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MAGNIFIER MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR IDEAS
BANGOR
UNIVERSITY
27 & 28 J U LY
2018
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MAGNIFIER MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR IDEAS Ffilm Cymru is the development agency for Welsh film. We support film development, film production, film education, film exhibition, film business development and filmmaker career progression more broadly; we offer training and advice for those aspiring to be in or already in the film sector and advocate for Welsh filmmakers and film policy which works for the people of Wales. Our Magnifier training helps you identify and build your audiences and revenue streams from the early stages of your project’s development. Magnifier aims to maximise the value of your ideas by: • BROADENING NETWORKS • EXPLORING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OPPORTUNITIES • PROTOTYPING • FINDING NEW AUDIENCES • SHARING KNOWLEDGE • BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF MUTUAL SUPPORT Magnifier works on the principle of sharing knowledge, value, and risk. By participating in Magnifier, you will be at the forefront of a rapidly emerging culture of collaboration that sits at the heart of contemporary creative business. The cohort days are for the initial scoping of the potential of your project. But the Magnifier training continues throughout the development of your project as you work to fully realise that potential. The limits will be how far you are willing to seize the opportunities: the more you put in, the more you will get out.
F R I D AY 2 7 th J U LY S AT U R D AY 2 8 th J U LY
11:00 Registration and cofffee 11:00 Introduction
with Cat Cooper
11:15 Introduction
with Kimberley Warner
11:15 Finding Your Voice:
11:30 What is a Film Producer Anyway? In conversation with BAFTA
With the explosion in alternative routes award-winning director
to audience and an increasingly tough
film financing climate, how has the role of
Kieran Evans
the producer evolved? One of the world’s
first cross-media producers Asta Wellejus
discusses with Wrexham-born producer
Andy Evans (Keepers, Julian Lennon’s 12:15 Masterclass: Interactive
Everything Changes project) and former Filmmaking
Bedlam Productions’ producer Stella
Nwimo (...Is it the Design on the Wrapper, with Asta Wellejus
Nuclear). Chaired by Ffilm Cymru’s Head of
Creative Business Kimberley Warner.
13:45 Lunch
12:30 How to Reach Young Audiences
Young people are still the multiplexes’
mainstay audience but remain one of the
14:45 How to Build Your Personal
hardest demographics to reach. Games
developer Chris Payne of Quantum Soup Brand
Studios discusses with Llanfairfechan- with Maggie Parke,
born Paula Clark and Jessy Roberts of York
Theatre Royal’s youth TakeOver initiative, Bangor University
Rhiannon Wyn Hughes and Lacey Small
of Wicked Film Festival in North Wales.
Chaired by Ffilm Cymru Wales’ Nicola 15:45 One-to-One Meetings
Munday.
- Asta Wellejus
13:30 Lunch - Maggie Parke
- Lynn Nwokorie,
Doc Society
14:30 Case Study: Rum 213 - Ffilm Cymru Wales
with Martin Jern & Emil Larsson. Executives
Based on the bestselling YA mystery novel
by Ingelin Angerborn, Room 213 is a family
thriller. During the summer break in sixth 17:15 Closing address
grade, Elvira goes to camp with her friends,
but it doesn’t take long until unexplainable with Kimberley Warner
and mysterious things begin happening
there. Rum 213 premiered at TIFF Kids
in 2017 and won the Jury Award for Best
Film at Barnefilmfestivalen Kristiansand!
and BUFF Nordic Star Award for Wilma
Lundgren.
15:30 Networking
GUEST SPEAKERS PA U L A C L A R K Originally from Llanfairfechan, North Wales Paula Clark is now based in York where she studied BA Communication Arts and MA Contemporary Performance. She has lived and worked in York for over fifteen years as a Theatre maker, Youth Theatre Director and Community artist with young people and adults in community, educational and theatre settings. Paula has worked as Creative Skills Promoter at York Theatre Royal for five years project managing and developing the nationally acclaimed and award-winning TakeOver Festival which offers young people between the age of 12-26 the opportunity to gain real life industry experience by programming and producing a large-scale theatre festival annually. Paula was recently appointed Outreach Director at York Theatre Royal with the objective of widening participation in theatre activity across the community and developing participation projects which break down barriers to engagement and nurture a lifelong relationship with theatre and arts. Paula is also currently working as Creative Associate on Pilot Theatre’s Eighteen in 2018 Film Project alongside a screenwriter, supporting a group of twelve young people to create their own short films about their experiences of turning eighteen in 2018. KIERAN EVANS Kieran Evans is an acclaimed filmmaker whose work traverses feature films, documentaries, music videos, experimental shorts and live visuals. In 2014 Kieran was awarded the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his feature film Kelly + Victor, in 2013 won a Q Award for Best Music Video, and the documentary feature Escape From History he recently made for Sky Arts about the Manic Street Preachers was nominated for a 2018 Grierson Award for Single Arts Feature. A strong sense of storytelling linked with an instinctive photographic eye for landscape, urban locations and nature runs through much of his work as seen in his documentaries The Outer Edges, Finisterre, Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before, and most recently films for the BBC and Sky Arts; Dexys: Nowhere Is Home and David Gilmour: A Wider Horizon, Toots and The Maytals: From The Roots. Kieran has also directed music videos, shorts and live visuals for acclaimed artists such as John Grant, Manic Street Preachers, Hot Chip, Kylie Minogue, Karl Hyde, Underworld, Django Django and Edwyn Collins amongst many others. Kieran is currently writing a new feature script for a film project he has developed with the BFI, and is also researching and developing a gothic horror project with a production company in the States. ANDY EVANS Andy is a co-founder of the Film & TV Production Company Mad as Birds – based in Wirral & North Wales. His most recent feature film producer credits include the psychological thriller Keepers starring Gerard Butler and 1950’s drama Set Fire To The Stars starring Elijah Wood and Celyn Jones.
2018 is a big year for Andy as he is also producing the comedy Poms starring Diane Keaton and the drama Six Minutes To Midnight starring Eddie Izzard & Judi Dench. Previously owner and Managing Director of multi-award winning The Pavement Studios which grew over thirteen years into one of Europe’s most creative DVD, Blu-ray and digital production facilities, he is still independently producing content of top UK/ US artistic talent including Pink Floyd, Julian Lennon, U2 and David Gilmour across all digital platforms. MARTIN JERN & EMIL LARSSON Dansk Skalle is a Swedish production company based in Malmö since 2002, founded and run by Martin Jern and Emil Larsson. They mainly produce feature films for cinemas, but also TV content – mostly high concept and genre films for kids and adults. The films have been represented at film festivals like Berlinale, won awards all over the world and sold to a dozen countries. Savage (2011) is the most streamed Swedish film, with seven million views on YouTube – a result of the company’s successful marketing strategies. They have been members of ACE producers network since 2012. Martin Jern was born in 1978, raised in Helsingborg and Texas and now lives in Malmö. He debuted as a producer/ writer/ director with Fourteen Sucks in 2004 – a blockbuster in Sweden, that competed at Berlinale. He has directed three feature films and produced six. He has also released three acclaimed young adult novels. Emil Larsson was born in 1979, raised in Helsingborg and now lives in Malmö. He debuted as a producer/ writer/ director with Fourteen Sucks in 2004 - a blockbuster in Sweden, that competed at Berlinale. He has directed three feature films and produced six. STELLA NWIMO Stella Nwimo is an independent film Producer. She has won numerous international film awards for her work most notably a Palme d’Or in Cannes for the short film, Is It The Design on The Wrapper? Stella served as an Executive Producer on Hammad Khan’s debut feature, Slackistan and produced Menhaj Huda’s ensemble youth drama, Everywhere & Nowhere starring James Floyd (My Brother The Devil), and Elyes Gabel (World War Z, Interstellar). Stella went on to produce, Campbell X’s festival favourite, Stud Life winning a Screen Nation, Best Film award. Stella also produces alongside Boudica Films. These collaborations include the drama The Mad Axeman that stars Morgan Watkins, Diarmaid Murtagh and Ellen Rhys and most recently, Kat And The Band starring Ella Hunt (Ana and the Apocalypse) and McFly’s Dougie Poynter, which is currently in post-production. Alongside her feature films, Stella continues to produce short films with new writer-directors. These have included, Things That Fall From The Sky directed by Catherine Linstrum and Egg Soldier by Guymon Cheung both with finance from Ffilm Cymru Wales and BFI NETWORK. Due for release in 2019 is Alex Melhuish’s documentary feature, Youngun, which Stella also produced, and she is currently in post-production on the supernatural thriller, Nuclear, written and directed by Catherine Linstrum with financing from Ffilm Cymru Wales and the BFI.
L ynn N wokorie Starting out in production for feature film, commercials and museum projects in both the US and UK, Lynn has since worked across exhibition and distribution for various national festivals and organisations including the BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/ Fest, the British Film Institute and the Independent Cinema Office. The last three years has seen a focus on cultural programming and increased access of independent film to national audiences, with now a concerted focus on cultivating socially impactful documentary filmmaking at the London and New York-based Doc Society Foundation. With a new appointment as BFI Film Fund Officer, Lynn now focuses on developing and supporting UK documentary filmmakers as well as continuing programming for festivals and special events. M A G G I E PA R K E Maggie Parke earned her PhD in Film and Digital Media from Bangor University, Wales UK, with her specialty in the Creative Industries. She focused on the adaptation processes of event films and fan management, and her research included working on the sets of Twilight (2008), Captain America (2009), and on the Academy Award shortlisted short, Love at First Sight (2010), as well as time at game design company Turbine Inc., on The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and DC Comic’s new game, Infinite Crisis. She currently works in both education and the film industry, developing projects, editing scripts, and consulting on fan management, while also working at Bangor University promoting and enabling International Education, and teaching online with Signum University. She has been published in The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (2009), co-edited a book of Critical Essays on Twilight, published by McMillan (2011), writes for Hypable.com, has a chapter on ‘Utilising Fans in the Adaptation Process of The Lord of the Rings’ (2015) in Intellect Publishing’s Fan Phenomena series, and has written the forward and was interviewed about her work on Twilight in their Twilight edition (2016). C H R I S PAY N E Chris Payne has worked as a video games programmer for over twenty years – fifteen of those at TT Games, creators of the multi-award-winning LEGO games franchise, working on the world’s biggest IPs. He now runs independent studio Quantum Soup, where he is developing the game adaptation of a major family TV show. Chris is also a BAFTA juror and regular speaker at industry conferences and universities.
JESSY ROBERTS Jessy is a theatre student going into her third year at the University of York. She has directed shows for the drama society, one of which they are taking to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Jessy is the Artistic Director of TakeOver Festival 2018, which is based in York and supported by York Theatre Royal and York Mediale. This year, the Festival’s themes explore ‘Speaking Out’ and the team have had a brilliant time looking for theatre, media arts and film to reflect their vision. LACEY SMALL Lacey is nineteen and is currently on a gap year before going to study film and television studies at Aberystwyth University in September. She is a volunteer for Wicked Wales Youth Film Festival. Lacey has always enjoyed watching and making films with a great passion. As a film student, she felt it is important to get as much experience in different fields of the film industry as possible not just so she can experience them, but in order to understand the important team work which goes into making a film. A S TA W E L L E J U S Die Asta Experience develops and produces digital experiences for broadcasters, the educational sector, and cultural institutions. Asta Wellejus was the former founder and director of Zentropa Interaction (from 1999 to 2007), the first firm in the Nordics to create roleplays, mobile games and digital experiences for the professional market. In 2007 Die Asta Experience was created to expand to an international market. Speciality: Creating new and unique digital expereinces with interdiciplinary teams. Recent projects include Brede Werks, The Nationalmuseum, exhibition with interactive cinemas, interactive tickets, website & onsite installations; Olivia 17, mobile historical mystery for teens, Olivia 18, second season of same interactive. YLE (Accepted for the Emmys); The Timeportal, exploring art through investigating time periods, the Ministry of Education, Culture Region Funen and a collaboration of 5 museums; The Dataseductress viral interactive marketing, Al Jazeera; Deadline Syria, interactive documentary for youth about the refugee crisis, launched with Save the Child and Danish Broadcast for United Nations Universal Children´s Day. With more than 20 years of expertise and more than 50+ launched projects, Die Asta Experience has a huge international network of digital professionals. She often teaches and gives lectures at schools and festivals. Examples: MIP TV Cannes, Creative Europe, multiple locations, EDN, The Danish Film School, MEGA, NIFF, Hot Docs in collaboration with Film Contact Nord, Nordic Panorama, The Danish Film Institute, The Conference, Sweden, Basel Academy of Art, Ravensbourne, London, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. VIA, Denmark, Labra, Finland.
RHIANNON WYN HUGHES
Rhiannon has spent over twenty years running Arts and Film Festivals
for young people, always working with young volunteers planning and
delivering the events. Her personal aims have been to provide platforms
for talented artists and an inclusive agenda, looking at ways to broaden
participation by removing barriers and striving to achieve an equality of
opportunity.
She developed a new international Youth Film Festival Wicked Wales in
2016 working with the community youth centre Prestatyn Pop In and in
2017 set up Rhyl Wicked Cinema in partnership with Rhyl Little Theatre,
an affordable community mobile cinema run by volunteers.
In 2018 the Wicked Wales office was opened in the Theatre which is
being run by young volunteers programming the cinema screenings and
planning the festival.
Shortly the young people will be setting up Wicked Wales Productions,
a film production company run by young people with the support of
mentors. The Wicked family also includes its first film club at Prestatyn
High School, run by young volunteers and it supports ReACTions, an
enterprise group at Tir Morfa special school who programme and plan
their own screenings at the theatre.
A local Councillor for twenty-two years including Leader of Denbighshire
County Council and an active member of national culture bodies
including being Vice Chair of the Arts Council of Wales, Vice Chair of Ffilm
Cymru Wales and Trustee of the National Museums Wales. Currently
trustee for Hijinx working with actors with learning disabilities and a
member of advisory boards for the British Council, Film Hub Wales and
Wales Arts Review.
She is an Internationalist believing in the importance of young people
having the international experience of attending Film Festivals in other
Countries, learning and developing their own international network. A
founder member of Youth Cinema Network YCN which now has over
forty member festivals and media training organisations all over the
world.
+44(0)2921 679369
enquiries@ffilmcymruwales.com
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