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Casting and Acting: Lessons from the Loach Team

24 Sep 12:00 Blue Room

Come along to this workshop where you’ll learn from industry professionals about acting in films. We’ll be watching clips from our Ken Loach season to see how one of the masters of British cinema does it, as well as talking to some of his team about his approach to working with actors.

Tickets are just £3 – OR bring a mate and you both get in for a fiver!

Masterclass: Inside filmmaking with Loach’s crew: Production with Rebecca O’Brien and Eimhear McMahon

4th October 17:00 in the Gallery

What exactly is involved in getting Loach’s films from script to screen? Rebecca and Eimhear will tell us how they help maintain Director Ken Loach’s prolific output. Iyare Igiehon will lead the questioning but you will also get a chance to ask your own questions.

 

This is the last in our series of Ken Loach masterclasses and looks set to be a great one! For more information on the event, click here.

Masterclass: Inside filmmaking with Loach’s crew: Sound and Editing with Jonathan Morris, Kevin Brazier and George Fenton

26th September 17:00 in the Gallery

An opportunity to uncover the complexities and challenges of turning hours and hours of footage into a coherent and entertaining drama. Iyare Igiehon will discuss editing techniques with the editor and sound editor who work regularly with Director Ken Loach, whose prolific output as one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers we are celebrating this month. You’ll also get a chance to ask your own questions.

This is the third in our series of Ken Loach masterclasses, for more information Click Here 

BFI London Film Festival: Future Film’s Connect and Collaborate Festival

Education screening: Better This World Wed 26 | 10:15 | Vue West End

As part of the 55th BFI London Film Festival, BFI Future Film are hosting a 2-day festival called Connect and Collaborate.

As well as screening Better This World, we’ll be hosting Fever Pitch straight afterwards, a pitching competition which will see one talented young person win a £2000 production budget, professional kit loan and expert mentoring.

Then on the Thursday we’re running a workshop on Collaborations with IdeasTap and a Networking for Beginners session.

For more information on the events and to purchase tickets click here.

Cultural Conference Polish EU Presidency

Doc Next will me present at the Cultural Conference of the Polish EU Council Presidency. A selection of movies from our media collection will be screened in the festival club. In a container right next to the Centennial Hall will be a multimedia presentation of our work. The activities are coordinated by our Polish hub Creative Initiatives “e”.

Refuge Film Festival

Refuge In Films is a 3 day festival created by young people from around the world working together to make positive change and challenge the negative media stereotypes about refuge and migration.” The event will be hosted at BFI. Do follow this link for more details. Hope to see you all there!

 

Poland.doc workshop 10-12th of June

Another workshop of Poland.doc will take place in the headquarters of Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” next weekend.

On Friday – participants will consult their ideas and documentation gathered so far with Pawel Lozinski (film) and Rafał Milach (photography).

On Saturday – Q&A with Lukasz Trzciński, artist currently exhibiting his works at the Center for Contemporary Art and Adam Mazur, curator of said exhibition.

Agata Nowotny, sociologist, will carry out a workshop on being a researcher of local community, presenting fundamental skills and  tools involved in such research.

In the evening we will host a screening – participants bring their favourite films and chose which ones and in which order will be shown.

On Sunday – workshop with Joanna Napieralska – sound director, who will give a lecture on how to tell stories with sound. The workshop will be followed by group evaluation and closing of the 3rd session of Poland.doc.

Stay tuned for our report from the session!

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