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Nik Powell was born on 4 November 1950 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and executive, known for The Crying Game (1992), Brimstone (2016) and Living (2022). He was married to Sandie Shaw and Merrill Tomassi. He died on 7 November 2019 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.Nik Powell is director of the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK. Nik co-founded Virgin with Richard Branson, went on to found Palace Pictures with Stephen Woolley and later set up Scala Productions. He has produced over 40 films, including:
Company of Wolves (1984),
Mona Lisa (1986),
The Crying Game (1992).- Director
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Destiny Ekaragha is a UK based filmmaker who was named Best British Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival 2013 and BAFTA breakthrough Brit in 2014. Her award-winning feature comedy GONE TOO FAR!, which played at TIFF, and had a cinematic release in the UK announced her arrival as only the third black female director in Britain to make a feature-length film. Following this, she started directing episodic TV, including episodes 5-8 of season 2 of THE END OF THE F**ING WORLD for Channel 4/Netflix (Winner of the BAFTA for Best Drama Series in 2020). In 2020, Destiny directed a block of Y THE LAST MAN for FX / Disney +, and then went on to direct two episodes of PAPER GIRLS (Plan B/Legendary/Plan B/Amazon) (2021), an eight-part adaptation of the cult comics by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Most recently, Destiny has lead director on two episodes of Series 3 of TED LASSO Apple TV + (2021) and continues to direct on international drama projects.Destiny Ekaragha’s first short film, Tight Jeans (2008), was selected for the London Film Festival that year. Her first feature, Gone Too Far (2014), was selected for the 2013 festival and given a cinema release in October 2014. She is only the third British black woman, following Ngozi Onwurah and Amma Asante to have directed a feature-length film that was given theatrical distribution in the UK.- Director
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When young he lived with his four brothers and sisters in a council house in Newcastle Upon Tyne then when 14 the family moved to Thornyburn near Bellingham where he made his first film, 'Redheugh'. He qualified in Newcastle as a music teacher and played in a band, 'The Gasboard' with Brian Ferry before going to London to study music for 3 years and played with The People Band who recorded one album which was produced by Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts and later made a cameo appearance in the film Stormy Monday as The krakow Jazz Ensemble. In the early 70 s he joined an avant garde theatre group -The People Show as a musician but soon found himself lured into acting and spent the next 10 years touring the world earning great success and critical acclaim. Mike left the show in 1980 to concentrate on writing and directing and formed his own theatre company The Mike Figgis Group. He crafted multimedia productions which incorporated an extensive use of film. Among his early projects were Redhugh, Slow Fade and Animals of the City which won awards for the innovative blend of live action with music and film. Redhugh caught the eye of Channel 4 which financed his first feature =The House. His next film was Stormy Monday he wrote, directed and scored and which advanced him into full length features. He next made his debut in American films with Internal Affairs which he directed and co scored, He next coaxed Kim Novak out of retirement to star in Liebestraum which he directed and scored. A few films down the line he wrote, directed and scored One Night Stand which won Best Actor Award at the Venice Film FestivalMike Figgis writes, directs and scores his own films. His best known work includes:
Internal Affairs (1990),
Leaving Las Vegas (1995),
Timecode (2000).
Mike’s website contains a wide range of examples of his photography, music and films. His book, Digital Filmmaking, is a very useful addition to any film-maker’s library, and his invention, the ‘Fig-Rig’, a useful piece of kit for the cinematographer.- Director
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Corin Hardy is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, sculptor and writer, whose visual style mixes the macabre, the beautiful and the epic to visually dazzling results.
Corin grew up in a world steeped in creatures & creativity, beginning his early career aged 12 as a special FX 'monster-maker' in his parents' bike shed. Inspired by a hungry diet of Ray Harryhausen monster movies and 70's & 80's horror cinema, he made a number of Super-8 films with school-friends who regularly stood in for his cast of zombies, werewolves, and slasher victims and created elaborate sets to make plasticine stop-motion epics in his bedroom. Throughout his teenage years, Corin gained film experience in sculpting, FX, wardrobe & art departments on a variety of film, TV & theatre productions ranging from a Royal National Ballet production of 'Dracula' to Columbia Pictures 'First Knight'.
Corin studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art before hand-crafting his award-winning stop-motion short film 'Butterfly' (2004) which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and won the Brussels Animation Festival for best long animated short. This led to his signing to Academy Films where he directed a series of short films and narratively driven music videos for a range of mainstream and underground bands including The Prodigy, Keane, Biffy Clyro, Olly Murs, Paolo Nutini and The Horrible Crowes - culminating in a 9 minute crime epic for Devlin and Ed Sheeran's cover of 'Watchtower'. His music videos have accrued over 300 million views and won numerous awards around the world.
Corin wrote and directed his debut feature 'The Hallow' in 2015; an intense and accomplished fairy-tale horror movie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and proceeded to win international awards for directing, cinematography and effects including Best Horror Film at the UK's Empire Film Awards 2016 and 5 Awards at the Los Angeles Scream Fest including Best Direction, Cinematography, Score, Visual FX and Practical FX .
Hardy has just completed his second feature film The Nun; the next installment of James Wan's blockbusting 'Conjuring Universe' franchise, for New Line/Warner Bros. The film stars Taissa Farmiga and Demian Bichir and will be released in the US on September 7th.Corin Hardy has directed music music videos for artists including Keane, Rizzle Kicks, Devlin, John Newman, The Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Olly Murs and Paolo Nutini. His short animated film, Butterfly, which features on the course, was a labour of love which took him five years to make. Corin recently directed his first feature film, The Hallow (2015), which has been accepted for Sundance and will go on release at cinemas this year. He has been lined up to direct a remake of The Crow.- Editor
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Justine Wright began editing commercials, before moving on to work on documentary and feature films. Much of her work has been with director Kevin MacDonald, including:
One Day in September (1999)
Touching the Void (2003)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
The Eagle (2011).
She won the 2014 European Editor of the Year award for Locke (2013).- Sound Department
Danny Hambrook has worked as sound recordist and mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor on a wide range of films and TV programmes, including:
Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Atonement (2007)
The Iron Lady (2011)
Rush (2013)
Paddington (2014)- Writer
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- Director
Tony Grisoni was born on 28 October 1952 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for How I Live Now (2013), Kingsland #1: The Dreamer (2008) and The Brothers Grimm (2005).Writer:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Red Riding (2009)
Southcliffe (2013)- Cinematographer
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British cinematographer Brian Tufano began his career at the BBC, working with such directors as Stephen Frears and Alan Parker. In 1992 he was assigned to the series Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993) and worked with director Danny Boyle. Boyle took him along on his feature debut, Shallow Grave (1994), and continued to work with Tufano on such films as Trainspotting (1996) and A Life Less Ordinary (1997). In 2001 Tufano won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television.Director of Photography:
Quadrophenia (1979)
Trainspotting (1996)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Kidulthood (2006)- Special Effects
- Visual Effects
- Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Conway was born on 15 January 1942 in Essex, England, UK. He is known for Brazil (1985), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Sunshine (2007). He was married to Dawn Low. He died on 22 December 2021 in the USA.an effect specialist who did marvelous sequence in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, with the dreamscapes and the flying.- Director
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Jamie Magnus Stone (born 15 December 1985) is a Scottish film director, writer and animator, who studied at the National Film and Television School. He is the son of Scottish broadcaster Sally Magnusson and film director Norman Stone and grandson of Magnus Magnusson.
Stone has worked in British TV since directing BBC's The Village in 2014.
In 2020, he became the lead director on Doctor Who series 12 and returned the following year as lead director for series 13.
Stone studied film and television at the Edinburgh College of Art where he made his first films; Flights, about an old man and his flight of stairs, and the Scottish BAFTA nominated Fritz about a German Spy who lives under a boy's bed. Whilst directing fiction films, he also developed his skills in sand animation and won the MacLaren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Best Animation at BAFTA Scotland in 2008 for his series of Three Minute Wonders, The World According To, produced by Anders Jedenfors.
Stone enrolled at the National Film and Television School in 2010. He was interviewed by The Guardian in 2010 after making his first year film, Far Removed.
He wrote and directed Sh-Boom in February 2011 which was premiered at the NFTS' Stars of Tomorrow Screening at BAFTA in September 2011. The film was shot entirely in a bin besides a dramatic opening sequence involving a bride on fire.
In August 2011, Stone directed his graduation film, Skyborn, about a father and son stuck in a foggy post apocalyptic wasteland. Stone also wrote and directed the screenplay. It was screened at the BFI in March 2012 as part of the NFTS' graduation ceremony. The film was shot in constant fog and involved flying machines, pyrotechnics, miniatures and chickens.
In August 2014, Stone was nominated for a BAFTA for his short film Orbit Ever After, a steam punk space love story that went on to win several awards at international film festivals.
Since then, Stone has directed several British and Canadian TV shows for BBC, Channel 4, Sky, CBC and Acorn as well as the innovative film/video-game project Erica for Sony Playstation in 2018.
He lives between Glasgow and LondonFilmmaker: Skyborn (2012)