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Arnold Schwartzman - Margate Paradiso
Arnold has had an extensive career in film, television, graphics and illustration. He has worked with The Rolling Stones, Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor. He says: “Inspired by Cinema Paradiso, a film by an Italian filmmaker who returned to his hometown as a successful filmmaker, I will tell the story from a cinema projection booth which is where my career in film also began. “The town is picking up rapidly, with the Turner Contemporary gallery and the development of Dreamland and so on. So I think my planned documentary is quite timely.” Arnold Schwartzman Canterbury College of Art Graduated 1955
Filming for Margate Paradiso will begin early next year and will be crewed by students and graduates from UCA’s different campuses. “I’m not looking for a cheap crew, I wanted to give something back to UCA and this is a great opportunity for students and graduates to get professional experience.” explains Arnold.
Hollywood filmmaker, Canterbury alumnus Arnold Schwartzman OBE is enlisting the help of students and alumni for his latest project. The project, based in his childhood home town Margate is a personal tribute to the seaside town’s past, present and future. Arnold Schwartzman says: “Margate Paradiso will be a nostalgic love letter to Margate, but it will also look to the future. “I have a deep desire to offer a personal salute to the Margate of my youth. I have collected film clips and photographs which show why it was such a popular holiday destination for over 200 years and that, despite the decline in tourism, it can still be a town to be proud of.
“My cameraman is cinematographer Davide Cinzi from UCA Farnham, whose film was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year. I love working with younger people and I’m really looking forward to it.” Uwe Derksen, co- producer and fellow governor at UCA, says: “This project is inspirational to the local people of Margate and also to UCA’s students and staff who will also see many famous alumni involved. “It is a real pleasure and honour to work with an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and I’m sure all of the UCA students and graduates who work on the film will be very grateful to Arnold for giving them the opportunity to learn from him.”
Margate Paradiso is due to be released Summer 2012. “I also want to try to put down all of the horrible aspects of Margate that some people have highlighted in recent years and help put Margate back on the map.”
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