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Interview with James Henry, Writer

Hope Dickson Leach — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:00:12 +0000

What do you do? I’m a full-time scriptwriter, working in television, radio and animation, based in Cornwall Who do you look after? I share childcare with my wife for my two children, Eliza and William, although now they’re twelve and fourteen, there’s not quite so much looking after to do. When they were very young, [...]

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Testimonial: Laura Giles

Admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:00:47 +0000

I'm not yet a full-time producer, just an aspiring one who has managed to shift her paid work to around the industry rather than outside it. I stupidly started my film-making and parenting journeys within a couple of years of each other - although in some ways that's good as I've never known anything different than [...]

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Testimonial: Jennifer Monks and Michelle Eastwood

Admin — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:45:23 +0000

It was a manic Monday in the To Know Him production office – 7 days from the start of principal photography. I was about to go out on a tech recce and I got the text! Michelle (my producing partner) had given birth! It was official – not only was I now the last member [...]

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Interview: Desperate Optimists

Admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:00:12 +0000

Desperate Optimists are Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. Born in Dublin, Ireland, they studied theatre in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they toured six internationally acclaimed devised theatre shows. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of episodic, interactive works for the internet, and large-scale community video projects for galleries. Between [...]

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