Who are the Directors?
Andreas Petrides - is one of the UK's leading Stunt Performers, Stunt Coordinators and Action Directors. His career has spanned over 20 years working on over 600 productions worldwide and on some of the biggest movies to date, including Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, were he created all the Lightsaber fights, he was the 2nd Unit Stunt Coordinator and Stunt doubled Ewan McGreggor as Obi Wan Kenobi.He designed and choreographed all the fight sequences in Ridley Scots Oscar winning epic Gladiator, trained Russell Crowe and Stunt doubled Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus. He has also worked on 4 James Bond movies: Golden Eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Along with movies such as: Braveheart, Terminator 3, The Mummy, Tomb Raider, Interview With The Vampire, Saving Private Ryan... to name but a few!
His television credits, to name a few include the current hit BBC show Merlin, Band Of Brothers, Little Britain, Eastenders, Casualty, Silent Witness, Trial and Retribution, Prime Suspect and Touch of Frost.
Cayte Robinson - Her background has been music, theatre and art and from a young age she was always on stage. Cayte finally won a place in the prestigious National Youth Music Theatre where she performed at Edinburgh Festival on shows written and directed by both Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe.Cayte went on to further her talent at music with the dream of becoming a song writer for the movies. She finally landed her dream job writing a movie score for an up and coming British movie which was due to be showcased at Cannes Film Festival but sadly due to politics, the movie lost it's funding.
After working many years at a major publishing house in London, Cayte decided to broaden her skills to become a Quality Control Manager for a Brighton based company and it was during this time she met Andreas and together they now run the British Action Academy full time. Cayte still continues to write music and along side running the academy, is working on her debut single.
What do the British Action Academy offer?
The idea of the British Action Academy was created after Andreas Petrides was asked to perform a Stunt Workshop for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Go For It'. The workshop was held in a South London School and was designed to educate children about the world of action within the Movie industry. It was a massive success but despite the demand 'Go For It' generated for this type of workshop, Andreas's movie commitments kept him from performing anymore for some time.
Finally in late 2008 Andreas and Cayte set up the academy.
After working many years at a major publishing house in London, Cayte decided to broaden her skills to become a Quality Control Manager for a Brighton based company and it was during this time she met Andreas and together they now run the British Action Academy full time. Cayte still continues to write music and along side running the academy, is working on her debut single.
What do the British Action Academy offer?
The idea of the British Action Academy was created after Andreas Petrides was asked to perform a Stunt Workshop for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Go For It'. The workshop was held in a South London School and was designed to educate children about the world of action within the Movie industry. It was a massive success but despite the demand 'Go For It' generated for this type of workshop, Andreas's movie commitments kept him from performing anymore for some time.
Finally in late 2008 Andreas and Cayte set up the academy.
We offer educational workshops, seminars, stunt training packages and experience days for children and adults, teaching them all about action, stunts and the career opportunities within the movie and T.V industry.
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