The Young Film Academy Podcast is essential listening for teenagers who are looking to find their way into the creative industries. We chat with industry professionals who have working on the biggest TV shows and movies, discovering how they broke into the industry, and learning what they did during their teenage years to set themselves up for success.
Episodes release every two weeks on all your favourite podcast platforms.
Each episode we answer one of YOUR questions about filmmaking or acting. So email us at podcast@youngfilmacademy.co.uk
Amelia Sciandra is an actor, director, educator, producer, writer and voiceover. She has an MFA in Acting from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and BAs in Dramatic Art and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She recently appeared in Devs on FX and has narrated multiple audiobooks. As a playwright, producer and director she runs a theatre company called Borderline Confrontational, and has produced original plays “Glorious, but Brief” and “13 Children.” She has worked as an educator in the US, the Dominican Republic, and the UK for young people of all ages and adults.
Dan is an award-winning director, writer and editor from the UK, working in short fiction, features and commercials.
His debut feature film, “Unhinged”, received international distribution via 88 Films and eOne entertainment.
In 2018, his #3MinuteHorror series received acclaim after being released via Crypt TV, amassing over a million views online. Episode one, “The Mime”, has since screened at Bafta and Oscar qualifying Leeds International Film Festival, amongst others.
James graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with first class honours.
An awardwinning scriptwriter, James has been commissioned to write for the National Theatre, London, and his writing credits include Born to be Wilde (BBC World Service), ‘One Small Leap’ (Best Short, Raindance), Proving Mr Jennings (published, Oberon Books) and Blooded (Magma Pictures, 2011).
Watch this video special of The Young Film Academy Podcast recorded live with our partners Canon at the Media Production & Technology Show.
Host James Walker chats with BAFTA winners Brian Moseley & Andrew Wilson about how they make incredible BBC and Netflix television shows and movies sound amazing.