London Short Film Festival 2010

This is a rare opportunity to take part in small group sessions with some of the top creative talents in the industry. Each of the two hour sessions will be lead by a top practitioner - editor, screenwriter, DoP. The intimate and interactive roundtable format will allow those attending to explore an area of each craft in more detail than is possible in a Q&A; each sessions will include no more that 25 participants.

All tickets are £5 each for a 2 hour session. These are intended as craft-specific training sessions for new and emerging filmmakers and you must have prior experience in the field to attend. Work could include a short film credit, or we will accept film students from each field.

11-1pm | Screenwriting with Tony Grisoni - One of the UK's most talented and distinctive voices in film and television writing, Grisoni's acclaimed screenplays include Michael Winterbottom's In This World and the Red Riding Trilogy, and his first foray into directing garnered a BAFTA nomination in 2009 for his short film Kingsland #1: The Dreamer. If you are a screenwriter, join this rare chance to share ideas about writing with him in a small group setting.

1:15-3:15pm | Editing with Chris Dickens – BAFTA and Oscar-winner Dickens won just about every major award going in 2009 with structurally inventive and kaleidoscopic editng in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, and other recent credits include comedy classics “Spaced”, Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. This is an editors chance to get advice from Dickens and quiz him on his style that incorporates the visual power of music promos and commercial editing while also anchoring all editing choices in the service of the story.

3:30-5:30pm | Cinematography with John de Borman - award-winning cinematographer John de Borman (An Education, Hideous Kinky, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) will lead this session for DoPs and camera crew. Using his recent An Education (for which he won a cinematography award at Sundance) as a reference, he'll explore good scheduling and planning strategies for being able to deliver the shots on a tight budget.

5:30-6:30 | informal drink - all ticket holders for one of the events are invited to join us for a drink at BAFTA at the day's end.

Booking Information: All tickets are £5 per session. To proceed to the booking page go to: http://tinyurl.com/BAFTAtrainingday

Please note this event is aimed at career starters and entry-level participants.