A tutor of a full-time study course.
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.
Jonas Grimås is a BAFTA winning director with over a hundred credits in high-end British and European television drama, short films and documentaries. Parallel to this, he has portrayed the process of painters, glass designers, musicians, conductors and other artists. When not teaching filmmaking at the London Film School he is making films.
Jeremy Page is the author of five novels, as well as being a playwright, screenwriter and script consultant. He has worked for the BBC, Film Four, Channel 4, Working Title and House Productions, as well as writing journalism and being a photographer for various print, magazine and online outlets. He has taught Creative Writing at the UEA, Arvon and Curtis Brown as well as tutoring and mentoring for various universities.
Lucy Kaye is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in London. She graduated from the National Film and Television school in 2009 and since has worked for the BBC, Channel 4, Vice, The Guardian with subjects ranging from PTSD to Horse Whispering. Her First Cut film for Ch4 received critical acclaim and she was awarded the prestigious Pears Short Film Award for her film Memory Songs.
Sophia Wellington began her film career on the floor – literally: placing marks for Richard Gere as a camera assistant. After years in the camera department, working on a number of Anglo-American features, Sophia moved into the cutting room where she is, to her knowledge, the only (living) assistant editor to get an apology out of Harvey Weinstein.
