Antony Shearn, Curriculum Vitae
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<strong>Antony</strong> <strong>Shearn</strong>, <strong>Curriculum</strong> <strong>Vitae</strong><br />
'Luna' - Baker Street Media Management/ CINECAP / Hourglass Studios<br />
1;235 feature film, reprising Stephanie Leonidas, with Ben Daniels, Michael Maloney<br />
and Dervla Kerwan<br />
filmed in full 4:4:4 uncompressed digital with two ARRI D-20 cameras into Sony SRW1<br />
field recorders for a d-cinema release 2010<br />
film presented by Neil Gaiman - Exec producers Keith Evans, Keith Griffiths<br />
producer Simon Moorhead screenplay by Allen Spiegel and Dave McKean, directed by Dave<br />
McKean<br />
'Bel Air' - Starfish Productions<br />
Short 15min film, originated on two HD cameras, filmed five miles out in the North sea<br />
with an immersible housing, plus a polecam crane arm, figrig and handheld back on land<br />
featuring Chloe Sirene, Milan Alexander, Nirmala Martis – directed by Karen Fraser<br />
'Mirrormask' - The Jim Henson Company for Columbia-Tristar/Sony Pictures<br />
(released US 30/09/05 by Samuel Goldwyn, UK 03/03/06 by Tartan Films,Japan 03/11/06 by Sony<br />
Pictures)<br />
1;1:85 feature film, written by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean<br />
with Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Dora Bryan,<br />
and voices and essences of Stephen Fry, Robert Lewellyn and Lenny Henry<br />
Executive producers Lisa Henson, Mike Polis & Martin Baker<br />
producer Simon Moorhead directed by Dave McKean<br />
'Daedalus Hex' - Magic Lantern Productions for BBC<br />
Interactive drama, filmed on a build at Twickenham studios, to feature interstitial,<br />
fully-interactive playable computer games for the BBC Switch early teens audience<br />
incentive - featuring Fflur Medi Owen, Chris Mack, Zara Tempest-Walters<br />
produced by Mike Ogden, directed by Rupert Harris<br />
'Patient 17' - Patient 17 Productions ltd<br />
microbudget indie feature, filmed tapeless with a pair of Sony XDCAM EX-3 HD cameras<br />
from Sony Broadcast UK<br />
featuring Hannah Waterman, Jonathan Linsley, Matt Chambers, Saul Reichlin, Cornelius McCarthy<br />
produced by Monika Kocian, directed from her own screenplay by Tuyet Le<br />
'Dawn' - Hourglass Studio<br />
A shoot-it-quick exercise as Dave McKean makes a short just for fun,<br />
filmed digitally with my patented glass in-camera distortion effects system<br />
Mediaeval Baebes - 'Live dvd' - Coverdrive Records<br />
supervise and operate multi-camera coverage of the girls doing their thing<br />
Renata Jonscher - 'Islands of Sorrow' - Coverdrive Records<br />
classical music video for the Polish mezzo soprano, filmed widescreen digibeta & Sony Z-1<br />
'Lestat' - Warner Bros theatre ventures<br />
4 short live-action sequences for projection during Elton John’s all-too-briefly
lived Broadway musical at the Palace Theatre, New York<br />
filmed both regular, blue-screen and on steadicam with the first commercial application<br />
for a pre-production Arri D-20 full-height digital camera, feeding into a Sony SRW1 field recorder<br />
deck<br />
Robert Jess Roth, featuring Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello- film segments directed by Dave<br />
McKean<br />
Adobe Project – 'The Particle Tarot' - Hourglass Studio/Saatchi & Saatchi NY<br />
reprise of an earlier ‘Kodak’ project of a fictionalised photoshoot featuring front-end visual effects<br />
'Lullabelle' - Fable Factory Films<br />
s16mm short, (rt 14mins) filmed in 1;1:78<br />
with a cast of Jackie Morrison, Michael Kirk, Su Pollard and Christopher Biggins<br />
produced and directed by Gemma Page & Tanja Ludyga<br />
'Signal To Noise' - Illuminations Films with the participation of The Film Council<br />
Pilot project as development towards a full-length feature film of a 1996 BBC R3 play,<br />
itself derived from their comic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean,<br />
filmed with 13 simultaneous digital cameras and super8mm film<br />
produced by Keith Griffiths, directed by Dave McKean<br />
'N[eon]' - Hourglass Studio<br />
Personal short film (runtime 25mins) shot super16mm for extensive 3D compositing<br />
with Dave’s own super8mm Venice footage and entire cg environments<br />
With Eamonne Collinge, Eilleen Daly; directed by Dave McKean<br />
Ghostwatch / 'Echoes of the Past' - BBC Worldwide for BBC America<br />
12x4min dramatised monologues, 30x10sec stings/inserts, 1x 60min documentary<br />
for TX during a live Tower of London<br />
ghosthunting OB / global webcast, presented by Paul Darrow & Claudia Christian<br />
produced by Andrew Mark Sewell directed by Luc Chamberland<br />
'A-Z of Goldfish - an HD Special' - NHK Enterprises Europe<br />
documentary filmed around the UK on shubunkin fish breeding. directed by Minako Kurachi<br />
'Kiss of the Spiderwoman' - Nottingham Playhouse<br />
Unusual circular presentation of pre-filmed digibeta drama sequences played out as<br />
part of live performance, featuring Adrian Scarborough, Keith Osborn and Sean Dooley<br />
directed by Philip Franks<br />
'The Week Before' - Hourglass studio<br />
s16mm short (rt 25mins) describing what God might have been doing the week before he<br />
made the universe; and is the film that initially attracted the Henson company towards<br />
commissioning ‘Mirrormask’<br />
With Dean Harris playing God, and Eamonne Collinge the devil; directed by Dave McKean<br />
Izzy - 'Una Furtiva Lagrima'/<br />
'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose' - Virgin Records<br />
2 x music promos, shot s16mm back-to-back, with heli aerials + blue screen for 3D composite<br />
directed by Dave McKean
'Shakespeare's Sonnet # 138' - Illuminations for BBC tv<br />
s16mm studio shoot of a 1min film for (ongoing?) BBC2 multiple-director project; this one by Dave<br />
McKean<br />
'Transatlantic Windsurf Race 2000' - SSM Freesports<br />
An Atlantic ocean windsurf attempt from Portugal to Brazil, although it all ended rather badly in the<br />
canaries...<br />
shot boat-to-boat digibeta, betaSP, a gyrozoom and a bunch of vx1000’s (which couldn’t hack it)<br />
Buckethead – 'The Ballad of Buckethead' - Columbia Records<br />
music promo for LA guitar artist Buckethead, designed and directed by Dave McKean<br />
Billboard award nominee<br />
Kodak - 'The Image'- Artemis Communications Ltd for Saatchi & Saatchi NY<br />
s16mm film shoot (rt 24mins) of 'quasi making of’ documentary film for Eastman Kodak<br />
directed by Dave McKean<br />
Raindance- 7 th film festival title - Raindance<br />
Theatrical trail/title sequence (rt 1min 12secs) filmed 35mm combining live action<br />
and 3D animation;<br />
distributed by Warner Bros with a THX soundtrack; directed by Dave McKean<br />
'The Quintessential Englishman Abroad' -<br />
Charleston Films for Discovery Channel (Europe)<br />
s16mm documentary (1hr) about a maverick Englishman living the life of Reilly on an<br />
idyllic tropical paradise island off the Kenya coast; directed by Sebastian Lyte<br />
'Ghosts of the Past' - Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio –<br />
PMI/Juggler films co-production for BBC tv<br />
BBC Arena special; (A cam, David Feig), extensive 16mm shoot over 6 months as McCartney<br />
composed<br />
his opera with Carl Davis<br />
featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Willard White, Sally Burgess; directed by Anne Paul<br />
Acacia Tours Promo - Hotshot Productions<br />
Safariing 2,000+ miles across Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe<br />
featuring white-water rafting, helicopter aerials, even a point-of-view bungy jump (never again)<br />
produced by Doug Smith<br />
various music-biz interviews - MTV/ VH-1 production<br />
indulging endless pop star egos and entourage policing and all in all thoroughly amusing<br />
as director/camera;<br />
'Williams F1 High performance computer' - Lenovo Technology UK Ltd<br />
Design, shoot, composite and cut mainly time-lapse coverage at the Williams F1<br />
race team wind tunnel # 1 to arrive at a short video to illustrate Lenovo’s largest,<br />
8-teraflop computer installation outside of China<br />
Co-ordinated by Kate Robins<br />
'Odd Pot' (2005) - 'UFO' (2004) / 'UFO II' (2004)
Converse All-Stars for Butler, Shine & Stern, Sausalito, California<br />
finalist/winner, short films/commercials - filmed dvcam and animated in AE.<br />
Produced by Francesca Prada and John Butler<br />
Andy award winner<br />
'Tenacious TN56' - Jubilee Sailing Trust<br />
doing everything- shoot, edit, respond to the committee’s persistent and vague alterations,<br />
on voyage TN56 of the beautiful tall-ship Tenacious, as a fund-raiser at the<br />
Dorchester hotel ballroom, hosted by HRH Princess Anne<br />
Mirrormask press release - The Jim Henson Company<br />
4 min video, hurriedly assembled as the first public preview item,<br />
shown at comicon San Diego to an audience of 5k+<br />
'Ghostwatch - Echoes of the Past' - BBC Worldwide<br />
1 min promotional teaser (see previous entry) for ‘general-purpose exposure' at MipCom 2002<br />
countries worked in;<br />
Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canary islands, (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote),<br />
Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Ireland,<br />
Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Madeira, Malawi, Morocco, Netherlands,<br />
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria,<br />
Tanzania, Turkey, USA, Zanzibar, Zambia, Zimbabwe<br />
<strong>Antony</strong> <strong>Shearn</strong><br />
78 Elsham Road, West Kensington, London W14 8HH<br />
telephone + 44 (0) 20 7371-2327<br />
cellular + 44 (0) 7973 261 396<br />
email antonyshearn@aol.com
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