8 June 2010
This is the last call for bookings for BECTU's Freelancers' Fair which takes place in London on Friday 11 June. Twenty-two exhibitors, five seminars and two workshops will combine to provide a day of great conversation, learning and insight for film and tv freelancers.
BECTU issues the last call for visitors for the 2010 event.
The day's formal schedule kicks off at 10.00 with a 90 minute session on file-based acquisition presented by Televisual UK and based on the Televisual Roadshow which toured the country last year.
There are still places on this first session but visitors will need to act quickly.
View the full programme here.
BECTU members attend for free and will find their booking form at the foot of this page.
The non-members booking form is here - non-members pay just £10. Location map for Savoy Place on the Embankment.
Televisual Roadshow line-up
John Harris
Having worked for Abekas, Ampex and Avid, John moved swiftly up the manufacturing alphabet when he became a co-founder of root6 in 1998. With a background in video engineering, John witnessed at first hand some major shifts in post-production technology including the adoption of digital, the transition from linear to non-linear working and, more recently, the emergence of file-based workflow. John has a wealth of practical experience in the integration of new technologies in broadcast and post and the considerations that need addressing prior to implementation.
Steve Warr
Steve Warr is an award-winning producer and co-owner/director of Raw Cut Television, which specialises in observational documentaries for broadcasters such as Discovery. Raw Cut is best known for Road Wars on Sky and Police Interceptors on Five. After a successful career as a Fleet Street journalist, Steve moved into TV joining Central TV’s Cook Report. After six years he moved into the indie sector, creating the docu-soap X-Cars for BBC1 and the Bafta-nominated current affairs show Is This Your Life for Channel 4.
Emma Riley
Emma Riley is a freelance production manager for Mentorn Media currently working on a fully file-based high profile comedy series for Sky. Emma has worked at Mentorn for nearly 3 years and in that time production managed their first file-based series for Sky in 2008, a big budget reality show on EX and HDCam and integrated file-based methodologies into their post facility as well as current logging and library platform.
The Televisual Roadshow seminars will be chaired by James Bennett, managing director, Televisual Media UK Ltd.
Booking for the Freelancers' Fair 2010 opened in May.
Other sessions - all of which will be presented by established programme-makers and high-profile guest contributors - will tackle the challenges of funding, how to pitch and collaboration in film-making.
The Freelancers' Fair 2010 is sponsored by Broadcast Freelancer, Hard Dowdy, Production Base, Skillset and Thompsons Solicitors.
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