LFS Q&A - Summer 2011
The London Film School’s Summer 2011 Q&A Programme
Venue: Cinema A,
The London Film School,
24 Shelton Street, WC2H 9UB - Click for map here.
(Entrance in Langley Street)
Wednesday 11th May 5.30pm
Screenwriting with Stavros Pamballis
Screening of Shirley Adams (Dir 2009 92mins) followed by Q&A with writer Stavros Pamballis
Shirley Adams was a very unusual LFS graduation project - a feature, shot in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town on a very tight budget and co-financed by Roland Emmerich. It won all three top awards at the 2010 South African Film and TV awards: Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress and was selected for many international festivals, including Locarno and Toronto, winning first prizes at Dubai and Amiens and three prizes at Durban. The film tells the story of a mother who struggles to rehabilitate her son after he is paralyzed by a gunshot wound.
Wednesday 15th June 5.30pm
Documentary - LIFE IN A DAY
Preview screening of LIFE IN A DAY (Dir Kevin Macdonald, 2011, 95 mins), followed by Q&A with assistant producer Caroline Gerard, an LFS MA Screenwriting graduate.
Life in a Day was a global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day. The most compelling and distinctive footage was edited into a documentary film, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
The result is exhilarating, uplifting and profoundly disorienting – a dizzying, multi-lingual brew that whisks you around the world in a literal blink of the eye." Total Film
Tuesday 17th May 5.30pm
Story Design in the Short Fiction Film with Richard Raskin
Acclaimed teacher/author/filmmaker Richard Raskin, currently Associate professor at Aarhus University Denmark, will propose a non-formulaic model that can be used as a set of guidelines during script development for short fiction films. His talk will be illustrated by seven award winning short films.
Tuesday 24th May 5.30pm
Directing with Lasse Hallström
Screening of My Life as a Dog (1985 101 mins) followed by Q&A with director Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Cider House Rules)
Academy Award nominations - Best Director, Best Screenplay
Winner - Golden Globe - Best Foreign Language Film
Twenty years have passed since My Life As a Dog first graced our cinema screens, yet the film remains as potent as ever, its succinct observation and gentle wit maintaining its position as one of the greatest films about childhood that has ever been made. Written and directed by Lasse Hallström, the film is set in 1959 and adapted from Reidar Jonsson's autobiographical novel of the same name. It tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Ingemar who is basically all at sea: he's unable to drink a glass of milk without throwing it in his face, yet is more than able accidentally to set alight a city rubbish dump, get his penis stuck in a bottle and drive his terminally ill mother almost to insanity. As his mother's TB worsens, Ingemar (superbly realised by Anton Glanzelius) is sent to live with his uncle in Smaland, a backwater in the south of Sweden..........
"It is certainly one of my favourite films of all time" says the actor Rhys Ifans, who worked with Hallstrom on The Shipping News. "There is something so bittersweet, so genuine and so right about this film but I can't really put my finger on what it is. All I know is that we could do with more films like this. It is a quiet masterpiece that makes you feel good about being human." The Independent
Monday 27th June 5.30pm
Editing with Barrie Vince
Screening of DEEP END (Dir Jerzy Skolimowski/1970/90mins) followed by Q&A with editor Barrie Vince (Hillsborough, Gabriel and Me, A Private Function)
It's amazing to think this could have slipped the net for so long: it should be up there with Blow Up or Repulsion – both outsiders' views of 60s Britain, as is this. The principal setting is a public swimming-pool, where callow new assistant Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is shown the ropes, floats, and a whole lot more by his worldlier colleague Susan (Jane Asher). ,,,Everything about this singular film – the camerawork, the imagery, the soundtrack – feels vibrant and surprising in a way that makes most modern coming-of-age movies look formulaic and, well, shallow."
Chaired by Jaime Estrada-Torres, LFS Head of Editing
Wednesday 29th June 5.30pm
Directing/Producing/Cinematography with Alexandra McGuinness/Mark Lee/Gareth Munden
Preview screening of LOTUS EATERS followed by Q&A with director Alexandra McGuinness, producer Mark Lee and cinematographer Gareth Munden. All three are LFS graduates. Alice, an ex model and struggling actress, finds herself unable to keep up with the extravagant living that her so-called friends furiously pursue. She spends her time dodging bailiffs and sliding from one bed to the next. Struggling to make sense of a life that she has become indifferent to she begins to feel that Felix, an old friend, is her chance at redemption and finding something real. Premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival.
Chaired by Margaret Glover, LFS Senior Tutor
Wednesday 6th July 5.30pm
Directing/Producing/Production Design with Julian Kerridge/Angela Gordon/Claudia Brewster
Preview screening of SEAMONSTERS followed by Q&A with director Julian Kerridge, producer Angela Gorden and production designer Claudia Brewster.
LFS graduate Julian Kerridge presents his first feature film, a sparky, funny, moving story of sex and violence, live bait and dead dogs. Adapted from the Royal Court play "Outside Of Heaven" by Martin Sadofski. Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Nick Gordon-Smith (Gallivant, Ivul). Production designer Claudia Brewster is also an LFS graduate. Chaired by Ben Gibson, LFS Director
Thursday 7th July 5.30pm
Documentary with Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond
Preview screening of MRS CAREY’S CONCERT (2011, 95 mins) followed by Q&A with Oscar nominated director/producer/cinematographer Bob Connolly and co-director Sophie Raymond.
A glorious hymn to music and education, sparkling Oz docu "Mrs. Carey's Concert" has perfect pitch. Helming team Bob Connolly ("Black Harvest") and Sophie Raymond take a backstage look at a school orchestra performance and capture every nuance of the experience, ensuring auds feel the drama as if it were their own children " Variety
The best Australian film this year" The Age
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