2022 events

Forming part of Nina Kümin’s PhD at the University of York, this solo recital showcases her research looking at how to improvise baroque fantasias.

Julia Havas and Gábor Gergely discuss sonic constructions of Eastern European identity in Anglo-American film and television

Written by Lope De Vega in the early 1600s, The Dog in the Manger is known as one of his funniest and most erotically liberated plays.

Love, manipulation, and hidden identities. The Labyrinth of Desire fuses fairytale and intrigue to create a world where trickery and wit can prevail over honesty and rank.

Love, manipulation, and hidden identities. The Labyrinth of Desire fuses fairytale and intrigue to create a world where trickery and wit can prevail over honesty and rank.

Written by Lope De Vega in the early 1600s, The Dog in the Manger is known as one of his funniest and most erotically liberated plays.

Come along for an informal social event on Combating the Chaotic Tornado of Newness: How to deal with the challenges of studying abroad.This is open to TFTI and Music International and Home PG students and is run on a first come, first served basis.

Colin Ward explores the opportunities and challenges children's media faces as a global industry.

The IPC department will be celebrating Global Inclusion week during the week commencing the 14th November. In collaboration with the IPC department, the School of Arts & Creative Technologies will be hosting a screening of the film Samsara.

John is a Zimbabwean Music Composer, Theatre Director/Practitioner and Actor/Musician who is published by Warner Chappell Music (Warner Music Group).

Stan Royle is a professional floor manager who has had a long career in the broadcast & television industry working across many genres. Stan will talk about the career of a floor manager, the production cycle & the superpowers you need in the studio.

Michellee Couttolenc is a sound engineer of the seventh art. In April 2021, thanks to the film 'Sound of Metal', she received the BAFTA, AMPS, CAS and Óscar®️ awards.

Listen to three short presentations from XR Stories and the Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN), who are leading companies in helping the future generation get into the creative industry.

This workshop will explore theatre-making from an autobiographical devising perspective. A practical, fun couple of hours to give you some tools to get you thinking about how you might begin to make art from your own experience.

Mixing UK Garage with unpretentious class politics, award-winning performance-maker Holly Beasley-Garrigan wants to talk about the fetishisation of the feral female.

Join Jenna Ng on a journey from ABBA Voyage to the Metaverse.

John East is one of the foremost television drama directors working out of the UK today. With credits such as Killing Eve and The Last Kingdom, Jon has been at the forefront of British television drama for three decades.

YSTV's 'Fit For Another World: The Legacy of Anne Lister' documents the life and legacy of legendary 18th Century lesbian diarist Anne Lister, and her untold connection to York ahead of the opening of the Anne Lister College at the University of York

Emily Fairhurst, like most nineteen-year-olds, isn’t perfect. But what if this prevented you from pursuing your passions? Emily begins to attend therapy to figure out her life.

A screening of several short video essays produced by first year students for the module Cinema: History and Analysis. The best essay of the year will also be awarded by a judging panel consisting of Grace Moore, Charline Foch, and Francesca Greenlee

An isolated window cleaner comes face to face with an old flame..

When Jane’s over-controlling father unexpectedly arrives home while her boyfriend is around, she must choose between keeping her secrets, and confronting her possessive father.

When Sam’s new job delivering pizza coincides with a full moon, he learns that the town of Lycanstoke is keeping a gruesome secret... and he’s on the menu!

A young woman, Ruby, must figure out how to cope when she returns home from studying away and discovers that every trace of her existence has mysteriously vanished.

The story of Adman follows Darius, a man who has sold off the airtime of his imagination to advertisers, and Adam, his partner, as they navigate love in a world distorted by marketing, where even one’s own memories can’t be trusted.

Proudly displaying the work of Interactive Media students to the public and industry guests, the showcase includes critical and user experience design, virtual reality experiences, games and apps, humanities dissertations, and web application designs

Between the 1st -16th of June students have the chance to write and edit films including or about ducks! These films will be screened and awarded in the University of Yorks Holbeck Cinema.

Acoustic Atlas aims to inspire people to experience the world through listening. The talk will explain the project and invite people to experience it.

Accessibility to film for visually impaired audiences has been traditionally provided through ‘Audio Description’ (AD), a third person commentary which is added to a production. This talk will introduce audiences to the Enhanced Audio Description.

A piece of testimonial theatre based on the life of women living in York.

TFTI will be proud to host Joe Walker - the Oscar-winning editor of Dune, and long-standing creative partner of Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows, Shame).

During this talk, the audience will immerse themselves in a sonic journey to understand what ASMR is, common sound formats found in ASMR-inducing videos and ongoing research findings!

This is an informal drop in session for you to come and meet the co-programme leaders & to hear more about the course. The course is led by co-programme leaders Hannah Davies and Bridget Foreman who are both practising playwrights & theatre-makers.

York Creative Collision Festival 2022 provides a fusion of York’s creative community in a week-long festival showcasing a vibrant range of fringe-scale theatre, contemporary music, and budding comedic talent.

A movement workshop to equip you with devising and physical theatre skills to apply to your theatre-making practice.

The only non-documentary film this year: In this sci-fi classic, a spacecraft travels to the distant planet Altair IV to discover the fate of a group of scientists sent there decades earlier.

The second-year Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance cohort presents three short pieces, each exploring the theme of ‘Activism’. These student devised pieces ask what it means to be an activist.

Live musical theatre performance in Web-based VR is a rapidly growing field of digitally produced entertainment that sits at the convergence of immersive media.

A portrait, mostly chronological, of composer, cellist, and vocalist Arthur Russell (1951-1992). His parents, friends and colleagues such as Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass, his long-time companion Tom Lee, and others provide commentary.

Witness is a Crime Drama, set within a Police Station. Detectives, Jean and Michael, try to piece together the events that led to a Professor’s grizzly death and embark on a journey through the investigation.

A show about depression and death… sorry about that.

How does one respond when their lover tells them they are leaving? Given the opportunity to take their place, what would you do differently? This is the question posed in the first ever English translation and production of the French comedy 'Laure'

Please join us in Black Box on March 17th and 18th, when our MA Theatre-Making will students perform collaborative projects; three new pieces of theatre that they have created and developed this term.

Docudrama that explores the life and creative output of Coventry born-Delia Derbyshire – electronic musician, sound pioneer and female outsider in postwar Britain.

Ever wanted to know what a producer does? Nicki Copley is coming to TFTI's Holbeck Cinema to give a Career and Craft Masterclass on working as a producer in television.

This panel event brings together leading theatre industry professionals to talk about their work as artists, makers and practitioners.

Feature film screening followed by Q&A with the film’s writer/director Sam Hartshorn and Cinematographer Thomas Sandler

Please join this virtual masterclass with Amy Jing Li to talk about the future of UX design. This masterclass will be hosted by Jon Hook.

Please join Mike Todd, CEO of Near-Life, for a masterclass. The session will be hosted by Jon Hook.

This is a new boot camp that is designed to help students learn the key entry-level skill of locating and choosing the best-quality contributors for factual TV shows.

Read by actors and performers, This Is Who I Am is a piece of documentary theatre sharing first-hand accounts of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum, their experiences on arrival in the UK and the particular challenges they face in undergoing the UK asylum process.Trigger Warning: Please note that the testimonies include accounts of state, sexual and homophobic violence and a suicide attempt.

This event is a presentation and workshop on verbatim theatre and ice&fire’s theatre practices. It will take place in the theatre prior to the 7pm performance of This is Who I Am by ice&fire.

**This is a careers event and will only be available to FTP/BCI UG and PG students.**Please join Richard Knight next Wednesday, 9th February 2022 from 14:30 in the Holbeck Cinema for an exclusive location filming masterclass. This session will be a detailed examination of preparing, planning and executing a location based shoot from all angles - camera, sound, locations, art, AD, Production, SFX and VFX. Richard can also incorporate planning of a major action sequence, covering multiple aspects of production, script editing, locations, art department, sound, camera, directing, costume, make-up, stunts, ADs, SFX and VFX. Feel free to ask questions on the day.

We are delighted to bring Transform Festival’s Artistic Director, Amy Letman and Producer, Ali Ford to TFTI. Amy and Ali will be speaking about Transform, and sharing their experience of working as creative producers of live performance. Amy Letman was recently featured in The Stage as one of 25 theatre-makers to watch out for in 2022 and beyond! Please join us for this careers focused event and bring any queries you may have about working in the theatre production industry, as there will be time for questions. https://transformfestival.org/

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