By Iain Blair

When I got back from my Oz trip, I was comparing notes with my old friend, LA-based editor and filmmaker Tony Porter, who was Down Under a few years back and also “totally fell in love” with Oz. Tony, whose television credits as an editor and writer include the Emmy-winning PBS series Faces of Culture, Alf and the documentary, Prefab Doc, a feature film about contemporary architects, has long been an active voice at BAFTA where he’s on the Heritage Archive Committee, interviewing and filming such Brit stars as Tom Courtenay, Millicent Martin and Melvin Bragg for posterity. Now he’s been appointed to the BAFTA board, starting next year, joining such luminaries as Lord Rufus Isaacs and Paul Heller, the producer of such great films as Oscar-winner My Left Foot and Withnail & I. “I’m pretty chuffed,” says Tony, who beat out some very big names—including studio heads—for the prestigious post. Tony’s currently working with Heller on an HD project for The Skirball Center. “We’re doing a big morphing faces piece which is really fascinating,” he says.

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