ABOUT THE FESTIVALThe Lantern Media Festival is an idea conceived by Sam Marlow and Anthony Jarman. It was born out of mutual frustration that the south east doesn't really have a single body or festival, that caters for all creative disciplines (we have lumped these into four broad categories, film, photography, art and music.) The main purpose of the festival is to give both international and local submissions a platform to exhibit their work. We have taken a basic film festival formula, and expanded it to other artistic areas. We are glad to be holding our main event at The Trinity Arts Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, as we believe this will serve as a perfect space for the festival to take place. The theatre has a cinema and projection facility, art gallery, a bar and an area for people to congregate and network. Those of you that are familiar with the layout of the Trinity will know exactly what we're talking about. The other aspect of Lantern, is that a host of other events will be happening over the year following the festival opening, for example themed film nights, a small music festival is in the works and various networking events. The other great thing is, we're entirely open to suggestions about other events that we could put on. Feel free to send us your ideas, info@lanternmediafestival.com. THE TEAMSam Marlow
While a student at WKC, he also represented the media department on the student council. Samuel has also worked for three years as a photographic printer, graphic designer and technical advisor at a printer in his home town of Tunbridge Wells. samuel@lanternmediafestival.com Anthony Jarman
From there on he has had much experience in various different aspects of the Media. Photography is one of his passions. He operates a busy schedule in Video Production, and works at Prospect Arts and Communication, a local production company with very big ideas. With several short films in pre-production, Anthony is looking to make the jump to producing feature films in the not-too-distant future. 
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Samuel Marlow is in the process of setting up his own production company and is starting to move into the feature film arena.
He has experience lecturing in Video Production at West Kent College, Tonbridge, where he had previously attained notoriety by graduating the course he later went on to teach with the highest possible grade.
Anthony Jarman first realized that visual creativity, specifically film production, was in his blood, when at the age of 15 he had a short production shown on BBC2. Subsequently he was appointed as a youth leader in the BBC’s youth initiative BLAST.
