SUNSHINE JACKSON UNDERHILL

Nominated for a BAFTA for editing “Jamie’s School Dinners”, Sunshine is an
experienced filmmaker, with specific skills in 35mm film editing, Avid and Final Cut Pro.

In November 2005, Sunshine directed her first film, a 50 minute documentary for Channel 4. She tutors in editing at two universities and for London Fim Academy’s and Four Corners’ film courses. Sunshine returned to work after 12 months’ maternity leave in May 2007.














Sunshine is the featured editor on the Channel 4 “Fourdocs” website -
www.channel4.com/fourdocs/people/sunshine_jackson.html
Reviews and Pick-of-the-Day’s available on request.

Editing Credits - A Selection

“Jamie’s School Dinners” Channel 4
documentary series Fresh One Productions

“Secret Millionaire” Channel 4
format documentary RDF Media

“Horizon – Suicide Bombers” BBC2
single documentary BBC Science

“What’s the Alternative? – Meditation” BBC2
factual series BBC Science

“Horizon – We Love Cigarettes” BBC2
single documentary BBC Science

“Jamie’s Great Escape” Channel 4
documentary series Fresh One Productions

“Horizon – Living With A.D.H.D.” BBC2
single documentary BBC Science

“The Third World War – Al Qaeda” BBC2
landmark current affairs series Current Affairs

“Horizon – The Atkins Diet” BBC2
single documentary BBC Science

ANDY GLYNNE

Profile
A clinical psychologist, author, documentary filmmaker and producer, Andy is the
founding director of the UK’s national documentary organisation, the Documentary Filmmakers Group. He’s an Executive Producer for Mosaic Films, and Director of the One World Broadcasting Trust.

Employment
Director, One World Broadcasting Trust, 2008 - ongoing
A UK-based charity set up in order to promote understanding between developing and developed countries of the world through the effective use of media,

Managing Director, Mosaic Films, 2007 - ongoing
A documentary production company which has been making pioneering and award winning documentaries for the past twenty years.

Founding Director, Documentary Filmmakers Group, 2003 -ongoing
The Documentary Filmmakers Group - DFG - is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK.

Some recent Credits Include:
Producer/Director “More Animated Minds” (2008) Teachers TV/ Wellcome Trust

Producer/Director “Belonging: Voices From Muslim Europe” In production.

Series Producer “Coma” Three Minute Wonder, Channel 4. In production

Executive Producer “Britain Recut” Three Minute Wonder, Channel 4, in
Production

Executive Producer, Series of Films for newly launched “Current TV”
Series Producer “Independence In 3 Mins” Series of 8 x 3” documentaries by Indian filmmakers on the themes of Independence for Channel 4.

• Executive Producer “Five Bites”. Series of news features for FIVE News

NICK POWELL

In the early 1970s Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in the space of ten years the pair turned a small mail-order record operation into a multi-million pound conglomerate.

In 1982 Powell formed Palace Productions together with Stephen Woolley and acted as Executive Producer on all of Palace's productions including Neil Jordan's award winning COMPANY OF WOLVES, Jordan's Oscar-nominated and Cannes award-winning MONA LISA, Neil Jordan's Oscar winning THE CRYING GAME.

In 1992 Powell and Woolley formed SCALA Productions where they produced Terence Davies' THE NEON BIBLE, the Oscar nominated and golden globe winning LITTLE VOICE by Mark Herman, with Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn and Ewan McGregor, and Fred Schepsi's LAST ORDERS with Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Ray Winstone. His last film is Ladies in Lavender, starring Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Natascha McElhone, and Daniel Bruhl.

In April of 1996 he was elected Chairman of the European Film Academy, and has since twice been re-elected.

Beside his appointment as Director of the National Film and Television School, he remains as Chairman of Scala Productions as well as a Director.

Nik Powell is also a board director of the Northern Ireland Film and TV Commission, an elected member of British Screen Advisory Council (overall umbrella body for UK media, set up by prime minister Harold Wilson, president is Lord Attenborough), also elected member of, the council of PACT (Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television).

Other memberships include, US academy: AMPAS (Association of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), BAFTA (British Academy of Film and TV Arts), European Producers Club, and the ’10 Downing Street, Working Party For Film’ set up by Margaret Thatcher in 1989.

ALEXANDRU SOLOMON

Alexandru has been making documentaries since 1993, while pursuing his career as director of photography for fiction films. His films are mixing genres, using his visual and experimental skills and have been screened and awarded in festivals around Europe. In the last years, Alexandru has entered the arena of international coproduction with the Great Communist Bank Robbery (premiered at IDFA 2004).

Documentaries & experimental (selective) :

2006: “CLARA B.” / 52 min. Docu-fiction.
Prod. Seppia, NDR/Arte, FR3 with support from French CNC and Romanian Public TV.
Best Documentary, Dakino International Festival, Bucharest, 2006.

2004: “THE GREAT COMMUNIST BANK ROBBERY” / 75 min. and 69 min. Documentary.
Prod. Les Films d’Ici, Libra Film, ZDF/Arte, BBC, FR2, with support from the National Film Center, Romania, Jan Vrijman Fund and Eurimages. Selected at IDFA 2004.
Prize of the Festival du Film d’Histoire, Pessac, France. Great Prize, Mediawave, Gyor, Hungary.

2002: “THE SWEET BREAD OF EXILE” / 26 min. and 10 min. Documentary.
Prod. Fundatia Arte Vizuale, with support from the National Film Center, Romania.
Special Prize of the Jury, Romanian Filmmakers’ Union. Selected at Jerusalem, Mediawave  & Sarajevo FF.
Broadcasted by TVR 2 / Romania. Special screenings in Berlin, London.

2001: “THE MAN WITH THOUSAND EYES” / 52 min. and 26 min. Documentary.
Prod. Ager Film, coprod. Fundatia Arte Vizuale, with support from the National Film Center, Romania.
Best Documentary, Dakino Film Festival (2001). Best Short Documentary, Romanian Filmmakers’ Guild.
Best Director and Best Photography, Cronograf FF, Chisinau.

1999: “A DOG’S LIFE”/ 23 min. Documentary.
A coproduction of Fundatia Arte Vizuale and the Soros Foundation, Romania.
Best Documentary Prize, Dakino Film Festival, Romania.

1994: "DUO FOR PAOLONCELLO AND PETRONOME"/ 28 min. Art documentary.
Prize for Best Video, International Youth Film Festival, Costinesti, Romania (1994).
Special Prize, Mediafest ’96, Romania.
Selected at Cracow / Poland (1995), Clermont-Ferrand (1996), Stuttgarter Filmwinter (1996).

CĂTĂLIN MITULESCU

Director
Born in 1972, Catalin studied Geology at the National University in Bucharest. Shortly after the Revolution he abandoned his studies and went travelling and working in Austria, Hungary, Poland, Italy. He came back Romania, started the film directing Faculty at the Theatre and Film University and graduated in 2000.
Ever since Catalin directed a series of short films and documentaries such as „At noon”, „Adrian copilul minune”, Bucureşti-Wien 8:15, 17 minutes late. The last two were selected at important film festivals such as Cannes, Munchen, Torino, Karlovy Vary, Stuttgart, Angers, Cottbus.

In 2004, he received a Palm d’Or for his short film „Trafic”, at Cannnes Film Festival.
Another importand award came in 2005, at Sundance, conducted by Robert Redford. The script for his feature film debut, „The way i spent the end of the world”, was designated as Best project of the year, Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers.

Produced in 2006, The way i spent the end of the world” was selected at Cannes, „Un certain regard” section and received an award for the best female interpretation – „Eva”.

In 2007 the film was presented within „Generation” at Berlin International Film Festival.

TONY GRISONI

Tony Grisoni worked in many different areas of film making before turning to screenwriting. QUEEN OF HEARTS, 1989 was his award winning first feature directed by Jon Amiel. He has worked closely with a number of directors including John Boorman and Terry Gilliam (FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, 1998 and TIDELAND, 2005). Grisoni is also proud to count himself amongst the crew on board the ship of fools: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE.

VANISHED - A VIDEO SEANCE, 1999 was made in collaboration with performance artist and poet, Brian Catling, Jonathan Romney referred to the piece as “genre busting - an encounter between mainstream movie story telling and the art avant-garde...”

In 2001, Tony Grisoni made the trek along the people smugglers’ route from the Pakistan/Afghan border, through Iran and Turkey to Europe with the director, Michael Winterbottom. The resulting film, IN THIS WORLD, won the 2002 Berlinale’s Golden Bear award.

More recent projects include:
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD, from the Brian Aldiss novel about the rise and fall of Siamese twin rockers, Tom and Barry Howe. Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (makers of LOST IN LA MANCHA)
TIDELAND, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s book about a modern Alice. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
THE CUTTING, a film based on the finding of the 2,000 year old Grauballe Man in Denmark. With Brian Catling.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Saints and sinners in 'Little Cyprus', Haringey. Directed by photographer, Rankin and Chris Cottam.
DEATH DEFYING ACTS. Houdini meets his nemesis in a story of passion, redemption and deception. Written in collaboration with Brian Ward. Directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Currently writing:
THE RED RIDING QUARTET. Yorkshire Noir in the decade 1974 to '83. 4 full length dramas from the novels by David Peace. For Revolution Films and Channel 4.
KINDRED SPIRITS. An odyssey through the life and fiction of Philip K Dick's. With Lenny Beckermann for Anonymous Content and HBO.
UNLOVED. With Samantha Morton whose directorial debut this will be.
THE CHINES. C4 TV series – private investigators and alternate worlds.
KINGSLAND. First part of a feature to be set in the Kurdish community of North London. To be directed by Grisoni.

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Three young Romanian film makers are the guests of the 6th
NAHEMI - Eat Our Shorts Film Festival at BFI Southbank.

Catalin Mitulescu, the director of The Way I Spent the End of the World and winner of the Cannes Festival Short Film Palme D'Or 2004, will screen and discuss his award-winning shorts Traffic, Bucharest-Vienna 8.15 and 17 Minutes Late.

The documentary director Alexandru Solomon, author of the critically-acclaimed The Great Communist Bank Robbery presented on BBC 4 and at the Voyages Festival, will take part in the EOS 6 Documentary Debate screening excerpts from his recently completed documentary on Radio Free Europe, Cold Waves. The EOS 6 Documentary Debate is produced in collaboration with The One World Broadcasting Trust.

Catalin Cristutiu, one of the most prolific editors in the Romanian film industry, will discuss his artistic involvement in completing Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin', awarded with Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Nemescu's rarely seen C Block Story will be screened along with Marilena From P7.

On 20-2-2008 at 18.30, the Eat Our Shorts Gala entitled:
Young Romanian Cinema's New Wave
will feature:

Cristian Mungiu's outstanding short The Hand of Paulista. Mungiu is the winner of the Cannes Palm D'Or 2007 for his feature film 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, currently in distribution in the UK.

Radu Jude's Lamp with a Hat, a winner of awards at Sundance as well as at Encounters 2007 in Bristol where it was chosen as the Best Foreign Film.

The EOS 6 Gala is curated by Yossi Bal.

The Romanian film makers' participation in the Eat Our Shorts Film Festival is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

The Eat Our Shorts Documentary Debate is in collaboration with the One World Broadcasting Trust and the Documentary Film Group

Gala tickets are on sale at the NFT Box office: 020 7928 3232