BAFTA

A panel that have been there and done that share what they’ve learnt, the challenges they’ve faced and offer advice on navigating your first three years in the business - what your should plan look like, how to manage yourself as a freelancer and what you need to know about industry roles, skills gaps and opportunities.

Featuring:

Campbell Glennie, Director of Talent Schemes, Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Michelle Matherson, Talent Executive, Shiver (Come Dine with Me, For the Love of Dogs)

Fatima Shafiq, Development Producer (Reggie Yates’ Extreme South Africa, The Cruise Ship)

Femi Oyeniran, Actor and Director/Producer, Purple Geko (Venus vs Mars)

Daisy May Hudson, Producer/Director, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit (Halfway)

How do you secure your first break as a director? Should you stay at one company for a while or move around to accrue credits? How do you get a production to trust you to take the step up to direct your first hour? A panel of established directors working in factual and entertainment discuss their trajectory, the key elements to their success and offer insights on directing that crucial first hour.

Featuring:

Matt Rudge, Documentary Filmmaker (The Autistic Me, My Dad -the Serial Killer, My Crazy Christmas Lights

Chloe Thomas, Director and Writer (Angelo’s, Horrible Histories, Hetty Feather, Give Out Girls)

Zara Hayes, Director (12 Year Old Lifer, Battle of the Sexes, Clothes to Die For)

Julian Smith, Multicam Director (Pointless, Million Pound Drop)

Interested in the craft of directing? Watch our web series 'On Directing' or catch the archive of our David Lean Lectures on bafta.org/guru

How do you secure your first break as a director? Should you stay at one company for a while or move around to accrue credits? How do you get a production to trust you to take the step up to direct your first hour? A panel of established directors working in factual and entertainment discuss their trajectory, the key elements to their success and offer insights on directing that crucial first hour.

Featuring:

Matt Rudge, Documentary Filmmaker (The Autistic Me, My Dad -the Serial Killer, My Crazy Christmas Lights

Chloe Thomas, Director and Writer (Angelo’s, Horrible Histories, Hetty Feather, Give Out Girls)

Zara Hayes, Director (12 Year Old Lifer, Battle of the Sexes, Clothes to Die For)

Julian Smith, Multicam Director (Pointless, Million Pound Drop)

Interested in the craft of directing? Watch our web series 'On Directing' or catch the archive of our David Lean Lectures on bafta.org/guru

A panel of veterans and experts unpick the process of capturing human performance for games, exploring directing, motion capture, voice recording and casting. Hosted by Will Freeman with panellists:

* Delyth Thomas

* John Dower

* Oliver Hollis Leick

* Mark Estdale

Interested in where the worlds of film and games collide? Listen to our episode looking at the cinematic influence on games, featuring the team behind Alien Isolation https://soundcloud.com/bafta/the-guru-17-making-tv-and-games-cinematic?in=bafta/sets/the-guru-podcast

A panel of veterans and experts unpick the process of capturing human performance for games, exploring directing, motion capture, voice recording and casting. Hosted by Will Freeman with panellists:

* Delyth Thomas

* John Dower

* Oliver Hollis Leick

* Mark Estdale

Interested in where the worlds of film and games collide? Listen to our episode looking at the cinematic influence on games, featuring the team behind Alien Isolation https://soundcloud.com/bafta/the-guru-17-making-tv-and-games-cinematic?in=bafta/sets/the-guru-podcast

BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated composer Cliff Martinez discusses his creative process and career spanning 25 years across film, TV and games.

As drummer for Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and later for The Dickies, Martinez’ exploration of new technologies eventually led him to film scoring. After his experimental tape landed in the hands of Steven Soderbergh, he was hired to score Soderbergh’s directorial debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Since then, the pair have worked together on ten films including Traffic, Solaris and Contagion.

More recently, Martinez’ credits include Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, television series The Knick and game Far Cry 4, for which he received a BAFTA.

BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated composer Cliff Martinez discusses his creative process and career spanning 25 years across film, TV and games.

As drummer for Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and later for The Dickies, Martinez’ exploration of new technologies eventually led him to film scoring. After his experimental tape landed in the hands of Steven Soderbergh, he was hired to score Soderbergh’s directorial debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Since then, the pair have worked together on ten films including Traffic, Solaris and Contagion.

More recently, Martinez’ credits include Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, television series The Knick and game Far Cry 4, for which he received a BAFTA.

BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated composer Cliff Martinez discusses his creative process and career spanning 25 years across film, TV and games.

As drummer for Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and later for The Dickies, Martinez’ exploration of new technologies eventually led him to film scoring. After his experimental tape landed in the hands of Steven Soderbergh, he was hired to score Soderbergh’s directorial debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Since then, the pair have worked together on ten films including Traffic, Solaris and Contagion.

More recently, Martinez’ credits include Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, television series The Knick and game Far Cry 4, for which he received a BAFTA.

BAFTA-winning and Grammy-nominated composer Cliff Martinez discusses his creative process and career spanning 25 years across film, TV and games.

As drummer for Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and later for The Dickies, Martinez’ exploration of new technologies eventually led him to film scoring. After his experimental tape landed in the hands of Steven Soderbergh, he was hired to score Soderbergh’s directorial debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Since then, the pair have worked together on ten films including Traffic, Solaris and Contagion.

More recently, Martinez’ credits include Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, television series The Knick and game Far Cry 4, for which he received a BAFTA.

Want to know how to make a game? Get the low down on every stage of the game development process with some of the UK's hottest creatives: Jana Karlikova talks about setting up your own studio studio, Oliver Hollis-Leick talks writing for games, Rob Morgan unpicks storytelling in VR, Dave Ranyard explores reinventing the controller, Daniel Fountain levels with you about level design, Jessica Saunders gives advice on audio + John Campbell shares crucial tech tips.