Movie Magic: The Secrets of Special Effects, with Lily Culham
Sun 11 Jan
|Welcome In Community Centre, Leeds
Special effects technician, Lily Culham, has worked on Vera, Waterloo Road, Emmerdale, and Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning Adolescence. Her area of expertise? Blowing things up, setting things on fire, crashing cars, floods, storms, fireworks, and confetti.
Time & Location
11 Jan 2026, 14:00 – 15:30
Welcome In Community Centre, Leeds, 55 Bedford Dr, Leeds LS16 6DJ, UK
About This Event
Special effects technician, Lily Culham, has worked on Vera, Waterloo Road, Emmerdale, Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning Adolescence, and Sally Wainwright’s latest creation, Riot Women. Her area of expertise? Blowing things up, setting things on fire, crashing cars, floods, storms, fireworks, and confetti. She’s an expert in the big and bold moments that make television explosive and movies magical. In this talk, she’ll be taking you beyond the camera lens to explore and explain the secrets of special effects on screen.
The cafe will be serving refreshments during this event.
This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.