6 May 2009
Events include preview screenings of Gideon Koppel’s Sleep Furiously and Maysoon Pachachi’s Open Shutters Iraq, in conversation with cinematographer Geoff Boyle, a networking evening with BFM International Film Festival, Tony Grisoni with a screening of the complete Red Riding trilogy and a focus on Film4 with Tessa Ross.
Details below. Q&A@LFS is designed for students on our MA courses, however we have an allocation of free places for industry guests and those interested in studying at the London Film School.
If there is an event you would like to attend, please apply for a place online at www.lfs.org.uk/qa (do not reply to this email).
Screenings start at 5.30pm, followed by Q&A and networking drinks.
Venue: Cinema A, The London Film School, 24 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9UB. Click here for map. (The entrance is on Langley Street.)
Wednesday 6 May – CINEMATOGRAPHY WITH TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS
Screening of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (dir. James Ivory | 134 mins | 1993) followed by Q&A with DOP Tony Pierce-Roberts (Howards End, A Room With A View, De-Lovely, The Client)
Starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
“The detailed re-creation of this small universe is in all ways remarkable”. Washington Post
Tuesday 12 May – STORY DESIGN IN THE SHORT FICTION FILM WITH RICHARD RASKIN
We are very pleased to welcome back to LFS the acclaimed teacher/author/filmmaker Richard Raskin, currently Associate professor at Aarhus University Denmark. Raskin will propose a non-formulaic model that can be used as a set of guidelines during script development for short fiction films. His talk will be illustrated by seven award winning short films.
Wednesday 13 May – CINEMATOGRAPHY WITH GEOFF BOYLE
In discussion with cinematographer Geoff Boyle, featuring extracts from Mutant Chronicles, Wallender, and upcoming film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Thursday 14 May – NETWORKING EVENING WITH BLACK FILMMAKER (BFM) INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BFM International Film Festival in association LFS present a filmmakers’ networking evening.
6pm Cinema A – shorts screening including
- the award winning LFS film SURVIVOR (15 mins | 2008), directed by Nicole Volavka (MA Filmmaking graduate 2009) and written by Gabriel Vallejo (MA Screenwriting graduate 2007) Winner Best Script and Best Actor at BFM IFF
- AREA BOYS (25 mins | 2008), an adrenalin fuelled ride through the gang-populated streets of Lagos, directed by Omelihu Nwanguma.
Followed by informal drinks reception in Studio A, during which Festival Director Nadia Denton will make an announcement about opportunities and participation in the forthcoming 11th BFM IFF (November 2009).
(please note later screening time of 6pm)
Thursday 21 May - DOCUMENTARY WITH MAYSOON PACHACHI
Preview screening of OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ (dir. Maysoon Pachachi | 102 mins | 2008), followed by Q&A with director and LFS alumnus Maysoon Pachachi.
In Dec 2006, a group of women from 5 cities in Iraq came to Damascus to take part in an extraordinary participatory photography project, called Open Shutters Iraq, directed by the British photojournalist, Eugenie Dolberg. This intimate and multi-layered film is a collective portrait of the experience, thoughts and emotions of this group of Iraqi women at this singular time in their history.
“Every once in a while a project so successfully portrays the universality of human emotion that it is both admirable and timeless. This is one such project” Daily Star
Pachachi is co-founder of the Independent Film and Television College in Baghdad and Act Together: Women Against Sanctions and War on Iraq.
Wednesday 27 May - DOCUMENTARY WITH GIDEON KOPPEL AND MARGARET MATHESON
Preview screening of SLEEP FURIOUSLY (dir. Gideon Koppel | 94 mins | 2008) followed by Q&A with director Gideon Koppel and producer Margaret Matheson (Sid and Nancy, Revenger’s Tragedy, Scum).
“Strikingly assembled and charmingly offbeat, Brit verite docu "Sleep Furiously," a feature-length debut for commercials helmer Gideon Koppel, pays elegiac tribute to the fast-disappearing way of life of farmers in western Wales” Variety
With thanks to New Wave Films. Sleep Furiously is released on 29th May.
Thursday 28 May – SCREENWRITING WITH TONY GRISONI
Screening of RED RIDING 1980 (dir. James Marsh | 93 mins | 2009) followed by Q&A with writer Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Death Defying Acts, Brothers of the Head) ,
9pm – screening of RED RIDING 1983 (dir. Anand Tucker | 100 mins | 2009)
On Tuesday 26 May at 5.30pm there will also be a screening of RED RIDING 1974 (dir. Julian Jarrold | 102 mins | 2009)
“Based on the acclaimed quartet of "Yorkshire noir" novels by David Peace, a febrile, almost hallucinatory account of police corruption and brutality set against a backdrop of the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper… genre drama at its most powerful” Independent
“A triumphantly unsettling antidote to everything bland and comfortable on television” Telegraph
Tuesday 23 June – FILM4 WITH TESSA ROSS
Focus on Channel Four’s film production arm with Head of Drama and Film Tessa Ross. Screening details to be confirmed.
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