Screen WM

Presented by BAFTA in partnership with Screen West Midlands and mac

 Are you a budding filmmaker aged 15-18? Do you want the industry know-how on getting your ideas on the big screen?

Or are you a filmmaker who wants to learn about the art of using archive material? If so, then we have just the workshop for you!

We are delighted to announce that BAFTA-nominated producers Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter will be coming to mac to host not one but two very special workshops for filmmakers in Birmingham. 

The first workshop, aimed at young filmmakers and more established filmmaking talent, will see Sol and Roy use their extraordinary film Under The Mud as a case study to show how emerging talent and more experienced filmmakers can work together to make an acclaimed feature film. Starting life as a community project, Under The Mud was written by a team of teenage writers from their native Liverpool and was described by The Guardian as the “maybe the best British film you’ll never see…” the film was accepted to scores of film festivals world-wide where the cast and crew rubbed shoulders with the likes of John Travolta and Control star Sam Riley. Now BAFTA are bringing the producing team behind the film, plus two of the young stars and writers of the film (Lenny Wood and Mick Colligan) to Birmingham to share their expertise and inspire emerging and established filmmaking talent to work together on similar projects.

Sol and Roy will return in the afternoon to host a very special second workshop aimed at more established filmmakers who want to master the art of using archive material. In 2008 they produced the critically-acclaimed visual poem, the film ‘Of Time and the City’, directed by one of Britain’s greatest auteurs, Terence Davies. The film, comprised entirely of archive film and video footage, was selected to play at a special ‘out of competition screening’ at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it received huge critical support. The film has so far been invited to over 75 film festivals winning scores of awards and nominations including a BAFTA and a New York Film Critics Award. It was also voted one of Time Magazine's top ten films of 2008. Sol and Roy will be joined by their Archive Producer on the project, Jim Anderson, to give a very special masterclass for filmmakers on the value of using archive, revealing how to source valuable material and how to coherently tell a story using footage taken from past and present.

Details below:

Workshop 1:

Under The Mud Filmmakers Workshop

10.30am-12.30pm

This session will be a How To workshop, focussing on getting you the essential info you need to make a film. Using Under The Mud as a case study, Sol and Roy, along with Lenny and Mick, will talk you through the process, from writing the script and sourcing the cash to shooting and editing your film and getting it seen. This session will also include a brief screenwriting exercise.

Workshop 2

Of Time And The City Archive Masterclass

2.00pm-4.00pm

Using Sol and Roy’s BAFTA nominated film ‘Of Time and the City’ as a case study, the producers and their archivist will talk about the value of archive, how a story can be hung around archive, how to source funding for such a project. They will also help budding archive filmmakers with any questions they have on how to source archive material itself.

Places are limited so if you want to take part in either workshop please email sarah.arnesen@screenwm.co.uk by Wed 30th June.

Throughout the day, DVDs of Under The Mud will be available to buy.

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