Panel of Judges
Emily Man, Producer/ Maggie Ellis, Head of Production, Film London
Michael Hayden, Festival Programmer, BFI London Film Festival

Sebastian Goodwin
Sebastian Goodwin studied studied History of Art at Cambridge University. After graduating he then studied at the Polish National Film School in Lodz as a Leverhulme Scholar. He has since made short films funded by the UK Film Council and BBC Films as well as short documentaries for Channel 4. ‘The Girls’, made in 2007, was BIFA nominated for Best UK Short Film. Sebastian is now writing a feature film script.

THE GIRLS – wrote/adapted and directed by Sebastian Godwin
Based on a short story by Joyce Cary
Duration: 10 minutes.

A father comes back home to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. As dusk falls, the mood begins to darken. Funded by the UK Film Council.

Film

Destiny Ekaragha – CIR RESIDENT 2010-2011
Destiny Ekaragha studied Film and Communications at London Metropolitan University, graduating in 2003. After working as a Runner on various TV and film projects Destiny wrote and directed her first short film called ‘Tight Jeans’. The film went on to be officially selected by the 2008 Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film shown at the London Film Festival by The Observer

THE PARK – Written and Directed by Destiny ekaragha
Duration: 16 minutes

The Park is a coming of age tale about three teenage boys that are best friends. They talk about everything besides the problems that are truly troubling them. The stories they tell are nothing compared to the secrets that they keep.

Lilah Vandenburgh
Lilah Vandenburgh is a US born filmmaker and performer living in London. In addition to working in feature films, she’s a music video and promo director with Blackdog UK and one half of the comedy duo Vandenburgh & Shakinvosky. Her 35mm debut short, BITCH, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally.

BITCH – Directed by Lilah Vandenburgh
Duration: 15 minutes

Bitch is a pop-culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many
deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes,
your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will
find you and she will make you pay.Love is for losers, and PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. That is until she meets a guy as antisocial as she is. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first.

Oscar Sharp
Oscar Sharp dreamed of becoming a magician until he realised that creating films was where the real magic happened. Many of his films have been shortlisted for awards including at the prestigious Raindance Festival. Oscar would now like to try his hand at music videos and Television.

Forna, written and directed by Oscar Sharp
Duration: 11 minutes
A middle-aged couple with a crumbling marriage discover an unsettling growth at the bottom of their garden

Judging Panel
Catherine McDermott, Director of Curating Contemporary Design/ Gavin Lucas, Senior writer, Creative review/ Penny A Hudd, Ex Head of School, Kingston University
Antoine Choussat and Zamir Antonio, Eat Sleep Work Play, TBWA, previous winner Creative Residency 2009

A Young Kim
Kim A Young completed a BFA in Visual Communication Design at Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 2004 and achieved an MA in Communication Art & Design in 2009 from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works in London. Exhibitions include: Graduation Show, IDAS Gallery, International Design School for Advanced Studies, Seoul, 2003; Map-making: Equator Project, LSO St Luke’s, London, 2008; Untold Stories, Hockney Gallery, London, 2008; Work in Progress Show, Gulbenkian Gallery, London, 2009; Final Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2009; Illustrative, International Degree Exhibition, ÏMA Design Village, Berlin, 2009; Supervisions, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK, 2010

Ah Studio
Åh [o:h] is a multi-disciplinary creative studio based in East London, established in 2008 by London College of Communication graduates Elin Svensson and Johanna Lundberg. Striving to combine thoughtful ideas with informed aesthetics to create functional design that reaches out to both the head and the heart. Applied across all disciplines to include art direction, illustration, branding, website design, motion graphics, model making and other printed matter, their approach to work is open and collaborative.

House of Jonn – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Jordan Hodgson and Niall Gallacher are co-founders of House of Jon, a studio for creative engagement within the city. They studied Architecture at Leeds and Cambridge respectively then together at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. They have worked on an array of projects and commissions in the fields of architecture, design, research and visualization. They are currently producing new work for release at the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

Misc Projects
Euan, Jamie and Zoe are Misc. projects, a multi-disciplinary design collective working between the creative fields of Architecture and Graphic Design, exploring scenarios using illustration, film, installation, construction and the written word. Recent projects include exhibits for the Shenzhen Architecture biennale, a new build residence in Bristol and an installation in Cognac, France.

Jayne Robinson graduated from central Saint Martin’s in 2003 with an MA in Communication Design. Since then she has worked for award winning studios including Spin, Nick Bell Design and Studio Myerscough. Jayne recently established Studio Robinson, a multi-disciplinary design studio.

Panel of Judges
Michael Berg, head of events, the hosptial club / Michael McCabe, Theatre Producer
Josie Rouke, Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre/ Lisa Spirtling, Theatre Director previous winner Creative Residency 2009

Joel Horwood – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Joel Horwood is an accomplished playwright whose debut, Mikey the Pikey, won the Cameron Mackintosh Award before receiving a West End option from David Pugh Ltd. Since then his career has gone from strength to strength, winning awards and enjoying sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and nationally. His current adaptation of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse on April 16th this year.

Title: IS EVERYONE OK?
Cast: PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE and HUGH SKINNER
Duration: 20mins

Kenny Emson – Representation
Kenneth Emson has taken part in workshops with the Royal Court, Paines Plough and the National Theatre Studio. He’s also written for the Old Vic 24 Hour play (Enduring Voices; 2008) and Hampstead Theatre Start Night (The Things That Never Grew in the Garden:2009) He has had three plays premiere on the London fringe and had short plays produced at the Latitude, Hotbed, London Literature, Green Man, Hotink (NY) Festivals and at Live Theatre Newcastle, Mercury Theatre Colchester and The Public Theatre (NY). In 2009 he was the UK writer for the Old Vic US/UK Exchange programme where his new play Sonderkommando was given a reading.

Title -Breadcrumbs
Actor -Simon Darwen
Duration – 15-20minutes.

Luc Mollinger – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Luc Mollinger is a director of theatre and opera. Recent work includes the live opera / film Tales of Hoffmann (Arcola Theatre) and as an Assistant Director on productions with Opera North and Salisbury Playhouse. Luc graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia and has lived in London since 2005. During his residency he will explore ways of engaging opera with new audiences and push the boundaries of presenting it using new media.

Haifa Wøhlers Olsen, vogue photographer has been working with Dean Quinn on his look book. They did a shoot last week in the gallery with stylist Katy Lassen and model Darya Kurovska.

“I don’t think you realise how important what you all did for me yesterday was and I just want to say thanks so much to you all” Dean

Ada Zanditon’s incredible catwalk show, estethica and the Ethical Fashion Forum’s LFW seasonal party held at the wonderful Hospital Club.

Ada Zanditon’s incredible catwalk show

We loved the London Fashion Week installation at The Hospital Club. Fashion craft designer Cherry Hurren individually knitted the dolls, hand-picking their spring/summer outfits especially for Fashion Week.

www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-vogue-blog

Theatre and Opera
Luc Mollinger, Joel Horwood, Kenneth Emson, Pia Furtado

Music
Mr Beasley, Daisy Chute, Peter Gregson, Toby Young

Fashion
Dean Quinn, Ada Zanditon, Alexandra Groover, Sarah Piantadosi

Film
Destiny Ekaragha, Lilah Vandenburgh, Oscar Sharp, Sebastian Godwin

Architecture and Graphic Design
House of Jonn,  Future- Studio Jayne Robinson, Ah Studio, A Young Kim

Visual Arts
Alex Shepherd, Matt Blackler,

Natalia Escobar, Nina Mangalanayagam, Leslie Deere.”

Check out the new website of Vera Bohl, creative in resident 09

Free track to download on there:
www.verabohl.com
www.myspace.com/verabohl

The website and myspace was designed by Jayne Helliwell, applicant of CIR 09

The Art of Being Yourself

“She was a very motivating speaker and I especially liked the thought becoming a word etc part and choosing a word for that year. Quite a simple idea, very true and something I decided to adopt to push myself on in work and life.

I like the idea that no one is better at being yourself than you.”