EXTREME FILM PRO DAY
Friday 14th November 2003
Kendal Mountain Film Festival
The Theatre, Brewery Arts Centre,
Kendal, Cumbria.
Tickets £25 or £10 for students
Book via phone 01539 725133
Featuring Brian Hall – director of the Festival, mountain guide and film
safety officer.
Analysis of the Extreme Film School: Led by Graham Hoyland (BBC
producer/director, Everest summiteer) & Film Festival Judges: Piers Handling
(Director Toronto Film Festival), George Band (renowned mountaineer), Margaret
Wicks (Film producer and editor), Louise Thomas (top woman climber & TV
presenter), Valeriana Rosso (Director- Cervino Film Festival).
With Neil Thompson of Sony Broadcast - He is a very knowledgeable with
regards to technical ins and out of all camera formats and has a strong
technical back-ground, but is also a great communicator. (Courtesy of Visual
Impact)
Keith Partridge – probably the most experienced climbing cameraman in the
UK. Also adventure camera and soundman on dozens of TV docs and recently
second unit cameraman on Touching the Void.
Richard Else director of Triple Echo Productions and Professor of Media
Production at the University of Teesside. He is one of the most successful
adventure documentary filmmakers. Richard was instrumental in leading early
developments in desktop editing - making prime time television using Apple's
Final Cut Pro system. However, he believes many potentially good adventure
films are marred by a lack of coherent narrative and structure and he will be
focusing on these aspects of filming in his workshop, using examples of
previous work.
John Smithson from Darlow Smithson is producer of the forthcoming feature
film “Touching the Void” He (and his company) have a track record second to
none in television documentary production. John will show a clip from the film
and describe the production issues in filming in such difficult environments.
Mark Dyson – Executive Producer of Raw Material Production Ltd who are
currently making 52 adventure and exploration films for National Geographic
Channel International.
The Extreme Film Pro Day is part of the Extreme Film School which is
sponsored by Media Training North West, North West Vision, BBC, The Kendal
Mountain Film Festival and The Northern Film Network.
Extra thanks must be given to Graham Hoyland for the concept and Lynne
McCadden and Ruth Schofield of MTNW for their support and encouragement. Also
to David Phillips from Visual Impact for the equipment display and help with
speakers.