Neil Williams
@neillyneil
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Exec Director of Tech & Digital @BFI. (Previously: CDO at Croydon Council and Head of https://t.co/5J2lmiiIRu @gdsteam). Aphantastic, SDAM & rebel non-drinker.
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Joined February 2008
Looks like I can no longer keep using this platform, which for years meant a lot to me. This account is now dormant. You can find me on the other platforms with the same username.
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Great chat with @ExposedMagSheff ahead of #7keys @sheffhorrorfest - also spookily pre-empting last night’s talk of northern arts from at #lff. Here’s to helping more folk to find careers in cultural industries and not feel like tw*ts! 😁
exposedmagazine.co.uk
A weekend full of scares kicks off on 24th October, as annual Sheffield horror festival, Celluloid Screams, returns to The Showroom Cinema.
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In 2009 I published a Twitter guide that helped 100s of public sector bodies launch their official accounts. In 2024 my [personal] advice is: LEAVE X asap in anti-racist solidarity. Close your accounts in unison. Make your reasons known in no uncertain terms.
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(To clarify, this is in response to X being used to spread misinformation and stir up racial hatred in the UK, and Elon Musk's comments about that).
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HOW GOOD DOES THIS SOUND?!?!
The 68th BFI London Film Festival Closing Night Gala film will be Piece by Piece. Directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville, the animated biopic explores the life and work of Pharrell Williams through the medium of LEGO. #LFF
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Behold my wife's music tastes I have/get to live with...
Driving to Prince, snogging to New Order, haunted by Jean Michel Jarre, gaming with Rob Hubbard, and avoiding Ed Sheeran at all costs! Had fun doing this qna with @SIREN_MUSIC (sparked via our very cool Music Supervisor on #7Keys Jen Moss). Happy listening...
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Excited to revisit Eraserhead - for my first time in a cinema - decades after it contributed majorly to me falling in love with film (I forced every friend to watch the VHS in my late teens). Also my first trip to the new NFT3 in @BFI Southbank. Legroom! Cup holders! Love.
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What's Neil been doing this week, I don't hear you ask. Well...
neilojwilliams.net
Hey hey. I am in Tiverton, where I began. Down for my mum's birthday and a break from our screens and routines. Popped to nearby Exeter too, so Dylan can scout locations for a music video shoot for...
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The beautiful, terrifying, haunting, wonderful Watership Down. Restored to look and sound great on today's screens of all sizes. 🖤🐇☀️
Back on the @BFI schedule where it belongs! Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. A shout out to filmmakers @RealGDT and Andrew Haigh for the lovely quotes. Order from the BFI Shop and get a limited edition enamel pin badge. #watershipdown #animation
https://t.co/25h2hmHnaC
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Back on the @BFI schedule where it belongs! Available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. A shout out to filmmakers @RealGDT and Andrew Haigh for the lovely quotes. Order from the BFI Shop and get a limited edition enamel pin badge. #watershipdown #animation
https://t.co/25h2hmHnaC
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Another treat - free for BFI Player subscribers (and subscription is a bargain) - one of my all time favourites:
player.bfi.org.uk
Steven Soderbergh’s audacious debut, starring James Spader and Andie Macdowell, is an intimate exploration of sexual desire, and a landmark of 90’s American independent filmmaking.
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So lucky that #7Keys was among the projects helped by this vital initiative - “Made on a micro budget, the Festival Launch Support grant contributed towards its world premiere in the Visions sections of South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (SXSW)” Thanks #UKGlobalScreenFund 🙏
Announced: BFI and @DCMS invest a further £527k via the #UKGlobalScreenFund international business development and international distribution strands, supporting the UK's independent screen sector across film, TV, animation, documentary and games. https://t.co/AEpQMHjcMv
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YOYOYOYOY does superscript in Microsoft Word ruin the line spacing. In 2024.
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Just hopped in car for a short drive to pick up my wife from Crystal Palace station and Sherrelle is playing absolute old skool rave bangers on @BBC6Music - perfection!
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Dispatching my weeknotes a day early. Includes commentary on the CrowdStrike incident, two banging allegories/fallacies and the long-awaited addition of a (late noughties-style) blogroll. https://t.co/pjvqxAJ7mk
#weeknotes
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Blue screen blues “The horror, the horror” - George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike yesterday. Not content with eating the world, software just ate itself and made history by causing the biggest global...
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Tickets for #7Keys @FrightFest go on sale tomorrow! Join us for what @mashable called "a white-hot thriller... lean and mean, flushed with sex appeal, emotional explosions, and sick twists”! We’d love to see you there💋🩸Ticket link goes live at high noon https://t.co/c87QEzV6b5
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