Talks about film & TV: Richard Drew, Charlie Thorne, & Saara-Maria Salonen

Video Affects is a night of talks and conversations about all things film. Organised by documentary filmmakers Jak Hutchcraft (Right Here, Right Now) and Jason Bick (20,000 Days on Earth), you can expect fun informal talks and Q&As by superfans, filmmakers, actors and crew. Dive into cult classics, weird theories, DIY filmmaking, unknown gems, tales from the movie set, Hollywood guilty pleasures, and much more.

Guest speakers:
Saara-Maria Salonen -Journalist and filmmaker with a strong interest in Arctic issues, climate change and sustainable energies as well as indigenous matters in the Nordic Countries. She works as exec producer on ÁHKUIN, a documentary which follows three generations of a Sámi family through a transcendent and playful journey centered on the joik, the traditional Sámi oral storytelling tradition. Saara-Maria is Finnish and Inari Sámi, living in Brighton, UK.

Charlie Thorne: Award winning documentary director. His film, Ramble On, screened at Sheffield Doc Fest and it's about activist, Right to Roam campaigner and self styled ‘Foot-soldier’ Terry Howard. IT tells the story of the fight to reclaim England’s stolen ground.

Richard Drew: Designer in TV. He started his career in the late 80’s at The BBC and to date has very nearly 200 screen credits to his name, those include After Life, This Time With Alan Partridge, Tish, The Larkins, The Chelsea Detective, McDonald & Dodds and The Inbetweeners. On this evening he'll be talking about his work on the controversial, cult TV broadcast Ghostwatch.

Doors at 7pm, the event starts at 7.30pm.

£8.00 entry
£10 if you're feeling generous

It's upstairs at the East Street Tap in Brighton.

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