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CATHERINE ROBINS VERNON KING CHRISTINE KRETSCHMER DANIEL ROGERS VANESSA JONES JAMES SCHAMUS TERESA ZALESKA DAVID (MIDGE) TAYLOR EMILY GALE DOMINIC SANTANA GERALDINE MALONEY
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Interactive Entertainment Committee and one of the most brilliant minds in the interactive world.
The event gave members the chance to see some of the most exciting developments in interactive learning soft- ware, as well as seeing how software can help children to make their own movies.
UPCOMING EVENTS
JUNE 13
6.30 FOR 7.00PM
THE PRINCESS ANNE THEATRE NICK ELLIOTT TALKS ABOUT ITV DRAMA
As Controller of Network Drama for ITV, Nick Elliott has been in his post since 1995 and has tried to extend ITV Drama’s range and ambi- tion whilst maintaining its ratings. In this landmark event in the BAFTA calendar, Elliott talks to Brian Park about the struggle for both success and quality.
JUNE 18
6.30 FOR 7.00PM
THE PRINCESS ANNE THEATRE CINÉMA VÉRITÉ: DEFINING THE MOMENT
Screening and Discussion
Collaborating again with Film Education, we are hosting an event that will focus on the documentary, Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment.
We see its influences every day, in everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams. Cinéma Vérité, or Direct Cinema - the film making revolution of the 1950’s and 60’s was - driven by filmmakers who wanted to show life as it really is. – raw, gritty, dramatic. This film is full of footage from Vérité classics such as Jane, Primary (JFK) and The Blair Witch Project as well as showing changes in technol- ogy which have been part of the revolution.
The event will begin with drinks at 6.30. The screening will begin at 7.00pm and last for 70 min- utes, followed by a Q & A with the film’s director, Peter Wintonick, Professor of Film and Media History at Birbeck College, University of London Ian Christie, and chaired by Film Education Director Ian Wall.
JULY 18
BAFTA INTERACTIVE:
DIGITAL SYNERGIES, MAPPING THE MULTI-PLATFORM MAZE Keep an eye on our website for more details of this event.
To book a place at any of these events please email events@bafta.org, mentioning your membership number, whether you have a guest card, and the address you would like tickets sent to. ■
FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Every organisation needs With that
one: a meticulous, warm,
deeply knowledgeable numbers expert who keeps perfect records and is friends with the bank manager.
The Academy has such a person - but only for the next few weeks. He’s called Peter Allen and, sadly, after 13 years at the heart of BAFTA, he is leaving to take life a lit- tle easier. My goodness, he will be missed.
Peter joined a much smaller, more intimate organi- sation in 1988 when Film and Television Awards had a joint ceremony and the Craft Awards were presented from a different UK town each year.
Peter, who eased past 60 a little while ago, confesses that he finally began to listen to his family (wife Doreen, daughter Julie and son Craig) gently telling him there was indeed life outside 195 Piccadilly. They reminded him that once upon a time he used to get home to Gidea Park by seven o’ clock most evenings. And spend weekends in the garden not hunched over spreadsheets.
disarming
smile, he
shrugs and
says: “Times
change. The
business has
grown. There
isn’t a slack season anymore. Perhaps best to leave the long hours to the 30 year olds who can’t get enough of it.”
Fondly recalling the office he first shared with his close Academy colleagues Doreen Dean and David Kentley, he says an early claim to fame was that when he arrived, the Academy was in the black. Within a year it was in the red where it pretty well stayed for the next 12 years. Now he leaves the books, in his words, “in fine fettle.”
Colleagues would do any- thing for Peter. He had that way with him. Nothing was too much trouble. He combined his onerous finance duties with those of company secre- tary, human resources expert and head of emergencies.
If the kitchen flooded, Peter got the call and sorted it. If Maureen or Eileen on the switchboard needed a break, he could work that too. He in turn is fulsome in his praise of
his finance team: “Brilliant team, never met one like it.”
And his advice to us and to future members of Council: “Don’t try to re-invent the wheel every two years. Don’t lose sight of what is good AND works well.”
I tell you, every organisa- tion needs a Peter and this one will be very greatly missed.
Ireally must apologise to members and to all those who generously contributed to the Friends of the Academy scheme for the inordinate delay in putting up the new screens which were promised nearly seven months ago.
It turns out that there is some complicated new glass technology involved in all this and what we have suggested is prototype work. There have been a couple of samples pre- pared, but none were quite right. Sir Sydney Samuelson and I are on the case and it will happen. ■ Simon Relph
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amym@bafta.org or julietm@bafta.org
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NEWS & EVENTS INFORMATION
Please call Amy Minyard or Juliet McCulloch on 020 7734 0022 or e-mail