Q&A


Shakyra Dowling workshop 2020
Casting Director Shakyra Dowling has kindly volunteered to come and do a virtual Q&A with us to talk shop about castings, chat about her upcoming film, Wolf, starring George MacKay, Lily Rose-Depp and Paddy Considine, and answer any casting director questions you might have.

BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING


SEX EDUCATION’S KATE HERRON JOINS US! What a year we are having. We love a good old humblebrag – we have had some incredible events withMakeYourFilm, Kino London and our Indie Society night with Shorts On Tap+ London Film Academy, and now we feel like it’s time to get back to our grass roots and have […]

MEET DIRECTOR KATE HERRON – SEX EDUCATION, FIVE BY FIVE ...




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ALICE LOWE IS OUR FIRST CONFIRMED GUEST  Ww love sharing news about other filmmaking organisations – so much so that for the month of April we are teaming up with one of them – MakeYourFilm. Alice Lowe is near and dear to us and we are thrilled she can come along and share her […]

Teaming Up With MakeYourFilm To Bring You Alice Lowe



On Tuesday October 3rd the Zimmerman himself will be joining us to discuss his casting career. Jeremy is one of the busiest CDs in London so we’re extra lucky to have him with us next week at Bar Topolski. More about Jeremy… Jeremy Zimmermann is one of the UK’s leading casting directors and has worked on […]

Jeremy Zimmerman joins us to chat all things casting….



guest speakers for July tweetup 2017
3 fabulous industry ladies are onboard…! Enough of the mystery! On Tuesday July 4th we have leading actress Lara Peake, producer Nicola Bowen and casting director Shakyra Dowling who make up the team behind indie hit SPACESHIP – A girl fakes her own alien abduction and disappears, leaving her father […]

3 fabulous industry ladies are onboard…!


We are incredibly lucky to be bringing back MANUEL PURO of (Puro Casting). He’ll be joining us on May 2nd at 7pm at our usual spot Gerry’s Club. Manuel has a hugely impressive list of credits; he’s worked with some incredible names in the business…starting with Jeremy Zimmerman in 1995, he was headhunted […]

CD Manuel Puro is popping in to see us!


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Gemma has now opened her own casting company after working at Dan Hubbard Casting for many years. That’s right – you heard it here first! We are thrilled to have Gemma along to our favourite actor’s bar, Gerry’s Club, on Tuesday April 4th at 7pm to chat castings, acting and all things film/TV. […]

Casting Director Gemma Sykes joins us!



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Sept NEWS Our power-house producer panel lift the lid on festival season…   If you live in London, work in the film industry and haven’t noticed that we’re in the middle the hottest period in London’s film festival calender then you’re seriously missing a trick! For true independent break-out film screenings we’ve gotRaindance (Sept 21st-Oct 2nd) and with […]

Tweetup panel of Film Festival producers



Fancy meeting the Exec Producer of Sense8 and a producer who’s worked with The Weinstein’s? Yes?!!  We thought you might say that. So you can imagine we are thrilled to welcome Leon Clarence and Jay Taylor to do just that. They’ll be  joining us to talk about all things producing, casting, […]

Sense8 Producer and Exec Producer for The Electric Shadow Company ...