In The Director's Chair with Frances-Anne Solomon Webinar - REPLAY
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Join Frances-Anne Solomon and multi Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer and Academy Member Julius Amedume for an online Masterclass session in directing and producing taking place on the CaribbeanTales-TV.com platform.
His most recent feature film Rattlesnakes, starring Jimmy Jean-Louis opened the CaribbeanTales Film Festival last year and won Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Award. It also had its World Premiere at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival in 2019 and took the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. In addition to winning the Independent Film Production Spirit Award at the 2019 Screen Nation Film and Television Awards in London, the film also earned Julius the African Oscar for Film By An African Abroad.
A former Masters student of Directing Fiction at the National Film & Television school in London, Julius wrote and directed four short films during his time there. Mary and John was nominated for Best Short at the 2009 Rushes Soho Film Festival and a Golden Lion at the 2010 Taipei county film festival in Taiwan. Lorraine premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short at the 2010 Rushes Soho Film Festival. Mr Graham premiered at The 14th Urbanworld Film Festival in New York 2010 and his graduation film Precipice Won Best Short at the 19th Pan African Film Festival 2011, and an African Oscar for Best Diaspora Short at the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria.
Julius has since directed for the BBC Series Doctors.