According to recent newspaper reports, ‘All A-listers head to the Venice Film Festival’ where, over the past few years, Venice has outshone Cannes by six Oscars to one. The Cannes event, on the other hand, is said to be struggling to live up to the glory days with a dull selection of movies and aRead More
It had to happen sooner or later. Dame Helen Mirren waded into the fight between the ‘traditional’ film industry and the film streaming services Netflix. She turned the air blue at the recent CinemaCon conference in Las Vegas claiming in somewhat colourful language the devastating effect on the industry. Cinema chains and a growing numberRead More
We often show a short film before one of our features. These are usually works made by groups of graduate students from the school’s different film making disciplines who combine to make a grad film under the guidance of their tutors. In late February each year the school takes over a multi-screen cinema for severalRead More
Bob Hill, TV Studio Technical Manager is our projectionist and his latest Sony 4000k projector is his pride and joy. Projecting crystal clear and vibrant images up to 10 meter wide, it is custom built for cinemas such as ours. Warning! A new bulb could be costly at just under £2,000.
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Two NFTS alumni, Carla Tarnarwki and Nic Chinelli, respectively producer and director of PIDGEONS, in conversation with Dieter Shaw in front of our audience on Friday, 8th February 2019. Their film was partly sponsored by the Beaconsfield Film Society.
Friday 5th July we show GREEN BOOK, a film that gathered 3 Academy Awards plus another 50 wins and 90 nominations world-wide. The story of a working-class white American-Italian bouncer who becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist in the 1960’s deep south.
Stuart Harris is an acclaimed film, commercials and video cinematographer. He brought a wealth of experience, anecdotes and personal snapshots about his life in the industry. working with some of the leading film makers. He enjoyed great success in commercials and feature work with some of the towering figures of our time like Stanley Kubrik.Read More
This project enabled 3 teams of post graduate students to write, direct and edit their own film. Three projects, END-O, PIGEONS and DARK IS HER SHADOW had to raise all funds by the end of October and our contribution helped them over the line. Our cheques were handed over by Sir Alan Parker on ourRead More