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THURSDAY 24 JUNE 18:00 BAFTA AND CREATIVE NETWORKS PRESENT – DOCUMENTARY FOCUS

June 16, 2010 /

Birmingham City University, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B4 7XG

4pm The Music Network Meeting

6pm Registration and refreshments

7pm Event starts

An evening with BAFTA-winning director Jessie Versluys and assistant producer Kate Collier on the making of Katie: My Beautiful Face.

Katie was young and beautiful. A model and budding TV presenter, the 24-year-old had a glowing future ahead of her. But in 2008 a vicious acid attack destroyed her face, and with it her career and her life as she knew it.

Join BAFTA and Creative Networks to hear how director Jessie and assistant producer Kate worked with Katie to bring her incredibly moving story to the screen. From commissioning and production through to the editing process, Jessie will elucidate the struggles both she and Katie faced in the making of this documentary and explain how they captured Katie’s truly amazing spirit and humour as she began to rebuild her life with her new appearance. Breakthrough talent BAFTA winner Jessie will also offer indispensible advice to budding filmmakers on how to approach sensitive subjects for the screen.

The event will be interspersed with clips from the Channel Four Cutting Edge production Katie: My Beautiful Face, courtesy of Mentorn Media.

Jessie Versluys is a freelance Producer/ Director. Jessie has a background in both factual entertainment and documentary, directing on a range of programmes from The Apprentice and Secret Millionaire to the critically acclaimed The Hospital (A and E) which revealed the plight of the busy staff on a typical NHS emergency wing. Jessie worked her way up the ladder until she got a break directing on a Channel 4 first-time directors’ scheme run through Ricochet. After making her first 30 minute documentary about a vulnerable prolific young offender she went on to make her first 60 minute documentary, Into The Big Wide World – a touching and well received film about care leavers and the extraordinary difficulties they face. She is technically trained and has self-shot many of her programmes.

To join us for this FREE event, please email creative.networks@bcu.ac.uk or call Dave Taylor on 0121 331 5400.
Alternatively, register online at www.creativenetworksonline.com

BAFTA’s learning and events programme brings you closer to the film, television and video games industries. Through nationwide events, which are open to all, and exclusive online content, BAFTA shares the knowledge, talent and advice of industry experts. Learn from the best at www.bafta.org. Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/bafta

links for 2010-06-16

June 16, 2010 /
  • EvilSponge: 100 Songs of the Decade
    Devil In the Detail – The Nightingales (Single, 2005)
    This is The Nightingales flexing their muscles, going for an almost Pistols-like power, whilst Robert Lloyd adopts an almost Iggy-like drawl on top of it all. My Single of 2005.

    Rocket Pool Via Rough Hills – The Nightingales (Out Of True LP, 2006)
    Silver Machine-like noises over an Eddie Cochran riff and a beat to die for from their then new drummer Daren Garrett. Wonderful stuff!

    (tags: newswire music birmingham)
  • Music Supported Here | Support Musicians' Rights. Support Music.
    Music Supported Here is a new movement from the Musicians’ Union.
    It’s a campaign for all musicians.

    It’s about the simple but important principle that musicians should
    not get ripped-off in the digital world.

    For musicians, it will be a way to publicise and debate the issue
    and to remind fans that you want to control your rights.

    It’s a platform for musicians to raise their profile and direct their fans to
    their own stores and websites: a source of music controlled by the musicians.

    And for music fans it’s a way to say that you don’t rip-off musicians.

    By supporting musicians' rights, we’re supporting music.

    (tags: newswire musicnetwork musicians)
  • Life in a Blender – New music website
    The new Life in A Blender site now includes a storefront where you can buy all the band's music, in physical or digital form.

    Check out the rarities on Mysterious Floating. Songs you never thought or wished existed–now you can own them!

    You can also stream the entire catalog in case you like to try before you buy. Our music is available at iTunes, Amazon, etc, but directly from our website is the… best deal for you and for us, so come on by.

    Visit the site often for news about shows and exclusive goodies. For instance, right now we're giving away a FREE (or pay-what-you-wish) download of a brand-new recording, HOOT OWL, from our forthcoming full-length album.

    Buy some stuff and you'll play a mighty role in helping us finish our new CD and you'll be awesome!!

    The site was designed by Mark Lerner, Life in a Blender's bassist.

    (tags: newswire music website)

Birmingham and Beyond – Old Library @ Custard Factory Monday 28th June 6.00pm – 10.00pm

June 15, 2010 /

Birmingham and Beyond in the Old Library @ the Custard Factory
Monday 28th June 6.00pm – 10.00pm

The Musicians’ Union (MU) are presenting an event in the Old Library at the Custard Factory on Monday 28th June aimed at helping Birmingham’s musicians to get themselves onto the Midlands music scene and beyond.   The evening will be a mixture of networking and panel discussions covering topics such as taking care of business, the local music scene and beyond.

The line up is set to include Stu Coleman, creator and editor of Scene Not Heard, Maria Rodriguez, lead singer and guitarist from Birmingham band Gundogs and Ben Eshmade the radio producer and founder of the Arctic Circle.

The doors open from 6 and entry is by registration only.  To get on the entry list or for more details please contact Lyndsey on 0121 622 3870 or lyndsey.hardiman@themu.org
Birmingham and Beyond - Old Library @ Custard Factory Monday 28th June 6.00pm – 10.00pm

Andy Derrick on why Birmingham Music Network should be funded by A.W.M.

June 14, 2010 /

Andy Derrick has written an interesting piece on why Birmingham Music Network should be funded by AWM.

Andy starts by saying “I have the great pleasure of frequently attending and sometimes chairing the Birmingham Music Network. For those of you that don’t know, the BMN meets on the last Thursday of each month inside the TEE, a faculty of Birmingham City University at Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham.  

The network also has a dynamic online presence here: https://birminghammusicnetwork.com

It was set up by Mark Sampson and Anthony Hughes some time ago and is run on a voluntary basis. It meets an average of 20 people each month providing advice, support and a place to meet others and make good contacts. Businesses represented include sound engineers, singers, songwriters, radio dj’s, studio owners, performers, music students, media consultant, venue owners, gig promoters and everyone from across the music industry spectrum in the West Midlands.

The website and the network are vital Giochi tradizionali (o europei) in uso nei casino italiani sono: Roulette francese, Trente et quarante, Chemin de fer, Boule, Baccarat. parts of the local music scene, in my opinion, but it could do more. Imagine a world where the website is continuously updated by a team of dedicated experts, where less time was spent finding a sponsor for some tea and coffee and more on promoting the meetings to the people that need them, where there was a budget to advertise effectively, where the volunteers were paid a modest amount to cover their time and expenses. Imagine what could be achieved.  It could be achieved with some financial support.”

Other pearls of Andy here: http://andyderrick.co.uk

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