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Charley Weber
A writer, producer and often editor of documentaries, features, TV, corporate films, music videos and commercials. As a director, I more recently produced wrap around immersive film instellation for the Dazzle Festival of projection – a 2025 history of Devonport. But also produced films for Seagrams, The St James’ Club, Noritake Chinaware, as well as music videos for Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Wonderstuff and David Cassidy. As an editor, my feature film credits include editing Swing, with Jaquline Bisset and The King of New York for TV, as well as colourising and prepping features for the Cannes Film festival. Some of my documentary credits include: The Right to Decide, for Planned Parenthood in NYC, the James Earl Jones A&E Biography (Alan Weiss Productions) and the Istanbul Earthquake Relief Film, for Can Dundar (Compugraf/Saatchi’s), the prominent Turkish newspaper editor and journalist.
Since returning to the UK to earn a Master’s and write about my unusual upbringing and experiences as a travelling freelancer, I’ve been researching innovative, open source citizen focused tech, while training and assessing Content Producers for the UK’s in-work route to advanced accreditation at Level 3 & 4.
Full disclosure for potential contractors: as a result of a CFS diagnosis since Covid, I am officially semi-retired, although still very active developing, writing and producing. Depending on the project and deadlines, often this is not a problem and more of a time and energy management issue. For example, during the production of the Dazzle Film or while teaching and training. However generally speaking, due to CFS a diagnosis, I am realistically limited to working half-day weeks.
I have a peculiar relationship with AI. As a writer and lifelong filmmaker, I personally find AI is not up to creating original work of any significant worth in any key creative areas of writing, directing, editing or acting. Although useful for rough assemblages.
But I do see it as an arch technology, which in its unregulated state poses a significant threat, if we mess it up. It’s not an exgeration to say it could kill us all, if not directly through surveillance and political or military targetting, under the surface of any choice to use it lies a Faustian temptation to replace our own minds, human capacity to think and work through things for ourselves – which is how we learn and grow. However if we do manage not to kill ourselves with it, it does offer useful creative and productivity tools, as an assitant, for analysis, structural ideas and minimally invasive, or additive suggesting shaping of creative material. As a creative, but also as an educator, we have little choice but to understand the beast and its nature, without using it to replace humans.
The only exception to this rule for me, not being a programmer, is to create citizen data and OSINT apps and tools to help citizens monitor AI platforms being used politically to distort ‘reality’.
Other content on the site includes:
Books – Extracts from my forthcoming book, ‘Travelling Freelancer’, as well as my first book ‘Ragamuffin’s Tale’, a memoir about growing up around artists and change makers at the heart of counterculture. Released to good reviews in 2022, the book was edited by Petra Schmidt.
Articles & Interviews Spotlighting new artists as well as counterculture figures I grew up around. Having spent most of my career overseas in the USA and Turkey, there are also articles on working overseas and unusual work travel destinations.
Voice & Music. I have music and voiceovers in film and documentaries. Although music is often now a labour of love, my most recent release was Daisy Brain, which stood at the top of regional charts for a year and a half. A number of tracks are available on Apple Music and a few streaming platforms.
The online tutor areas can be explored at Convergence. Gathering interdisciplinary areas of training and assessing in communications, storytelling, film and technology, I offer that as one-to-one tutoring online.
Qualifications for Teaching and Assessing
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Charley Weber Portfolio 