Newcastle
BEV came to the North East bringing new opportunities for women filmmakers with a 'Routes into Filmmaking' panel discussion followed by a 'Pitch and Connect' session (a chance to develop your film career speed dating style!) all rounded off with a networking event.
Four leading industry experts form the panel for the Routes into Filmmaking panel discussion. See below for details about the panelists.
Routes into Filmmaking: Pitch and Connect
This is the chance for panel discussion attendees to have 15 minutes with each expert to pitch and discuss their ideas (like speed dating for your film career!)
The Panelists
Mia Bays Mia Bays is an Oscar winning double BAFTA nominated film producer and marketing/distribution consultant with over 18 years experience in the UK and international markets. As a distributor, marketeer or sales agent, she has worked on over 50 feature films, including several internationally acclaimed and Oscar nominees and winners, in both features and documentaries. Mia also acts as Creative Executive and Marketing Consultant for Film London and the BBC’s innovative micro budget feature fund MICROWAVE, making 10 micro budget feature films over 3 years 2007-10, with the best and most cutting edge UK film talent on their first feature films.
Chris Collins Chris is currently Development Producer for the Development Fund at the UK Film Council. He manages the Feature Film Development Programme, the new funding stream for producers, production companies and filmmakers with a proven track record. His credits as a producer include Brick Lane and My Summer of Love. Previously an associate producer for BBC Films where he worked on a series of short films for BBC2 including films by award-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold.
Rebecca Mark Lawson Rebecca is the managing director for Lifesize pictures. She manages the short film programme on behalf of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund. Through the production company Lifesize Pictures she is responsible for overseeing all of the fund’s Short Film Schemes including Digital Shorts, Cinema Extreme and the Completion Fund at Lifesize Pictures. She was formerly the Development Executive for New Talent at EM Media, the Regional Screen Agency for the East Midlands.
Rebecca O'Brien Rebecca O’Brien has been an independent film producer for over twenty years. She has produced ten feature films with Ken Loach, including Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and My Name is Joe. In 2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley, set during the Irish War of Independence, won the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Their latest film Looking for Eric, written by regular collaborator Paul Laverty and starring Eric Cantona and Steve Evets is currently on DVD release. They have just finished shooting Route Irish in Liverpool and Jordan. O’Brien and Loach have a production company called Sixteen Films Ltd and have recently released a boxed set of sixteen of Ken’s Films. O’Brien is a director of the UK Film Council, South West Screen and the Film Industry Training Board.
This event was funded by Northern Media and Sustain Project.
