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This event took place as part of Encounters Short Film Festival at Watershed, Bristol, November 2007
Film critic, broadcaster and musician Mark Kermode is the resident film critic for BBC's Radio 5 Live, and BBC News 24. He is a regular reporter on The Culture Show and Newsnight Review and a regular at Encounters! In this event, Mark is joined by Richard Eyre for an onstage interview to discuss influences and aspirations in the art of filmmaking.
Richard Eyre is one of the UK’s leading theatre/television/film directors. His cv reads like an enviable series of peaks in the UK’s cultural landscape from landmark theatre to groundbreaking television, through to a cinema of emotional sophistication and quality. Richard started in theatre as the associate director of Edinburgh’s Lyceum theatre. Whilst in Scotland he worked on the legendary BBC’s Play for Today in the early 1970s. He went onto the Nottingham Playhouse where he commissioned and directed major work including the infamous Comedians written by Trevor Griffiths and featuring an outstanding performance from a young Jonathan Pryce. He subsequently took over as director of the National Theatre where his tenure is seen as one of the most exciting. He worked with a who’s who of theatre – Hare, Stoppard, Brenton, Hampton, Dench, Day-Lewis, McKlellan. He found time to make some radical television work – The Ploughman’s Lunch with Ian McEwan and Tumbledown about the Falklands and served on the board of the BBC. Over the past decade Eyre has turned his skills and attention to cinema directing work of the highest quality and acclaim, Iris, Stage Beauty and Notes on a Scandal. His work in film reveals a depth of emotion in his characters and their relationships and he has drawn award-winning performances from such actors as Judie Dench, Cate Blanchett, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslet. He also had time to exec produce Atonement.
The British Academy of Film an Television Arts (BAFTA) is delighted to host this event at Encounters as part of Bafta in The Regions. BAFTA supports, develops and promotes the artforms of the moving image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. Bafta in the Regions is a programme of screenings and events throughout England run in partnership with the regional screening agencies. Our aim is to engage with a broader audience from within the film, television and video games industries and the general public. We achieve this through a programme of screenings, events, interviews, workshops and masterclasses with industry luminaries and BAFTA Award winners.
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