Sanj Surati Talks
Episode 09
Dan Winch
Date: Tuesday 9th June 2020

This is the ninth episode of the Sanj Surati Talks podcast featuring Film and Television Producer, Dan Winch and was recorded on Tuesday 9th June 2020 during the Corona Virus Lockdown. In this podcast, Dan highlights how he entered into the Film and Television production world from the Stage Management & Technical Theatre world and talks about the parallels of both sectors. In 2017, Dan produced “A Very British Scandal” which won many awards and received critical acclaim. Dan’s latest production “Quiz” aired during the Covid 19 lockdown and has already been tipped to win big over the awards season.

Dan Winch can be contacted via:
https://www.instagram.com/danwinchdan/

What we talked about:
Television Production
Theatre
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School - https://www.oldvic.ac.uk
Stage Management & Technical Theatre
https://www.oldvic.ac.uk/course/production-arts-stage-two-year-fda/
Film
Running
3rd Assistant Director
Stage Production
Writer
Director
Casualty - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8wd
Lighting
Sound
Set Design
BBC Wales - https://www.bbc.com/wales
Score - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254761/
Sue Johnson - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426855/
Alun Armstrong - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035605/
Silent Witness - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115355/
Amanda Burton - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123511/
Drama
16 mm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_mm_film
Bloody Sunday - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)
Sunday - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307875/
Factual based films
Chief Communicator
Bird Song - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127876/
Sebastian Faulks - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269127/
What we did on our holiday - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2725962/
Billy Connelly - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175262/
David Tennant - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/
Rosamund Pike - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683253/
Ben Miller - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587950/
Andy Hamilton - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357725
Guy Jenkins - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420746/
Outnumbered - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086191/
A Very English Scandal - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6938856/
Dominic Treadwell-Collins - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1273245/
Russell T Davies - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203961/
Stephen Frears - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001241/
Hugh Grant - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424/
Scripts
Composer
Make-up Designer
Daniel Phillips - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680066
Covid 19
Budgets
Content
Norman Scott - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9837609/
Quiz - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10228230
James Graham - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3037341/
West End Play
Left Bank Pictures - https://www.leftbankpictures.co.uk
Alice Pearse – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5758879/
Andy Harries - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364170/
Gameshow
Broadchurch - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249364/?
Production Designer
William Village - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10963810/
Charles Ingram - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ingram
Diana Ingram
Who wants to be a Millionaire? - https://bit.ly/2Uw47qK
Normal People - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9059760/
Visual Effects

Places:
Bristol
Northern Ireland
Derry
Somerset
Wales
Severn Estuary
Tunisia
America
Europe
Malaysia
Hungary
West Coast of Scotland
Hollywood

Advice:
It is important that you are clear in your head on what sort of projects you wish to work on.
Take the leap
Be keen to learn
Challenge yourself
Think about the audience and how you are going to connect with them

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Launched over the Covid 19 lockdown, The Sanj Surati Talks Podcast is a channel for Sanj’s discussions with people he knows and a few discussions with himself. There is no agenda but hopefully some healthy debates. Feel free to tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #sanjsuratitalks on Twitter and instagram, and we’d love it if you could rate, review, listen on all the podcast places including iTunes, Google, Spotify, Stitcher and the lot. These Podcasts will also be running on Youtube.

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