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British Independent Film Festival
The British Independent Film Festival (BIFF) is an independent film festival that takes place annually in the United Kingdom and is one of four events hosted by the Film Festival Guild, including the British Animation Film Festival, the International Film Festival of Wales and the British Horror Film Festival. Founded in 2010, the festival aims to showcase independent films from around the world with a particular focus on British talent. The festival has previously been held in various locations throughout England, including Bournemouth, Poole, and Bury St Edmunds, but has its roots at home in London, most often screening at the Cineworld in Leicester Square. The festival has become a highly anticipated event in the UK film calendar and has featured a number of notable films and filmmakers including Sian Clifford, James Cosmo, Emily Mortimer, Doug Milsome BSC ASC, Ryan Gage, April Pearson, Laura Whitmore and Jason Flemyng. The festival has gained a reputation for showcasin ...
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London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ...
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Filmmaker
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casting, pre-production, shooting, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and an exhibition. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world. It uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Although filmmaking originally involved the use of film, most film productions are now digital. Today, filmmaking refers to the process of crafting an audio-visual story commercially for distribution or broadcast. Production stages Film production consists of five major stages: * Development: Ideas for the film are created, rights to existing intellectual properties are purchased, etc., and the screenplay is written. ...
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Leo Gregory
Leo Gregory (born 22 November 1978) is a London born English film, television, voice-over artist and pantomime actor. Best known for starring as Bovver in '' Green Street'' (2005). Acting career Gregory has appeared in films such as the BAFTA winning "When I Was 12", BAFTA and Michael Powell award-winning "Out of Control", ''Green Street'', the Stephen Woolley directed ''Stoned'', BAFTA winning "The Mark of Cain", "Wild Bill", and "Northmen". Television wise Gregory has appeared in the likes of "Mrs Biggs" for ITV, "The Musketeers" for BBC "Strike Back" for HBO/Cinemax and "Foyle's War" for ITV. Filmography *''Avengement'' (2019) *'' Plebs'' (2019) * ''Queen of Diamonds'' (2019) *''London Kills'' (2018) *''Once Upon a Time in London'' (2019) *''The Team'' (2015 Danish/German/Belgian TV Series) (2015) * ''Need for Speed'' (2015) (Video game) ... Travis *'' Strike Back: Legacy'' (2015) ... Mason.. Ten Episodes. *''The Musketeers'' (2015) ... Marmion.. episode 2.6 "Through a Glass ...
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Ciarán McMenamin
Ciarán McMenamin (born 1 October 1975) is a Northern Irish actor and author. Early life McMenamin was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, where he attended St Michael's College. He earned his B.A. from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1998. He attended drama classes at Ardhowen Youth Theatre before moving on to work with the Ulster Youth Theatre. Career McMenamin has appeared on various BBC and ITV programmes, including " 4:50 From Paddington", an episode of ''Agatha Christie's Marple'', starring Geraldine McEwan, in which he played Cedric Crackenthorpe, and in the Channel 4 comedy series '' The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star''. In 1999 he was cast in the title role of the BBC1 television movie ''David Copperfield''. He co-starred in '' The Golden Hour'' (ITV, 2005), playing a doctor. In January 2009, he appeared in a one-off special episode ("The Grinning Man") of the BBC's ''Jonathan Creek'', playing a grounds keeper. He ...
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Claire Price
Claire Louise Price (born 4 July 1972) is an English actress. Life and career Price was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Her parents, John Price and Andree Evans, also acted. Her grandfather was the Worcestershire cricketer John Price. Her nephew is actor Charlie Rowe. She is known for her portrayal as DS Siobhan Clarke in the TV drama ''Rebus'' broadcast on the ITV network. She played opposite Ken Stott ( DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. Price was made to pass her driving test before filming series 3 of ''Rebus'' in order to allow Siobhan Clarke to drive Rebus around. in 2015, Price also plays the role of Miriam Brindsley in the ITV's World War II TV series '' Home Fires''. Previous television work include one-episode roles in many other long-running crime drama series including '' London's Burning'', ''The Knock'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''Rosemary and Thyme'', ''Apparitions'', ''Doctors'', ''Agatha Christie's ...
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Emily Beecham
Emily Beecham (born 12 May 1984) is an American-British actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the Coen Brothers film ''Hail, Caesar!'', the AMC series ''Into the Badlands'', and the title role in the 2017 film ''Daphne''. She starred in the 2019 film '' Little Joe'', for which she received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Early life Beecham was born in the Wythenshawe suburb of Manchester on 12 May 1984, the daughter of an English father and American mother from Arizona. Her father is an airline pilot. She has dual British and American citizenship. In 2003, at the age of 18, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and graduated with a BA in 2006. Career In her final year at LAMDA, Beecham started accepting professional acting opportunities, with her first appearances occurring in the thriller ''Bon Voyage'' and the supernatural TV series ''Afterlife''. Her first feature film, ''Bon Voyage'', premiered that October ...
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Ian Hart
Ian Davies (born 8 October 1964), better known by his stage name Ian Hart, is an English actor. His most notable roles are Rabbit in the Channel Four drama miniseries ''One Summer'' (1983), Joe O'Reilly in the biopic ''Michael Collins'' (1996), Professor Quirrell in the fantasy film ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001), Ludwig van Beethoven in the film '' Eroica'' (2003), Kester Gill in the E4 series ''My Mad Fat Diary'' (2013–2015), and Father Beocca in the BBC/Netflix series ''The Last Kingdom'' (2015–2020). Early life Hart was born Ian Davies in the Knotty Ash district of Liverpool on 8 October 1964. He has two siblings and was brought up in a Catholic family. He attended Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School in Liverpool's West Derby suburb and was a member of the city's Everyman Youth Theatre in his earlier years, before studying drama at the now-defunct Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama in Liverpool's Wavertree district. From 1988 to 1991, he st ...
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Raphaël Coleman
Raphaël Coleman (30 September 1994 – 6 February 2020) was an English climate change activist and former actor. Early life Raphäel Coleman was born in Wandsworth, England in September 1994. Career As a child, Coleman acted in several films and was best known for his role as Eric Brown in ''Nanny McPhee''. He subsequently gave up acting, took the name ''James "Iggy" Fox'', James 'Iggy' Fox, "This Is Why I Rebel", ''Extinction Rebellion''
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Holly Gibbs
Holly Gibbs (born 25 August 1997) is an English child actress known for having played in '' The Story of Tracy Beaker'' as Milly and '' Nanny McPhee'' as Christianna. She is the daughter of former actress Claire Toeman. She appeared in TEENSVILLE (BBC), about the Jewish Bar Mitzvah celebration. She went on to study Art in London. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * 1997 births English child actresses Living people {{UK-screen-actor-stub ...
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Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed (; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, presenter, writer and mountaineer. Blessed is known for portraying PC "Fancy" Smith in ''Z-Cars'', Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of ''I, Claudius'', King Richard IV in the first series of ''Blackadder'', Prince Vultan in ''Flash Gordon'', Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of '' Cats'' at the New London Theatre, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter in ''Henry V'', Boss Nass in '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and the voice of Clayton in Disney's ''Tarzan''. In 2016, Blessed was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the arts and charity. Early life Blessed was born on 9 October 1936 at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough, Yorkshire, the son of William Blessed, a socialist coal miner at Hickleton Main Colliery (and himself the son of a coal miner) and cricketer for the Yorkshire second team, and Hilda (née Wall). Bless ...
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. The museum was established in 1753, largely b ...
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