Special Effects Make-Up Workshop with Prosthetic Make-Up Artist & Designer Mark Coulier, whose credits include several Harry Potter and Star Wars films, as well as TV's 'Merlin'.
10.30am, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ
Booking: This FREE workshop is full. Call 020 8831 6460 to be added to the waiting list.

Storyboard Workshop with Jay Clarke, a Story Artist at Aardman Animations, makers of the BAFTA and Oscar®-winning film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
11.00am, The Gallery at Willesden Green, Brent
Booking: Workshop is FREE but booking is essential* at info@brentartistsresource.org.uk or 020 8459 1421
*To make a booking the participant will be asked to pay a £10 returnable deposit to secure their place on the workshop (cash or cheque made payable to Brent Artists Resource). The deposit will be returned once you have attended the workshop.

Animation Workshop with Designer & Director Paul Donnellon, creator of the title sequences for both Nanny McPhee and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.
10:30am, The Spa, 24 Beckenham Road, Beckenham
Booking: Workshop is FREE but booking is essential at spa@bromleymytime.org.uk or 020 8650 0233

For full details of all London Film Day events, visit: www.bfi.org.uk/londonfilmday

Image Copyright: Aardman Animations 2007.

Please note new start time of 6.45pm for this screening.

Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced), Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men, Angel), Emma Pierson (Little Dorrit, Hotel Babylon) and Jerry Hall star in Money, a BBC Drama Production two-part adaptation of Martin Amis' darkly comedic novel of excess, greed and flawed ambition set at the heady beginnings of 80s capitalism.

Bold, irreverent and satirical, Money follows the story of John Self (Frost), a successful British director of commercials who is thrust into the world of New York movie deals, financially astute call girls and impossibly petulant actors in order to shoot his first film.

Navigating larger-than-life characters including über-slick film producer Fielding Goodney (Kartheiser), corny soap actress Caduta Massi (Hall), clean-living method actor Spunk Davis (Joshua Dallas) and ageing Hollywood hard-man Lorne Guyland (Oliver Cotton), Self lurches from one crisis to the next as he chases his dream - and the money.

This screening of Episode 1 will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jeremy Lovering, Nick Frost and Exec Producer Ben Evans. Details to follow.

BAFTA Members | Free
Public | £7.50 Please click here

Please join us for a preview of the first 2 episodes of the new Sky Movies Premiere HD drama, The Pacific.

Made up of 10 episodes and produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy-winning 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

The series is directed by Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To, Tim Van Patten and Graham Yost. Written by Laurence Andries, Michelle Ashford, Bruce C. McKenna, Gorge Pelecanos, Robert Schenkkan and Graham Yost.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Tony To

Booking Information:
Member | Free
Public | £7.50 Please click here

BAFTA-nominated director Chris Atkins gives northern-based filmmakers the inside line on how to create and shape revealing a documentary and how to use social networks to generate press and find an audience.

Chris will reveal how and why he goes after stories that get him into hot water, while his producer, Christina Slater will reveal what steps she needs to take to keep the filmmaking process legally sound, and Chris out of jail.

Booking: BAFTA has a limited number of tickets to give away to this screening. To apply please email regions@bafta.org by 20 March

Running Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm

Tickets £20/£10 call NLFF 0191 231 4066

STARSUCKERS
UK | S2S PRODUCTIONS | 103 MINS | CERT 12A | DOCUMENTARY

Dir: Chris Atkins
Scr: Chris Atkins

A dark, satirical polemic that probes our irrational obsession with fame and the insidious techniques the media uses to feed it. It's methods: a combination of dazzling animation and undercover exposés of the PR industry, providing us with a blisteringly paced, anarchic ride full of scathing wit and mischief exposing the immoral, corrupt and illegal practices of some of the biggest names in the industry.

Booking: BAFTA has a limited number of tickets to give away to this screening. To apply please email regions@bafta.org by 20 March

Tickets £7/£6 call Tyneside Cinema 0845 217 9909

Join us for a special Q&A with BAFTA-nominated north east filmmaker Dan Elliott.

The bill will include screenings of Dan's The Making of Parts and Jade, winner of a host of distinguished festival prizes, including a Silver Bear at Berlin, and nominated for the BAFTA Short Film Award in 2010.

This screening is brought to you by Northern Lights Film Festival working in partnership with BAFTA and Northern Film & Media.

Info line 0191 231 4066
www.nlff.co.uk
info@nlff.co.uk

No One Knows About the Persian Cats (UK Release 26 March)
IRAN | NETWORK RELEASING | CERT 12 | 107 MINS | DRAMA

Dir: Bahman Ghobadi
Scr: Bahman Ghobadi, Hossein Mortezaeiyan
Cast: Negar Shaghaghi. Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Hichkas, Ash Koosha

Recently released from prison, two young musicians - a man and a woman - decide to form a band. Together they trawl the underworld of contemporary Tehran searching for other players. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan to escape from their clandestine existence, and dream of performing in London. But with no money and no passports, it won't be easy...

Reach for the Sky, Alfie, You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine: Director Lewis Gilbert has a remarkably varied filmography over seven decades in the industry.

Join us for an evening to celebrate this legend in British cinema and launch the release of Gilbert's memoirs on his career in film, All My Flashbacks (Reynolds & Hearn). In All My Flashbacks, recalls his childhood as a music hall entertainer, wartime service in the RAF and USAF and ultimately one of the most distinguished careers in British cinema. Along the way he describes working with such diverse personalities as Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Liza Minnelli and of course Julie Walters. Sharing the secrets behind some legendary movies, he also reveals the sometimes uncomfortable truth about what goes on behind the scenes.

We are delighted that Julie Walters will be hosting the event with Mr. Gilbert.

Tickets are free for BAFTA members and £9 for the public. Click Here to book public tickets.

18:30 | Bar open
19:00 | Event starts

The UK's creative industries are among the most distinctive and original in the world. But as they all adapt to evolving markets and technologies, it's vital to keep track of alternative approaches and techniques. The Creative Industry Switch project has already been hugely successful resulting in new business for games developers and exciting creative collaborations. Hear about the challenges and lessons learned by the collaborations that have been facilitated so far, and meet new potential partners from the games, film, TV and book publishing worlds.

Creative Industry Switch is a TIGA/NESTA project which brings together the best minds from across the UK 's top creative industries to share knowledge, exchange ideas and start new commercial projects.

By showcasing the crafts of film, television and video games production, BAFTA provides a unique forum for knowledge to be shared across disciplines, to inspire the next generation of talent and find fresh opportunities amid the ever-changing media landscape.

Speakers:
Gareth Edmondson, Managing Director, Ubisoft Reflections
Jörg Tittel, Producer, Breakthru Films
Maxwell Scott-Slade, Co-Founder, Johnny Two Shoes
Rupert Harris, Series Producer, BBC Children's

Chair: Charles Cecil, Founder and Managing Director, Revolution Software

Pricing Information
Public | £5 (includes a complimentary drink)
BAFTA Members | Free - BAFTA Members please use the "Book Tickets" link below
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BAFTA presents this Opening Night of the newly re-christened and energised Italian Cinema London, a UK premiere of Happy Family from Oscar-winning director Salvatores.

Two families are thrown together when their two headstrong fifteen-year-olds announce their intent to marry in this intelligent comedy from the director of I'm Not Scared and Mediterraneo.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores, Italy, 2010, 90m, subtitles / with Margherita Buy, Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio/

Tickets are free to BAFTA members and £9 to the public.CLICK HERE