#TeaAt3WithMamFromage

A few words from Mam Fromage:
#TeaAt3WithMamFromage ...……"was something I set up as a direct response to Covid19 and the lockdown of the University in March of 2020. Initially an attempt to cheer up my film students, most of whom were literally about to go into production after several months of prep, and try and keep them engaged in the weird landscape we found ourselves. I called on Industry friends I had worked with or knew, all of whom responded amazingly and kep linking me with more and more wonderful people.
At the same time, the audience kept growing until I had students tuning in from over 15x Film Schools all over the UK. St this point NAHEMI (The National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image) offered to support me because so many of their students were benefitting from the chats.
 
The aim was informal, fun and very honest conversations about the realities of working in the Film and Television Industry over a cuppa mid-afternoon. Intended to be 30 mins only, several sessions lasted longer, the guests and the students having too nice a time to leave! I wanted to speak to people from as many different roles as possible, one of the nicest comments was from a student who said ‘after every talk I want to do what they were talking about because they obviously love it so much’.
 
I have continued sporadically and will keep doing occasional ones but the vast majority of the talks have been uploaded on to YouTube where anyone can watch them https://www.youtube.com/user/FreyaBill They are fascinating, open and invaluable to any student thinking of going in that direction. The generosity and openness of all the guests never ceased to amaze me and I want to THANK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM"

HERE IS A SMALL SAMPLE Click on their button to see their full interview:
WRITER/ DIRECTOR CAROL MORLEY
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Carol Morley is an inspirational film-maker whose work includes BAFTA nominated The Alcohol Years, Dreams of a Life, The Falling and most recently her first US-based film Out of Blue. Together with Producer Cairo Cannon, she runs CAMP Films which has made award-winning shorts, documentaries and features that have played in cinemas, on TV, in galleries and at festivals world wide.
 
SOUND RECORDIST TERRENCE MCCORMACK MAITLAND
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Terence C. McCormack Maitland was born on September 12, 1986 in New York City, New York, USA as Terence Christopher Maitland. Television he is known for his work on includes Broad City, Jessica Jones and The Defenders and his feature work has  Remember Me (2010), Arbitrage (2012) and The Irishman (2019)on his CV. He  recently created a unique Production Sound Cart for  the recent complex demands of the WEST SIDE STORYshoot.
EMMY-AWARD WINNING WILDLIFE PRODUCER / WILDSTAR FILMS - VANESSA BERLOWITZ
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Vanessa co-founded Wildstar Films in 2018 after 28 years of running teams and making award winning wildlife films and documentaries. She is currently an Executive Producer on a number of new series and is working on a film with Mark for Disneynature. Vanessa spent the first 24 years of her career working at the BBC Natural History Unit and made over 15 films for 5 internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning, landmark series – Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, Life of Mammals, Land of the Tiger and the Human Animal – as well as for major long-running strands and series such as The Natural World, Wildlife on One, Animal People and Postcards from the Country.Vanessa won a Primetime EMMY as the Series Producer of Frozen Planet and then went on to become a lead Executive Producer for the BBC, developing and winning Great Bear Stakeout, Life in the Air and Planet Earth 2.
SCREENWRITER RUSSELL T DAVIES
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After he graduated from Oxford University, Davies joined the BBC's children's department in 1985 on a part-time basis and worked in varying positions, which included writing and producing two series, Dark Season and Century Falls. He left the BBC in the early 1990s to work for Granada Television and later became a freelance writer. Davies moved into writing adult television dramas in 1994. His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: Revelations, Springhill was, The Grand and Queer as Folk. Davies revived and ran Doctor Who after a sixteen-year hiatus. The show oversaw a surge in popularity which led to the production of two spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Davies was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for services to drama. He co-created the CBBC drama Wizards vs Aliens, and then Cucumber, Banana, Tofu all for Channel 4. Davies' later work for BBC One in the 2010s include A Midsummer Night's Dream, a television film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play; A Very English Scandal, Years and Year and the Channel 4 massive hit It’s a Sin.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER/ ART DIRECTOR​ ALEXNDRA WALKER
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Alexandra Walker is known for her work as Art Director on three of the Harry Potter series Order of the Phoenix, Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkhaban along with other films including Frankenweenie and Young Victoria. More recently she has worked as Production Designer on films including Carmilla and Let Me Go along with the much admired Action Man’ Money Supermarket commercial.
WRITER/ DIRECTOR ROB SAVAGE
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Rob Savage is a multi-award winning filmmaker working in features, television and commercials. He wrote, directed, shot, co-produced and edited micro-budget feature film Strings at age 17, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival. The film was acquired for release by Vertigo Films and released by the BFI. Rob won the Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards for the film, the youngest director ever to win a BIFA. He was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow for the film. Rob’s television output includes work written and directed for Channel 4, FX and Sky, where he directed three episodes of Jez Butterworth’s big budget Roman epic “Britannia” for Neal Street Productions. Most recently, Rob has directed the pilot episode of “SoulMates a Black Mirror style anthology show for AMC and is developing a number of TV and film projects including ‘Dawn of the Deaf’ , "Seaholme" and “SALT”. His lockdown ‘zoom horror’HOST has led to a 3x picture deal with Blumhouse.
 SCRIPT SUPERVISOR DAWN GILLIAM
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Script supervisor Dawn Gilliam has had the benefit of working on some of today’s biggest films. While former Los Angeles Rams cheerleader started out in the film business working on John Singleton‘s debut film, Boyz in the Hood, her other feature credits include the recent Jackie Robinson story 42, The Hunger Games, Bubble Boy, Men of Honor, Deuces Wild, Rat Pack, Nothing to Lose, Set It Off, Kazam, Vampire in Brooklyn, Tales From the Hood, Higher Learning, Sister Act II, What’s Love, Poetic Justice, and Senseless. For the past few years, Gilliam has collaborated with director J.J. Abrams on all of his feature productions including Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, Super 8, Mission Impossible 3, and Cloverfield, which he produced. Gilliam also worked with Abrams on the Lost pilot, seasons 3, 4 and 5 of Alias, Season 2 of What About Brian, Hope against Hope, and the pilot for Undercovers.
CINEMATOGRAPHER KATE REID

Kate’s recent work includes HBO’s GAME OF THRONES. Amazon series HANNA, and BBC series PRESS, along with MARCELLA, CALL THE MIDWIFE and TRUST ME. Here films have screened in competition at international festivals including SUNDANCE, BERLIN and SXSW and her documentary credits include Ava DuVerna’s Venus Vs, Years of Living Dangerously and The Closer We get. She is a member of the BSC and full voting member of BAFTA
EDITOR BARNABY PILLING
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Barney Pilling is a British television and film editor. Some of Pilling's TV projects include Spooks, Life on Mars, No Angels, Hotel Babylon and As If. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel. His past film projects include Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, An Education, Never Let Me Go, and One Day. He grew up in North Manchester and worked as a DJ before moving into Editing.
ACTOR/ DIRECTOR PETER CAPALDI
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Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Peter's extensive CV also includes Paddington, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The Hour and upcoming Suicide Squad. Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On.
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WRITER/ DIRECTOR SARMAD MASUD
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Sam Masud is currently directing the Bulletproof Special for Vertigo and Sky, having also directed on Season 2 of the series. He also recently directed on Ackley Bridge for The Forge and Channel 4.His first feature My Pure Land, is set and filmed in Pakistan and based on the extraordinary true story of one woman and her family who defended their home and land from 200 bandits. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was the UK submission to the Oscars in the Foreign Language category. Sam was also nominated as a Screen International Star of Tomorrow.Previously Sam’s short film; Two Dosas, funded by Film London was voted best film in their London Calling Plus category by David Yates and then went on to pick up numerous awards on the festival circuit; winning at London Short Film Festival, Aspen shortsfest, River to River in Florence and Shufflefest voted by Danny Boyle. Sam also wrote and directed Adha Cup which was the first Urdu language drama commissioned by Channel Four, going on to develop it as a six part TV series with the BBC.
PRODUCER / HEAD OF BFI DOC SOCIETY LISA MARIE RUSSO
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Lisa Marie’s production credits include Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City, Gillian Wearing’s Self Made and Andrew Kotting’s Swandown. In 2009, she launched a production company Fly Film with Kate Ogborn. Since 2015, her company has executive produced 72 short films by young people for Screen South Ignition Random Acts Network, supported by Arts Council England and Channel 4.