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Tom Lawes (born 1 August 1971) is an English film director, music composer, and entrepreneur. He is best known for renovating the oldest working cinema in the UK Electric Cinema, Birmingham and the award-winning documentary ''The Last Projectionist.'' == Career == Lawes was born in Birmingham, England. He went to Handsworth Grammar School Initially Lawes worked as a roadie for the rock band Gunfire Dance.〔http://markpurcell.co.uk/tom-suzie-electric〕 Then, aged 19, Lawes starting making no-budget horror films shot on camcorder.〔http://www.kolektomagazine.com/HTMLFiles/FilmArticles/TheElectricCinema.html〕 In 1993, aged 22, he was hired by the BBC to compose the soundtrack to the BBC comedy drama, All Quiet On The Preston Front.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE PRESTON FRONT PAGE: Series 1 )〕 in 2004 Lawes bought and renovated the derelict Electric Cinema, Birmingham, the oldest working cinema in the country,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Electric cinema celebrates its centenary )〕 needed a total refurbishment to restore it to its Art Deco prime which Lawes carefully undertook after extensive research 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Birmingham Features - Electric Cinema to re-open )〕 prior to re-opening for business again in 2004.〔 Lawes is also the musical director of ''The Electric Cinema Film Orchestra'', the UK's first in-house film orchestra.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/04/10/electric_cinema_orchestra_feature.shtml〕 In 2009, the centenary year of the cinema,〔 Lawes was congratulated in the House of Commons for his work in restoring the cinema 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early day motion 304 )〕 In 2011 Lawes directed and produced the feature length documentary ''The Last Projectionist'', a film charting the history of independent cinema in the UK. The film was named BBC Radio 5Live's Film of The Week by Mark Kermode.〔http://blogs.birminghammail.co.uk/megamovies/2012/06/the-last-projectionist---mark.html 〕 The film won awards, including 'Best Documentary' at the Cambridge Film Festival.〔http://www.penwithfilmsociety.co.uk/last-projectionist-0〕 In 2010 the British Film Institute selected ''The Last Projectionist'' to be included in its permanent archive collection 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Last Projectionist (2011) )〕 Lawes has also directed a series of short documentaries ''Southside Stories'' which in 2012 won two Royal Television Society (Midlands) Award for Best Promotional Programme and Best Craft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards -- Midlands )〕 Most recently he has written and directed the short film ''3 Sides of the Coin''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Lawes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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