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October 2017
Forest Fringe in London at the Amateurs Club
TicketsRedesigned and recategorized, hemmed in by tower blocks, ribboned with wifi networks, blistered with vagrancy deterrents and anti-skate studs, watched over by pigeons, cameras, community support officers and private security, our public spaces remain the first places in our cities where we go to exercise democracy, to express collective joy, to encounter strangers, to get our bearings or to simply be when we feel the need to wrap the city around ourselves. This decade has given us plenty of opportunity…
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Amateurs Club with Daniel Cockburn
Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian filmmaker and moving-image artist whose work deals in language, rhythm, and thought experiments. Cockburn’s shorts have been the subject of an internationally touring retrospective, his feature film script The Engineers received the TIFF Telefilm Canada Pitch This! prize, and his feature You Are Here (2010) played Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and 40+ other festivals. Called "a major discovery" by the director of the Locarno Film Festival, You Are Here won the Jay Scott Award from the…
Find out more »March 2018
Amateurs Club with Jack Tarling
Jack Tarling founded Shudder Films in 2009, which has produced two feature films, ‘God’s Own Country’, financed by the BFI and written and directed by Francis Lee, and ‘Await Further Instructions’, a mystery-sci-fi-horror directed by Johnny Kevorkian and starring David Bradley (Game of Thrones, The Strain). ‘God’s Own Country’ won Best Director in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2017, it then won the Manner Magazine Jury Prize at Berlin, and it won the Michael Powell award for Best British…
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Amateurs Club May – Editing, with Immanuel von Bennigsen
Immanuel has been working as an editor and assistant editor since 2006, gaining intimate knowledge of the filmmaking process from world-renowned directors such as Michael Winterbottom, Joanna Hogg and Lone Scherfig. He has since edited over a dozen shorts and three features, as well as been assistant editor on over a dozen feature films.. Immanuel co-wrote his first short film WHITELANDS (Soho Rushes Film Festival 2012), starring Andrew Buchan and Romola Garai, which was subsequently sold to Shorts International for…
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Amateurs Club June – Documentary, with Krista Burāne
Krista Burāne is a Latvian artist and filmmaker who creates interdisciplinary projects that switch between various cultural areas – documentaries, theatre, photography and education. As a director, scriptwriter, editor, teacher and photographer, Krista believes that artworks must become an event in people's lives, create new experiences, wake up emotions and thoughts about who and why we are. Krista will be exploring the relationship between fictional and documentary filmmaking through discussion of her films The Fairytale of Empty Space (winner of…
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Amateurs Club July – Cinematography, with Roger Bonnici
Roger began his career in London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane Lighting Department moving on several years later to the National Coal Board Film Unit and eventually graduating into the freelance camera department. His body of work encompasses Feature Films, Television Dramas and Commercials. He has been nominated for an Independent Producers Assocaiation (INDIE) Award for Best Digital Cinematography. Directors worked with: Colin Bucksey, Paris Leonti, Steve Norrington, Paul Hills, Andy Saunders, Indra Bhose, Sandy Johnson, Matt Woodruff, Steen Agro, Tony…
Find out more »September 2018
Amateurs Club September – Screenwriting, with Stacey Gregg
The Amateurs Club is a free DIY film school, hosted by Somerset House Studios and Forest Fringe, featuring each month a different professional from the world of film. For September we are exploring screenwriting with Stacey Gregg. Stacey Gregg is a writer, performer and director for stage and screen. As as screenwriter she has worked on Channel4's Coming Up, Sky Atlantic's The Frankenstein Chronicles and Riviera which was Sky's biggest selling show of 2017, The Innocents for Netflix due to drop this week, Letter for The King for Netflix…
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