DESCRIPTION:
Philip Bloom is a British filmmaker known for his DSLR filmmaking, blog and workshops. He has worked as a cinematographer for Lucasfilm, Sky and the BBC.

He began his filmmaking career at Sky, travelling the world as a cameraman. His recent credits include work with Lucasfilm, Discovery HD, Five, Living, Sky One, and more.
In 2009 he was called up by Rick McCallum to help shoot with Canon DSLRs on the set of Lucasfilm's Red Tails. Bloom's 2011 documentary film How to Start a Revolution about Nobel Peace Prize nominee Gene Sharp premiered at the 27th annual Boston Film Festival and won Best Documentary, as well as the Mass Impact Award. It also won Best Documentary at the Raindance Film Festival. For more information go to philipbloom.net

Ina Charuashvili was born in 1984 in Georgia. Born into a musically talented family, she started playing the piano at the age of four. Ina entered the Gori Music School at the age of 8 and the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Georgian Music High School 5 years later. She then went on to gain her B.Mus. degree at the Tbilisi V. Saradjishvili State Conservatoire, where she studied with Alexander Garber. In 2006 she came to London to continue her studies at The Royal College of Music (RCM), where she gained a Postgraduate diploma, Masters Degree and Artist Diploma in piano performance over the next 3 years. During this time, she studied with the world-renowned pianist, Professor Dmitri Alexeev. Ina has also performed in master classes with other leading pianists, including Vladimir Feltsman and Eteri Andjaparidze (USA), Mikhael Voskresensky, Natalya Trull and Victor Merjanov (Russia), Gerard Fremy (France), Felix Gottlieb (Germany) and Hamish Milne, John Lill, Dame Fanny Waterman and Norma Fisher(UK).

Ina has won many international piano competitions, including: The Beer-Sheeva International Piano Competition (Israel, 1998), the International Piano Competition Citt? di Senigallia (Italy, 1999), the J. Flier International Piano Competition (New York, USA, 2000), the Andorra International Piano Competition (Andorra 2001) the Internationale-Klavierakademie Festival in Murchardt (Germany 2002), the N. Gabunia International Piano Competition (Georgia 2003), the International Piano Competition Carlo Soliva (Italy 2004) the Third Tbilisi International Piano Competition (Georgia 2005) First prize and Gold Medal at the Chappell Medal Competition (UK 2009) ,the Dudley International Piano Competition for the best performance of John Ireland's Music and Yamaha Foundation Prize (UK 2009)
Ina has won several scholarships to support her studies including the President of Georgia's scholarship (2002 &2004), the Liza Leonskaya Scholarship (1999), the Internationale Klavierakademie scholarship (2002), the L. Toradze scholarship (2005) and the H. Neihauz scholarship (2006).

At the RCM, she held a scholarship from the RCM's Soire d'Or and by Dame Celia Lipton Farris (2006-2008), the scholarship study award from the Polonsky Foundation (2008-2009), and the scholarship study award supported by Sir Gordon Palmer, NOSWAD and Henry Wood Trust Awards. Furthermore, she has been nominated as the holder of the Anthony Saltmarsh Junior Fellowship for 2009-2010. During her studies at the RCM she gave a number of solo and chamber recitals throughout the UK, she was invited to perform in at the prestigious D'Soir concert and at the Gala Concert at the presence of HRH the Earl of Wessex. Recently she was invited to perform at the Liszt Festival in London 2011(October) and Beethoven Festival London - 2012 (January), Ina has given recitals in many countries throughout Europe, including her native Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Spain and USA. She will perform in Warsaw on 2nd September 2012.