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Transactivist and teacher Cole Meyers, shortlisted for this year’s Shaker of the Year Award.

The shorTlisT for 2021 capTures The high levels of achievemenT ThaT makers & shakers is designed To applaud, highlighTing The commendable work Taking place across The inTernaTional producTion supporT indusTry.

Circus, shortlisted for this year’s Production Tech Innovation of the Year Award. Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission: The newly-launched channel Palm BeachesTV operates as a specialist tourism marketing tool, and is also available via Roku and a downloadable mobile app.

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga – New Zealand Film Commission: The Te Puna Kairangi Premium Fund and the Ara ki te Puna Kaiarangi Premium Development Fund were created to support the Aotearoa New Zealand production sector’s recovery from COVID-19.

iniTiaTiVE TO GROW lOcal inDUSTRY

Film Bay of Plenty: TOHEA is an Indigenous Screen Industry Employment, Training and Apprenticeship Programme that has succeeded beyond expectations, ensuring 80% of participants who complete the programme remain in the industry.

Film in Limerick/Innovate Limerick: ENGINE shorts is a brand new a short film development and production scheme for emerging film talent in Limerick, Tipperary and Clare.

North East International Film Festival: The festival aims to increase on-screen representation of previously underrepresented groups and communities, while encouraging and promoting the work of independent filmmakers.

Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB): PGGB’s Diversity and Inclusion Mentor Scheme is designed to help underrepresented talent at entry, early, experienced and expert levels, to reach the next stage of their career in their chosen field.

The Stratagem Group: The team designed an inclusive curriculum to expose a wide cross-section of the emerging labour force in Ontario to the growing opportunities in the creative industries.

Sudanese Filmmaking Association: This NGO is dedicated to developing the film industry in Sudan by training emerging talents, offering free training sessions for young people.

Women’s Work: Women’s Work is a collective of female photographers who want to shine a light on the underrepresentation of women, women identifying and non-binary people in commercial photography.

OUTSTanDinG cREaTiVE USE OF a lOcaTiOn

Karl Beatson-Smith, Luke Wilkinson and the Sweet Tooth Locations Team: Based on a DC Vertigo comic series, the production filmed the pilot in Auckland in 2019, and when picked up in 2020, chose to shoot the series in New Zealand for the proximity of many varied hyper-real landscapes to represent the fantasy world of the comics. Maureen O’Connell – HUM: The team behind HUM brought the Seán Scully paintings to life and made a simple script with two men in a gallery very cinematic with their camera and sound design.

Naomi Liston – The Northman: The most Northerly point of Northern Ireland was selected as the space on which to build a Viking Village. The main access road was limited to 3.5 tonnes, meaning that project’s lorries required special dispensation from the Department of Infrastructure.

Peter Conway – The Last Duel: Ireland’s Bective Abbey and the historic Bective Bridge were selected as an adaptable setting with the scale, breadth and authenticity for the producers to plausibly place their version of medieval Paris, thereby fulfilling the vision of Ridley Scott and Arthur Max.

Sayyora Xudayberdiyeva – Taste of the Sun: One of Uzbekistan’s most prominent features – an abundance of patterns – developed into a massive influence on the project. The patterns contain the messages from the Ancients that guide the boy and his grandfather to the secret treasure.

PRODUcTiOn TEcH innOVaTiOn OF THE YEaR

Circus: Circus is Canada's most advanced team onboarding and time-tracking platform for the entertainment industry.

Film Locker: Film Locker was established to ensure that there is a safe way to store long-term film data, generating new processes for the industry that will not contribute to global warming.

The Greenshot: The core ambition of this project is to attract productions for its innovative real-time budget while calculating, also in real-time, the carbon footprint, thereby making sustainable film productions a reality.

Gritty Talent Group: A new platform connecting and matching talent, Gritty Talent was designed by television professionals and data scientists using anti-bias and inclusive technology principles.

Quite Brilliant: A full-frame cinema camera with gyro and optical-tracking system that provides its real world location to a server running a game engine, this technology offers affordable turnkey virtual production experiences for the commercial and short form market.

The Third Floor: Cyclops presents a clever solution for visualising digital characters or elements within the physical environment in real time.

CREATIVITy INNOVATION

SUSTAINAbILITy

Sweet Tooth, shortlisted for this year’s Outstanding Creative Use of a Location Award.

THE FINAL SHORTLIST AppLAUDS THE MOST AMbITIOUS AND ENTERpRISING wORk bEING CARRIED OUT TODAy – FROM GROwING LOCAL INDUSTRy TALENT TO pRODUCING SUSTAINAbLE AppROACHES TO FILMMAkING.

Photographers Women’s Work have been shortlisted for this year’s Initiative to Grow a Local Industry Award.

SUSTainaBiliTY aWaRD

B2Y Productions: Their goal is to set an example by making their processes as sustainable as possible. Their initiatives include reducing paper usage, reusing all wooden sets used in production and adopting reusable water bottles. They also have their own composting system, their own forest to plant additional trees and take care of 17 beehives.

CAMA AssetStore: Through the CAMA initiative, productions and studios can seamlessly redistribute items in storage to other productions and the wider creative industry. Props, costumes and furniture can be used by other productions, and unwanted household items are donated to the local community.

Coffee & TV: The first Certified B Corporation® and Carbon Neutral creative studio. Coffee & TV earned ‘B Corp Trademark’ status for the studio’s award-winning company culture, passion for a sustainable planet, and a relentless focus on all stakeholders.

The Generator Project: Set up by Sustainable Film, On Bio and FilmFixer Ltd, the Generator Project is a not-for-profit initiative set up to ensure film industry reduces its reliance on diesel-powered, pollution-producing generators.

Good Planet Innovation: The organisation is guiding the shift to sustainable practices, both behind the scenes and on screen. Providing consultation and hands on support from preproduction to post, Good Planet finds sustainable solutions for every department.

GreenEyes: The company implemented an integrated onset waste management system in Budapest with the help of local vendors. The team managed to reduce their general waste by two-thirds –on studio grounds.

Greenset: This not-for-profit company in South Africa is developing a team of freelance Eco-Stewards and Green PAs to help productions to minimise their carbon footprint and overall environmental impact.

Quite Brilliant: The team produced and directed the UK’s first ever carbon neutral virtual production film, as certified by Adgreen and Albert.

SHakER OF THE YEaR

Cole Meyers: Rurangi is written by transactivist and teacher Cole Meyers. A ground-breaking series and feature film from New Zealand, this project has been working with the transgender community for over three years in its production.

Debbie Priestnall, Serious International: Serious Stages/Serious International has built sound stages and pop-up stages for the film and television industry during the pandemic, becoming the market leader overnight.

Gillian Tully: Gillian Tully set up Film Expo South to promote filmmaking, filmmakers, services and locations across the Dorset and Hampshire region.

Jodi Nelson-Tabor: Jodi Nelson-Tabor addresses the gaps in virtual production skills, knowledge and documentation, exploring how to best approach it as an interdisciplinary, practice-based process.

Louise Patel: Louise Patel, the founder of Share My Telly Job, this year launched www.thetimeproject.co.uk, an industry-wide method of recording working hours in British TV and film. The Time Project was created to address how working hours are linked to burnout, failures of diversity, the loss of women to the industry, career stagnation and mental health problems.

Sarah McCaffrey, Solas Mind: This mental health business supports freelancers with a professional counselling service, and is being used by Apple, Amazon, Warner Brothers, Playground and SeeSaw after being established only last year.

Seetha Kumar: The CEO of ScreenSkills heads an organisation which has created thousands of opportunities for people from a wide diversity of backgrounds to get into the UK screen industries and, in turn, progress within them.

Yarit Dor: Intimacy coordinator Yarit Dor created an intimacy coordination mentoring scheme solely for those from underrepresented groups.

For more information about the awards go to www.makersandshakersawards.com

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