The Art of Foley with Pete Burgis

Pete will take guests through his career journey which was launched at Pinewood Studios, seeing him work on a range of exciting films, TV shows and video games.

Guest will be able to take part in a Q&A at the end of the talk.

About Pete

Multi award winning Foley artist Pete Burgis has enjoyed a 25 year career working on over 350 films, TV and games projects.

A double Emmy award winner for his work on 'Band of Brothers' 2001 and 'Generation kill' 2008. He has also won 3 MPSE awards and achieved 24 other nominations! More recent Emmy nominations include 'Watership Down' 2019 and 'Devs' 2020.

He is also known for his work on Oscar winning films The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, and Gosford Park. As well as franchises like The Harry Potter Series, Sherlock Holmes 1&2, and Clash of the Titans, and Wonder Woman 1&2.

In 2015 Pete joined Pinewood Studios Creative Audio department as lead Foley artist. Together with this multi award winning team (CAS, EMMY, MPSE, TIGRE) His credits there include: Dumbo, Aladdin, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Alex Garland's Devs, Annihilation, and Ex-Machina. Games credits include: Gears of War, The Ark, Moonlight Blade, Ghosts of Tsushima, Warhammer, Wolfenstein, The Division 2 , Watchdogs Legion, Until Dawn, Man of Medan and Little Hope.

Pete has also worked with BAFTA, BAFTA Scotland, BFI, BFI into film festival and LSA, giving masterclasses, demos and talks to students and young filmmakers.

Pete on IMDB