Jason looked at the job of film reviewing in newspapers and on the air and discussed the relationship between critics, stars, directors and the public. He has met a wide variety of directors and actors and peppered his talk with anecdotal evidence from Fleet Street to Hollywood.

Biography

Jason Solomons is one of the UK's most influential film critics. He is the resident critic for the Mail on Sunday, Channel Five News, BBC Radio London and Six Music. He writes reviews and a weekly movie news column as well as presenting the Film Weekly podcast for The Observer. He is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio Four's Front Row, Sky News and BBC News 24. He regularly hosts Q&A sessions at BFI Southbank, The Gate Cinema and The Curzon Soho and sits on the board of the UK Jewish Film Festival. Jason lives in London, has been an Arsenal season ticket holder for 20 years, loves smoked salmon bagels and DJs a monthly jazz night at the Social in Islington.

Biography

Anthony Lilley is Chief Creative Officer of Magic Lantern, a multi-award winning company which creates engaging interactive media with clients and partners including the BBC, ITV, C4, Guardian Media Group, Tiscali, Google, Entertainment Rights, ABC, PBS and many others. He has worked on a variety of major international content brands including Top Gear, Spooks, Dr Who, Guardian Unlimited and Planet Earth as well as co-creating and executive producing the BAFTA and Peabody Award-winning FourDocs for C4. Anthony is a member of the Content Board of OFCOM, a director of the English National Opera and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Previously he has been Vice-Chair of PACT, Chair of the UK Digital Content Forum and on the board of BECTA. He has a regular column in the MediaGuardian and speaks and writes widely on media issues; last year he gave the televised RTS Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture. He is the appointed News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford.