AirTV is hosting an industry night on 13th March in Cottrell which will bring back alumni who have worked for the BBC, Netflix, and Christopher Nolan.
The event will be held at 6:30 pm in room 2W1 with some impressive names already confirmed. Rory Power-Gibb, an Assistant Director on Tenet and Director of the short film Travelling Past, is set to return. Also attending will be Sarah Grant, the author of Fat Girl Best Friend and winner of the HB Film Festival Best Director award for her short film Candy. She is also the writer, creator and star of the BBC sitcom Stunners.
Writer and director Malcolm Rumbles, Assistant Producer Danny Robertson, and contributor Danny Flynn for The BBC Social have all been confirmed for the event.
Also attending the industry night are more recent graduates including Iain Bayfield. Last year, Bayfield directed a one-shot horror film called Any Body Home? which earned him a nomination for best cinematography at the ATVAs.
Treasurer of AirTV and co-organiser of the event, Ben McQuaid, told Brig that the society wants to highlight the talent that has come from Stirling’s campus:
“We had one last year, but it was mainly like recent graduates. That got us into researching the alumni of AirTV because we don’t really talk about them much. But when we went down the rabbit hole, we found a lot of impressive people.”
(Right) Sarah Grant on the set of her short film ‘ Candy. Image credit: Kevin J Thomson. (Left) Rory Power-Gibb at the US Cast and Crew Screening of Travelling Past. Image Credit: Robb McDonough via IMDB
Ben went on to say that, as well as celebrating alumni talent, he hoped the event would inspire current members entering the industry for the first time:
“I feel AirTV gets kind of looked down on by the wider societies for filmmaking. Other filmmaking societies have a lot more money, and we’re kind of under-resourced. But all these people coming back show that AirTV does create talented filmmakers and it’s nice that they’re coming back. It’s tough in the industry at the moment, because there aren’t many jobs going on. But hopefully this can inspire people to keep going.” He said.
Fellow co-organiser and head of Web for AirTV, Nathan McQuaid added that holding the event in the same room the society has met in for almost a decade holds a special significance:
“Hopefully it can inspire people because we’ve been using the same room for almost a decade, pretty much. These guys came to the same kind of workshops and then 10 years later, most of them all have jobs.”
Featured image credit: Ben McQuaid/AirTV
Film and Tv Editor at Brig Newspaper. Currently studying Journalism and English at the University of Stirling
