BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:OPENING CEREMONY with our patron Hilary Bevan Jones and Q&\;A w ith actor Tom Hollander. - Tom Hollander and Hilary Bevan Jones DTSTART:20100618T190000Z DTEND:20100618T210000Z UID:TALK25111@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:18974 DESCRIPTION:Hilary started her career at the BBC working as Assistant Floo r Manager on classics such as Black Adder\, Not the Nine O’Clock News an d Dick Emery. She is now a leading Independent Drama Producer with credits including Red Dwarf\, Cracker\, The Secret World of Michael Fry\, Butterf ly Collectors\, May 33rd\, To the Ends of the Earth\, and the multi-award winning conspiracy thriller State of Play. As part of the Make Poverty H istory campaign\, she produced The Girl in the Café for HBO and the BBC\, which won a number of awards including three Primetime Emmys.\n\nIn 2006 she was made Chairman of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts\, the first woman in its 60 year history to ever hold this position. In 20 08 she moved into feature films producing The Boat That Rocked\, written a nd directed by Richard Curtis and starred Philip Seymour Hoffman\, Bill Ni ghy and Rhys Ifans. She is currently producing a short film called The Cl ear Road Ahead for Film4. \n\nTom Hollander\nAn alumnus of Cambridge Univ ersity (Selwyn) where he was a member of the Footlights and president of t he Marlowe Society\, Tom Hollander has pursued a highly successful career in acting across theatre\, film and Television\; performing in such films as In the Loop (2009)\, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 (2006/2007) and P ride and Prejudice (2005). He is a patron of the British Independent Film Awards. \n LOCATION:McCrum Theatre Corpus Christi College\,Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR