DFSA Alumni Event - 11am Wednesday 25th January

We are getting excited about welcoming back our graduates next week. Details as follows:


You are warmly invited to the 4^th Digital Film and Screen Arts Alumni Event on Wednesday the 25^th of January 2017. Graduates will be returning to UCA for networking and to offer practical advice, insight and inspiration to current DFSA students and others.

Confirmed participants include:

Matt Fleming, Elliott Williams and Tamara Lenz - Kode Media

Charlotte Akehurst – FX TD - Double Negative previously at The Mill

Lawrence Simpson – from Team Four Star, voice actor, editor and featured in UCA graduate success brochure. Updates from this year in USA etc.

Craig Bilham – Content Creator at Digital Natives

Cecilia Reed – YouTube series as Lady Rock, film screened at Raindance 2016. Undertaking MsC in Science, Technology and Society at UCL

Anne Hawes who taught A level Digital Film at Portsmouth but taking up a position as Outreach Officer at UCA from January

Nathan Scrimshaw – graduated in 2003, and whilst continuing to follow successful careers in information systems and libraries, is now an occasional Graduate Teaching Assistant on DFSA at UCA.

Laura Thomas – Graduated of 2016 – ‘The first year as a DFSA Alumni’

Schedule

11am – Alumni guests will be talking about their careers and introducing the various different paths they’ve taken since graduating at UCA.
1pm – Networking lunch for alumni
2pm – The event divides into two streams, one for students contemplating setting up their own business, and the other for students looking to formal employment:

STREAM 1 ‘for Self-Starters’ – In Conversation: Entrepreneurs on the sofa (W02)

Matt Fleming and Elliott Williams from Kode Media, Cecilia Reed from Lady Rock and Lawrence Simpson from Team FourStar will be discussing going independent and setting up your own company. Topics include starting up, being self-employed, growing your business, and what happens next…

STREAM 2 ‘for New-Hires’ – Showreel/Portfolio Review (R19)

Craig Bilham – Content Creator (Digital Natives), Charlotte Akehurst – FX TD Double Negative and Tamara Lenz – Production Assistant (Kode Media) will be discussing the route to employment.

4pm – Q&A, an opportunity for any questions arising throughout the day to be addressed by a panel consisting of all the alumni participants.
5pm – Private View of ‘Seeds and Surveillance’ (work from year 2 Maps and Networks Project)

All 3 years of DFSA are timetabled for this event – we strongly advise you to attend and not miss out on this fantastic networking opportunity.