ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

Former Film School Students Launch MagicReel.org.uk

Former New York Film Academy students Paul Fischer and Mary Kerr launched  The MagicReel, a new UK charity that aims to use the power of film to assist ill and disabled children through long periods of hospitalization. The Magic Real brings them currently on release films, pre‐release films, on a big screen, on high‐definition or 35mm film. The screenings are free, the prints are brand new, and the equipment manned by professionals.

Paul Fischer, Director

Paul is a young European film producer. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in France, he has studied at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) in Paris before attending film school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the New York Film Academy in Manhattan. He is the founder and director of Ten Cent Adventures, a London-based film production company, and is the producer of the short film Gone, which premiered at the St. John’s International Film Festival and the New York First Sundays Comedy Festival; We Rob Banks, an upcoming documentary; and the currently filming feature-length documentary Radioman.

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Mary Kerr, Trustee

Mary is a young British film director. She attended Edinburgh University before studying film at Columbia University and the New York Film Academy in New York City. Having worked at Miramax Films, she then spent years working as a casting assistant on such films as King Arthur, Derailed, Alfie and Tristan & Isolde. She wrote and directed the short film Gone (St. John’s International Film Festival, New York First Sundays Comedy Festival) and is currently directing the feature-length documentary Radioman, to be released in 2010.