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Karen Askar

Karen has been a freelance script editor, consultant, reader, editor and biographer for many years. She is a Visiting Lecturer on LFS MA Screenwriting & MA Filmmaking and is pursuing a collaborative screenwriting partnership. She was previously Series Script Editor of ITV's The Bill, and in-house script consultant on films and television series for an established comedy writer. 

 

Jane Wittekind

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.

Virginie Guichard

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.

Mark Boutros

Mark is a TV writer, having written on The Dumping Ground and Lagging for CBBC, as well as on Romesh Ranganathan's sitcom, The Reluctant Landlord. A one-off story about Muhammad Ali he co-wrote for the Urban Myths season on Sky Arts was part of the International Emmy-nominated series, and he's developed a mini-series with Raindog Films. He's also script edited on a UKTV pilot called Perfect, and was a story consultant on some of bestselling author Adam Croft's Knight and Culverhouse series.

James Clarke

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 Grimas

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.

Dr Lucy Kaye

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.  

Caitlin Quinlan

Joined LFS after graduating with an MA in Film Studies from King’s College London, and continues to work as a freelance film journalist with regular contributions to Little White Lies and Sight & Sound among others.  

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