The Unicef UK Ambassador met with youngsters at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Summer Scholarship Programme, a joint initiative with the Celtic FC Foundation.
He met Jamie-Lee Wood, 10, from Dalmarnock Primary, Chiara Jack, 14, from St Mungo's Academy, Ailie Watson,10, from Dalmarnock, Lewis O'Neill, 12, from St Mungo's and Emma Darroch, 11, from Dalmarnock.
Presenter Gay Byrne interviews film producer David Puttnam in his adopted home in Skibbereen, West Cork, about the people, events and beliefs that have shaped his life and values.
The acclaimed producer, whose work includes The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle, was at the Newton Park campus to officially open the site’s latest academic building, called Commons.
Lord Puttnam praised the facilities at Bath Spa, saying the new Commons would be the “envy” of universities across the world.
He said: “Having walked around Commons, the facilities are absolutely stunning. All of a sudden and for the first time in long time, I wanted to be 18 years old again and going to university, it is quite remarkable.
“I left the movie industry when it was still analogue and where you could look through the film, but this is a wonderful digital facility which is going to produce a lot of talented people.
“This is the sort of facility that any university anywhere in the world would envy.”
Those who visited and took part in EXCITED – the digital learning festival – would have heard from Ireland’s digital champion Lord David Puttnam CBE who in his speech on the Friday discussed the importance of changing how we run education in Ireland.
After a long day of inviting children from across the country to visit the inaugural EXCITED digital learning festival in Dublin Castle on the June bank holiday weekend, the evening’s events got underway to take a step back from just focusing on the children, to asking how the 500 teachers and influential people involved in the Irish education system can lead a change to integrate more digital learning within the system.
Millions of young people have had their futures stolen by the foolishness of our political and business leaders. At a critical time for our planet, it’s time our youth let their voices be heard, writes David Puttnam.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/time-to-give-youth-its-voice-267597.html
11 years on, the Internet can no longer be ignored. Speaking before a small audience in SMU on Friday night, Lord Puttnam addressed the move in media consumption from television and print to digital devices.
With more and more people turning to the Internet and mobile devices for their news, considerations of media regulation have also had to move. Laws that apply to offline media should also apply to online media, Lord Puttnam argued, pointing out cases of defamation and hate speech online that have attracted the same legal repercussions as they would have had they been printed in a newspaper or broadcast on television.
Lord Puttnam, President of Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) in the UK, looks at the big changes happening in the film value chain.
The film value chain remains in a tricky state of flux, and the always precarious task of forecasting revenues for titles coming to market two or three years ahead has become riskier than ever. While the UK home video market, if I may still call it that, declined slightly in value in 2013, the ways in which people are watching are changing radically.
Three decades after the release of his movie The Killing Fields, producer David Puttnam returned to a much different Cambodia, where he was feted by local filmmakers and a contingent of foreign diplomats and academics for a seminal work that redefined genocide in the public conscience.
VIENTIANE, March 1 (Xinhua) — British Trade Envoy and Oscar-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam held a one-day masterclass for local filmmakers during his trip to deepen ties with the United Kingdom on Saturday.
The UK will help Ho Chi Minh City develop a new central business district, as discussed Thursday by David Puttnam, the Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Vietnam, and the mayor’s office.
Lord Puttnam met with Nguyen Thi Hong, deputy chairwoman of the HCMC People’s Committee, to discuss UK cooperation with the city in developing its new Central Business District, Thu Thiem, the Saigon Times Daily reported.
