Join Square Lens Alliance for their Exciting Update Event and see the schedule below:

📅 Date: Thursday 12th September

⏰ Time: Please arrive at 18:30 for a 19:00 start

📍 Location: Dean Clough Mills, Halifax - we meet as usual in The Crossley Gallery

📍 Car Parking: Free after 17:00

Important note: Dean Clough is a very large site so for your convenience, here is the What3Words location directly to the entrance to the nearest free car park - https://what3words.com/dull.bowls.space

Opening Remarks by Jeremy Hall

An official welcome by the Managing Director of Dean Clough Mills. The Square Lens Alliance now has an official base within the business centre office at Fearnley Mill.

Culturedale updates from Pamhidzai Broodie & Philip Stephenson of Calderdale Council

With 2024/25 being Calderdale’s Year of Culture we are honored to have our Sponsors in attendance to announce news and projects of interest to the local creative community.

Learn more at: culturedale.co.uk

Interactive session with Zara-Dee Hannay

Zara-Dee is an accredited performance coach known for infectious positivity and a high-energy approach. She empowers creative professionals to find their unique voice and style enabling them to do more of the work they love. She will be delivering an interactive talk on Mindset, Visibility, Personal Branding and Outreach to discover how to boost your visibility and get noticed by the right people.

Learn more at: zaradeecoach.com

Colour grading workshop with Paul Handley

Paul is an incredibly knowledgeable and skillful BAFTA Connect Colourist who has worked on productions that have had full cinematic releases, in both the UK and the US plus feature length projects for Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Sky Arts. Paul will be delivering a live workshop for us on the fundamentals of colour management workflow and demonstrating grading considerations of example clips plus taking audience questions and worked examples.

Learn more at: colourgrade.co.uk

Film Screening: “Chicken Girl” (10 mins.)

We are ultra excited to present this tragicomedy short written and starring Em Humble. Chicken Girl follows a delusional young woman’s obsession with chickens and golden eggs. After an incident at a Jack and the Beanstalk panto in 2006, Chicken Girl can’t get golden eggs off her brain. Em is a multi-award-winning Northern director and writer-performer. Her comedy sketches have been produced by Hat Trick Productions, Daddy’s Superyacht, and also featured on BBC Radio. For this project she was a recipient of the 2023 BFI Academy Short Film Fund.

Learn more at: emhumble.com

Q&A Session with Em Humble, Tristan Robinson and Matt Wood

As per our usual format following a screening, Em and her co-star Tris, plus DOP Matt Wood will participate in a panel discussion about the project and how it was made. This is always such a popular and interactive part of the evening fielding fascinating questions from the audience.

🤝 Networking Opportunities: As usual throughout the event, there will be ample time to connect with fellow creatives.

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