Banners / Standby Art Director / Wellbeing Facilitator / Fully certified Mental Health First Aider UK/USA 2020-2023 / Fully accredited i-Act Manager 2020-2023
LEO ANNA 'BANNER' THOMAS
  • ABOUT
    • 2019 Anna changes her name to Leo
    • Wellbeing Facilitator / Mental Health First Aider #mentalhealthinfilm
    • Wellbeing Facilitator Petition & Go Fund Me #mentalhealthinfilm
    • CONTACT/CV
  • BIG BANNERS
    • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • Bourne 5
    • The Mercy
    • Bastille Day
    • Suffragette
    • Pride
  • BIG SCREEN
    • Denial
    • Me Before You
    • Legend
    • Trespass Against Us
    • Man Up
    • Nowhere Boy
    • An Education
    • My Talks with Dean Spanley
    • The Edge of Love
    • Eastern Promises
    • Prince of Persia
    • Fred Claus
    • Love and Other Disasters
    • 28 Weeks Later
    • Back in Business
    • Mothers and Daughters
    • The Dance of Shiva
  • LITTLE BANNERS
    • The Crown 2
    • King Charles III
  • LITTLE SCREEN
    • Trigonometry
    • His Dark Materials
    • Black Mirror
    • Little Bird
    • Unforgotten
    • Messiah : The Harrowing
    • Foyle's War
    • Silent Witness
    • The Lavender List
    • My Life as a Popat
    • The Peter Serafenowitz Show
    • Far Out
    • A News Thought
    • Walkers
    • Boots
    • Hovis, Morrisons & Aviva
    • Clock Opera - 'Once and For All'
    • Amy Winehouse 'In My Bed'
  • LIVE
    • Secret Cinema - Laura Marling : The Grand Eagle Hotel
    • Secret Cinema - 'Brazil'
    • Secret Cinema - Compare the Meerkat event MI
    • The Seagull -The Albany Deptford
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2014
Designer: Simon Bowles
Director: Matthew Warchus
Cira: 1984-85

Role: Assistant Art Director

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Above is me experiencing yet another proud moment connected to my working on 'Pride'.  Four years later, in 2017, Time Out Magazine interviewed me about those banners.  An honor it was to revisit those memories, and how lucky I was to be hired and become 'Anna Banner'! 
Achievements:    Researched banners that were produced by the LGSM (Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners) during the 1984/85 Miners Strike, re-created those banners producing accurate replicas, (image below) along with designing over 50 original and unique banners.  All banners were approximately 9'.0" by 7'.0" and all hand painted and used on two pride marches (1984 and 1985) and one picket line march.  On set as Standby Art Director during these marches and also for 2nd Unit filming.  Buying and set dressing on locations. 



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My banner on set during the filming in October 2013.
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The actual banner itself, above and below, during the London Pride march in 1985.
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