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EVENTSCALENDAR
11 DECEMBER
ANGLES ON ASYLUM Following on from
preparing to vote for best visual or special effects in this year’s film awards.
UPCOMING EVENTS
19 DECEMBER, 7.00PM
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
Charles Dance, Pam Ferris
and Gregor Fisher star in
a new major two-part film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby from Company Television. A stellar cast includes Abigail McKern, Tom Hollander, Liz Smith, Jonathan Coy, Dominic West, Lee Ingleby and James D’Arcy as Nicholas Nickleby.
The film was produced by Nicolas Brown (Deceit, Hope and Glor y), who is intent on delivering an interpretation faithful to the spirit of the book. “I want our viewers to grow to love the characters and enjoy the story for its own sake. It’s a tremendous narrative, setting moments of wild comedy against awful bleakness.”
Director Stephen Whittaker, Nicolas Brown and writer Martyn Edward Hesford will be available for Q and A afterwards the screening. We hope that selected cast members will also be available.
JANUARY 2001
Please note that further details of all events will appear in the January Programme.
11 JANUARY, 7.00PM
BAFTA Interactive contin- ues its strand of success- ful events with an evening of short films in asso-
ciation with Atom Films.
18 JANUARY, 7.00PM
BAFTA, with the BECTU History Project, presents an evening looking at Twenty Years Of Restoration of silent films. Kevin Brownlow and Patrick Stanbury will discuss the progress of silent films from 1900 to 1928, with clips from Kevin’s own personal archive.
24 JANUARY, 7.00PM
FUNDING THE FEATURE
WANT MONEY? HERE’S HOW. Following on the launch of
the Cultural Diversity
Network, this event will look at issues of cultural diver- sity in the creative industries. It will be directed toward film- makers from the many diverse backgrounds within our indus- try, making the leap from short films or television into feature length projects.
It will give them an oppor- tunity to address key industry practitioners. The event will focus on the new public and commercial money that has recently been earmarked for both new filmmakers and film- makers from diverse cultural backgrounds - money such as the Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, and the new fund that FilmFour has set up with Forest Whitaker, which aims to bring more black and Asian
talent to the large screen. A high profile panel will
reflect a wide range of back- grounds. Representatives from each of the funds mentioned above will look at essential areas to be addressed when seeking financial backing.
Some of the topics we will be discussing are as follows:- Creativity vs commercial
backing – Are the two con- cepts mutually exclusive? The packaging – From actors to director... how important are the names attached to your project?
Distribution opportunities – How global does your pro- ject need to be? ■
BAFTA will be closed from December 21 through
January 1. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and we will see you in the New Year after the real Millennium celebrations!
November’s interesting
and lively debate on inter- national news coverage in The Iraq Syndrome, BAFTA with the One World Broadcasting Trust hosted this discussion on coverage of the asylum seeker and refugee issues.
11 DECEMBER
BAFTA INTERACTIVE
“INTELLIGENT ENTERTAINMENT”
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATES A NEW REALITY
This event examined, in a
non-technical, content-
biased way, the different uses of computation tech- niques and artificial intelligence in entertainment. These days, A.I. is being used for everything from creating virtual goldfish for a virtual mall to giving chil- dren the experience, via broad- band television, of “becoming” an animal and experiencing life through its eyes.
Michael Blakstad of Workhouse Productions, Julian Saunderson and Ed Burton from SODA, Stuart Nolan of Oyster Partners and Chris Morrison of Incline Media were on hand to dis- cuss how this development is affecting our lives. Richard Adams of Incline Media chaired the event.
12 DECEMBER
A VISUAL EFFECTS PREVIEW
With Visual Effects play-
ing an increasing part
in all productions, BAFTA in association with the
BKSTS hosted this special event on visual effects. This evening provided a good back- ground for BAFTA members
DESMOND WILCOX 1931-2000
Desmond was sched- uled to be inter- viewed on behalf of the BECTU History Project but now his untimely pass- ing has robbed our Archive of a record of the life, times, opinions and philosophy of a giant of British Television docu- mentary.
We are therefore seeking reminiscences about the man and his programmes (This Week; Man Alive and many others) from those who worked with him over the years. If you are a for- mer colleague and you would be prepared to be interviewed, please con- tact me.
SIR SYDNEY SAMUELSON CBE HISTORY PROJECT COMMITTEE BECTU
111 WARDOUR STREET LONDON W1V 4AY
FAX 020 8458 1957
E-MAIL sydneysam@compuserve.com
PHOTOS
FOR THE BAFTA PORTRAIT GALLERY
To all members – please continue to send us portrait photographs of yourselves so we may run them on the
BAFTA NEWS AND EVENTS CALENDAR
page in The BAFTA Portrait Gallery (above).
We will return them after use should you so desire.
OR E-MAIL TO graffoyer@aol.com
Photos: Amy Minyard; Michael Attwell; Jill James; Amanda Berry with the Wonder Boys; The London Film Festival Kickstart get together (l to r) Mike Leigh, Michael Winner, Alan Parker, Duncan Kenworthy, Howard Schumann
Happy Holidays from everyone here at BAFTA 31