In addition to his role as Film Editor of Heat magazine, the UK celebrity entertainment weekly Charles’ freelance activities include writing a monthly column on box-office for Sight & Sound and a weekly box-office commentary for Guardian.co.uk. This has has led to him presenting items on the subject for BBC1's Film 2011. He is a regular film reviewer for Claudia Winkleman's Radio 2 arts show, and for Hollywood trade paper Variety. He is also a consultant on film for the Saturday Times Magazine, and is a contributing editor of Wired UK.
The lecture given by Charles Gant will focus on all aspects of the film industry, from journalism to production and from distribution to exhibition.
Neil Hunter has co-written and directed three feature films with Tom Hunsinger: Boyfriends, The Lawless Heart and Sparkle. Based on improvisation, they have won numerous awards and wide distribution. They are currently developing a fourth, Three Way Split. With Rupert Jones he has written a short film, The Sickie (starring Toby Jones) and contemporary comedy, Cossacks; and with Natalie Sirett, a mystery drama set in the 1970s, The Sycamores. He has new work in development with both. He has taught screenwriting at the London Film School and the Arvon Foundation, and has mentored for Moonstone and Equinoxe Germany.
Following Charles’ lecture Neil will give a director’s introduction to a screening of Sparkle, his 2007 comedy. Attendeees will also have the opportunity to take part in a questions and answer (Q&A) session with Neil and Charles after the screening.
Kingsley Marshall, Award Leader for BA (Hons) Film says; “Charles and Neil close an outstanding range of guest speakers in this years series. Danny Miller and Matt Bochenski, the publisher and editor of Little White Lies, have been followed compositor Matt Walsh, screenwriters such as Tammy Riley Smith and Neil Fox, feature film director Joannes Roberts, HorsesOnScreen’s Josie Kenyon and sound designer Russ Jones. These fascinating speakers have opened up internship opportunities for the course, extending upon our continuing work with Warp Films, and offer many years of experience for our current students, and members of the public who have attended the events. We’re already working on a wishlist for the next academic year.”
Friday 6 May, 5.30pm to 8.30pm in the Media Centre Cinema on the Tremough Campus, University College Falmouth, Penryn.
All welcome but advance booking of tickets is required through eventbrite http://charlesgant.eventbrite.
For further information about BA(Hons) Film at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/film, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214368.
UCF is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the right to award degrees in its own name. The University College has two campuses – at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns and jointly manages with the University of Exeter).
UCF’s merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008 created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth’s expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington’s expertise in Dance, Music, Theatre, Artand Writing. The Dartington-based courses have now relocated to an impressive, high-specification £19M Performance Centre at the Tremough Campus, which launched this October. The ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) Convergence Programme invested £12,266,667 in this development which will prepare performance students for success within the creative industries. The South West Regional Development Agency’s Single Pot Fund contributed a further £3M, with the remainder being invested by the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Strategic Development Fund.
The Performance Centre is the latest phase in UCF’s ambition to create a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2013/2014 that will be unrivalled in the South West.
UCF is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.
