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.
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.
Belinda Parsons
Senior Lecturer - Camera
Belinda Parsons is a freelance Director of Photography, shooting an independent feature films, cinema shorts and working with production companies for all the major broadcasters, filming social documentaries, arts programming, and three feature length dramas for S4C. She was Cinematographer on British low budget award winning feature film THIN ICE and has won the award for Cinematography on PENINSULA October 2019, Southampton Film Festival. The LWT music series LEAVING HOME was awarded a BAFTA, and the short BREATHING was awarded a Chicago Silver Hugo. Belinda was nominated for a WFTV Samuelson Award for Technical Excellence. She has also specialised in shooting films for artists for gallery installation – Mark Wallinger, Idris Khan, Dorothy Cross, Serena Korda, Jayne Parker, Sarah Baker, Richard Wentworth and others.
A graduate of the NFTS, Belinda has been a Visiting Lecturer in Cinematography at the University of Creative Arts, the London Metropolitan University, the University of Hertfordshire, the University of South Wales, the University of Bedfordshire, the University of Westminster and the National Film and Television School.
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 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 MAS 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.
Carmel Collins
Senior Lecturer - Production Design
After graduating in Fine Art Carmel worked as a Theatre Designer in UK, Ireland and Berlin before training in Production Design at the National Film and Television School.
She has extensive experience as Production Designer working internationally on feature films shot in the UK and in Southern Africa, and a wide portfolio of productions including RTS award-winning shorts (‘Decisions’ for Ch 4), TV drama, drama documentaries, commercials and BAFTA award-winning Arts films (Sir Simon Rattle’s ‘Leaving Home’ for Ch 4). Feature films ‘Friends’ directed by Elaine Proctor and ‘Hijack Stories’ directed by Oliver Schmitz gained recognition in Cannes - Special Mention Palme D’Or and Un Certain Regard respectively, both securing international releases.
Carmel has combined teaching with professional practice throughout her career, devising the MA Production Design course at Northern School of Film and Television and teaching at many institutions as a visiting tutor in between film projects, including at University of Westminster, University of the Arts London, University of the Creative Arts Farnham, Royal Holloway University and as a Professional Mentor to Film Glasgow’s JumpCut Summer Production Company.
Charlotte Binns
Registry Administrator
Charlotte joins LFS after completing a diploma in Acting in Stratford Upon Avon, studying English Literature at University in Sheffield and working in various fields from coffee shops and manor houses to dental administration. She has long harboured a love of film and acting, completing several courses with The National Youth Theatre and acting in short films. She is a prolific music lover, teaching herself to play the bass guitar and joining a band a month later, culminating in performing gigs around the UK, her favourite gig played being The Isle of Wight Festival. In her spare time she loves solo cinema trips, playing her guitar, getting out into nature, researching folklore and good films and literature.
Chi Yu
Editing Lecturer; Multimedia Producer
British-born Chi Yu graduated from London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking, where he trained in Directing, Cinematography, Camera Operating, Producing and Editing as well as assisting across numerous film productions. He has worked in various fields as a freelance videographer, teaching assistant and in administration for various organisations.