| Made in the UK | |
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Film directors From Brief Encounter to Trainspotting, British directors have made some of the world’s most cherished films. Ed Colley profiles the UK's greatest film-making talents |
| Young guns | |
| The UK’s film industry has
until recently been a maledominated
environment.
Not for much longer… A new breed of female directors is flocking to the UK to develop their film-making skills. Here we profile three women, all of whom have studied at the highly auspicious National Film and Television School (NFTS). |
| Vesna Cudic Vesna grew up in Croatia and has lived in the UK since 1992. She studied Film and Video at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design where she wrote and directed five short films including Virgin Birth, which won a Royal Television Society Non Factual Award, and Red Square, which won her a Fujifilm Scholarship. While at the NFTS Cudic wrote two and directed five short films. Cudic was one of a panel of judges (which also included Kenneth Branagh and Pierce Brosnan) at the 2004 First Light Film Awards. |
| Young-Mi Lee Young-Mi Lee has a background in theatre and worked as a feature film assistant director and a producer for two years in the Korean film industry. Her first short film won an award at the Golden Throne Film Festival in Seoul. Young-Mi has directed eight short films in England, three of which have been screened at film festivals. She also worked as an NFTS trainee on the hugely successful romantic comedy Notting Hill, which starred Hugh Grant. Young-Mi has been offered two feature projects which she is currently developing. She also aims to develop co-productions between the UK, Europe and Korea. |
| Savina Dellicour Savina Dellicour was the first student to be accepted at the age of 17 by the Directing Department of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium. Ready, Dellicour’s graduation film from the NFTS, was nominated for the Turner Classic Movies short film awards at the London Film Festival in 2002, and the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles in the best foreign film category in 2003. |