Alex Wakeford

BRIGHTON FILM WORKSHOPS TUTORS

The workshops are run by Brighton based filmmakers Toni Harman & Alex Wakeford, the writer / director / producer team behind CREDO a feature length psychological horror that has sold internationally including a U.S. release by Hollywood studio Lionsgate and a UK release by Guerilla Films.

Through their company Alto Films Ltd, Toni and Alex have also produced and directed a 60 minute documentary – DOULA! (2010) that has sold and screened around the world including the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Holland, Norway and Japan. They have also produced a 3 part series which is being released as a 3 DVD boxed set called REAL BIRTH STORIES (dur 214 mins, 2009) which is currently being distributed internationally by Espresso TV, an international DVD distributor.

They have also made a string of successful short films including 35mm film Daddy’s Boy which won the Silver Melies Award for Best European Short Film and played in over 20 major international film festivals. Their trilogy of three short films  Tube Hell, Bus Hell and Taxi Hell have been broadcast in over 40 countries worldwide.

Toni and Alex both trained at the London Film School. Since graduating 15 years ago, Toni has been working as a freelance producer/director on numerous broadcast factual programmes and documentaries and Alex as a freelance cinematographer and has been DOP on feature films, short films, documentaries and commercials.

Toni and Alex are currently working on a cross-platform global feature-length documentary and online documentary about the politics of birth called ONE WORLD BIRTH:  http://oneworldbirth.net

They are also developing their next feature film, a psychological thriller set to shoot in 2013.