Screentest

Below are the judges for Screentest 2010. This year we changed the way we judge the films as previously it was only the Grand Jury Award (or Best Film) which was judged by a small panel of about 5 judges. This year we decided that we wanted all of the Awards to be judged by a much larger panel of judges. We also wanted all of the films, screened at the festival, to be judged by our judges in order for more of the student submissions to undergo critique. The 2010 judging panel is made up of approximately 50% industry professionals from organisations such as Working Title, the London Film Academy and Shorts International and 50% younger filmmakers, some of which are still students and others have experienced previous success at some of the earlier Screentest festivals. This was decision was made to involve more people in the festival to reflect its national character.

Adam Butcher – Bristol graduate whose film Arcadia won Technical Achievement at Screentest 2009

Alan Tang – Is a graduate of Bristol University and has worked on some of the earlier Screentest festivals

Anna MacDonald – Joint Principal of the London Film Academy

Chris Tidman - Co-Head, Global Acquisitions at Shorts International

Connor Clements – Young filmmaker whose film James won Best Film and Best Drama at Screentest 2009. The film went on to enjoy international success at many festivals across the world.

David Chikwe – Script Editor for Leopard Films

Ed Moline – Bristol graduate and co-founder of Screentest. Now a Development Researcher at Endemol.

Franzi Florack - Chair of the National Student Film Association, co-founder of Southampton University film festival SoFi and Cambridge University international film festival Cam*Era

James Grieve – Coordinator of Screentest 2009, has been working on Screentest since its second year.

Linda Bruce – Linda Bruce is an independent Producer and has worked in the industry for 30 years. Her most recent film From Time to Time was directed and written by Julian Fellowes, starring Maggie Smith, Dominic West, Tim Spall, Carice van Houten and Alex Etel, which will be released this year.

Linda has worked with directors such as Terry Gilliam on Time Bandits and Brazil, Neil Jordan on Mona Lisa, Sally Potter on Orlanda and The Man Who Cried, Richard Eyre on The Ploughman’s Lunch and Loose Connections, David Hare on Wetherby and Paris by Night, Ken Loach on Looks and Smiles, Mark Herman on Blame it on the Bellboy, and French directors Edouard Molinaro on Beaumarchais and Claude Miller on L’Accompagnatrice amongst others.

Matt Wilkinson – Development Executive at Working Title

Nick Brown - Nicholas Brown is a two time award winning film-maker and ex member of Southampton’s Wessex Films. He helped found So.Fi, the Southampton Film Festival and blogs about TV and movies on various websites. He has been a delegate of Screentest regularly since 2006 and has spent far more time in Bristol Students’ Union than most Bristol sutdents do. He enjoyed YOUR film most of all.

Peter Hinton – Actor, Director, Producer. Peter began writing The Academy and produced and directed the Pilot in March ’08. He has since produced an extended 24 minute Pilot in collaboration with his own Production Company 2act and DLT Entertainment.

Piers Royce - Screentest 2007: Best action/suspense film - winner, Best special effects - nominated; Screentest 2008: Best action.suspense - nominated, Best music video - nominated. Since graduating worked for a production company shooting and editing features of Elle at the fashion weeks in NY, London, Milan, Paris and Berlin, and three months after joining was made head of production for the UK branch of the company. Piers has recently started directing music videos and short films.

Rebecca Mark-Lawson – Producer with Lifesize Pictures

Rich Warren – Programming Consultant for Encounters Short Film Festival

Susannah Hayes – Award winning Director, filmmaker, Managing Director of Ferocious Films. Her short film for the Royal Opera House Who’s Don? won a gold and bronze award in won 2009 IVCA awards and was nominated for best drama at the Rushes Short film Festival.

Tom Mansfield – Bristol based filmmaker and cameraman. Cameraman on Light and Dark which won Best in the South West at Encounters 2009