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Ang Lee on 3D

When it came to guest speakers, this year’s 3D Creative Summit at the BFI could boast some of the biggest in the business, from 3D doyen Chris Parks to “national treasure” David Attenborough. Biggest of all though was surely double Oscar winner Ang Lee, both figuratively and literally, as Ang addressed his audience via the giant cinema screen in NFT1 whilst sitting in New York.

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Tony Collingwood on being a Board member

My first contact with Directors UK was simply a "cheque in the post” from them as a collection agency. My first meaningful contact was to join a steering group to help focus the mechanics of distributing income to directors in a fair and equitable way.

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Robin Sheppard on being a Board member

Happy New Year to you all and I hope you enjoyed the biggest payout to our members so far – a direct result of our continuing campaign to ensure directors are paid properly for the huge creative contribution we make.

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Paul Unwin on being a Board member

I first became actively involved in Directors UK when I was working for the BBC. I was directing a production that was both very ambitious but under resourced.

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Beryl Richards on being a Directors UK Board member

I was elected onto the board at the end of 2011, and was delighted to discover such a dynamic and forward thinking team of creative people.  I decided to stand because I felt the status of the director had been falling, and in particular the number of women directors in drama had decreased.  I wanted to understand why, and then see what could be done about it.

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