Show Notes
On the evening of Thursday 21st September, XVFX, the ACCESS: VFX community for people of colour, held their ‘End the Summer with XVFX’ event kindly hosted at Framestore's London studio, and sponsored by Foundry.
In addition to hosting a wonderful networking opportunity and event, we also had a dynamic panel discussion on the night with 'near peer' industry guests from our members' studios, in creative, production and tech positions.
Expertly chaired by ACCESS: VFX board members, Executive Producer Anne Akande and Creative Director Nene Parsotam, all MC’d by VFX Supervisor and Filmmaker, Mark Pinheiro
Our brilliant panel provided insight from DNEG Line Producer, Alisha Huxtable, Framestore Labs Support Engineer, Derin Owodunni and Creative Storyteller, Hameed Adigun.
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