New Cambridge professional Film TV Media network group - BEEST!

Are you in TV, film, media?  Are you in or near Cambridge? BEEST is a new film/media/tv professionals networking group for Cambridge.

Wed 13 Sep 7-9pm. Makespace Classroom, 16 Mill Lane Cb2 1RX
RSVP here or on the BEEST group FB page.

Drinks, chat and a brief talk by 360 / VR producer Alex Ruhl and myself about making our first narrative 360 short: Keyed Alike.

As well as Directors, producers, camera people, sound people, we have composers, performers, writers coming along too. 

Is this Matron's replacement?

Mr. Cranborne (Matthew Ashforde) has the shock of his life when his stern father - the Reverend Cranborne (Pip Torrens) - turns up at the Foundling Hospital ... Episode 5. "Blanche" i-player now 

Hetty Feather ... The Trailer is here

Who needs Vader and Skywalker when you have the epic show downs between scary Matron Bottomley and plucky Hetty Feather?... see the trailer here 

I directed episodes 6-10. So most of the second half of this trailer is from my episodes. Hetty Feather airs on CBBC very soon. 

 

Hetty Feather

This was my first taste of directing period drama. Smoke 'n' bonnets. 

Hetty Feather is a new 10 part period drama for CBBC based on the book by best-selling author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson (creator of Tracy Beaker).  It's all about Hetty, a young girl abandoned as a baby by her mother at the Foundling Hospital . This is a real place with a compelling, moving history. 

Hetty Feather brings the realities of being a kid in the Victorian age – good, bad, funny and tragic – to life, through the eyes of the boys and girls who live in the Foundling Hospital. They endure the terrifying dictatorship of Matron Bottomley (played by Eva Pope). Punishments are the norm, kindness is a rarity. The Foundlings have to stick together.

12-year-old newcomer Isabel Clifton landed the role of Hetty - her first TV job!  

I directed 5 episodes, all on location at Cobham Hall, a boarding school in Kent.  It transmits in May.

I'd love to post behind the scenes photos but it's been strictly embargoed by the BBC ... 

Sharon Horgan : Placenta Smoothie Woman

If you've got withdrawal symptoms after the end of Catastrophe , watch a bit of Sharon Horgan here. This is a promo teaser for the 3x50' Channel 4 documentaries we made about motherhood, marriage, and midlife crisis.

Promo trailer for Channel 4 series. 3 x 50' films. How to be a Good Mother with Sharon Horgan, Secrets of a Good Marriage, On the Verge of a Midlife Crisis Sharon Horgan meets some extraordinary people, makes a placenta smoothie and drinks sexy tea. Directed by Chloe Thomas http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sharon-horgan-on/4od#3289036

You can watch the complete  Sharon Horgan On the verge of a Midlife Crisis on 4od.