Rupert is a writer and director. His 2016 feature, KALEIDOSCOPE, a dark, beguiling psychological thriller, premiered at the Chicago Film Festival and subsequently screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where Anne Reid won the Award for Best Performance for her role.
René has been a reader, script editor, continuity supervisor, stage actor, producer, writer and director. He holds a BA in Film, Photography and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster and an MA Screenwriting from LFS where he was a Leverhulme scholar.
Nick Hoare is a screenwriter, script consultant and teacher, with experience of writing and developing for film, TV, stage and radio. A graduate of the NFTS, he has written extensively for television, both on ongoing series including Waterloo Road, Doctors and UgetMe, and developing original material for BBC, Size 9 and Bentley, among others, has written several short films, and has acted as script consultant on a wide range of projects, including documentary features and stage plays.
Jane was for many years Head of Development at David Puttnam’s company, Enigma Productions. There she worked with many internationally acclaimed writers and directors, including Colin Welland, Hugh Hudson and John Frankenheimer whose TV film The Burning Season:The Chico Mendes Story, which David exec-produced, won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes. She also worked closely with renowned theatre director Robert Lepage on his directorial feature debut, Le Confessionnal, which won four Canadian Academy awards.
Dr Virginie Guichard is a film scholar, writer and editor. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the London Film School, National Film and Television School and Ravensbourne University. She was the founding editor of Electric Sheep Magazine and was co-director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London.
James Clarke has been teaching as a Visiting Lecturer on MA Screenwriting since autumn 2018. He has also taught on the MA Filmmaking course at LFS. As a screenwriter, James has a background in writing (and producing) short film. His projects include BAFTA long-listed short film, Space Dance and the short film Chasing Cotards which premiered at the IMAX cinema in London before playing internationally at film festivals. Currently, James is developing several feature film screenplays with producers. He has also written for children’s theatre.
