Personnel
[d]Composer Resistance
Claudio Ahlers studied music in Manchester, followed by a Masters Degree in Composing for Film, TV and Theatre in Bristol in 1998. He worked as an in-house composer and dubbing mixer for a Bristol-based television production company. He is now a freelance composer writing music for TV and film and a number of production music labels. Over the past ten years he has composed music for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, National Geographic Television, NDR (Germany) and a number of cable broadcasters. He has also written the music for four short films and continually collaborates with fellow musician Paul Rawson under the name Skinny White Men
[d]Editor Nectar
Bim is a non-linear editor, graphic designer and digital film-maker. Broadcast Magazine dubbed him a young media 'hot-shot' and one to watch. Bim is a multi-skilled creative who has edited offline and online for Channel 4 and Big Umbrella production company. Channel 4 credits include Nambia Challenge (C4), 03 and me and VeeTV. Other credits include RNID videos, SKYE, a British Deaf Association award winning short, and several deaf pop videos. Bim's software skills include AVID, DV Express, Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Macromedia Director
[d]Deaf consultant Nectar
First involved in the media production in 1982. Trained as producer with BBC's media training, carried out research work for Channel Four and BBC, presenting for BBC since 1985. Born Deaf from Deaf family and strongly active in Deaf community. Currently, lecturer/researcher at Centre for Deaf studies, Bristol and freelance interpreter for Point West News.
[d]Technical Team on Resistance installation
ArtAV is a collaboration between Tom Cullen, Nick Joyce, Steve Holmes and the resources and facilities at Enigma FX to provide the number one technical service to the UK art industry. Clients include Bill Viola, Gillian Wearing, Steve McQueen, Isaac Julien and Jane & Louise Wilson.
[d]Frida in Frida Kahlo's Corset
Isolte Avila is a Cuban born Dancer/Choreographer. She trained with the Cuban Ballet and Netherlands Dance Theatre. Isolte has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of The Arts. Creator of Sign Dance Theatre, she has developed the artform for over 16 years collaborating with many directors, film makers and musicians. She is the co-Artistic Director for Sign Dance Collective (the international sign dance theatre company based in the Netherlands and the UK) with actor/filmaker David Bower. Recent touring productions include Carovana Productions' Livorno Italia, Named Space, and You Hide and I'll Go Blow Up The Generator
[d]Orderly in Resistance
Canice is an actor. He recently graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. This is his first professional performance on film. Since graduating he has worked in Theatre in Education for Quantum Theatre, short films for many of the film schools in the UK and Fringe Theatre. Canice is a native of Dublin. "Working on this film was one of the most enjoyable and fulfilling acting experience to date. The team were wonderful. Thanks for the opportunity."
[d]Otto in Resistance
Jamie is an actor, director, writer and workshop leader. He was Associate Director of Graeae Theatre Company, but now works as a freelancer. Amongst the companies he has worked with are the Arts Council, the BBC, Diverse City, Nottingham Playhouse, London Metropolitan University and a host of drama colleges. As a performer his credits include Skalligrigg, Quills,I.D., Wonderful You, The Egg and The Outcasts. He is available...book him!
[d]Elise and Producer and Elise in Resistance
Lou's first film as writer/director, Black Dog, was screened at the Sheffield International Film Festival, broadcast by Channel 4, and selected for the BFI Disabling Imagery educational package. Since gaining an MA in Documentary Film from Goldsmiths in 1999, she has worked continuously as a writer/director, with film commissions from various sources, including broadcast. Previously, she worked in BBC production, taught video production in further education, and wrote/directed several theatre performances. Her most recent film work as writer/director was Stubborn & Spite: Best Film nomination (London Short Film Festival), Honourable Mention (Picture This Film Festival), Best Work of 2007 (UK Film Council Digital Shorts).
[d]Nurse in Resistance
Sarah is an accomplished actress with over twenty years' experience on screen and stage. Recent work includes Judy in In Love with Barbara for BBC 4, Persuasion for Clerkenwell Films, along with appearances in Skins, Doc Martin and Holby City. Theatre work includes Delaine in Painting Heaven at Theatre West and The House of Bernarda at the Alba.
[d]Walter in Nectar
Classical training in ballet and tap gives Jacob a strong footing in comedic and physical theatre. A member of Bristol Musical Youth Productions for eight years, he appeared in major shows including Tommy and Hans Christian Anderson at Bristol Hippodrome, plus work in Disneyland Europe. Television credits include BBC dramas Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Garden and Casualty. Theatre performance includes leading roles in adaptations of Toy Story, Derek Jarman's Blue, The Nuremburg Trials, plus contemporary original works. As a Deaf actor, Jake was asked to work with Green Candle Dance Company introducing BSL to children in primary schools. His most recent work is for urban thriller Soundproof for BBC2, a full length feature to be screened in 2006. Nectar is his debut on the big screen.
[d]Walter in Nectar
As a deaf actor I have been involved in the development of the theatre of the D/deaf since the 1960s, covering a wide range of various disciplines such as mime, poetry signing, drama in theatre sign language, teaching D/deaf theatre. I also lectured at the University of Reading. I am keen on the idea of plays as well as films illustrating the power and lyrical expressiveness of Sign Language as a third dimension to the language of drama and theatre.
[d]Reporter in Nectar, Medical Director in Resistance
David's work includes National Theatre with Jonathan Miller and David Hare, Dionysus in The Bacchaei and many other leading roles for BBC Radio, Malvolio for Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory, many musicals including Gone With the Wind at Drury Lane and Dr Love. He created a show about Henri Nouwen, the priest who loved circus and devoted his life to Jean Vanier's L'Arche Community. David's writing also includes poetry: As Far as I Know (2003), and Life Forms (2004); and plays: Hilda's World (2005) and the unfinished Uz.
[d]Writer, director and producer of various Roaring Girl productions
Liz is a writer-director working with film, audio and text. Interested in drama, life stories and experimental work, she is drawn to the potential of storytelling to trigger change. Described as "a director of real visual flair", her work has been praised for its ability "to get under the skin of a subject". Liz's work has shown at Tate Modern and the British Film Institute, as well as on television and at festivals internationally. Through a four-year NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) fellowship, she explored ways to combine her creative practice and political activism. Liz is a graduate of the Skillset Guiding Lights scheme where she was mentored by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty).
[d]Producer Nectar
Abigail is a seasoned and award winning producer with over 450 network and regional film and television credits. A former drama Commissioning Editor, she ran HTV's Western Lights, a new talent drama production scheme for single drama. Credits include: Mother Me Daughter (starring Brenda Fricker), Steps (starring Ron Moody), Skin Deep (starring Navin Chowdry and Charles Dale, nominated for BAFTA Best Short) and Just Desserts, a comedy drama directed by Vadim Jean, nominated for an RTS Award 2001. Abigail is a member of South West Screen's Script Consultant Bank and a mentor for the UKFC's young people's filmmaking scheme First Light. She has produced eleven UKFC Digital Shorts. Abigail lectures in media studies at University of the West of England.
[d]Camera on documentary accompanying Nectar
I am a freelance artist and run VS1 Production in Bristol, where we organise Vision Sign at the Watershed. I first acted in the Deaf Festival at The Swan in 1997, then presented for BBC Education. Theatre and TV/film credits include Bent (Graeae), Diary of an Action Man (Graeae), Chronic Embarrassment (Bursteardurm), Talk (Disability Rights Commission), The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC), Holby City (BBC) and DEF (Salad Films), winning Best Actor for DEF in the Deaf Oscars. Since 2000, I have run acting and film making workshops with Deaf Children, recently encouraging young Deaf people in the south-west to get involved in experimental film-making, theatre and performance.
[d]Sign language interpreter Nectar, Resistance
Award-winning broadcaster Sherrie Eugene started her television career 23 years ago as a sign language interpreter for HTV news and weather, before embarking on speech presentation and becoming the station's anchor woman. She has worked on a range of programmes, many of which she devised, including Hand in Hand for C4, Green Grow the Rushes, a vegetarian cookery programme, Bristol's Roots, a look into the history of the Black Diaspora, and the documentary Windrush, which won a National Television Award. Now a freelance Presenter/Producer, she is working on a series West Country Culture for ITV West News, focusing on the West's diversity of culture and ethnicity.
[d]Assistant Producer Nectar, Producer Open Road
Sue's passion for photography and story telling took her to Bristol to study film. Her varied experience and interests - from textile design to engineering are reflected in her work, which encompasses experimental art films, science documentary and drama. Sue sees herself as a person who creates what she wants in whatever form suits the material - without being boxed in. She wants to make stunning work that challenges the audience so that they reconsider the world around them. As a filmmaker she has made foreign language films that have been broadcast shown in museums and galleries in The Netherlands and New York. Her experimental shorts have reached festival audiences.
[d]Director of Photography Nectar
For most of my career I have worked in the interface, originally between film and video, now between film and new digital media. I've shot on most film and video formats, for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, (two of these won British Royal Television Society awards) and various international terrestrial and satellite broadcasters, and in drama, documentary, promos and commercials, live TV and films for theatrical distribution. Since 2000 I've become re-acquainted with High Definition (I first came across the older 1250 line system in 1990) and in 2004 (having already made various HD projects, some for film transfer) I shot the feature film Past, Present, Future Imperfect for Fluidity Films on 24p 1080 for cinema release. Also in 2004 I lit and technically directed a multi-camera HD shoot under candlelight for an HD DVD. My next feature Human Remains is due to shoot in 2006. More information on my website
[d]Thomas in Resistance
Mat Fraser is an actor, writer, and multi-disciplinary performing and Disability artist. He has performed professionally on stage and screen all his adult life, having been first a drummer for 16 years, before coming out as disabled and becoming a full time Disabled and Disability Artist. He has written three plays, and made several CDs of music, as well as performed live art, cabaret, theatre, music and lectures, all over the world.
[d]Audio description consultant Nectar
After several years' theatre experience and directing for BBC television, Raina trained in fiction film direction at The Northern Film School. Her graduation film Drive (1997) premiered at Leeds International Film Festival. The first fiction film to be audio described at production stage, it premiered at Birmingham International Film Festival (1997) and won Best Overall Innovation at Picture This Film Festival (Calgary). In 2002, Raina directed Gettin Off, followed by Blind Sensations (2001), 3x3 minute experimental films. Currently, Raina is collaborating with producer Paul Raphael and screenwriter Meera Syal on a romantic comedy project, with development finance from the UK Film Council. Raina does audio description production training and consultancy for audio describers and filmmakers.
[d]Coach in Nectar
Joe trained at Dartington College of Arts. His works in film and television and has appeared in numerous productions on ITV, Channel 4 and BBC. His theatre experience includes Bristol Old Vic, Travelling Light and Show of Strength. He has also appeared in several plays on Radio 3 and 4.
[d]Co-writer-producer-director 1831 Riot!; Co-writer Frida Kahlo's Corset
I call/am called/have called myself many things: poet, text-based artist, writer, scriptwriter, inventor, playwright, installation artist, micro-economic cultural entity, public poet. Do, do, now what do I do do? Oh, spray 100m long violent red negatively-stencilled 'found' poems onto industrial plastic and wind it round Somerset farms; float words on ponds and record the way the water sprites and frogs want them arranged; literally stick a 600m long 'city epic' onto the streets of Bristol, up and over several buildings and completely around two ferries (Bristol Legible City); fly poems on kites at Tintagel as English Heritage writer-in-residence. The LIVE VOICE is very important and I'm looking into ways of developing that right now. Stuff.
[d]Mother in Illumination
Kiren's acting credits extend to both film and theatre. she has worked with a variety of theatre and film companies. She begun her training at Aberystwyth University and went on to attend a number courses in dance and creative writing. Her theatre credits include: Forever (National Tour), Fools Paradise, Romeo & Laila, Multicultural, Phadera Brittanica. After a series of short films she has recently completed her first feature film Veiled Existence where she plays the leading role of Suman. Kiren is currently the youth theatre leader at Loughborough Theatre and leads a number of dance and theatre workshops across the country.
[d]Clerk in Resistance
Chloe left Guildford School of Acting in 1990. Her first work, Hamlet, was in the West End, followed by a tour in Germany, returning to the London Fringe in such shows as New Science, Swing Low Sweet Testicles, Baal, Blood Wedding, Skin and Baby With the Bathwater. She helped set up Overall Productions with Sleeping Beauty and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Chloe has a keen interest in new writing and film, which has brought her into contact with short filmmakers. Her work includes the award-winning The Thief of Smiles, Six Foot Square, Bubble Gum and Park Lane. Chloe has also worked in comedie, mime and a documentary.
[d]Animator Illumination
After completing a BA hons degree in Fine Art Printmaking in 1984, Bryan’s career started in a Cheltenham graphic design company before forming a fashion garment screen-print and design company. During business trips to Japan, it was suggested that his character drawings would be ideal for a Japanese comic strip, which appeared in Tokyo in 1995. this lead naturally to animation and the character Max Bear, co-developed with his wife Helena, was first broadcast on UK Channel 4 in 1998. Bryan began teaching animation and motion graphics in 2004, designing modules for industry and education while continuing to develop animated projects with his company Max Bear Productions Ltd.
[d]Gloria in Nectar
Poppy Roberts was born and raised in Cornwall and after backpacking her way around the world (and amazingly returning in one piece!) followed her dream to become an actor and began a three year training at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Since leaving she has been involved in a variety of projects including a number one theatre tour ('My Boy Jack') and a new piece of writing- 'Kitty and Kate'- showcased at The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under- Lyme. As well as several short films and youth and community projects. She has recently returned to her beloved Cornwall where she continues to surround herself in the world of film and theatre.
[d]Nell in Illumination
Maia Tamrakar was cast as Dolly Girl in The King and I in 2004, aged 6. She loved being in the show and the producers were so impressed with her that she was asked to tour with the company. In 2006, she was cast as Tam in Miss Saigon and was overjoyed to be on stage again. Maia regularly attends the ITV West Drama Workshop, and it was here that she was spotted for Illumination, her first experience of film . Maia is very keen on theatre and now also on filming and would love to do more. She manages to fit it in between the many hours she spends in training as a gymnast, her other passion.
[d]Composer Nectar, Resistance
An established film and television composer, Barnaby Taylor has produced scores for the BBC, Discovery Channel, and independent production companies such as Brook Lapping, Tigress Productions and Icon Films. He has worked on major strands including Storyville, Wildlife on One and The Natural World and in a wide range of genres (documentary, natural-history, commercials, short-film, theatre and radio) and styles (from sound-design and beat-driven, sample-based pieces, to acoustic scores and orchestral works). He has worked with the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras, most recently on the BBC's Journey of Life and Europe: A Natural History. Recent projects include BAFTA-nominated My Foetus, and Calling the Shots, a finalist at the 2005 Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival.
[d]Bertha in Resistance
Sophie has been writing, devising, performing and producing for the past 15 years. Recent work includes Something to Sing About at Colchester's Mercury Theatre, King Lear at Colcherster Institute. She has performed with Candoco dance company and is a member of Diplay theatre group. Sophie is a Candidate Member of the Writer's Guild of Great Britain.
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