Neil McCartney
Neil McCartney is a UK-born journalist and producer. He is chairman of The Independent Film Trust.
Journalism[edit]
Neil McCartney has written occasionally for national newspapers,[1][2][3] and acted as a commentator for organisations such as the BBC, Sky and The Observer during the 2000's.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] He has served as a panelist at various Media and Film industry events.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Production[edit]
McCartney has produced a number of short films[22][23][24] as well as feature films. He started with three international features which he produced or co-produced. The first of these, Season of Mists (Sezon tumanov),[25][26][27] was a UK-Russia co-production which won a number of prizes at international festivals.[28][29][30] The second film, the Russian feature Zone of Turbulence (Zona turbulentnosti),[31] also won several prizes,[32] while The Empty Home (Pustoy dom),[33] a Kyrgyzstan-Russia-France-UK co-production, was Kyrgyzstan’s official selection for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.[34]
Next McCartney was executive producer on Finding Family, a feature documentary shot in the UK and Bosnia and Herzegovina,[35][36] which had its world premiere at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2013[37][38][39] and its UK premiere in November 2013 at a charity screening in Leicester Square.[40] In March 2014 the film won two prizes at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards ceremony in Glasgow. It was voted Best Factual production and Best New Work (sponsored by Channel 4).[41] In May 2014 it won two Golden Apple awards at the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York – the Jury Award for Best Documentary and the Audience Award for the Best Picture.[42]
McCartney's fifth film, on which he was executive producer, was the feature documentary One Humanity, which was shot in South Africa, the UK and the USA, and which was simultaneously premiered in Pretoria and London on 27 April 2014, as part of the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa - the elections which brought Nelson Mandela to power just four years after he was released from prison on Robben Island.[43][44][45][46]
His sixth feature, on which he was again executive producer, was the Russian-language documentary Mamayev kurgan. Pamyat pokoleniy (Mamai’s Burial Mound. Memories of Generations), about the giant Russian war monument The Motherland Calls, built in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). His seventh was the Turkish-language documentary Sira Disi İnsanlar (Extraordinary People),[47] and his eighth, another collaboration with Evgenia Tirdatova as writer/director,[48][49] was the documentary Imya Rokossovsky (The Name is Rokossovsky), about Konstantin Rokossovsky, the Polish-born officer in the Red Army who was released from Stalin's prisons to become a Soviet war hero. The ninth, again with Tirdatova, was the Russian-Turkish feature documentary, Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams.[50] This tells the story of the frequent trips that the eponymous Russian ballet dancer made to Turkey between 1980 and 1990. It premiered on 20th May 2016 at the 4th Kayseri International Film Festival in Turkey.[51]
McCartney consults for the Moscow International Film Festival.[52] He also acted as a judge for the 1st Sindh International Film Festival in Karachi on 10–11 February 2014.[53][54]
Charity[edit]
Neil McCartney is chairman of The Independent Film Trust, which supports ventures and initiatives that encourage an interest in film production and help emerging film-makers to develop and express themselves. It works to raise the profile of independent films which might otherwise not be available to a particular audience.[55] It also funds activities such as basic film courses for the disadvantaged[56] and the provision of training scholarships for those who have demonstrated talent but need financial help.[57] In October 2010 the IFT-backed short film Night Music, a 12-minute animation by Paul Jacques which was made as part of the Vision Shorts film-making initiative for people recovering from mental health problems, was premiered at the Raindance Film Festival.[22][58][59] Courses have also been run with a series of other partners, which have been the subject of two television programmes broadcast by the Community Channel, the national television channel run by the Media Trust.[60][61][62][63]
In 2014, the IFT also set up a scholarship with the National Film and Television School (NFTS) to enable a student to study on the latter’s course in Creative Business for Entrepreneurs and Executives (CBEE).[64]
References[edit]
- ↑ McCartney, Neil (28 March 2006). "Programmes right in front of your eyes". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Neil McCartney (26 October 2006). "A country with text appeal". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Saudi Arabia - Intelligent Infrastructure (advertising feature)" (PDF). Business Week. 17 September 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Participant in St George's House seminar on Journalism June 2006" (PDF). Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "BT profits hit by restructuring". BBC News. 7 February 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Phone Rivals Square Up For Xmas Showdown". Sky News. 27 February 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Shock departure for Vodafone boss". BBC News. 27 May 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "BBC News 25 August 2010". Youtube. 19 December 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "'Good News' For Bond Fans In MGM Rescue Bid". Sky News. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Clark (31 October 2010). "MGM film studio plunges into bankruptcy". The Observer. UK. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Interview about mobile handset sales on BBC News channel 10 November 2010". Youtube. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "BBC iPlayer app streams video on the 3G mobile networks". BBC. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Report on BBC News website about flaws in Apple’s Maps application
- ↑ "Winners announced for the 1st MEF Mobile Entertainment Awards". MEF. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Mobile Entertainment Forum website reference to membership of the board of judges for the Third Mobile Entertainment Awards in 2006". M-e-f.org. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "World Oral Literature Project Workshop". Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. 11 November 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ [1] Rushes Soho Shorts website reference to judging panel for festival in July 2012
- ↑ [2] The Strawberry Shorts Film Festival website reference to judging panel for festival in May 2013
- ↑ [3] The Smalls Film Festival website reference to judging panel for festival in August–September 2013
- ↑ Section on judges on the website for the Sindh International Film Festival, February 2014
- ↑ Article in Filmmaker magazine on "Organizing the First Sindh International Film Festival", 6 January 2014
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Night Music reference on the Internet Movie Database – IMDB
- ↑ Vision Shorts reference on the Internet Movie Database – IMDB
- ↑ The Black Marker reference on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- ↑ "Season of Mists website". Theseasonofmists.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Season of Mists reference on the Internet Movie Database – IMDB
- ↑ Season of Mists reference on the British Films Catalogue run by the British Council[dead link]
- ↑ "In September 2008 the film won the Best Actress award for Marina Blake (as Marina) at Kinoshock, the XVI Film Festival of CIS and Baltic countries, held at Anapa on the Black Sea. This is Russia's second most important festival for national films (after Kinotavr)". Kinoshock.ru. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "In October 2008 it won two awards at the Faithful Heart film festival in Moscow – the award for outstanding achievement (effectively the second prize after the Grand Prix) with particular reference to direction, screenplay and cinematography; and the Best Actress award for Marina Blake". Vernoeserdce.ru. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Главная страница. At the Russkoe Zarubezhye Film Festival in November 2009 it won the Gran Prix and Best Actor for Sergei Chonishvili (as Sacha). The picture shows the director Anna Tchernakova accepting the first of these (co-producer Evgenia Tirdatova is just to her left) Template:Wayback
- ↑ Zone of Turbulence reference on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- ↑ Report on the official website of the Smolensk Region about the Golden Phoenix Festival which ran from 27 August to 2 September 2011
- ↑ The Empty Home reference on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- ↑ Vary, Adam. "Academy Award for foreign language film nets a record 71 submissions", "Entertainment Weekly", 8 October 2012
- ↑ Finding Family reference on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- ↑ Official website of Finding Family
- ↑ Listing on the website of the Sarajevo Film Festival
- ↑ "Standing Ovation for Oggi's Incredible Story", story on the documentary blog site of Newport Film School
- ↑ "We Cant Hear the Voices of Syrian Children so Listen to the Story of a Child of Sarajevo", blog by Mic Wright for The Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2014
- ↑ "Stars Turn turn out for Finding Family", story on the Oggi Tomic website
- ↑ Report on BAFTA website
- ↑ Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival website
- ↑ News report by South African Broadcasting Corporation, 27 April 2014
- ↑ "One Humanity simultaneous world premiere in Pretoria and London", article on GlobalSouthAfricans.com website, 17 April 2014
- ↑ "Jerry Dammers to be honoured in South Africa for Free Nelson Mandela", article by Robin Denselow in The Guardian, 24 April 2014
- ↑ Television that stood up to Apartheid, article on ThePrisma website, 20 April 2014
- ↑ Official film website
- ↑ IMDB entry for Yevgenia Tirdatova
- ↑ Fandango entry for Evgenia Tirdatova
- ↑ Facebook page about the making of the film
- ↑ Listing in festival website
- ↑ Moscow International Film Festival website
- ↑ "Raindance Joins Hands With Sindh Festival", article in The Express Tribute, Karachi on 6 February 2014
- ↑ Article by Mohammad Kamran Jawaid on Dawn.com website, 27 February 2014
- ↑ [4] Article in Local Secrets magazine about the IFT screening of Leaving Baghdad in Cambridge on 12 March 2013
- ↑ Mark Gould (13 April 2010). "'If fun is therapy we have had plenty of fun'". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Training Scholarships". Independent Film Trust. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "Night Music at Raindance Film Festival 2010". Raindance.org. 10 October 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "IFT Vimeo site". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Listing of programme Vision Shorts first broadcast on 10 November 2010
- ↑ Vision Shorts entry on the Internet Movie Database - IMDB
- ↑ Listing of programme Film School in a Box first broadcast on 13 September 2013
- ↑ [Film School in a Box entry on the Internet Move Database - IMDB]
- ↑ National Film and Television School website
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