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My Bristol Favourites: Sam Downie
Sam Downie is a Bristol journalist, filmmaker and actor with epilepsy and aspergers. He regularly heads out to California to be a mobile reporter at Disneyland when it hosts the annual Epilepsy Awareness Day, and next month is returning to the USA where he will talk to companies in Silicon Valley such as Apple and Google about epilepsy.
For more information about the work that Sam does, visit www.dsoundz.co.uk
Here are Sam’s top-five Bristol favourites:
Extract Coffee
“Locally roasted tasty coffee from St Werburgh’s. I’ve been a fan since they started.”
The Watershed
“I’ve been going there since it opened! My dad knew the management. He did a theatre show / exhibition called A History of Airports and I did a music project for Electric Pavilion called Straight Out-A Bristol.”
Bristol Old Vic
“I’ve been a stage manager, an actor and also front of house there.”
ITV Westcountry
“I worked there on several late night TV entertainment music shows, such as A Trip in the Cosmic Buggy and 2BDiscovered.com. Before this, I also appeared on Telewest, the local cable TV show presented by Jason Bradbury (who went on to do gadget and tech things on Channel 5). The new local network channel Made In Bristol TV is also quite fab and fun; I’ve appeared on that too and have also floor managed two shows.”
TV dramas filed in Bristol
“I loved working on Casualty, Skins and Teachers as an actor and then in production. What a joy to be a creative on these well known shows, and local too.”
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