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LDI Announces Electrical and Rigging Boot Camp
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on September 8th, 2010
http://livedesignonline.com/news/LDI_electrical_and_rigging_boot_camp_161008/index.html
Register by September 17 and save on important electrical and rigging training
Attention all electricians and riggers: LDI2010 has an entire roster of classes designed for you. Whether you need basic training, skill sharpening as you work toward the knowledge you need for ETCP certification, or are compiling ETCP renewal credits, this Electrical and Rigging Boot Camp is for you.
As Meredith Moseley-Bennett, certification manager, Entertainment Technician Certification Program-ETCP points out: “Continued training and professional development activities are essential in the changing entertainment technology environment. Therefore, to maintain the ETCP certification, a certified entertainment technician must accumulate 40 renewal credits of continued training/professional development OR retake the certification examination and accumulate a minimum of 10 renewal credits of continued training/professional development over the five-year period following the examination.”
Courses at LDI2010 that carry ETCP renewal credits include:
IN THE LDInstitute (check for multiple day options for some of these courses):
Three-Day FTSI Navigator Automation System Training
VectorWorks Training for Technical Production: Beginner
VectorWorks Training for Technical Production: Advanced
A.C.T/MA Lighting grandMA Level Two Training
MA Lighting Specialist and Network Systems Training
A.C.T Lighting/MA Lighting: Introduction to Moving Light Programming with the grandMA
Introduction to the Jands Vista Console from A.C. Lighting and Jands
Advanced Programming with the Jands Vista Console from A.C. Lighting and Jands
Overview of the Ion Control System from ETC
Advanced Tips and Tricks for the Ion Control System by ETC
Hippo School: Advanced with Uberpan
Stage Rigging Fundamentals, Two-Day Course
Ohm’s Law and Order: Essential Electrical Training
Left Brain Rigging: An A-Z On Math And How It Applies To Rigging
TOMCAT USA: Safely Building the Beast
IN THE LDI INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
Automation and Rigging Techniques
Register today and make LDI’s Boot Camp an essential part of your professional training.
Johnny Perri To Teach Rigging Classes At LDI2010
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on September 8th, 2010
http://livedesignonline.com/ldi/johnny_perri_rigging_classes_ldi2010_100906/
Register by September 17 and save on two essential rigging courses…
As part of the first annual Electrical and Rigging Boot Camp at LDI2010, Las Vegas-based professional rigger Johnny Perri, I.A.T.S.E. Local 720 Rigging Instructor and ETCP Certified Rigger-Arena and ETCP Certified Rigger-Theatre, will teach two important rigging classes in the 2010 LDInstitute http://ldishow.com/LDI10/Public/Content.aspx?&ID=1010470. Both courses carry ETCP renewal credits:
Left Brain Rigging: An A-Z On Math And How It Applies To Rigging
Wednesday, October 20 and Thursday, October 21
14 ETCP renewal credits
A two-day class, teaching the rigging formulas pertaining to vertical force, horizontal force, and tension force from the simple dead hung formulas to the more advanced multiple variable formulas and putting them into English. In essence “Cracking the Math Code” for rigging.
Friday, October 22 : 7 ETCP renewal credits
Build your own Rigging Calculator on your laptop. This exercise, the perfect follow up to the Left Brain Rigging class, will build your understanding and familiarity with the math used in calculating bridle forces and beam loads. As well as do the calculating for you!
NOTE: Attendees must bring their own laptop with a current version of Excel, Open Office, or any other spreadsheet program with formula capabilities.
We’re not sure who created this great little rigger video, but kudos to the creator, and all the more reason to register for these essential rigging clases at LDI…
Register by September 17 for these and other all-pro LDI training options today and save!
Private film schools fulfilling dreams
Posted by: admin in India Industry News, Training & School News on September 6th, 2010
http://sify.com/finance/private-film-schools-fulfilling-dreams-news-default-kjgaOiggcbd.html
Swarup Chakraborty
The growth in the film and entertainment industry is leading established players to take steps that might be termed as ‘backward integration’ in the retail sector.
One of the largest production houses of the country, Balaji Telefilms, is set to start its media school in mid-September. Balaji is starting with three-month long vocational training programmes and will offer courses in seven specialisations — acting, production, direction, script writing, editing, sound recording and cinematography. With its on-floor and to-be-launched slate of TV and film projects, the students could be absorbed in home productions, said a senior Balaji official.
Balaji will set up the first centre of ICE (Institute of Creative Excellence) in Andheri and will then move to other cities. “The pilot course will start in a month and we want to start with a small batch of students. Fees for the three-month courses will be around Rs 2 lakh. We will start the second batch closer to March next year. The peak intake capacity will be 600 students,” said Puneet Kinra, group CEO, Balaji Telefilms. Balaji’s move follows Whistling Woods International, the film school promoted by Mukta Arts and Filmcity, which started three years back and has trained 250 students till date.
Apart from its main campus in Filmcity, Goregaon, Whistling Woods is also planning centres in Delhi, Haryana and Kolkata. At present, it has an intake capacity of around 140 students for its two-year diploma course in film-making with specialisations in direction, editing, cinematography, production, screen writing and sound recording & design. The institute also has a division – Actors studio – that offers a course in animation and graphics.
In the absence of well recognised TV and film training institutes, new institutes from production houses are getting a number of queries from wannabe actors and technicians.
Most students, who wanted to follow a career in films, would apply to the government-sponsored Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. The institute has, in the last two years, received applications more than 20 times of its capacity. “The growth in the film and entertainment sector has opened up new avenues for students and they are looking for quality education,” said Meghna Ghai Puri, president, Whistling Woods International.
Given the number of students who apply to Whistling Woods, the institute is proving to be a good business proposition for its promoters. “We will break-even in the next year of our operations,” said Puri.
Whistling Woods has spent around Rs 75 crore in building the infrastructure and procuring equipment. “Most of the expenditure has been incurred and now we hope to start making money,” said Puri. Filmmaker Subhash Ghai-promoted Mukta Arts holds 85 per cent stake in the institute, while Filmcity, which has given the land for the institute, holds 15 per cent equity stake. “There are 600 film institutes in North America alone and in India where we make the maximum number of films compared to any other country the number of institutes is abysmally low. There is a huge potential for growth as the film and television industry need trained professionals,” she added.
Whistling Woods charges around Rs 5.5 lakh for its eight-month certificate courses and upto Rs 15 lakh for its two-year courses. However, FTII charges less than Rs 1 lakh for its popular three-year diploma in direction, editing, cinematography, sound design & recording.
However, Puri said students are willing to pay a price for the quality of training they get.”There is actually a dearth of skilled people in the industry. Mukta Arts is also looking at grooming and use the talent pool. For example, our students are directing and acting in the in-house production Paschim Express,” Puri added.
According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the outlook for the media and entertainment industry, the TV industry is expected to grow at a stable CAGR of 12.9 per cent and the film industry is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 12.4 per cent till 2014.
3 universities team up to give aspiring young filmmakers a reason to stay in Michigan
Posted by: admin in Training & School News, United States Industry News on September 6th, 2010
BY JULIE HINDS
FREE PRESS POP CULTURE WRITER
What do you get when you give college kids from three universities a chance to make a movie that’s been described as “Speed” with senior citizens?
You knock down the walls that tend to separate educational institutions. You let students tackle a creative and challenging task.
And maybe, just maybe, you find another key to building an indigenous film industry in Michigan and stopping the brain drain that’s sending young people elsewhere for career opportunities.
That’s an optimistic story line, but it’s one that’s holding true for the Michigan Creative Film Alliance, a groundbreaking venture involving the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.
Although “Appleville,” the 30-minute movie that has resulted from the alliance, is still in post-production, U-M professor Jim Burnstein says it’s already accomplished what was intended.
“We aimed high and we went a little higher,” says Burnstein, the screenwriter of “Renaissance Man” and “D3: The Mighty Ducks.”
The initial idea for creating the alliance came from Emery King, chairman of the Michigan Film Office Advisory Council. King wanted to find a way to bring students from the three universities together, with the short-term goal of helping them round out their film studies.
The broader goal was nurturing aspiring filmmakers and keeping them here.
“The most important thing is we want to be able to grow and sustain our own (movie) production industry in this state. … That’s where the Creative Film Alliance goes. It goes to the very heart of that. The more students that we can keep here, with this incredible talent that they have for what they do, they’re going to be the future,” says King, the former news anchor who’s communications director of the Detroit Medical Center.
Burnstein, the Advisory Council’s vice chairman, recalls King mentioning the idea to him before the group’s January meeting in Ann Arbor. He jokes that his first thought was, “Gee, Emery, you’re not really from here, are you?” — a reference to the fierce U-M/MSU rivalry and King’s ties to the Chicago area.
After King announced the idea at the meeting and, says Burnstein, “basically said, ‘OK, now let’s make it happen,’ ” progress went smoothly.
Burnstein phoned Charles Steinfield, chair of MSU’s department of telecommunication, information studies and media and hit it off with him. King had already been talking to Sharon Vasquez, who was then dean of the college of fine, performing and communication arts at Wayne State. Within a few weeks, representatives from the three colleges were meeting informally in Ann Arbor.
As enthusiasm for an alliance grew, faculty members met every few weeks at the various campuses to develop what evolved into the inaugural project — a summer film institute. By early July, 22 students from the three universities gathered at a three-day retreat at Gull Lake, where noted producer and former chief of 20th Century Fox Bill Mechanic, an MSU alumnus who grew up in metro Detroit, gave the keynote address.
For the students, it was a chance to rub shoulders with the sort of Hollywood bigwig they normally wouldn’t get to meet.
“I had just recently seen the movie ‘Coraline,’ which he produced,” says Kris Sundberg, 21, an MSU senior from Elk Rapids. “In the movie, the father is wearing a Michigan State sweatshirt. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting. I wonder why that is?’ So I looked it up and read about how Bill Mechanic produced it … and then found out, like, a week later that he was going to be speaking at the retreat.”
Mechanic stuck around for a reading of the first act of the original full-length script by Erin Whittemore, a U-M graduate, who would rewrite it as a short film.
At the session, Mechanic shared some valuable advice on making the film.
“He said, ‘I think you should make the best script you can make and don’t worry about the logistics,’ ” says Burnstein, who was running the script session.
After attending classes with faculty members from each school — including Robert Rayher of U-M, Bob Albers of MSU and Juanita Anderson of WSU — and doing pre-production work, the students spent roughly two weeks in August filming “Appleville.” They shot for one day in Detroit and the rest of the time at U-M’s North Campus Research Complex, the former Pfizer site, in Ann Arbor.
“It was pretty intense,” says Sundberg, the assistant director. “We pushed for more. We really went for a pretty complex script here. Even a few days before, we weren’t sure if everything was going to fall together.”
“Appleville” is about a man who needs money for a child support deadline and decides to rob a bus full of senior citizens on their way to a mall. “It’s very much ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘Speed,’ which is a really interesting combination,” says Bhanu Chundu, 21, a U-M senior, who directed the film.
Although the hours were long, the crew maintained the professional atmosphere of a big-budget set. And when challenges popped up during pre-production or filming, they figured out a way around them.
For instance, most of the movie is set on a bus, but the crew had a difficult time acquiring a vehicle, so producer Kimberly Rice, 24, of Detroit, a Wayne State graduate student who’s also a youth minister, expanded the search.
“I started going door to door and talked to the different churches and asked if any of them would be able or willing to allow us to use one of their buses,” Rice says. Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corp., a faith-based nonprofit group, ended up providing the movie with a bus and two volunteer drivers.
During filming, the cinematographers had to find a way to work inside the cramped space. “There’s some pretty funny pictures of them wedged into these areas of the bus that people probably didn’t even know existed,” says Sundberg.
And then there was the interesting dynamic of novice filmmakers working with the veteran actors who played the senior citizens. “I was a little worried at first, because it was sort of weird. … They know so much more about the art form and acting than I do,” says Chundu.
But Reuben Yabuku, a Detroit actor who had a role as a grouchy senior, says Chundu has a knack for directing. “He would come over and talk to you. He wasn’t telling me how to act it. As I think great directors do, he would talk through suggestions,” he says.
Through it all, school rivalries didn’t get in the way. “The whole main concern was the MSU/U-M deal. And on set, you wouldn’t even be able to tell who was from what university,” says Kayla Porvaznick, 23, of Warren, who graduated from Wayne State in December. “We really became a family.”
The movie is expected to debut in January at the Detroit Film Theatre and be submitted next year to film festivals.
The students say the experience has given them a chance to form bonds that could last for years. “We’re all hoping to stay in touch with each other,” says Curtis Matzke, 22, of Haslett, a graduate student at MSU. “We can always help each other get jobs in the future.”
Financing for the film project came from the state, the universities and tuition. Local companies and organizations donated money and services to the project or offered reduced rates. Burnstein says there are plans to meet this month to talk about alliance projects and financing for next year.
Burnstein sees the alliance as a victory in the continuing battle to keep the best and the brightest from migrating to Los Angeles and New York.
“There’s a lot of talented kids who we lose, year after year. I always ask the same thing: What if they stayed, the Bill Mechanics of the world, the Bob Shayes, the Sam Raimis, the Larry Kasdans?” he says, reeling off names of powerful Hollywood figures with ties to the state. “We educate them. We lose them. What if they stayed? When you’re trying to build your own self-sustaining industry, you want to keep that talent home.”
Mechanic says that opportunities are right here.
“I get calls and letters from Michigan kids who want to come out and talk,” says Mechanic. “I’m right now telling them you’ve got a better shot getting into a picture in Michigan than you do a picture in Hollywood.”
Richardson allocates $225,000 for film programs
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on September 6th, 2010
http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2010/08/30/daily58.html
Gov. Bill Richardson has allocated $225,000 to film and digital media programs in Taos and Portales.
The money is from the governor’s media fund. Eastern New Mexico University in Portales will receive $125,000 to purchase cameras, editing gear, lighting and sound equipment. More than 40 students are enrolled in the school’s Digital Cinema Arts program to prepare for jobs in the film and media industry.
The town of Taos will receive $100,000 to purchase equipment for the Taos Community Auditorium, managed by the Taos Center for the Arts.
That will include a digital satellite system to allow for national live theater and concert performances, live interactive town hall meetings, video conferencing and emergency management situation monitoring.
The funds will also go toward cameras and high-definition screens for educational programs, computer work stations and improved lighting and backstage monitoring systems.
Richardson said the Taos Center for the Arts offers programming and events for the region’s multicultural population of Hispanic, Anglo and American Indian residents.
Film Production Classes and Casting Agent Coming to SF
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on September 6th, 2010
Computers come standard with built-in video-editing programs. Your TV streams YouTube. The age of video is now, and Santa Fe is giving you the tools to get on to the set.
This spring, two new classes are being planned that will introduce aspiring filmmakers to the technical aspects of film production as well as background on the film industry and its history. The classes will blur the line between the Digital Mediaand Fine Arts programs. The final goal is to create the ability to do “real film production through the college,” said Graphic Design Professor Marc Shahboz. There are already courses taught on some of the more technical aspects, but Shahboz, who is the mainspring behind this new push, wants to create a more comprehensive program.
Shahboz got a big shot of inspiration at the recent Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg. He met with industry players from films like X-Men, Wolverine andNapoleon Dynamite. While there, he talked to producers and production specialists, and is working on bringing several of them to SF to speak. Shahboz believes that listening to their experiences can create a “hey, I can do that!” moment for students. This sudden realization can give students the confidence to pursue their own filmmaking goals.
The idea of film production on campus is not new. In the past, SF has been involved in films such as the documentary film, Dance of My Heart, about the late SF artist-in-residence, Alberto Alonso. Students in the Digital Media program have already had a taste of short filmmaking working with Shahboz on several music videos for professional bands. These films have gathered thousands of hits on YouTube and showings at film festivals around the country.
Casting agent coming to campus Sept. 12
While the details of the new classes are still being hammered out, several events are already in play to support this new focus.
On Sept. 12, MGM casting agent Paul Weber (in photo) will be giving a cold reading workshop designed to help the working actor land roles. Weber is involved in TV and feature film casting and sees everyone from raw beginners to experienced stars like Dakota Fanning. He has taught the popular “The Working Actor, Get the Audition, Book the Job” at UCLA, and discusses the importance of this skill; people who don’t do cold reading well don’t get the job.
The workshop will be open to students of Professor Gregg Jones’ TPP2260 Acting for the Camera class and will have a limited number of seats open for non-SF students at a price of $100 per seat. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Fine Arts and Digital Media departments.
48 Hour film competition slated for April
In April 2011, Digital Media will sponsor a 48-hour film competition. Five-person teams will have 48 hours go from idea to finished product and deliver a 3- to 5-minute film for judging. Teams will be given a prop, a line of dialogue, and a topic; they must supply their own creative inspiration.
The filmmaking program now has its own website athttp://www.sfcollege.edu/film/ where updates and more information will be posted at they become available.
For more information, contact Marc Shahboz, 395-5347 ormarc.shahboz@sfcollege.edu.
~ This press release was written by David Hackett, Communication Specialist, College Relations
Youth urged to make careers out of film-making
Posted by: admin in Africa Industry News, Training & School News on August 22nd, 2010
http://showbiz.peacefmonline.com/news/201008/73118.php
Ho, Aug. 21, GNA - The deputy Volta Regional Minister, Colonel Cyril Necku, (Rtd) has urged the youth with the requisite talents to start careers in film acting.
He said the film industry is vibrant and offers a big market for now and the future.
Col. Necku was addressing a group of 28 young film actors from the Volta Region, who have completed three months training at the Prampram based GallyWood, under the auspices of the National Youth Employment Programme.
They were presented with some working tools.
Col Necku urged them not to joke with the new opportunity offered them but become big stars in the film industry.
“The Stars are making it big,” he pointed out.
Nana William Akufo, director of Gallywood, urged them to work as a group to produce films in Ewe to portray the rich culture and physical attractions of the region to the rest of the world.
He expressed the hope that in a few weeks the group would be out with films to captivate film lovers in the region.
Nana Akufo appealed to the Volta Regional Coordinating Council to engage the group to do documentaries about the region.
Madam Edith Okoh, Patron of the Actors Guild in the Volta Region, said movies are not only about entertainment but commentaries on life and society and a reliable source of employment so the film industry requires the support of the government.
New course offers film industry basics
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on August 20th, 2010
For three hours each Saturday morning, a diverse group of people gathers at the Robinson Film Center to learn about various aspects of the film business and terms like day out of days, call sheets, purchase orders and more.
The students are actually the inaugural class of “Introduction to Film Production,” the first session in a free two-part film industry workshop offered by the City of Shreveport and the United Way of Northwest Louisiana in partnership with the film center, Southern University at Shreveport and a host of other entities.
The course is taught by veteran movie producer Michael Flannigan, whose projects include “The Black Dahlia,” starring Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson; “Cleaner,” starring Samuel L. Jackson; and “Mad Money,” starring Katie Holmes.
A second session, “Getting Your First Job in the Film Industry,” will be held Sept. 11, 18 and 25 at the Southern University at Metro Center location and taught by Lampton Enochs, a local producer, unit production manager and founding partner in Louisiana Production Consultants and Moonbot Studios, as well as unit production manager Cyndi Brenner, assistant director Seth Hansen and Diego Martinez, president of Studio Operations, a local division of Nu Image/Millennium Films.
Glover said they hope the workshops serve as a way to provide local citizens an entry into the booming local film industry.
The first course was limited to 40 students on a first-come, first-serve basis and officials say it filled up in less than 24 hours after online registration was opened.
However, only a devoted 25 students have actually attended the first course.
The group includes a mix of everyday people of all ages and professions with one thing in common — a basic interest in film production.
“It’s giving me a lot of information that I didn’t know before. I’m trying to get into the industry and get the knowledge so I can know what’s going on,” said Courtney Shinall, an aspiring makeup artist who hopes to take her skills onto the movie set. “I just feel so blessed that I got in the class.”
For Caddo Parish teacher Celia Mangham, the class is sort of a refresher. Mangham graduated with a degree in screenwriting before she changed careers and became an educator.
She’s planning to use what she learns from the class to provide her high school students a new film production elective course that will kick off this school year.
“I’m really enjoying this and I’m getting a lot of information I can share with my students,” Mangham said.
Just as the name of the course indicates, Flannigan provides students with a plethora of basic information on the operations behind a film production, using “The Complete Film Production Handbook” as a backdrop against his own real-life experiences in the industry.
Flannigan covers everything from how to set up a production office, read schedules and production accounting forms to script revisions, pre-production meetings, rehearsals and more.
Flannigan said that by the end of the course students will be prepared to get that first job in the industry. And with the climate of the local industry, Flannigan believes the chance of each student getting a foot in the door is definitely possible. One of the main routes he suggests students take is to start as an intern.
“No matter what department you’re in, you need to know this,” he said. “I think it’s best to get an introduction first.”
Film production assistant program emerges in NYC
Posted by: admin in Training & School News on August 20th, 2010
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/education&id=7619109
NEW YORK (WABC) — New York City is a popular backdrop for movies and TV shows, with film crews always popping up around the city.
Some of those workers are part of a unique training program that helps young people break into the biz. They are training to become movie production assistants.
Training volunteer Jordan Alport states, “You can’t shoot without them. I mean, you can’t control the city enough to make a scene work without production assistants.”
The training program is collaboration between the mayor’s office of film, theater and broadcasting, and a not-for-profit called Brooklyn workforce innovation. They target young New Yorkers who are unemployed or low income, but qualified.
Trainee Ashley Wiggins responds, “I’m learning a lot. Every day you learn at least five new things.”
Since this production assistant training program began in 2006, those who have graduated from the program have done very well for themselves in the film industry.
Julianne Cho, associate NYC commissioner, comments, “Cumulatively, the group that has graduated from this program, over 4 million dollars in wages and they’ve worked on over a thousand productions in the city.”
Bryant Donohue is one of two program graduates, currently working on the upcoming film, “Premium Rush”.
Now production assistant, Bryant Donohue informs, “They prepared me very well. It was…it’s very informative and every bit of information I received, I’ve utilized in the field.”
Jennifer Santos was with the film’s second unit.
“The first day I got onto a movie set, I knew where everything was, I knew what I was doing, I was familiar with all of the equipment and who everybody was.”
Program director Katie Finch says, “Most of the time, our graduates, the first job they work on, they are often mistaken for someone who has been working in the industry for a while.”
Apparently, the graduates are very much in demand.
Film Academy Project Comes To Crewe
Posted by: admin in Europe Industry News, Training & School News on August 13th, 2010
http://www.creweguardian.co.uk/news/8330160.Young_Stars_Work_On_Feature_Film/
ACTOR Chris Ellison arrived in Crewe today to guide and instruct young film-makers as part of a feature film project by the British Youth Film Academy (BYFA).
Chris is famous for his role as DCI Frank Burnside in the popular ITV police series The Bill.
More than 150 young people enrolled in The Co-operative BYFA five-week residential summer camp to work on its latest production The Limelight.
Filmed at the M Club in Crewe, the full-length feature film is described as a dark and gritty tale that provides a reality-check for today’s TV talent-show generation.
The Co-operative Group’s £500,000, three-year support for the BYFA, is an integral part of its Inspiring Young People Campaign.
Michael Fairclough, head of community and campaigns at the Co-operative Group, said: “These summer schools represent a real opportunity for young people to develop new skills and the confidence to pursue a career in film.
“For those who want to break into the film industry, bridging the gap between education and practical experience is critically important.
“The Co-operative BYFA seeks to give all interested students, no matter what their background or ability, the opportunity to experience first-hand the thrills and challenges that a career in film could bring, as well as helping prepare them for further education or future employment.”
Becky Smith, from Crewe, studies at South Cheshire College and plays the lead role of Sally in the film.
She said of the experience: “It’s given me the opportunity to see how the professional industry works and to develop my own skills as an individual and performer.
“I have met amazing people who I believe will be tomorrow’s influences in the film industry.
“This opportunity has changed me forever and I know it will provide the foundation for my future career.”
Kevin Atkinson, senior manager for The Co-operative BYFA and executive producer of the The Limelight, said: “I have worked in the professional performance industry and the education sector for nearly two decades and have never stop being amazed at the brilliance young people have and bring to work.
“I feel incredibly privileged and proud to be involved in facilitating and supporting their development and growth.
“They grow as people as much as they do as film-makers; being allowed to witness first hand tomorrow’s brilliance today is a very special place to be.”