The London Film School

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[i] The London Film School is one of the world's oldest international film schools, an independent, non-profit institution, with graduates established in the film industry in over 80 countries. It is a Creative Skillset accredited Film Academy. Among LFS’s many illustrious alumni is Michael Mann, whose MIAMI VICE and CRIME STORY revolutionised US network TV drama the 1980s, and who has returned to TV most recently with LUCK (2012) with Dustin Hoffman for HBO.
 

[ii] In June 2012 LFS organised the 1-day conference ‘Running the Show’, an enquiry into the future direction of UK TV drama in light of the advances of US and European drama series and serials. Contributors included Tony Garnett, Stephen Garrett, Sally Wainwright, Tony Marchant, Frank Spotnitz, Adrian Hodges, Gub Neal and Francis Hopkinson. The current programme of creatively-driven TV Drama training programmes has emerged from that event.
 

[iii] Archie is Head of Projects at the London Film School. As Cinema Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, he established ICA Projects, one of the UK’s longest-established distributors of World Cinema, and introduced the work of directors Terence Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Pedro Almodovar, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Luc Besson and many others. He was Head of Development at Zenith Productions (Sid and Nancy, Simple Men, Velvet Goldmine) where he also produced many primetime TV drama series and serials. For ITV, he produced 100 hours of the long-running family drama Heartbeat. Archie teaches TV Drama Writing on the New York University - Tisch School of the Arts London Visiting Program, and on the LFS MA Screenwriting course.