Wintec's upcoming Spark festival of Media, Arts and Design has a variety of free screenings and workshops covering topics from costume design to international documentaries.

Speakers include UK film and TV producer Andrea Calderwood, Art director and set designer John Harding and costume designer Lesley Burkes Harding.Wintec's upcoming Spark festival of Media, Arts and Design has a variety of free screenings and workshops covering topics from costume design to international documentaries.

Speakers include UK film and TV producer Andrea Calderwood, Art director and set designer John Harding and costume designer Lesley Burkes Harding.All three speakers will be presenting, and taking part in a Film Forum on Monday 4th at 1.30pm, with Calderwood and Burkes-Harding also doing workshops. The workshops are primarily for Wintec and University of Waikato students, but do offer a few place for the public - see www.spark.net.nz for registration details.

UK film and TV producer Andrea Calderwood has a variety of TV and film credits to her name, along with a number of awards and nominations. "The Last King of Scotland" is her most well known film, produced in 2006. She has worked with a range of stars such as Forest Whittaker, Thora Birch and Robert Carlyle, and will be talking about her career and the role of the producer.

Art director and set designer, John Harding is actively involved in the Wellington film and theatre scene. As a set designer for Weta Workshop, he worked on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong.

Lesley Burkes Harding is a costume designer whose skills have led her to many varied engagements in film, television and theatre. Feature film credits include NZ films The Locals, Jubilee , Her Majesty (for which she was awarded the Nokia Best Costume design in 2001 at the NZ Film Awards), and most recently, Out of the Blue. Her most recent TV credit is for Kidnapped, "a very cool job designing 18th century costumes for the adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel for the BBC".

Other film events:

'Viewing Habits' UCLA Documentary Screening: 1:30pm, Wednesday, 6th August - The UCLA School of Theatre, Film & Television is one of the premiere film schools in the US. Professor Goldovskaya from UCLA has sent examples of her post-graduate students' documentary work and this screening showcases the best films, selected by Media Arts Moving Image lecturer John Mandelberg

Highlights of the Palestinian Film Festival: 5:30pm, Wednesday 6th August - Screening opened by Tuma Hazou. The Palestinian Days Film Festival is organised and run by the London Film Forum and invited films have been collected by them to reflect the 60 years of Palestinian struggle. The package of films have been screened already in places as disparate as the Doha National Theatre in Qatar, Sao Paolo in Brazil, Belfast, Northern Ireland and the SPARK screening will be the first in New Zealand.

Student Showcase 'Show me the money': 1.30pm, Friday 8th August - In June, Media Arts' Moving Image department held a 'Dragon's Den' style multi-camera shoot called 'Show Me the Money'. This screening at Spark will be the debut presentation of the edited project.

Times:

Mon 4th August, 10.45am - John Harding

Mon 4th August, 11.45am - Lesley Burkes-Harding

Mon 4th August, 1.30pm - Film Forum

Wed 6th August, 1.30pm - 'Viewing Habits' UCLA documentary screening

Wed 6th August, 5.30pm - Highlights of the Palestinian Film Festival

Fri 8th August, 1.30pm - Student Showcase: 'Show Me the Money' screening

Spark

31/07/08