GUEST FILM TALKS - WEEK 9 - TEAAT3WITHMAMFROMAGE

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

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MONDAY 18TH MAY

CREATIVE DIRECTOR AARDMAN ANIMATIONS - SARAH COX

Aardman Animations, the studio behind Shaun The Sheep and Wallace And Gromit, has hired Sarah Cox as Executive Creative Director in 2018. She currently oversees the development of a new slate of Aardman intellectual properties aimed at kids and family audiences across all platforms including digital and broadcast. Prior to joining the company, Cox was the owner and creative director of ArthurCox, an award-winning film and animation production company, which she launched in 2002 alongside Sally Arthur. During her tenure, she directed The Itch Of The Golden Nit, which was produced as part of Bafta’s Tate Movie Project.

TUESDAY 19TH MAY

CINEMATOGRAPHER (BSC) KATE REID

Kate’s recent work includes HBO’s GAME OF THRONES. Amazon series HANNA, and BBC series PRESS, along with MARCELLA, CALL THE MIDWIFE and TRUST ME. He films have screened in competition at international festivals including SUNDANCE, BERLIN and SXSW and her documentary credits include Ava DuVerna’s Venus Vs, Years of Living Danagerously and The Closer We get. She is a member of the BSC and full voting member of BAFTA.

WEDNESDAY 20TH MAY

BAFTA-AWARD WINNING ANIMATOR DIRECTOR / ACTOR PALOMA BAEZA

Paloma won BEST ANIMATED SHORT with her NFTS Graduate short POLES APART and several other short films. She is also an actor who has appeared in films like SUNSHINE and THE ESCAPIST and TV shows like SPOOKS, THE PASSION and WAKING THE DEAD.

THURSDAY 21ST MAY

EDITOR - COLIN GOUDIE

Colin has edited a vast range of work from his collaborations with Gareth Edwards on ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY and MONSTERS , documentaries MODERN MASTERS, THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN JOURNEY and AIR ACES

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Guest Film Talks - Week 8 - #TeaAt3WithMamFromage

WEEK 8 – 3:00pm Mon to Thurs

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.

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MONDAY 11TH MAY 3:00PM

BAFTA-NOMINATED MAKE UP ARTIST KONNIE DANIEL

Konnie has been working in Film and Television Make Up Departments for over 30 years on films including Jane Campion’s BRIGHT STAR and Bill Condon’s MR HOLMES. HAMPSTEAD and extensively in television on production including MR SELFRIDGE, FEARLESS, MRS WILSON and THE ALIENIST.

TUESDAY 12TH MAY

FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – JO LEA

Jo’s extensive career as a First Assistant Director includes some of the current best loved Television series SEX EDUCATION, DOC MARTIN, POLDARK, DOCTOR WHO, LAW&ORDER UK, MERLIN and SINBAD. She also works as a Series Scheduler.

WEDNESDAY 13TH MAY

BAFTA-AWARD WINNING PRODUCING TEAM KATE BYERS & LINN WAITE

Kate and Linn set up EARLY DAY FILMS in BRISTOL to develop original story for the screen. They have just won BAFTA OUTSTANDING FEATURE for Mark Jenkin’s BAIT , the BIFA 2019 Breakthrough Producer Award and also another BAFTA for Esther May-Campbell’s short SEPTEMBER

THURSDAY 14TH MAY

BAFTA-NOMINATED SOUND MIXER CHRIS DOMAILLE

Chris joined Films in 1995 as a Dubbing Mixer after seven years with the BBC’s audio team and has recently mixed in 21.1 for the BBC Earth/Sega collaboration in Japan, ORBI EARTH THEATRE. Chris was BAFTA nominated as part of the sound team working on Blue Planet. He was part of a team that was BAFTA and EMMY nominated for the Life series in the Sound/Factual category and his mix for Life – Insects was nominated for a Panda Award in the Sound category at Wildscreen. Chris has also won a joint Missoula Award and Panda for sound design on Wildlife On One – Spiders from Mars. His experience in animation mixing has brought him projects such as Chop Socky Chooks (Aardman Animations) which received a BAFTA Children’s nomination. He has also worked on Creature Comforts, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Canimals.

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FLATPACK FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - AT YOUR PLACE!

DATES: 1-17 MAY

VENUE: YOUR PLACE

You can’t keep a good Flatpack down… we are delighted to present a special online edition that will bring our acclaimed, BAFTA-qualifying short film competition direct to your home and completely free. Thanks to an amazing response from participating filmmakers and distributors - who in normal circumstances would expect to launch their films through cinema screenings - we are able to present a significant majority of the planned competition programme here on the Flatpack site. Expect the usual eclectic stew of animation, documentary and inventive weirdness, with a number of UK premieres in the mix. This User's Guide has some pointers on making the most of the programme.

There are seven prizes up for grabs, including a new screendance award, and we will of course need your help selecting the two audience award winners. Programmes will be launching here daily from 1 May, and you can also expect special virtual outings for quarterly animation gathering Overlap and PechaKucha Birmingham. Browse below for more details, and keep an eye on our blog and social media for updates. Although there will be no charge for accessing any of the programmes, if you are able to make a donation to Flatpack then please do consider it - your support will help to make future events possible.

Flatpack is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the British Film Institute, and by Birmingham City University.

Guest Seminar with Alix Taylor - Talent Executive for BFI NETWORK in the South West. Tues 5/5/20 11.30

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Alix Taylor

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.

This seminar will be on Teams - please join meeting via calendar. 11.30 - Tues 5/5/20 Recording will be available on Stream via Teams.

Alix encouraged you to enter Encounters Film Festival - Short it Out see details below.

Encounters Film Festival - Short it Out

Alix encouraged you to enter Encounters Film Festival - Short it Out

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

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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.

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