as a central focus within the image.

She has worked within photographic & performance arts since 2009 with a range of works that have been published, performed and exhibited around the UK and internationally.

She has been nominated for Prix Pictet & Paul Huf Award in both 2016 & 2018. Her work exists in a number of collections including Autograph ABP, Hyman Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art and Mead Art Museum.

She has been commissioned by a number of organisations including the Mayor of London, Photoworks, Artichoke & Tate Exchange.

In her television/film and theatre work, she is drawn to challenging and compelling writing with an intrigue for unique voices. She has previously been an associate artist of black led theatre company Talawa and continues to perform both nationally & internationally.

She was nominated for the South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough Award 2018.

Michal Iwanowski
On April 27, Michal Iwanowski set off from his adopted home in Cardiff to walk back to his family home in the village of Mokrzeszów in Poland, having been haunted for several years by graffiti he spotted on a wall in his Roath neighbourhood that read “Go Home, Polish”. His dogged 1,200 mile journey, mapped out in regular Instagram photographs that merged various approaches – diaristic, documentary, staged, conceptual – was by turns funny, revealing and marked by moments of drama amid the drudgery. When I asked him if the journey changed his way of thinking about home, he replied, “It confirmed something. I feel utterly at home walking in the landscape, wherever that landscape is. I don’t need to be told by a government, ‘This is your home.’ The ground beneath my feet sanctifies my belonging in this world – not the passport given to me by a country.” Amen to that. (Best of 2018: Sean Hagan, The Guardian)

Tom Roche (Alumnus) is a photographer based in Bristol is work is rooted in Documentary, with a subjective way of thinking. He borrows from the esoteric and fiction, blurring the line between genres. He is interested in creating a narrative and raising questions on truth and authorship within the medium of photography, and storytelling in general. His most recent work Black Blood, is a body of work about his Romany Gypsy heritage; which relies on speculation and folklore, to uncover how his past has tropes that affect his current way of thinking. Formalities and records were not available to him when making the work, so the process was one of meditation and following trails on the road, with people he met, and information he found out along the way.

Emma Iris Hill (Current Student) Emma’s work to date has been focusing on using therapeutic photography as catharsis. Using predominantly self-portraiture Emma has studied the relationship of photography with memory and emotions as a form of self-reflection and progression.

Organised by FdA Photography in Practice / BA Lens Based Media - University Centre Weston
Sam Brooks & Jamie Dormer Durling. Email: Sam.Brooks@weston.ac.uk

With Liz Williams - RPS, Bristol
liz@rps.org
01173164482