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Thank you
Thank you
The Academy is
extremely grateful
to the following
companies who
generously support the Academy and its work of promoting the best
of Film, Television and Interactive entertainment
in the UK and overseas, through Corporate Membership.
DIAMOND
• USB Warburg PLATINUM
• American Airlines • Baker Tilly
• BARCO Limited
• KPMG
• Royal Mail Group • Orange Plc
• Radio Times
GOLD
• BBC Scotland
• British Broadcasting Corporation • BSkyB
• Carlton Television
• Channel Four
• Granada Media Group
• Macromedia Europe
• Scottish Media Group
SILVER
• BBC Cymru
• Carlton Broadcasting
• HTV Group Plc
• Kodak Entertainment Imaging Ltd • S4C
• Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television
BRONZE
• Border Television
• Dolby Laboratories Inc • Invicta Capital
• Pathé Entertainment
SUPPORTERS
• AVID Technology Europe Limited • Barcud Derwin
• Bermans Solicitors
• BT
• Buena Vista International
• Columbia TriStar Films (UK) • Entertainment Film
Distributors Ltd
• Film Council
• Scottish Screen
• Twentieth Century Fox
• United International Pictures UK • University of Salford
• Warner Bros Distributors Ltd
For more information please telephone Julie Chadwell, Director of Corporate Development BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly London W1J 9LN tel 020 7734 0022 email juliec@bafta.org
events perfect
Let’s be honest – for most peo- ple the phrase ‘corporate events’ conjures up images of dull conferences held in tired hotels with rooms full of bored faces. But BAFTA being BAFTA, the phrase means something alto- gether different here.
The Academy’s corporate events team hires out the facilities at 195 Piccadilly for hundreds of screenings, launches, dinners and more each year. And as you may have noticed, we’re getting busier and busier (November passed without a single night free!)
Corporate events at BAFTA provide a vital source of income for the Academy. But in addition, they bring scores of high profile visitors through our doors and, in a tangible way, reinforce BAFTA’s role as a hub for important events in the industry.
For many in the worlds of film, television and interactive, BAFTA is considered the venue of choice these days. So while hire of the venue is not limited to events for these industries, we see more and more of them coming through our doors – from star- studded premieres to screenwrit- ing masterclasses, from forums on film finance to previews of inde- pendent films.
With BAFTA’s recent rise in pro- file following the Film Awards’ move pre-Oscars, we are the place to be. And the stars and major industry players have been coming to us in droves. The past few months alone have seen Sam Mendes and Tom Hanks in for a 20th Century Fox special screen- ing of Road to Perdition; Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Lara Flynn Boyle and Director Barry Sonnenfeld for Columbia TriStar’s press conference to launch Men in Black II; Richard Gere at a spe- cial screening of Fox’s Unfaithful; and Jeffrey Katzenberg with other top execs from Dreamworks was in for a brainstorming session on the marketing of the video release of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
The BBC regularly launch their new dramas here, and most recently screened Daniel
Deronda starring Hugh Bonneville in the Princess Anne Theatre. The Film Council chose BAFTA as the venue for a major film industry announcement by Alan Parker in November. The list goes on...
Perhaps not surprisingly, BAFTA is also regularly booked for presti- gious industry awards cere- monies. In the past six months, we have been home to The Grierson Documentary Awards, hosted by Michael Palin and broadcast on BBC 4, the Amnesty International Media Awards honouring excel- lence in human rights journalism, the BECTA 2002 Educational Web Site Awards, and the 9th Annual Mental Health Media Awards.
Of course many of our events are held by BAFTA members themselves. Who knows the place better than those of you who come in day in, day out, for meetings, lunches and to attend the Academy’s own educational events and membership screen- ings? BAFTA members have seen what can be done with our state- of-the-art technical facilities and have tasted the first-class cater- ing by Roux Fine Dining.
You know that we must be at the vanguard technically – we have the responsibility to do so – because the films and pro- grammes nominated for the awards are screened for juries in our theatres. And you can be assured that as BAFTA members you will always receive our best rates for special events you hold at the Academy.
As business continues to flourish, planning has begun for a refurbish- ment of 195 Piccadilly in summer 2003, including an upgrade of the Princess Anne Theatre and a new look for the Members Bar. Shannon Kane-Meddock, Corporate Events Co-ordinator
If you would like to know more about holding your event at BAFTA, please contact Polly Collins or Shannon Kane- Meddock on 020 7734 0022.
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