23 Hydref 2006
Antonia Bird
14.00 – 17.00
E10
Campus Caerleon, Ysgol Ffilm Rhyngwladol Cymru
Antonia Bird started her career as a theatre director before moving into directing for television. Her breakthrough film SAFE brought a British Academy Award and a clutch of festival prizes. PRIEST won her international recognition, receiving international theatrical distribution. This was followed by MAD LOVE for Touchstone Pictures; London gangster film FACE for BBC Films; and RAVENOUS for 20th Century Fox. In 2001 her powerful drama CARE won 16 international awards including a BAFTA and the Prix Italia. Following RAVENOUS she set up 4Way Pictures with actor Robert Carlyle, critic Mark Cousins and novelist Irvine Welsh. In 2002/3 Antonia directed and produced with Ruth Caleb, 4Way's first production REHAB, for the BBC. She has just completed THE HAMBURG CELL, written by Ronan Bennett, for Channel4/Mentorn and is currently producing her long term project FAITH set during the miners’ strike. Her next directorial outings will be ABRAHAM’S DAUGHTER for US indie Greenstreet Films/Raw Nerve and THE MEAT TRADE, a 4Way Pictures production written by Irvine Welsh.