Staff
Charis Coke
Course Leader MA Filmmaking - Senior Leadership Team
Charis is a UK-based Sound Designer and Educator. With a filmmaking career spanning over 30 years, she has worked with internationally recognised award-winning filmmakers, animators, artists, and photographers. She has also made significant contributions to film and sound education, having served in positions such as Programme Director, Senior Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer and External Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate Film Production, Television and Journalism courses including the University for the Creative Arts, Southampton Solent University, Westminster University, University of Portsmouth and Regents University
Charis has served on various film festival judging panels, including Watersprite and the Women Over Fifty in Film Festival. Additionally, she has been an active member of the Executive Board of NAHEMI and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society Accessibility Sub-Committee. As a Sound Designer, Charis has collaborated with accomplished artists such as Daria Martin, the 2018 Jarman Award winner, and Charlotte Prodger, the 2018 Turner Prize winner. Her ongoing collaboration with artist Michael Clark resulted in a retrospective group exhibition titled Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia at Dellasposa in 2020, featuring his tribute to Muriel Belcher, With Daughter on her Mind. Charis's 2023 work with Professor Birgitta Hosea on her experimental animated installation piece Walkcycle is being exhibited at the Hunan Museum in China. Her portfolio also includes fiction and documentary films and artist's works, focusing on the representation of spaces on screen and the role of movement in sound.
Charis's work as a Sound Designer has been showcased internationally, with her films screened at prestigious events such as the London Short Film Festival, Barcelona International Short Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Tate Modern, Quadrangle, Cannes Film Festival, and Ann Arbour. She holds an MA in Sound for the Screen from Bournemouth University, a PGCert in Creative Arts Education, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Member of the Audio Engineering Society, and of the Institute of Professional Sound.
Mark Prescott
Head of New Business & Training - Senior Leadership Team
Mark has had a long career in the creative industries which has included setting up a film skills business for the BFI and working on the BFI player. He has worked in the Mayor of London's office and set up a new digital business for Penguin Random House, the world's biggest publisher. In his spare time he can be found playing and conducting music.
Arttu Salmi
Head of Editing
A cinephile from an early age, Arttu dropped out of engineering studies in favour of fool-hearted filmmaking ambitions. Originally from Finland, he studied editing and post-production at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences - working part-time as a film projectionist at the local cinema. He followed that with a whirlwind semester of film studies at the prestigious FAMU (Prague) and finally completed a Master’s degree in film editing from the National Film + Television School (UK).
Based in London for more than a decade now, he enjoys crafting stories with their distinct feel, language and form. Already exhibiting a wide variety, through commercials, animation, music videos, arthouse, experimental and dance films, he consciously tries to pick projects that offer new challenges and learning opportunities.
His latest work includes the asylum seeker love story Dreamers (dir. Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor), which premiered at Berlinale 2025, the bold, erotic gay identity drama Sebastian (dir. Mikko Mäkelä), which premiered at Sundance 2024 (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), the A24-produced fantasy dramedy Tuesday (dir. Daina O. Pusic) starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which premiered at Telluride in 2023, and the dystopian drama The End We Start From (dir. Mahalia Belo) starring Jodie Comer, premiered at Toronto Int. Film Festival 2023 and garnered him a nomination for BEST EDITING at the British Independent Film Awards 2023.
His work spans across many genres and styles, both in fiction and documentary, and has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto, Telluride, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Anima Mundi, AFI Fest, BFI London, Bristol Encounters and Sheffield DOC/FEST, and broadcast by the BBC, Sky Arts, Al Jazeera and YLE Finland.
Alice Norris
Senior Lecturer Production Design
Alice has worked as a practitioner in the TV and Film Industry for over 25 years.
She has worked in the Art Department as an Art Director, Set Decorator and Production Designer, across all genres in Film, TV and Streaming Drama series across the UK and Internationally.
She was responsible for setting up the Art Department teams in Morocco and in Ghana on two award winning productions with the Director Hugo Blick, and also worked in New Zealand, on the Disney/ Amazon Production of The Wilds where she was flown out at very short notice to set up the Set Decoration Department with the New Zealand team.
As a Production Designer Alice’s credits include a BAFTA award winning film Wee Man, the highly acclaimed This Charming Man, the drama series RedEye.
Alice was nominated for an RTS award for SAS Rogue Heroes.
Other projects include the political thriller, Hi Jack, the drama series of War of the Worlds, The History Of Mr Polly, The Great Fire London, Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, and Outrageous based on the infamous Mitford Sisters.
As well as working in the Industry Alice has always kept one foot in Education, and worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the LFS for many years. She has now joined the LFS team on a permanent basis, and is looking forward to sharing her working practice with the next generation of film makers.
Alice has a BA and an MA in Film Making, and a BA in English and History.
Amit Sen
Film Music Consultant
Amit started composing at the age of 12 and his first composition was performed at the Camden Festival when he was 14. Since then, over a twenty five year career in music, Amit has composed, orchestrated and acted as music director on a broad range of projects which includes, 2 CDs with Carmel (Warner Bros), Diehard director John McTiernan, The 2nd Bakery Attack director Wolf Baschung (featured short film Sundance Festival), Greekfire (series broadcast on C4), Our Orchestra (broadcasts on WMBR Radio Boston USA), Andorra by Max Frisch directed by Michael Attenborough (Falmer Arts Centre).
Amit studied film scoring with Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams and David Raksin in the USA. Amit was the Head of Jazz Composition and Arranging at the Royal Academy of Music and has published articles on film music.
Annette Streete
Admissions Manager
Graduated from Bilston College in the Midlands with a Diploma in Business Studies. Prior to joining the London Film School Annette was a qualified Dental Nurse.
She moved to London in March 1987 and subsequently joined The London Film School in June of the same year as Receptionist. Later this role encompassed the Finance Assistant's role. She then spent a year as acting projectionist on 16mm and 35mm to cover maternity leave in 1990.
In 2002 Annette was promoted to Admissions Manager - her current role.
Bobby Pellegrini
Registry Administrator
Raised in Austin, Texas, and having spent several years in Oklahoma completing a BA in Communication, Bobby has now relocated to London where he recently completed an MA in International Relations. Prior to joining London Film School, Roberto spent most of his career in International Education, working with the Education Abroad department at the University of Oklahoma. During his seven years with OU, one was spent working with students in Rio de Janeiro, at the OU in Rio study centre. His experience has mainly focused on administrative and advising responsibilities within the International Education field. Moving forward, he is excited to work with students at London Film School to aid in the completion of their degrees.
Candida Moriarty - BA Hons, PGCE, MA
Head of Department, Production Design
Candida’s first degree was in BA (Hons) Three-Dimensional Design - Specialising in Theatre Design (set and costume), after which Candida gained expansive experience working as set and costume designer, art director, co-ordinator, supervisor, maker, and scenic artist in the film, television, theatre, opera, ballet, and live events industries. She worked in the UK and on productions that have filmed/toured internationally.
Candida’s early career design of Extraordinary People (as premiered in London’s West End) was reviewed as excellent in ‘The Guardian' by critic Michael Keith Billington - OBE. Subsequently, Candida designed many theatre productions, but also traversed her skills into film and television work; including contributing to set/costume aspects of BAFTA & OSCAR winning/nominated film and television productions (including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Buster, Game, Set and Match, Hi De Hi, Fortunes of War, The Borrowers). She has enjoyed working on a diverse range of over 150 productions including feature and short films, documentaries, drama and comedy series, a few corporate/fashion/music videos, as well as set and costume work for The Nuffield Theatre, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, and The English National Opera.
Throughout her career, Candida has enjoyed teaching her field of practice. She has been a mentor in the workplace of placement students from Nottingham Trent University, Wimbledon School of Art, and University of the Creative Arts Farnham. In a previous Head of Design role, in a drama school, she designed the productions and taught technical theatre arts students the art department skills to realise the designs. Candida has also been a Production Design Visiting Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and at Central Saint Martins. Candida taught Production Design to BA Film and Television Students for 10 years alongside being a Course Leader of 12 years for a production degree course which she devised for the UAL, prior to joining LFS.
Candida embraces LFS MAF course particularly because offers practice learning and relevant self-initiated research challenges that demands dedication towards holistic cross department understanding and a collaborative filmmaking approach; supporting skills development that industry seeks. And a real bonus is the super interesting storytelling that comes from the student lead films.