Fanny, l'autre Mendelssohn
Réalisation
Sheila HAYMAN
For almost two centuries, the composer Mendelssohn could only be called Felix. His sister Fanny, also a composer, was banned from any public musical career and her music was lost until determined women unearthed her history. A universal story of one woman's struggle to express her creative genius without losing the love and approval of her family and society.
Réalisé par
Sheila HAYMAN
Narrateur
Sharon KAYE
Photographie
Lynda HALL
Montage
Evelyn FRANKS
Musique
Kate ST JOHN
Son
Lucy PICKERING
Production
Mercury Studios, Senseless Films
Senseless Films
Senseless Films
Réalisé par
Sheila HAYMAN
SHEILA HAYMAN has written and directed documentary films for the BBC, Channel 4, ARTE, Beijing TV and others, winning a BAFTA, Time Out Documentary Series of the Year, Arts Documentary of the Year nomination and a Robert Kennedy award.
She has been UK Young Journalist of the Year, the BAFTA/Fulbright Fellow in Los Angeles and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and is currently on the board of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge University.
Many of her films have focused on our relationship with technology. Her 1992 BBC film, Horizon: The Electronic Frontier asked 'What would the world look like with information as money?' and foresaw ubiquitous surveillance, the computer in your pocket and DeepFakes, including their political risks. In 2017, as Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, she embarked on Senseless, about the difference between human and machine intelligence. In 2020 her work on the carbon footprint of 'AI' led to her being Artist in Residence at PIK Potsdam, Europe's premier research institute on the climate emergency.
Her other main focus is music in various genres. Her films and digital projects about music have included The Rewrite of Spring with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Barbican Centre, 100 Million Musicians about Western classical music in China, and an interactive performance with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. On its release, her BBC film about her forebear Felix Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, The Nazis and Me was nominated for the Grierson Arts Documentary of the Year, and is still in demand for festivals around the world. Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, which she has co-produced with Mercury Studios and premiered in October 2023, is its creative (and literal) sibling.
She also coordinates a creative writing and performance group at UK NGO Freedom from Torture, working to help refugees as her father was helped in the 1930s.
www.sheilahayman.com
She has been UK Young Journalist of the Year, the BAFTA/Fulbright Fellow in Los Angeles and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and is currently on the board of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge University.
Many of her films have focused on our relationship with technology. Her 1992 BBC film, Horizon: The Electronic Frontier asked 'What would the world look like with information as money?' and foresaw ubiquitous surveillance, the computer in your pocket and DeepFakes, including their political risks. In 2017, as Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, she embarked on Senseless, about the difference between human and machine intelligence. In 2020 her work on the carbon footprint of 'AI' led to her being Artist in Residence at PIK Potsdam, Europe's premier research institute on the climate emergency.
Her other main focus is music in various genres. Her films and digital projects about music have included The Rewrite of Spring with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Barbican Centre, 100 Million Musicians about Western classical music in China, and an interactive performance with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. On its release, her BBC film about her forebear Felix Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, The Nazis and Me was nominated for the Grierson Arts Documentary of the Year, and is still in demand for festivals around the world. Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn, which she has co-produced with Mercury Studios and premiered in October 2023, is its creative (and literal) sibling.
She also coordinates a creative writing and performance group at UK NGO Freedom from Torture, working to help refugees as her father was helped in the 1930s.
www.sheilahayman.com
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