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Caroline Gardiner

Director
Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator.
Great Britain, London

About Me:

Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: Final Cut Pro, XL1 Camera, Sony Z1, 16 mm camera

My Work and Credits:

The Circle (2004)

About: Broadcast September 2004, Channel 4, combining animation, photographs and narration to tell the story of a Chinese woman's decision to donate blood, against family wishes and tradition.

Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Don't Look Now,
The Shining,
Mash,
Being John Malkovich,
The Fisher King, The Road

I cried watching:

ET,
Central Station,
The Road,
La Jetee

I left the cinema during:

Van Helsing,
Open Water

Directors I love:

Werner Herzog, Terry Gilliam, Spike Jonze, Nic Roeg, Ken Russell

Actors I admire:

Chris Cooper, Robert Carlyle, Julie Christie, Robert Lindsay, Ken Stott, Simon Russell Beale, Clive Owen, Fiona Shaw

Writers I Respect:

Charlie Kaufman
William Goldman

My desert island discs:

Al Stewart's The year of the Cat,
The Beach Boys Good Vibrations

Books I have given my friends:

Dwight Swain's "Screenwriting",
Joe Queenan's "If you're talking to me ...".
Christopher Priest's "The Glamour" (if only somebody would make the movie ...) PS - maybe they will, now The Prestige has been made

My death row meal:

Pizza Express pizza with spinach and walnuts. But they don't make it anymore, so it would have to be a special order. Maybe then I'd be given a reprieve until it comes back on the Pizza Express menu.

The best thing I own:

My iMAC