Join Ellen, James and Paul as we chat about time travel movies and why we love them!
Ellen Cheshire has a BA (Hons) in Film and English and a MA in Gothic Studies and has taught Film at Undergraduate and A Level. She has published books on Ang Lee, Jane Campion, Bio-Pics, Sussex on Film, Audrey Hepburn and The Coen Brothers and contributed chapters to books on Silent Fil, UK Counterculture, James Bond and Charlie Chaplin. She is one of the writing team for the new A Level WJEC Film Text Book. She is a frequent contributor to BFI’s home entertainment releases and has written for Sight & Sound, The Iris Murdoch Review, Sussex Life, Chichester Observer, South Coast Magazine, GScene, Classic Television, Desi, Crime Time, Movie Memories, kamera.co.uk, Science Fiction World and Matrix. Follow Ellen on letterboxd @cheshellen. Check out Ellen’s website - www.ellencheshire.com.
James Clarke is a writer and lecturer. He has taught screenwriting at the London Film School and also works as a Script Reader for the British Film Institute. James has given talks about screenwriting for the BFI Film Academy for young people and has directed a community film with young people for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. James’s film books include: Being Bardot, Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill, The Year of the Geek and The Films of Pixar Animation Studio. James specialises in writing about animation and visual effects films for the magazines Imagine FX and 3D World and his writing has also been published in Empire magazine and at Little White Lies online amongst other outlets. James is currently developing a feature film screenplay project with a co-writer and, in the short-film form, he has written and produced a number of short film projects and was a BAFTA long listed producer in the Best Short Film category (an awfully long time ago). Follow James on instagram at jameswriter72.
Paul Tonks has written about film & in particular – film music for many years. He has interviewed a great many composers & been published within numerous magazines, websites, CD booklets & for record labels. It was in writing the Pocket Essential Series book on ‘Film Music’ that Paul met fellow Excellent Adventurer Ellen Cheshire. Their mutual love of Time Travel in the movies was soon established. Paul may be found regularly reviewing & championing the sound of film music on letterboxd as proftonks and instagram at prof.tonks.
