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Andrea Galer
Creative designer, Andrea Galer, is a driving force for promoting ethical trade in film and fashion. She believes that every decision made has an impact on a wide network of people. With her extensive experience, Andrea is able to highlight pertinent ethical issues which affect our world today. Together with Rupert Penry-Jones and many other actors, Andrea looks to build awareness on how film can preserve arts and crafts in the current environment of mass-production through Threads of Time. Threads of Time is an organic vehicle for positive ethical change which aims to keep craft work alive today. In her creations, Andrea strives to keep arts and crafts alive in her design work; she seeks to understand not only the ‘look’ but how cloth and various trimmings were made centuries ago. She strives to unearth and reuse original decorative details to breathe authenticity into her work.

Andrea’s appreciation of traditional craftsmanship comes with a responsibility to raise awareness of its gradual demise in the current society of mass-production. She has put together several short films celebrating the beauty of crafts whilst also highlighting the fragility of their continued existence. Through her ever evolving work, Andrea hopes to raise awareness of the plight of craftspeople and to increase the level of help available to them.

Film
Boudica" (2003) (Relased in USA as Warrior Queen) Nine Lives (2002) Mansfield Park (1999) Firelight (1997) (Released in France as Le Lien Secret'') Love and Death on Long Island (1997) Withnail & I (1987)

TV
The Lady Vanishes (2012) BBC pre-production The Politician's Husband (2012) BBC pre-production Whitechapel (2011) ITV Garrow's Law (2009) BBC Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant (2009) Channel 4 Agatha Christie: Poirot (1995-2008) ITV Miss Marple (2008) ITV He Kills Coppers (2007) ITV Miss Austen Regrets (2007) BBC Persuasion (2007) ITV Blair (2006) ITV <br / >Jane Eyre (2005) BBC <br / >Bleak House (2005) BBC <br / >Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) BBC <br / >Blackpool (2004) BBC <br / >He Knew He Was Right (2004) BBC <br / >Eroica (2003) BBC <br / >The Safe House (2002) TV <br / >Spooks (MI-5 USA) (2002) BBC <br / >The Way We Live Now (2001) BBC <br / >Take a Girl Like You (2000) BBC <br / >Cinderella (2000) <br / >In the Name of Love (1999) <br / >Imogen's Face (1998) <br / >Letters from the East (1996) <br / >Dumb Witness (1996) <br / >Bodyguards (1996) <br / >Brothers in Trouble (1995) <br / >Ridin‘ High: The Video (1992) <br / >How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

Other
Britain’s Next Top Model - Herself - Shoot Costume Designer (2008)

Dadah is Death - Costumer: Ms. Christie (1988)

Don’t Look Now - Wardrobe: Miss Christie (1973)

Awards
Andrea’s attention to detail has brought her continuous work and many plaudits from within the film industry, including a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design on the BBC's Bleak House (2005 TV serial) and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or Special for her work on Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries). Her costumes and collections have been exhibited at some of the most beautiful and important historic venues around the country, from St James's Palace to Haddon Hall.