Dear Filmmaker,

We at the Metropolitan Film School are pleased to invite you to a Digital Filmmaking Workshop, which we are hosting exclusively for University Film Societies from all across the country this summer.

The aim of the day is to bring Film Societies together in a non-competitive environment and offer you a chance to participate in a day of workshops led by industry professionals on Digital Film Production, Post-Production, Distribution and Exhibition at the famous Ealing Studios in West London. Throughout the day you will also have plenty of opportunity to meet and work with fellow filmmakers from other societies and an evening drinks and screening session will allow you to watch some of each others short films and chat about your own societies and discuss any upcoming projects.

This event is to be held on Wednesday 4 July 2007 at our Ealing Studios facilities. The workshop will run from 11am - 5pm with the evening drinks and screening session following on from 5pm - 7pm. For those of you travelling a long distance we are able to assist you in arranging accommodation in Ealing at a very cheap price.

A provisional programme of events for the day is as follows:

10.30-11.30am: Arrive at Ealing and meet and chat with fellow Film Societies over drinks and snacks.

11.30am - 12.30 pm: Developing and Producing Films in the New World of Digital Cinema

Jonny Persey - APT Films / Met Film School

Jonny is an independent film producer, managing director of APT Films, and Director of the Metropolitan Film School. His credits include Wondrous Oblivion, Deep Water, Everyone's Child, and he is currently in production on Heavy Load and French Film.

12.45pm - 2pm: Advances in Digital Film Post-Production
Matt Troughton - Met Film and TV

Matt is a senior colourist at Digital Post-Production Company Met Film & TV. He has a 1st class honours degree in post-production for film and TV and has worked as editor and colourist on an impressive array of projects - from feature films, documentaries and music promos to commercials and TV. Most recently he was the colourist on the feature documentary, The Pied Piper of Hutzovina, which garnered great reviews.

2pm - 3pm: Lunch

3pm - 4pm: Microbudget Digital Feature Films

Uzma Hasan - Slingshot Studios

Uzma is development producer at microbudget feature film production and distribution company slingshot, where she works across development and production. Slingshot was set up in 2005 with the ambitious aim of producing and distributing 10 feature films in 3 years. Their first feature Sugarhouse is currently in the distribution stage and their second feature French Film is about to begin shooting later this month.

4.15pm - 4.45pm Digital Film Training at the Metropolitan Film School
Rif Mahmood - Enrolments Director
Rif will give a brief presentation and hold a Q&A session on new digital film training opportunities at the Metropolitan Film School and you will have the chance to take a tour of Ealing Studios and the Metropolitan Film School.

5pm - 7pm: Screenings: University Film Societies
This part of the day will be very much down to you. Each society will have the opportunity to speak about your film society and, if you would like to, screen a couple of your own student short films. There will be drinks and snacks provided and it will be an informal and hopefully very enjoyable end to a brilliant day.

We really hope that you will be able to join us for this brilliant event. It will be a great chance to really get to know other film

societies and expand your film network, as well as an invaluable opportunity to partake in some exclusive workshops and meet

filmmaking professionals working at the heart of the British digital filmmaking industry.

If you are interested in coming to this event please send me an email at becky@metfilm.co.uk or call me on 020 8280 9116.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards

Becky

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