NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL
Company: Christie Location: London, UK
As part of Christie’s ongoing sponsorship of the National Film & Television School (NFTS) which began in early 2004, the digital cinema projection specialists award an annual prize and scholarship to the year’s most promising students. But this year the company broke from tradition; instead of awarding a projector to the most outstanding NFTS student they donated a Christie LW400 3LCD, 4000 ANSI lumens WXGA resolution projector to an ambitious group of eight international documentary graduates, who now operate as the Kitchen Sink Collective. The award was based on their outstanding contribution to the School, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. As a result this cosmopolitan pool of film-makers, who met on the NFTS’s two-year Documentary Direction course, are now able to showcase otherwise hard to find independ- ent documentaries. “We owe a big thank you to Christie, who helped us to make the first Kitchen Sink Cinema screening back in late June such a success,” said Kristof Bilsen, one of the eight. He is joined by Ania Winiarska, Isis Thompson, Ling Lee, Juliet Brown, Ludovica Fales, Noble Fox and Srdan Keca. Kitchen Sink Collective operates from StudioSTRIKE in Clapham, based above the Bread & Roses pub, where their screenings take place. The LW400 has certainly enjoyed heavy utilisation since its baptism in June. In the summer and autumn, Kitchen Sink Cinema @ StudioSTRIKE ran their Tuesday night cinema series. This included George Amphonsah’s Fighting Spirit, Erik Gandini’s Videocracy, Amy Hardie’s The Edge of Dreaming, Simon Chambers’ Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears as well a fiction film screening of Raletza Petrova’s By the Grace of God. All the films were presented with short animations or docs beforehand. In September the collective had their first mobile Kitchen Sink Cinema in the Fields in Kent during the Quadrangle Film Festival. The Collective has just completed a month touring festivals with its graduation films. This culminated in two films, White Elephant and A Letter To Dad, being shown at the biggest and most important documentary festival, IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival) in Amsterdam. While in The Netherlands they also held a screening of their recently finished feature, The Real Social Network in another Collective’s studio space. Early December began with a successful screening of the brilliant documentary, Black Power Mixtape with a Skype Q & A with producer, Tobias Janson. The new year has already begun where the old year left off, with an appearance at the Lon- don Short Film Festival (6 -15 January). Christie is delighted to support this enterprise as Kitchen Sink continues on its mission to show documentaries, independent features, shorts and animations to appreciative audiences, with the LW400 bringing the screen to life. The projector offers native wide resolution with perfect brightness for small to medium sized rooms such as StudioSTRIKE, in an unobtrusive manner. Srdan Keca, said: “Way before receiving this projector we had wanted to set up a mobile cinema, and the LW400 has enabled us to do it.”
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