Kevin MacDonald uses work by amateur filmmaker Nick Fletcher in Christmas In A Day documentary

6:20pm Sunday 1st December 2013 in News

Nick Fletcher with BAFTA winner Kevin MacDonald

A NORTH Yorkshire man got the red carpet treatment alongside an Oscar-winning director when he attended a film premier in London.

Academy award winner and double BAFTA winner Kevin MacDonald chose work by amateur filmmaker Nick Fletcher for his latest documentary – Christmas In A Day.

A clip of Mr Fletcher singing Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly also made it into the much shorter version that advertised the film during a mid-episode ads break in Coronation Street last month.

Mr Fletcher said he was very proud to see his work in a film made by a director of Kevin MacDonald’s stature, and he met the director at the documentary’s premier at BAFTA in London.

“It was a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime experience,” he said. “I felt like a movie star and in some way, it gave me a glimpse of what it is like to be on the red carpet.”

He said it was his first experience of attending a film premier.

Christmas In A Day is a collection of footage sent in by people in Britain about their Christmas in 2012. As well as the carol-singing, Mr Fletcher also features talking about what Christmas means to him.

“I’m 48, so I’ve seen quite a few!” he said.

Mr MacDonald won his Oscar for a documentary about the shooting of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics – One Day in September – and his BAFTA for Last King Of Scotland, and Touching The Void, a true life story of survival against the odds.

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