BAFTA Events

BAFTA Events

PERFECT SUNDAYS...IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

12:30 Arrivals
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Film

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
1947 | USA | 130 MINS | CERT U | DRAMA / FANTASY / ROMANCE

Dir: Frank Capra
Scr: Philip Van Doren Stern / Frances Goodrich / Albert Hackett / Frank Capra / Jo Swerling / Michael Wilson
Cast: James Stewart / Donna Reed

Stewart plays a suicidal man, George Bailey, who is shown the value of his life by a guardian angel, Clarence, in this festive classic. Having sacrificed his dreams all of his life, the prospect of financial ruin brings Bailey to consider ending his life before Clarence shows his the true contribution he has made to the town and people that he loves.

Pricing Information:
BAFTA Members | £23
Public | £30

PERFECT SUNDAYS...THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE

12:30 Arrivals
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Film

THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE
1995 | UK | 107 MINS | CERT PG | BIOGRAPHY / COMEDY / DRAMA / HISTORY

Dir: Nicholas Hytner
Scr: Alan Bennett
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne / Helen Mirren / Ian Holm / Rupert Graves

King George III (Hawthorne) is married to Charlotte (Mirren), dallying with Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe), and is not only father of 15 children but also of a nation and an empire. Difficulties arise as the king begins to show signs of madness. A BAFTA-nominee for Best Film, it won two awards including the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film of the Year.

Pricing Information:
BAFTA Members | £23
Public | £30

BAFTA / ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM

The BAFTA / Rocliffe New Writing forum is both a platform for new writing, and a networking event. Created in 2000, the original format selects three 7-8 minute script extracts - feature film, short film, television drama, sitcom, theatre, radio or sketches. The pieces are cast by a casting director, and rehearsed by professional actors and directors on the evening. A narrator sets the piece in context and the extracts are then performed to an industry audience of producers, development executives, directors, actors and literary agents.

Following each performance, the writer receives feedback from the industry co-chair and answers questions from the audience. The evening will round off with a Q&A with David Parfitt, and finally a relaxed networking session in the members' bar.

The benefits to a writer, new or seasoned, are: hearing their work read by professional actors; a development focused discussion generated by the readings; exposure to and advice from experienced industry members; feedback from an audience and an invaluable method to test out new concepts and material. Given the often isolating nature of the industry, this New Writing Forum creates an ideal environment for networking.

Pricing Information:
Public | £5
BAFTA members | Free*

*BAFTA members please note there are a limited number of free tickets available. These will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, then all remaining tickets will be charged at £5.

"The C Word"

This day-long London Games Fringe event at BAFTA will look at the often used term "convergence" to discover a real crossover in the production and post-production processes involved in games, film, TV.

The concepts of convergence are not new, but it's rare that practitioners from film and games are able to meet up and swap notes. A diverse range of major players from these industries including Geomerics, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, NaturalMotion and Evolution Studios (MotorStorm), Double Negative (The Dark Knight, Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince) and Framestore (Casino Royale, Mission Impossible II) will be present to discuss the state of the art in rendering and realism, software, animation and lighting.

In a series of seminars and demos, we hope to look at how far their fields have merged, and whether this has lead to more standardisation, more collaboration, new hybrid practices and innovative working methods.

Skills Week is a week-long series of events designed to raise the skills of game developers and graduates, and will conclude on Friday the 31st with "The C Word". The day will consist of discussion panels chaired by Pixel-Lab and FDMX, as well as taking questions from the floor. The day will also include a networking lunch.

As places are limited, we will be allocating them for a mix of games, film and TV professionals (including freelancers), so we ask that you email a few words about your current or recent work to events@bafta.org . Please email that information to BAFTA by Thursday 16 October, specifying that you'd like a place for The C Word, and you will be notified by Friday 17 October if you have been allocated a place.

See also: www.skillset.org
www.pixel-lab.co.uk
www.01zero-one.co.uk
www.fdmx.co.uk/

skillsweek.com/

PERFECT SUNDAYS...THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

12:30 Arrivals
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Film

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
1946 | USA | 172 MINS | CERT U | DRAMA / ROMANCE

Dir: William Wyler
Scr: MacKinlay Kantor / Robert E Sherwood
Cast: Myrna Loy / Fredric March / Dana Andrews / Teresa Wright

The story of three retuning GIs adjusting to civilian life after the Second World War, The Best Years of our Lives won the Best Film BAFTA. At the Oscars, it collected eight awards including an honorary award for Harold Russell, a real-life wartime amputee, for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his performance in the film.

Pricing Information:
BAFTA members | £23
Public | £30

British Film Boom! Presented by BAFTA and the London Film Festival

Through a new wave of micro-budget production schemes, well-organised short film funds and courting established visual artists and TV professionals to make feature films, the British film industry seems to be finding and nurturing a new generation of talent.

Film journalist Adam Dawtrey examines a range of different case studies from a wide range of British films in this year's LFF, to discover what might be behind this 'boom'. Director and Producer teams on the panel include Gerald McMorrow and Jeremy Thomas (Franklyn), Justin Kerrigan and Sally Hibbin (I Know You Know), Nick Moran and Simon Jordan (Telstar), and Eran Creevy and producers Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh (Shifty).

Pricing Information:
BAFTA Members | Free Public | £8.50*

*All public tickets are on sale at or from 020 7928 3232

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THINKING OUT OF THE BOX: TV in a Multi-Platform World

In this discussion, a panel of television industry insiders will aim to answer these questions and to offer some practical guidelines to you about how you can formulate your ideas and develop programme pitches that can be successful in the evolving TV landscape.

The panel has now been confirmed:

Guy Clapperton - Chair
Guy Clapperton is a journalist and consultant of 20 years' standing, and has been writing about new media since the mid-nineties. He has contributed on the subject to the Guardian, Financial Times, New Media Age, Revolution and a number of other publications. He also writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, Independent, Times and numerous other publications and appears on BBC Radio London and the BBC World Service. In 2008 he became a BAFTA juror for the craft awards.

Vicky Frost is deputy editor of the Guardian's highly respected media pages. She has been a journalist since 2001 and joined the Guardian in 2006.

Paul Cornell - Writer
Paul Cornell is the writer of three Doctor Who episodes, for which he won a Writer's Guild Award and two Hugo Award nominations. He writes Captain Britain and MI-13 for Marvel Comics. His novels are Something More and British Summertime, and he has an adaptation of Iain Banks' The Player of Games forthcoming on BBC Radio 4 and was responsible for the BBC online Doctor Who, Scream of the Shalka, starring Richard E. Grant.

Matt Locke - Commissioning Editor for Education and New Media at Channel 4
Matt works with the Education team to commission online services that will deliver informal learning in innovative and exciting ways to teenage audiences.

Before Channel 4, Matt was Head of Innovation for BBC New Media & Technology. He was responsible for developing and running research programmes within the BBC and with external partners, including developing academic and industry partnerships, and developing open innovation initiatives like http://backstage.bbc.co.uk and http://open.bbc.co.uk/labs/

Before joining the BBC, Matt worked as a curator and writer, specialising in the social adoption of technology and the cultural impact of digital technology, and still continues to write regularly about these themes for journals, websites and his own site at www.test.org.uk

Kate Bradshaw - Head of Online Commissioning at ITV.com
Kate joined ITV.com from IMG and the BBC in January 2008. Her role is to commission interactive experiences around ITV's top TV brands, as well as made for broadband content from a wide range of content producers. Websites around Britain's Got Talent, X Factor, Britannia High, Primeval and a partnership with NetVibes have been Kate's most recent commissions.

At IMG, Kate was Director of Production New Media, working on 360 content propositions with IMG's production companies Tiger Aspect and Darlow Smithson, as well as developing interactive IP.

In 2006, Kate delivered the BBC's first broadband channel for BBC Two, featuring over 80 catch-up titles and exclusive short form video. It was a first for the BBC mixing official content with UGC, fan sites and blogs.

Kate's commissioning and production credits include The Apprentice, Dragons' Den, The Verdict, My Science Fiction Life, BBC2's Summer of British Film, Party Animals. Picture of Britain, The Proms, Shakespeare Live From The Globe and various BBC Four seasons. Kate joined the BBC in 1999 as Executive Producer BBC Wales New Media, and then joined UKTV. She's judged for Bafta and Milia.

Pricing Information:
BAFTA Members | Free
Public | £7.50*
*Book now for an early bird discount of £5 tickets.

BAFTA and DocHouse present... DOCUMENTARIES - DEGREES OF INSPIRATION

Following the sell-out first event in this series of conversations between master documentary makers and younger directors, the next session will address the inventive techniques filmmakers use to explore social issues.

19:00 | Event starts
20:30 | Complimentary drinks reception

BAFTA award-winning documentary director Brian Hill is internationally acclaimed for his unconventional, hybrid documentaries. Working with distinguished poet Simon Armitage, many of his recent films combine song, poetry and performance in their portrayal of contemporary issues. His films include; The Not Dead, Consent, Drinking For England, Falling Apart, Feltham Sings, and Songbirds.

Brian will be in conversation with Daisy Asquith (Clowns, Cutting Edge: The House Clearers, Marrying A Stranger) and Joseph Bullman (Seven Sins of England, The Man Who Bought Mustique). Award-winning filmmakers in their own right, Joseph and Daisy will explore how Brian's work has influenced their own filmic style and approach to their subject matter, and in turn, Brian will discuss their creative process. Clips from all three filmmakers' work will be shown to inspire and illustrate the discussion.

This event may include a clip of a graphic scene of animal slaughter that some viewers may find upsetting and/or offensive.

b>Pricing Information:
Public | £5
BAFTA Members | £5

*BAFTA members please note there was a limited number of free tickets available. These were allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. All remaining tickets will be charged at £5.

DEAD SET + Interview: Academy Television Screening with writer Charlie Brooker and Exec Producer Annabel Jones

DEAD SET - Episodes 1 & 2
Dir: Yann Demange | Writer: Charlie Brooker
70 MINS| HORROR THRILLER

Dead Set follows a scenario where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living. Curiously there are a few people left in Britain who aren't worried about any of this - that's because they're the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they're blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding in the outside world. Until an eviction night where all hell breaks loose...

This new five-part thriller is E4's first ever horror series. Dead Set stars Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch, Goldplated) as the production runner working on a fictional series of Big Brother who finds herself trying to fend off the walking dead alongside the remaining housemates, her Big Brother producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman, Severance) and boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed, Britz). Dead Set also features a range of cameo guest appearances including Davina McCall and several former Big Brother housemates.

Writer Charlie Brooker is well known for his weekly columns in the Guardian and his BBC Four series Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe. Charlie co-wrote the C4 comedy series Nathan Barley with Chris Morris and was the creator of the hugely successful website 'TV Go Home'.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer and exec producer Charlie Brooker and exec producer Annabel Jones.

The Academy is grateful to E4 and Zeppotron for permission to screen Dead Set before transmission.

Pricing Information:
BAFTA Members: Free
Non members: £5