Bio

Short Biography Simon Frampton


Born 28/5/1960



Education


Greshams School Holt Norfolk


Higher Education

University of Kent at Canterbury 1979-82

Hons Economic and Social History


London International Film School 1986-88

Distinction in Art of Film Making


Organising British Petroleum Expo at Riverside Theatre

The first International Student Film Festival


Commissioned by Help The Aged to make series of 6 Films around UK


Staging of Films to Her Royal Highness Princess Diana at Hilton Hotel Park Lane


Various Film commissions from the Arts Council of Great Britain

Including a dance film celebrating the common roots of Kathak, Raqs Sharqi and Flamenco


A Drama short I wrote and directed won in International competition and was subsequently bought by BBC


A film  to help profoundly deaf people use Libraries


Set up a Cinema with help Suffolk Digital Network for Quay Theatre.


Programmed cinema for 10 years with a mix of best of World Cinema as well as usual Hollywood films.


Set up Green Desert Films to teach Film Making to deprived children


Worked on live streaming of shows from Royal Opera House and National theatre to Quay Theatre


Concurrent with above set up Sudbury Film Club  Lecturing on History and Art of Film Making since January 2011. I have written and presented over 100 new lectures in 100 successive months and still going!