GUEST FILM TALKS - WEEK 7 #TEAAT3WITHMAMFROMAGE

You are invited to these great guest Film talks with Freya Billington - PLEASE JOIN BY 2:58PM AND MUTE YOURSELVES. Join via ZOOM link below. Also see previous chats are on FreyaBill YouTube channel now.

Freya has asked, ”would you mind sending me a quick email me about your engagement with Tea@3. How you find it? Is it useful? Interesting? How often have you been joining in? Favourite interview? Thank you” Email: freyabill73@gmail.com

3:00pm Mon to Thurs

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

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.

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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

Guest Seminar with Gareth Edwards - Friday 1st May 2020 4pm

GUEST FILM TALKS - WEEK 6 #TEAAT3WITHMAMFROMAGE

You are invited to these great guest Film talks with Freya Billington - PLEASE JOIN BY 2:58PM AND MUTE YOURSELVES. Also see previous chats are on FreyaBill YouTube channel now.:


TUESDAY 28TH APRIL

TALENT MANAGER AT PLIMSOLL PRODUCTIONS – ANNA DE SERVILLE

Anna joined Plimsoll in 2018 after years of Production Management experience in London and Bristol for the BBC, RDF, Endemol, Flame TV & Talkback on shows from cookery to Natural History. She now manages talent in our offices in Bristol, Cardiff & LA – nurturing and developing new and established staff.

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

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Password: TEAAT3
Plimsoll Productions Website

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WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL

ACTOR - JILL HALFPENNY

Her first major acting role was at the age of 14, where she starred in Byker Grove (1989) as Nicola. She is probably best known for her TV role as Rebecca Hopkins in Coronation Street (1960), Kate Mitchell in EastEnders (1985), and, more recently, Izzie Redpath in Waterloo Road (2006). She has also had many minor roles in other well-known TV shows, such as The Catherine Tate Show (2004), The Bill (1984), and Shameless (2004). Most recently she stared in Lewis Arnold’s Dark Money.

In 2004, she participated in the BBC1 show Strictly Come Dancing (2004) with professional dancer Darren Bennett. They won the competition, and took part in the one off Christmas Special, winning the title 'Champion Of Champions'. They also made an appearance at the Royal Variety Performance. In December, it was then announced she would play the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago from January 2005.

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

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Password: TEAAT3

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THURSDAY 30TH APRIL

PRODUCER / EXECUTIVE NICOLA SHINDLER

Nicola Shindler OBE is a British television producer and executive,[2] and founder of the independent television drama production company Red Production Company. She has won eleven BAFTA TV Awards and her long time collaborator is Russell T Davies, some of her successes include YEARS AND YEARS, HAPPY VALLEY, BANANA, THE SYNDICATE, TRACES and upcoming BOYS.

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

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Password: TEAAT3

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Big Thanks to Freya Billington for putting on these great talks!

www.freyabillingtonfilm.com

Previous chats are on FreyaBill YouTube channel now.

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MONDAY 27TH APRIL - POSTPONED
MONDAY’s TEA@3 WITH MIKE SMITH WAS POSTPONED FOR PERSONAL REASONS.

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 Gorillaz’ live band, he was Musical Director for the box office-busting Gorillaz 2010 world tour

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

Meeting ID: 795 261 3779. Password: TEAAT3

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WORLD PINHOLE DAY - Sunday 26/4/2020

This Sunday April 26th 2020 is Lockdown World Pinhole Day. On Friday 24/4/20 we held our own online pinhole workshop, with Sam and Jamie showing their experiments. (UCW students can watch recording of this workshop this via Teams).

We encourage you to take part, for more details please follow the links below.

Also visit this page to view work of artists working with pinhole photography, camera obscura …

Sam’s experiments at home April 2020

Jamie’s pinhole camera obscura experiments at UCW (2019?)

This is video from Mateusz Szymankiewicz (FdA Photography in Practice student) camera obscura

turning my room into a camera. here is how I've done it.

See more pinhole / camera obscura links at:

Guest Seminar with Claire Clements (Friday 11am 24/3/20)

On Friday 24/4/20 we will be joined by Claire Clements - Live from Singapore! (on UCW Teams - please email richard.edkins@weston.ac.uk if you don’t receive/ would like an invite)

Claire is an award winning natural history Producer and Camera Operator from New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. Please take a look at her work on her website and think of some questions. Please post any questions you have here ahead of the talk 11am Friday 24/4/20. 

'Over the last 9 years I've specialised in honing my skills as a story teller and shooter. I usually take my projects from development all the way through to delivery. 

I am a versatile camera operator skilled at long lens, macro and night filming. I've filmed on extended shoots around the world in often challenging conditions. I often specialise in telling urban wildlife stories. 

I'm a passionate conservationist and have a background in Zoology and a Masters in Natural History Film Making. 

​For my latest documentary I have spent 5 months tracking a  never before filmed primate in Asia. This will be the first time this species has ever been seen on TV. 

​I believe at the heart of every good film is good story telling and I constantly strive to find the magic, the beauty and the quirky that is so often right in front of us...and bring this to life on screen.'

https://www.claireclementsfilms.com/


Please take a look at Claire’s work, via her site, and think of some questions. Please post your questions in the chat section of this seminar, on Teams (access via calendar invite) preferably ahead of talk (i.e. before Thursday?)