Wednesday 24 November's masterclasses will be available on this page at the times below:

SCHEDULE

11.00 - 11.45 - Sound 

Speaker: Nick Fry, Head of Audio, The Farm Group

Chair: Andrew Sheldon, Creative Director and Founder, True North

12.15 - 13.00 - Editing

Speaker: Trace Taylor BFE, Editor

Chair: Paul Bader, Creative Director, Screenhouse

13.30 – 14.15 - News Camera

Speaker: Mark Davey, ITV News

Chair: Helen Scott, Media Consultant

14.45 – 15.30 - Cinematography

Speaker: Diana Olifirova, Cinematographer

Chair: Ninder Billing, Creative Director, Darlow Smithson Productions

 

Speakers

Nick Fry

RTS & BAFTA winning Re-Recording Mixer, and Head of Audio at The Farm, Nick Fry, has a wealth of experience in the craft of Audio Post Production working on a range of genres over the years.  Nick started his career as a runner and worked his way up.

Nick has been involved in some of the most exciting developments in Audio Post Production including leading The Farm to be one of the early adopters of Dolby Home Atmos, setting up their Dolby accredited Home Atmos Studios.  Nick is always heavily involved in designing, managing and innovating the Audio workflows at The Farm.

 His recent award wins include an RTS Craft & Design Award for Best Sound Entertainment & Non-Drama for The Last Igloo (2020), and a 2021 British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound: Factual for Formula 1: Drive to Survive (2020).

Trace Taylor BFE

Trace Taylor BFE is an award-winning London Based Film & TV Editor with over 15 years’ experience. Trace is known primarily for her work in Specialist Factual, Constructed Documentary and Documentary Television.

Her most notable credits include SAS: Who Dares Wins, Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children (Currently nominated for three RTS North-West Awards), Warship: Life at Sea and First Dates.

In 2019 Trace and the team behind First Dates (Channel 4) won a Grierson Trust Award for Best Constructed Documentary Series.

She is currently editing a new factual medical series which uses augmented reality and cutting-edge medical imaging technology to allow patients for the first time ever to see inside their own bodies to better understand their medical condition and the treatment choices available to them.

Alongside factual Trace edits short form drama and many of these films have gone on to win awards including wins and nominations for editing. These films have screened at BAFTA qualifying festivals, Academy Award® Oscar qualifying festivals and Cannes Film Festival.

Trace is also a governor of the BRITISH FILM EDITORS; she also mentors aspiring and up-and-coming editors through the BFI Academy and British Film Editors.

She is part of the prestigious BAFTA Crew initiative programme designed to connect emerging 'below the line’ talent to BAFTA-winners and nominees. 

Mark Davey

 Born in Belfast, Mark got his start as Ulster Television’s newsroom runner in 1984 before moving to ITN’s Belfast Bureau in 1990. His move coincided with the introduction of ‘multi-skilling’ - combining the roles of camera, sound, lighting, and video editing which allowed him to gain experience across all aspects of creating a news story.

The Troubles dominated the news agenda - bombings, shootings, and street disturbances, before the nascent peace process of the mid-nineties. As the violence at home waned, Mark took on more work abroad, covering conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon.

In 2008 he moved to join the ITN Asia Bureau in Beijing, then ten years later to the U.S. office in Washington DC. On January 6th he, reporter Robert Moore and producer Sophie Alexander were the only TV news team inside the Capitol building as it was being stormed. 

Diana Olifirova

Diana is a graduate of the NFTS and a winner of the British Society of Cinematographer’s Emerging Cinematographer’s Award for her work on the short film All of Me directed by Daphne Schmon.

Diana’s television credits include HBO’s The Baby directed by Ella Jones, Netflix’s Heartstopper directed by Euros Lyn and Working Title’s We are Lady Parts directed by Nida Manzoor. Features include Liars & Cheats directed by Jacob Migicovsky. Diana has recently been nominated for the RTS Craft & Design ‘Photography – Drama & Comedy’ Award, for her work on We are Lady Parts.

Andrew Sheldon

Andrew is an award-winning journalist and film maker who works in Features, Documentaries and Current Affairs at True North. Having started his career in newspapers, he’s been telling stories that matter ever since. Andrew is constantly breaking new ground, often in the world of the police and crime. His genre-bending Big Sting brand took the best of Candid Camera and Crimewatch, working with police forces to catch up with criminals on the run.

His eye for a story often takes him inside the stories that everyone is talking about – like ‘The Mystery of The Man On The Moor’ for Channel 4 and ‘the story of the UK’s first ever hand transplant in My New Hand for BBC One. His current slate at True North includes ‘The 80’s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland’ for BBC Four and the ‘The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes’ for More4.

Paul Bader

Paul is a former scientist, who got into television to make science programmes, initially at ITV. He set up Screenhouse in 1991, and is executive producer on most of our broadcast and online content.

Helen Scott  

Helen Scott is now a media consultant after a broadcast career making factual programmes across all genres. She was Controller of Factual Programmes at ITV Yorkshire before going freelance and is now an Executive Producer at Clear Focus Productions, Editorial Associate at media development organisation the Thomson Foundation and a producer for the Royal Television Society among other media-related roles. She’s also a board member for the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.

Ninder Billing

Ninder is the creative director of Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP), which is part of Banijay UK. Ninder previously served as head of specialist factual at The Garden, where she created factual medical series Operation Live for Channel 5, as well as taking the lead on new primetime returnable business across factual and specialist factual programming.