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news and events
Calling All Members From Amy Brown BAFTA
Events and Membership Officer
The Academy’s facilities at 195 Piccadilly will be closed for the holidays from Christmas Eve and will re-open on January 5, 2004. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing you in the New Year.
May I also take this opportunity to remind members of our security procedures. Members coming into the building must show their membership card to security when they arrive. If you are plan- ning to meet a guest at the Academy, then please call and leave their name on the door in advance. The number to ring is 020 7292 5831. All guests will be asked to sign in when they arrive.
Photos below l-r: Cinematographer Eric Cross BSC; Esther Rantzen with Sir John Mills; Juliet Stevenson in Hear The Silence; David Lean with Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan
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Recent Events October 22
BT E C T U H i s t o r y P r o j e c t
he BECTU History Project Read My Lips event was held at BAFTA to celebrate some
remarkable achievements. The event was not only to mark that success but also to publicise the project’s work and act as a launch pad for the future.
Lord Andrew McIntosh, Minister for Media and Heritage, spoke eloquently about the value of the project’s work and the need to understand the past, present and future of an industry that is constantly changing, and so central to our society. The event was privileged to have Sir John Mills as its special guest.
The event was a big screen mixture of visual effects, anima- tion and selected film clips from the archive. John Sealey, Chair of the History Project, opened pro- ceedings by thanking co-spon- sors the Sony Corporation, Radio Times and Skillset. John also thanked BECTU, the NEC and the BFI for their support.
Esther Rantzen hosted the event, paying homage to the four founder members – Roy Fowler, Bob Dunbar, Alan Lawson and Manny Yospa – to whom the BECTU project owes so much. As she explained, they started what has today become national and inter- nationally acclaimed as one of the most valuable assets in the country.
Since the very first recorded interview in 1987 with cinematog- rapher Eric Cross BSC, the BECTU project has now recorded 560 interviews. A history of technolo- gy, an economic history as well as a social and political history.
Upcoming Events
December 10
Hear The Silence: Screening and
Hiscussion
ugh Bonneville and Juliet Stevenson star in this land- mark drama made by
Zenith North for Channel 5. Written by Timothy Prager and directed by Tim Fywell, Hear The Silence is a film that is intrinsically a fight for the truth. When the for- merly healthy Nicholas Shields is diagnosed as autistic his mother (Stevenson) believes there’s more to it - thus beginning a search for the truth that is to consume her family and her life.
The programme follows the story of not only a controversial doctor and a mother obsessed with the truth, but also her son, Nicky, who represents the thou- sands of children that cannot speak for themselves – but who desperately need to be heard.
January 20
Tribute to Anthony Havelock-Allan OA Producer Indeed
n 20 January 2004 three celebrated names in our industry join together to
enable a fascinating event to take place. On that evening BAFTA, the BFI and the David Lean Foundation – with celebri- ties from in front of and behind the cameras, will join in telling the story of one man’s contribution to British cinema history.
During a long career, com- mencing in the early 1930’s, Sir Anthony Havelock Allan’s picture making colleagues included such icons as Anthony Asquith, Robert Bolt, John Brabourne, Noël Coward, Earl Mountbatten, Ronald Neame, Franco Zeffirelli and many more.
In his early production days his casts included: Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Vivien Leigh, Sir John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Alastair Sim and Jean Simmons. Later came Margot Fonteyn. Rex Harrison, Trevor Howard, David Kossoff, Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Rudolf Nureyev, Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
Not nearly enough is remem- bered about the career of Havelock-Allan and this jointly sponsored event will put the record straight. With particular thanks to the BFI, film clips will illus- trate the story as it unfolds on the screen and through the personal memories of special guests speaking on the night.
Wine and canapes will be served at a reception in BAFTA’s David Lean Room following the event, which is being produced by Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE.
January 21
The BAFTA Kids Debate
Children, Teens and Sex in the Media
Too Much, Too Soon or Not Enough, Too Late?
ollowing on from our debate on children’s understanding of violence we will be explor-
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ing the issues arising from sexual images and portrayal of relation- ships in the media. What influ- ence does the media have in the path from child to adult? This event will be the second in a series of BAFTA Kids Debates, which will be followed by an evening on Consumerism versus Content in April.
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