The talk is dedicated to Storytelling for the scene from the point of view of an independent film producer. Drawing on his own experience as a producer of more than 45 award winning feature films, Nik Powell will discuss what the great storytellers from Juvenal to Shakespeare to Mark Twain to Tom Stoppard and Pinter have told us about the art of storytelling that is still very valid today.
Lecture will be in English.
When: 1 November 2009, 14:00
Where: Photoplay contemporary photo school,
Moscow, Khokhlovskiy pereulok, 7
One of the UK's top film producers, Nik Powell embarked on an entrepreneurial career in the 1960s, when he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson. His long partnership with Stephen Woolley, with whom he founded Palace Pictures and Scala Productions, brought an unrivalled slate of award-winning features to the screen, including Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. Nik's films have garnered many awards and nominations, including an Oscar, several Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. His more recent films include Little Voice, Calendar Girls and, most recently, Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
Since becoming Director of the NFTS in September 2003, Nik has introduced several innovative new programmes, keeping the School at the leading edge of film and TV education in the UK. Alongside the day job, he is Chairman and Director of Scala Productions, Vice-chairman of the European Film Academy, a board director of the Northern Ireland Film and TV Commission, an elected member of the British Screen Advisory Council, the Council of BAFTA and the PACT Council, and sits on the board of GEECT, the European Grouping of Film and Television Schools.
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