DIRECTOR: REMY BAZERQUE
Remy Bazerque is an award-winning writer-director, who trained at the National Film and Television School in Fiction Directing. Since graduating he has worked across the industry in both fiction and advertising. Over the past five years Remy has directed numerous short films which have been widely shown at various independent film festivals. 'Have you seen Napoleon?' recently won Best Student Short and Best Actor Awards at the Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival and the Creativity Award at the Forster Film Festival. His latest short film 'Happy Hour' premiered at Raindance 2013, before receiving a special Mention of the Jury at the London Short Film Festival and winning the Best Short Shorts Award at the Berlin Independent Film Festival. Remy has also won the Firefox Flicks Competition 2012 at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival with his advertising campaign 'Paranoid'.
Passionate about stories, characters and comedy, Remy's cinematic universe is made of off-beat ideas, wit and a distinctive lightness of touch.
Based in London, Remy is managed in the US by Eric Pertilla at Mosaic Media Group.
From 2005 to 2008, James studied at the University of Birmingham, gaining a BA in Drama & Theatre Arts. He then went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for 2 years in Professional Acting, graduating in 2010.
Whilst training, he signed with top London talent agency Curtis Brown Group, and has since worked across all platforms of the industry for the BBC, ITV, Aardman, History Chanel and BBC Radio 4 to name but a few. He has worked with well-respected directors such as Matthew Warchus (Pride), James Strong (The Great Train Robbery: A Coppers Tale), Andy Hay (Waking The Dead, Foyles War), Michael Lacey & Tim Boyd (Emmerdale) and many more, learning a great deal from their wealth of experience. He has recently been cast in a new one-off interactive BBC online drama, as part of the BBC World War One Centenary scheduling, shooting beginning of June.
James wrote and directed his first short ‘Sam’, starring Joseph Drake, a dark mocumentary, exploring the routines and methods of a serial killer. This was a super-low budget, dogme-esque film that was all shot on location around Hampstead. The performance from Joseph drives the piece forward, culminating in an horrific murder and burial scene on Hampstead Heath.
Andrew Alderslade is a London based cinematographer who shoots dramas, promos and commercials. Utilising all crafts and technologies from the old to the cutting-edge, he relishes every challenge that film-making can throw at him.
Starting in music promos, with artists including Radio 1 DJ Toddla T, later he went to study his craft at the famous NFTS under the guidance of Brian Tufano BSC ('Trainspotting', 'Billy Elliot') and there shot a number of shorts including 'Maerus Rex' (Dir. Remy Bazerque, Fujifilm Shorts 2012 Best Film & Cinematography Nominee), 'Chasing Bobby' (Dir. Adel Oberto, Critics' Prize Genova Film Festival 2012) and the reality-pilot 'Newton's Law' (Dir. Sean O'Riordan, Winner NY-TV Festival Best Independent Pilot).
After leaving the school he shot 'Paranoid' (Dir. Remy Bazerque) which won the Panavision Prize at the Firefox Flicks competition at Cannes 2012. In the last year, he has been shooting 'The Ideal Wife' for veteran director Philip Saville and staring Andrew Lee Potts, 'The Things He Never Said' (Dir. Col Spector with Ruth Negga, recently screened at the BFI London Festival, London Short Film Festival) and completed filming 'Two Down' a feature film for the award-winning Fizz & Ginger Films.
Tibo created his first film production company in France aged 20 and later enrolled for an MA in Film and TV Production at Royal Holloway University of London. He moved to London and started working in the British film industry, completing nine feature films to date as 1st Assistant Director and Production Manager, as well as producing a large number of short films, adverts and promos.
Tibo created SweetDoh! Ltd in 2013. Through this company, he has produced a series of adverts for the NGO Orphans In Need which were broadcast in the UK, US and in India (nominated for a Young Director Award). Tibo’s short films have screened at Raindance, Encounters, BIFA, LSFF, East End Film Festival, won awards at Washington DC’s film festival and at the Berlin’s British Shorts Film Festival, as well as Vimeo Staff Picks.
Tibo is currently developing a short film with Film London, a new slate of adverts and his first feature film Bach and Forth, to enter production in Spring 2015.
Tom Graduated from the Bournemouth Arts Institute in 2009 working in all platforms since. Notable credits include (TV)Frankie BBC, Doctors BBC, (Feature Film) Fallen Eagle, Broken Wings, Tezz, Gangs of Tooting Broadway, Magnesium.Theatre credits include a sell out run of Go To your God like a Soldier in Edinburgh 2011 with 5 star reviews and the ‘Pick of the fringe’ award. He also appeared in Oh What A Lovely War, directed by Christopher Littlewood, nephew of original director Joan Littlewood, in one of the most authentic revivals since it first staged in 1963.
Inspired by his work on Go to Your God like a Soldier, Tom wrote his first short First Sight, about a man returning from Afghanistan who subsequently falls in love with whom he thinks is the sister of his best friend who died in Afghanistan.
He has 3 more shorts in development and Cerberus is promising to be an epic short pushing the boundaries of short film.
Inesa is an independent producer based in London, in 2013 she has set-up a production company NEVERMIND FILMS. With extensive experience in fiction films, she has recently extended her activity to documentaries and art films. In 2012 Inesa graduated from the NFTS with an MA in Film and TV Producing.
With over ten years of film and television experience, Inesa’s film career began at the Lithuanian Film Studio as a Location Manager. In 2004 Inesa was awarded a career development grant from Nordic Council of Ministers and interned at the Tromso International Film Festival, (Norway) and London FF (UK). In 2005 Inesa relocated to London and began her film career at Arista Development and Content Film.
Inesa has produced five short films and executive produced a feature length documentary. Her films were shown at Venice Art Biennale, Oberhausen, Edinburg Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, LA Comedy Film Festival and many more. Two of her short films were awarded for best student film’s at the several international film festivals.
Eléonore has lived and worked in art departments in France, Germany and the UK. She started her career in Paris with a vocational training in set design. Later she moved to Berlin, where she worked as a stand-by and production designer assistant for German produced TV-Films shooting on location in Morocco, Malta and Italy.
To further explore her creativity and improve upon her technical skills, Eleonore completed the production design MA
at the National Film and Television School in 2012. As a designer, she has been involved in a diverse range of genres, including stop-motion animation, live action, documentary and TV game show, always with an eye to craft original filmscapes that support characters and enhance stories.
Currently London-based, Eleonore has designed a TV pilot, a TEDx Conference, and several commercials. Projects she has been involved in have screened at Cannes Film Festival, Anima Mundi Festival, Hiroshima Animation Festival, Edinburgh Film festival, not to mention the Oscar Nomination for short animation of Head over Heels.