Season's Greetings

 

As this year ends, we commemorate all that happened and did not due to the Pandemic, today fortified with spirit or Champagne, we look forward to 2022 and invite you to join me, wherever we are, in drinking to the prosperity of The Network.   I very much look forward to seeing you at the Civil Service Club on Thursday 13th January to hear Phillip Bergson.    Happy New Year!     Whatever your creed, everyone is welcome at The Network #togetherwearestronger!

"THE FUN AND FUNCTION OF FILM FESTIVALS, PRE- AND POST-PANDEMIC"   Thursday 13th January at 6:30pm    Phillip Bergson is a BBC broadcaster, arts critic, and cineaste.   While attending Bradford Grammar School in his native West Yorkshire, he won the New Statesman's Student Journalist of the Year competition with a satiric feature on "The Rape of the Cinema".   With the prize money he attended the Venice Film Festival and his vacation became a vocation.   As a Classics Scholar at Balliol College, he founded the Oxford Film Festival, the first competitive event for feature films ever held in Great Britain, and on graduating was selected by The Sunday Times as a "New Critic".and by BBC Radio as a regular reviewer, interviewer, script-writer and presenter.   He has contributed articles to a variety of publications and programmes on TV, online. in print, and interviewed many Hollywood legends in several languages,(including Sergio Leone in Latin) working also a consultant at the European Script Fund, casting agent, Jury Member and co-organiser of countless film festivals from Madrid to Mannheim, Rotterdam to Rio, and Chicago to Tashkent.   An occasional actor, he created the "Eurovisions" cinema project at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, and has organised many film premieres, panels, and seasons, and masterclasses in the Prague Film School and other venues.   He will outline the history and development of the phenomenon of the film festival, with anecdotes of red faces on the red carpets and behind-the-scenes revelations of the rivalries between Cannes, Berlin and Venice, and how the festival circuit (of over 2,000 annual events) is currently coping with more recent Interesting Times, and is adapting to the Curse of Cathay and other COVID crises.   The presentation will be followed by a Q & A session.   RSVP

If you are not a member yet, join The Network on https://the-network.one. for only £40 a year.   Together we are stronger! Best wishes,   Jean-François.   Jean-François Dor Founder The Network, since 2012   07831782200 Jf@the-network.one

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GPN and The Network are both not for profit, fully inclusive, membership organisation since 2010 and 2012 and your platforms to promote your cause, business, venue and yourself. GPN and The Network help your further your business or career and make meaningful business and social contacts. You get connected, proactive and productive. They are both get together of like minded, and very nice, people who enjoy meeting others in a relaxed yet sophisticated atmosphere. Connect, learn, enjoy and build lasting social & professional relationships. GPN meets every 4th Tuesday of the Month The Network meets every 2nd Tuesday of the Month and has more events for all its sub groups for networking, dinners and social events, usually with a speaker. Together we are stronger!