DISTRACTION TACTICS FILM CLUB
Formed in April 2020, by Bastille frontman Dan Smith, as a way of keeping people connected during Lock Down. Distraction Tactics tours the world via film, suggesting a film to watch, and meeting up a week later to discuss it on Dan Smith’s Instagram. Charlotte is the film club’s film expert.
The show airs weekly on Instagram Live and is then available on YouTube and InstagramTV.
The series kicked off with a chat with Simon Pegg, talking about writing and starring in Shaun of the Dead, continuing with writer, director Taika Waititi and his film Hunt for the Wilder People, and moving on to discuss cinematography with Ellen Kuras, cinematographer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Episodes have featured movie stars George MacKay, Karidja Touré and Emily Mortimer, animator Sylvain Chomet, and director Tom Tykwer, CERNE astrophysicist Ivika Puljak and NASA scientist Leah Cheshier.
The show regularly has between twenty and sixty thousand viewers on Instagram via @bastilledan
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IN CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE MACKAY
Charlotte is in conversation with actor George MacKay for The Barnes Film Festival 2020.
George MacKay- Star of many films including 1917, True History of The Kelly Gang, Captain Fantastic, Pride, and How we Live Now offers insights and inspiration into the acting process. George also talks about some of the first time filmmakers who have inspired him recently.
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TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES:
Based on: Remembering Shanghai, By Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao.
A Shanghai dynasty destroyed by history. What they had, what they lost, what they found.
This award winning memoir, currently on the #1 Amazon bestseller list for Women Writers, History of China and Asian History, is being adapted as a serialised television drama.
Judge for 2022 ENTER THE PITCH COMPETITION
https://www.enterthepitch.com/
Thrilled to be a judge for THE PITCH 2022: a fund to support emerging filmmakers. There’s a £40,000 production pot to make two films, plus training and development for entrants and finalists.
Incredible fellow judges: MARTIN GENTLES (His House) , AMY O’HARA (Film4) , GBEMISOLA IKUMEMLO (BAFTA award winning writer, actor and director) and JON WARDLE (Director of the NATIONAL FILM and TELEVISION SCHOOL.)
Honoured to be invited to join the DONMAR WAREHOUSE’S FUTURE FORMS. Workshopping boundary-challenging ideas for new theatre. Amazing day with Clare Slater, Head of New Work, Donmar Theatre, and Sacha Wares, Ella Hickson, Matthew Shaw, Adrian Lee, Jodie McNee, Prisca Bakari and Nina Salomons – discussing the possibilities of XR, XRDI and new technologies in theatre. BRING IT ON!
Invitation to participate in Criterion Theatre’s programme developing of new narrative forms for theatre. A project to delve deeper into writing virtual and augmented reality pieces for the theatre. Led by Lou Doye and Greg Mosse, there were meetings with creative technology director Alessia Laidecker and Marta Ordeig from Garage Stories.
