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Seth Mason in the house!
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Join us for this amazing casting director Q&A with Seth Mason to end our 2024 Seth has most recently been co-casting director on Unforgotten 6 (Mainstreet for ITV), due for release in 2025. He was casting director on the recent West End hit I Wish You Well, The Catch, the feature film Embers and…
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BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING
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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.
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MEET DIRECTOR KATE HERRON – SEX EDUCATION, FIVE BY FIVE AND DAYBREAK
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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 a little quiet time…
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Women in Film – Beyond the Visible with Indie Society
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Women in Revolt, Beyond the Visible is a journey across inspiring short films by female filmmakers.
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Teaming Up With MakeYourFilm To Bring You Alice Lowe
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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 acting and filmmaking experiences,…
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Welcoming Tree Petts Casting to the Tweetups
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We were thrilled when Tree said yes to coming along in August, to Gerry’s Actors Club to share her thoughts on castings and being in the industry for over 19 years. A member of the CDA, and also an ex actress herself, Tree knows a thing or 20 about castings. We hope you can…
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Jeremy Zimmerman joins us to chat all things casting….
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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 international productions for the…
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3 fabulous industry ladies are onboard…!
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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 to search for her…
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CD Manuel Puro is popping in to see us!
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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 in 2000 by Micheal…
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Casting Director Gemma Sykes joins 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. If you didn’t catch…
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Tweetup panel of Film Festival producers
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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 the BFI London Film…
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Bring on Conway van Gelder Grant’s Neil McNulty, and Hammond Cox’s assistant Laura McFadden
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On Tuesday the 6th September we are back in Gerry’s to take over the world…. Okay, well at least to have a Q&A with two wonderful industry folk – Neil McNulty, a commercial agent at Conway van Gelder Grant (CvGG), and the lovely Laura McFadden who works at Hammond Cox Casting. Here’s more about…
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Sense8 Producer and Exec Producer for The Electric Shadow Company join us
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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, budgets and more in…
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Alex Segal from Cole Kitchenn joins us for the Oct Tweetup
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Alex Segal agreed a few months back that he would be delighted to join us for a Tweetup and Oct is the month. We are so excited to have him along to chat Alex looks after clients including Vinnie Jones, Denise Van Outen, Stephen Marcus, Kelly Brook, Evanna Lynch and Tulisa. Cole Kitchenn has an outstanding reputation for…
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Jeremy Conway from CVGG!!
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The very reputable agency Conway van Gelder Grant needs no introduction. With clients including Benedict Cumberbatch, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Riley, Joanna Lumley and Michael Gambon their client list is extensive. So, when Jeremy accepted our invitation to come along and chat all things agency related we were delighted.And we would love you all to…