Past graduates include:
Julienne Rathore completed an MA Digital Documentary as 1 of 8 students in its first year of running in 2008. After graduating she started her own independent production company, Savagestudio, with Jeremy Etienne.
Julienne Rathore and partner Jeremy Etienne filming in full protective gear in a minefield in Cambodia for the documentary feature CONSEQUENCES - Landmines & UXOs
She has since directed, filmed and edited several award winning productions. CONSEQUENCES – Landmines & UXOs, highlights the plight of the victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. This feature documentary was selected for CamboFest 2011 and won an Award of Merit at the 2010 Accolade Awards in California.
KUMBH MELA – Walking with the Nagas, portrays the purification ceremony of the Naga Sadhu Hindu Holy men, gathering over 70 million pilgrims at the Ganges in search of spiritual enlightenment. This ethnographic documentary film was a finalist in the 2009 European Spiritual Film Festival in Paris and won the 2009 Best Cinematography at the Chashama Film Festival of New York.
Julienne Rathore instructing a 15 year old street girl in India for the film 'My Street - My Life.
Julienne’s current project, My Street – My Life, is a highly experimental feature film about street children living in a busy bazaar in the middle of New Delhi. The imagery is accompanied by a film score of striking original music combining traditional sounds with modern beats, written by Ken Barrett.
The film is heavily based upon reality and the children acting are the real street children from the area - this is their street. They have no acting experience, nor education, but followed the directors' instructions and improvised around them as they pleased, telling the story of a few typical days in their lives.
In addition to offering a highly authentic insight into the lives of street children in India, this film also gives an accurate impression of daily life in a busy Indian bazaar with continuous movement and an abundance of life.
The film project started as a short, made for the benefit of the children, but developed into a feature film. The main aim is for the children to understand that despite their very unfortunate situation of living on the streets, they do still have choices, and that the choices they make greatly affect their lives.
Julienne will be returning to New Delhi at the beginning of next year to hold a screening of the film for the street children.
For more information on Julienne and her films, visit Savagestudio’s website at http://www.savagestudio.org/.
Daisy Wicheloe (graduated with a Masters in Digital Documentary 2010) who travelled to Koh Tao in Thailand where she trained as an underwater videographer with a company called Liquid Media. Having already done around 60 dives she was able to start working very quickly. Koh Toa is an island dedicated to scuba diving and it has one of the highest certification rates in the world, along side places like Cairns in Australia. It was Daisy's job to film the Open Water Diving courses, the most basic certification in diving. Daisy would rise at 06:00 in the morning to start filming groups, which ranged from four to twelve people, as they set out on their dives. Daisy would film the whole morning, including two dives, briefings and surface intervals. Back on land Daisy would edit the video for the evening showing, where they would be sold. Daisy has used a range of different cameras and editing software. Currently Daisy is using a Lumix with waterproof housing and Premiere. Before this she was using a Sony HD handy-cam in Gates housing and Final Cut Pro. Daisy's Masters programme at Sussex has helped her to move between each set of equipment with confidence and success.
Lawrence Fisher (graduated MA Digital Documentary 2010 with a distinction for his final project) has got his first professional production job at Ricochet Productions, Brighton as Location Assistant on their prime time factual series.
Jaime Taylor (graduated with a Masters in Digital Documentary 2009): assistant producer and assembly editor for two episodes on the BBC2 TV series 'The Secret History of our Streets' (Deptford High Street and also Portland Road, West London).
Laura Evans is an MA Digital Media graduate who is involved in creating media content at Makemedia.
Nicholas Smalley is a Media Practice and Theory graduate who works as a producer for Disney, London.
Nicholas Chambers is a Media Practice and Theory graduate is a director who has produced work at Eton, Cambridge and in London.
Lauren Simpson is a Media Practice and Theory graduate from 2009 who is working as a producer on a project called Just Do It - a tale of modern-day outlaws. The World Premiere is being screened at the Sheffield Documentary Festival in June 2011. The distribution of Just Do It is supported by the Film Council.
Jack Harvey first worked with Back2Back as a runner on ‘Aled’s Christmas Carols’ in 2008, for ITV 1. He also did some transcribing work for the company the following year, and in July 2009 he graduated from Sussex University with a 2:1 degree in Media Practice and Theory, which included electives in Documentary Film, Scriptwriting and Photography. In July 2010, Jack joined Back2Back full-time as a researcher on Sky 1’s flagship reality TV show ‘The Hunks’. He is currently working on the 13-part International Series 'Eukanuba's Extraordinary Dogs' and some future development ideas for the company.
Danielle Wilmot joined back2back in 2008 working as a runner on 'Aled's Christmas Carols' for ITV 1. She went on to aid various back2back projects including 'Road to Copenhagen - Seal the Deal!' and 'I Dreamed a Dream - The Susan Boyle Story' and is currently working as production assistant whilst managing SEE The Brighton Documentary Film Festival (www.seefestival.org), set to take place in February 2011.
Nick Baker first worked for back2back as a volunteer at the Brighton Documentary Film Festival in February 2010. In May, he joined the production team working on “Eukanuba’s Extraordinary Dogs”, Back2back’s 13 par