New Creatives Meet The Audio Creatives

New Creatives

Meet the Audio Creatives

We are happy to announce the first round of our New Creatives – AUDIO

Each of these 16-30 year olds are located in the South East, and are working through their journey on this scheme from idea to distribution. As our scheme carries on, we will be updating each of the pages after each call, so stay tuned for more information.

Hover over the images below to find out more about the individuals and click on them to hear their work. For more New Creatives, click the pink buttons below.

New Creatives Audio - Call 2

Chris Bradbury

Director/Composer (29)
A Fenland Symphony

Chris is a musician and sound designer based in Cambridge. His background is in pro audio as an audio technician and he worked as a recording assistant at The Hub Studios in Cambridge. He recently completed a tour with Boo Hewerdine (The Bible/Eddie Reader) for the ‘Swimming In Mercury’ album and continues to play a range of events and festivals around the UK as a gigging singer-guitarist. He also composes for the screen and has accumulated credits on short films and corporate videos. Chris has recorded his first EP for his music project ‘Kinema’ due to be released in 2020.

Kallen Daynes

Director (22)
Online

Whilst studying at university Kallen developed an interest in radio dramas and documentaries interning on Radio 4’s THE ARCHERS and producing two podcasts; THE GEEKY BRUMMIE podcast and VERSE FIRST. He also started a pop-up radio station called FADE Radio and executively produced its documentary programming. Since graduating he continues to produce and direct a variety of documentaries and radio dramas.

Bruno De Oliveria

Producer/Director/Writer
Mocha Love

Bruno is a producer, actor, director and script writer who has worked on multiple short films and sketches. Currently working for a digital media company has a project manager; Bruno is helping create more cinematic content in the advert space.

Amelie Edwards

Writer/Producer/Co-Director (28)
5 Years From Now

Amelie started out as a Medieval History graduate before training at East 15 acting school in 2012. Since then she has supported the Young Vic as a researcher for some of their more historical plays including Pope Joan, directed by Abbey Wright. In 2014 she was a founding member of Boireannach theatre company and later The Mighty Pen, who created 3 seasons of new writing for festivals around London.

Max Elgar

Writer/Director (25)
Torment

Max Elgar is an independent Writer, Director and D.O.P with an educational background in Film Studies and Film and TV Production. He has an interest in telling the stories of underrepresented characters through a fantastical or mythical lens. He has experience in Podcasting, Film production, and writing. He has most recently worked in association with the Globe Theatre and with the BBC New Creatives initiative. His aim is to continue to produce drama and documentary content that blends the harsh realities and struggles of daily life with mythological and sci fi elements. Max is currently engaged in an MA in Film and TV Production, after which he intends to maintain a level of involvement and productivity in creative industries of all types.

Philip Mill

Writer/Director (28)
The Bittern Line

Philip Mill is a sound recordist, musician and wildlife sound enthusiast from Colchester, Essex. Recording across a number of places in the UK and Europe. Previously studying music technology at the University of Essex and Sound Art at the London College of Communication. His main interests are in Field Recording and Location Sound. He is also a member of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society.

Izzy Radford

Writer/Director (19)
The Making of an Education

At 19, ‘The Making of an Education’ is Izzy’s audio debut. She won Pitchy Breath’s competition to put on a play for Horsham’s Year of Culture 2019 around the theme ‘past, present and future’. Izzy is a member of the Soho Theatre Young Company, where she writes and performs sketches and stand-up. Izzy regularly contributes to her own blog and gives talks to secondary schools about alternative routes post-secondary school education. Additionally, Izzy was lucky enough to be a Delegate for ‘The Network’ at the Edinburgh TV Festival 2019 where she worked collaboratively with BBC Scotland to create a script for continuing drama ‘River City’ which was showcased at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Tolly Robinson

Writer/Director (29)
The Internexit

Tolly is a writer and director based in Brighton. He loves that sci-fi has the ability to look at the real world in new ways and feels that radio and podcasts can bring these ideas to life in ways only audio can. Tolly is talking about himself in the third person.

Ren Scott-Bridge

Writer/Director (19)
Train of Thought

Ren Scott-Bridge recently started studying for a filmmaking degree at the University of Sussex. Driven by a curiosity and compelled to create, Ren is a keen writer of screenplays. TRAIN OF THOUGHT is his first experience as a writer/director of a dramatic audio narrative. Interested in social commentary, his piece explores mental health issues from both doctor and patient perspectives: each has a story to tell – and each deserves to be heard.

Taylor Jack Smith

Writer/Director (24)
Foot Fall

Taylor Jack Smith (b.1995) is and artist, filmmaker and writer from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. A recent graduate from the Slade School of Fine Art, his work attempts to engage with the reciprocal relationship between our sense of place and the human experience that it defines. Recent exhibitions and screenings include, The Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Leeds Art Gallery and the South London Gallery, the Big screen Southend with Focal Point Gallery and New Galaxies, Vienna.

Hannah Tookey

Producer/Dramatist (28)
Two By Two

Hannah is a producer whose dynamic work highlights contemporary social and political issues. In 2019 she produced the BFI & BBC Arts funded documentary short ill, actually, the narrative short After the Sea and the experimental documentary short Wargames through the BFI & Film London’s ‘London Calling’ scheme. Founding her own production company This Little Rock in 2019, her first documentary feature Into the Sheets was selected for Meet the Execs at Sheffield Doc/Fest. In 2019, she developed an Arts Council England funded audio documentary about women’s experiences in politics, which premiered at DARE Festival. Hannah was selected for the BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew 2019, as well as BAFTA’s Guru Live Access Pass scheme 2019.

Tom Van Overloop

Writer/Director (21)
Alfie

Tom is screenwriter and award winning filmmaker currently undertaking a Masters in Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School. Tom currently has a number of writing credits to his name, including five short films and a feature film spanning a variety of genres ranging from psychological thrillers to family dramas.

Lucy Walters

Writer/Director (28)
Company

Lucy Walters is a freelance writer, designer and filmmaker based in Oxford, UK. Having previously written short stories and flash fiction, this is her first project writing for audio.

New Creatives Audio - Call 1

Max Barrett

Writer/Director (20)
The Day the Internet Stood Still

Max is a Writer, Director, Broadcast Assistant, Presenter and Podcast host based in Canterbury. He studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. This is Max’s first narrative radio piece and works at BBC Radio Kent. Max’s most notable other narrative work was his writing credit on The Marlowe Theatre show “To Be Decided.” As well as yearly features in the first writes showcase. Max also runs the My Generation Podcast on YouTube.

Frazer Merrick

Sound Artist (28)
Hidden Sounds of Essex's Coastal Arcades

Frazer Merrick is a sound artist who uses both field recordings and synthesis to explore the act of play through improvisation and interactivity. His installation art sits somewhere between collaborative multiplayer computer game and generative musical instruments, creating interactive experiences that transform a space or object.

Anthony Mower

Director/Creative Lead/Writer (21)
A Messy Mentality

In some shape or form Anthony has been into creative writing all his life. The whole process of creating this piece has been a kind of catharsis and one of the reasons he wanted to make this piece was to hopefully close that chapter in his life. This story is of Anthony’s personal growth and he hope someone can see that and find some connection with their story and his own.

Scarlett Smyth

Writer and Creative Director (24)
Paradise Island

Scarlett Smyth is a multidisciplinary artist that shares a love and long spanning relationship with poetry. She is genuinely interested in individual’s stories and different ways of capturing these. Scarlett generally creates from lived experiences and had recently created a Channel 4 Random act, named Daily Cycle, touching on a theme that was personal to herself. She Practiced Fine art at the University of The West Of England, Bristol and was presented with The Empringham art award, as well as the STARS In Art Bristol care leaver’s award. She is now looking to publish a book which laid down the foundations to her most recent work, Paradise Island, a sound sculpture, Commissioned by BBC New Creatives.

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