Somersault 2011 Magazine by The London Film School

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(RE)LAUNCH OF THE LONDON FILM SOCIETY In October this year, LFS Chairman Mike Leigh and Director Ben Gibson unveiled a new programme aimed at raising vital funds for LFS. Inspired by Britain’s first Film Society founded in 1925, whose members included H.G.Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Maynard Keynes and Anthony Asquith, the Society is enrolling influential patrons to play a crucial role in supporting the work of the

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

LFS director, Ben Gibson, said: “The London Film Society is the first step in a longer-term strategy to

secure the future of the school. It’s a chance for us to reach out and form relationships with key individuals and organisations that can help us maintain our position as a world-class training provider. Society members are making a direct stand for LFS’ role within the industry.” Current Society members are: David Aukin, Don Boyd, Dan Chambers, Will Clarke, Tony and Janey Elliott, Stephen Garrett, Keith Greenhalgh, Goodman Derrick LLP, Christo Hird, Olivier Kaempfer, Paul Kafka, Waseem Mahmood OBE, Franc Roddam, Lisa Marie Russo and Michael Sackler. Membership is available on an individual or corporate basis. For more information, please email Cecilia Sala at c.sala@lfs.org.uk

LOW BUDGET FILM FORUM en route to Paris (page 6)

WAVING NOT DROWNING at the Berlinale (page 6)

THE LONDON FILM SOCIETY Join the Club (page 20)

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School and the next generation of cinematic talent. In return for a yearly donation to LFS, members will enjoy unrivalled behindthe-scenes access to the inner workings of the School including invitations to exclusive workshops, screenings, dinners and discussions.

SPEAKEASY celebrates second year (page 5)

ISSUE TWO ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE LONDON FILM SCHOOL - DECEMBER 2011

BBFC 2D Design Avid Barbican Birkbeck Buzzacott Copious Deluxe Soho ENO Essex Insurance Brokers Fisher Harbottle and Lewis Image Systems

Institut Francais Kodak London Metropolitan University Panalux Panavision Pinsent Masons RADA The Leathersellers’ Company The London Consortium The National Gallery Watchmaker Films Wickens

Designed by Mike Leedham, 2D Design. Edited by Kate Hughes. Printed by Gemini Press. Writers Joanna Bence, Nick Roddick, Camilla Bubna-Kasteliz, Archie Tait, Suzy Gillett, Margaret Glover, Andrea Corbett, Brian Dunnigan. With thanks to Carolyn Atherton, Alex Duxbury, Moshe Nitzani, John Sibley, Chi Yu, Rachael Stevens, Heather Thomas, Cecilia Sala, Jaime Estrada-Torres, Louise Lawrence and all the graduating students and LFS staff. Thanks also to Lee Riley and Jon Sheldon at The National Gallery, The Soho Theatre, and all the companies that donated to our graduate goody bags (Variety, Screen International, Hollywood Reporter, BFI, Kodak, Little White Lies, STA Travel, Channel4)

REAL WORLD TRAINING Welcome to our celebration of a year’s work at LFS, and of an extraordinary group whose professional adventures begin here: the class of 2011. On graduation day LFS used to mainly content itself with boasting about our many prizes at short film festivals (this year 30 from over 150 fests, see FESTIVAL NEWS on page 3). Of course they are very important moments for these filmmakers, but what comes next? Since 2005, we’ve been looking more closely at how careers actually begin, at the journey through to the first paid jobs and the first features. On the following page you’ll

see an account of several of the 25 known first features recent LFS graduates have made and released over the past year in the US, Asia, Europe and the UK. Somewhere just before the first short film festival booking comes the sobering moment when a new LFS Associate begins their career planning in earnest. They need to research the growing network they’ll require, to address the skill gaps they feel most keenly after two or three years of filmmaking, the ones that matter most to them. Then, through research, letter-writing, creating showreels, attending festivals, one to one meetings, fundraising and often pure self-promotion, they

inch closer to the goal of paid employment for creative work in film and television. Rather than looking for a specific job, this person is often inventing the job they need to do and then discovering the economic niche that might support it. Sometimes they have a key link to the industry in their past, and they have to use this link while persuading their former colleagues that they don’t just want to take up where they left off but to make new ambitions happen, stage by stage. In the background of all this work - learning to be one’s own agent - LFS tutors are penning letters of introduction, advising on showreel

A message from Mike Leigh in Canada, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kyrgystan, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Taiwan and the Western Sahara - as well as here in the UK, of course! LFS continues to thrive on the creative richness and the diversity of its international student community. This, together with its role as one of the UK’s two major film schools, is one of our great traditions. Throughout the world, you will find filmmakers and workers in the other media who spent those magical two action-packed years in our ex-banana warehouse in Covent Garden, or in one of the school’s earlier homes, in Brixton or at Charlotte Street.

Here we are again, celebrating an exciting year at LFS - our fifty-fifth, in fact! Over one hundred and fifty festivals world-wide have screened our work over these last twelve months, and LFS films have been awarded no less than thirty First Prizes. Our graduate features and documentaries were shot by LFS crews To all of you alumni and

Associates out there, dotted around the globe, I want to tell you that your old alma mater goes from strength to strength. But we need to raise funds, and plenty of them. We want to increase considerably the number of our scholarships, making our courses even more widely accessible. Money needs to be spent on vital new facilities, and we are now embarking on our longer-term fundraising campaign to ensure the future of the school when our current lease on Shelton Street finally expires. Your practical help with all this is really important. Finally, our warmest thanks to all our friends and industry partners who have supported us over the last year. We need your continuing support, and we much appreciate it.

cuts and CV styles and bringing together Associate networks in foreign cities from Los Angeles to Beijing to support new arrivals. The school’s so-called ‘bridge programmes’ from HOTHOUSE to the European network schemes, THE LOW BUDGET FILM FORUM and MAKING WAVES, in partnership with other film schools, are there to support the work and continue the learning. In the UK Skillset has supported both HOTHOUSE and an industry mentoring scheme for graduating students which makes a huge difference to the industry knowledge and selfconfidence of graduates. Institutions like the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Cannes Cinefondation Residences, the Mauritz Binger Institute and the Sundance Workshops help develop many LFS graduates in the terrifying space from school to work. The school keeps up with its recent graduates because their working relationships with tutors persist, and they use the LFS WORKSHOPS offerings to top up. LFS students start the journey to work with a class called THE JOB CLUB, where they’re asked to present a 5 year career strategy for discussion with their classmates. Generally they’re also asked to say what they still want to learn and who they must meet. We put an emphasis on the continuity of learning, partly because the people they meet see their careers that way. They don’t ‘arrive’ anywhere, but keep exploring, lead by a sense that there’s much more to know. The surprisingly simple-minded life structure of these creatively ambitious role models could be said to consist of just two stages: discovery followed eventually by death. Not a bad plan.

On The Edge, directed by Sohail Kamali, one of 42 LFS graduation films produced this year (see page 7).

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Alongside our graduating Filmmakers, Screenwriters and Curators, today we honour three individuals who have made great contributions to our culture and industry. Through slumps and renaissances, UK cinema has survived and excelled because of the energy, optimism and originality of the indefatigable – a fitting word to bring together three people who have taught us so much about the potential of cinema: the director, Richard Lester, the actor, Rita Tushingham and the critic and historian, Philip French.

Every major ambition of the UK Government’s 2011 Film Policy Review can be directly addressed by creating better provision of spaces, scholarships, and equipment at LFS and we’ve made that bid to government in 2011. Inward investment into the UK industry, keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies, discovering and supporting new and diverse talent and building support amongst the UK public for more and better UK films, are all key ambitions of LFS. The full text of the school’s public response can be found on the website. Ben Gibson

THE LONDON FILM SCHOOL TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 7836 9642

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The Short and the Long of It Also coming off a good year are three other more recent graduates. Alexandra McGuinness (writer/director), Mark Lee (producer) and Gareth Munden (cinematographer) saw their film Lotus Eaters get a screening at Tribeca. “It tells the story of young, well-to-do socialites in London, seen from the point of view of a character who is part of that world but not from that world,” says Lee. Norwegian filmmaker “It’s about young people Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, struggling to find their place meanwhile, won the Best in the world… and failing.” Screenplay (Narrative) award at the Tribeca Film Festival in McGuinness and Lee had New York last spring for her worked together on several coming-of-age comedy, Få films while at the School, but meg på, for faen (Turn Me On, Lotus Eaters “all came Goddamit), her first feature, together very quickly in which she describes as “an March 2010,” says Lee, who evocation of the particular credits the School’s learningby-doing philosophy with enabling him to become a producer, even though it’s not what he studied to do. “The School actually creates producers without intending to,” he says. “It gives you confidence on the film set because you’ve done it all – sound, camera, production design – already. And you learn to work with other people.

point where they have a chance of going into production. Borrowed Time was indeed selected, however, and Kaempfer credits the acrossthe-board ethos of the LFS with giving him the necessary skills for the job. “You might not even be thinking about producing,” he says, “but you get a feel for it all and it helps you have that versatility and the ability to pull all the things together. I’ve directed since leaving the School and I intend to keep that side of things going. But it’s meant that, when I’m producing, I’m producing: I’m not a frustrated director.”

“I’m from New York and I could have gone to film school at NYU. But there I would have made one film in three years. At the LFS, I made five in two years. Doing Oscar hat trick is Hong Kong’s complexities of teen girlhood”. is the best teacher.” Ann Hui, who graduated way back in 1975. Already a prize- Jacobsen’s New York success The intensely practical winner in Hong Kong, Taipei, didn’t happen overnight. After nature of the LFS course is Tokyo, Venice, Créteil and leaving the LFS in 1999, she also cited by Olivier Berlin, Hui will be represent- made documentaries then, in Kaempfer, who graduated ing Hong Kong in the Oscar 2006, received a grant and from the MA Filmmaking line-up with her latest film, A “thought it was time I used course in 2007 and recently my fiction studies on a fiction produced Borrowed Time Simple Life. with writer/director Jules Bishop, who graduated four years earlier. Borrowed Time – set on a London housing estate - is, says Kaempfer, “a life-affirming drama about bridging the gap between generations: it’s in the British realist tradition, but it’s both comic and redemptive”.

Julian Kerridge, a 2008 Filmmaking graduate who is now taking his £70,000 first feature Seamonsters on the festival circuit – a world premiere at London’s Raindance followed by a US one in Austin, Texas have already been notched up – echoes his former fellow students. Seamonsters is set in an outof-season seaside town (Southport in Martin Sadofsky’s original play, Worthing in the film) and, says Kerridge, tells the story “of two best friends who fall apart because they should never really have been best friends in the first place”.

Film Festival in Spain; and Duncan Jones, whose feature debut Moon played to rave reviews in the UK and elsewhere, opened the SXSW Film Festival in Texas in March with his follow-up, Source Code, a brain-twisting action sci-fi thriller which went on to a worldwide release (“altered minds, altered states and bags of style” said the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw).

Oliver Hermanus returned to his native South Africa after graduating with a film called Shirley Adams, made with the support of director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Anonymous). Portraying the doomed struggle of a single mother to care for her son paralysed by a shooting incident, Shirley Adams made its international debut in competition at Locarno and went on to win three South African

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Academy Awards – Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. That, in turn, attracted the attention of French producer Didier Costet, who helped put together Hermanus’s second feature, Skoonheid (Beauty), which was selected for Un Certain Regard in Cannes this year. An unflinching portrayal of a homoerotic amour fou, the film picked up the first ever Queer Palm award in Cannes, and has now gone on - via a very successful screening at the London Film Festival - to be South Africa’s official selection for the 2012 Academy Awards. The Best Foreign Film Oscars are a competitive part of a competitive industry, but Hermanus reckons the LFS equipped him for that. “What I really liked was the atmosphere,” he says. “From the day you arrive, the older students are telling you about how you have to make films and then show them to an audience of students and filmmakers and have them ripped apart. I prefer that to the more comfortable situation you get in some film schools: it’s more real.” Hermanus won’t be the only LFS graduate vying for the Academy’s little golden statuette early next year: representing the Dominican Republic with her first feature, La hija natural (Love

Child) - which has already won the Audience Award at the Chicago Latino Film Festival - will be Leticia Tonos, who graduated in 2000. And rounding out the LFS’s

The film was developed under Film London’s Microwave scheme, a long process involving workshopping and mentoring, which means that even those films not finally picked for funding have been developed to the Other former LFS students have also been prominent on the festival circuit and on theatrical release. Raz De La Torre, graduating this year, has been quick off the mark to make a feature. His Won’t Last a Day Without You opened in December 2011 in 120 theatres in The Philippines; George Siougas’s Burning Heads had a successful theatrical opening in Greece; 2001 graduate Stefan Archetti received a Special Mention for his debut feature, Il fungo sirena, at the Granada

production”. She optioned the book by Olaug Nilssen on which the film is based and started writing. Five years later, the film had its world premiere in the feature competition at Tribeca. “When I was given the best screenplay award, Diane Wiest was in the jury and shook my hand and said it was wonderful. And I also got three seconds with Robert De Niro. It was all a bit surreal, but of course very, very nice and a great relief that people seemed to like the film.”

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Students make lots of shorts while they’re at the LFS. But features aren’t far around the corner. Nick Roddick looks at some recent post-graduation successes. London Film School filmmaking graduates mark their progress through the School with a series of short films of increasing complexity – not to mention ambition. Of course, it rarely stops there: features are what the world wants, and recent LFS graduates are making sure it gets them.

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Some of the 2011 features involving LFS graduates

ita Tushingham’s acting career began quite inauspiciously as the back legs of a horse in Toad of Toad Hall, but her debut film performance in Tony Richardson’s A Taste of Honey (1961) marked the arrival of a major talent, winning the New York Film Critics Award, the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award, the Variety Club Award for Most Promising Newcomer, a BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and a Golden Globe for ‘New Star of the Year.’

Directors A Simple Life – Ann Hui A Woman’s Way (Strella) - Panos Koutras Borrowed Time - Jules Bishop Burning Heads – George Siougas Cold Water of The Sea - Paz Fabrega D-Humanos – Miguel Pereira Elfie Hopkins - Ryan Andrews Harisma - Christina Ioakeimidi King of Devil’s Island - Marius Holst Land Gold Women – Avantika Hari Love Child (La Hija Natural) - Leticia Tonos Lotus Eaters - Alexandra McGuinness Piggy - Kieron Hawkes Random 11 - Tony Ukpo Ruadhan The Bard – Jamie Chambers Seamonsters - Julian Kerridge Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World – Faris Kermani Skoonheid - Oliver Hermanus Source Code – Duncan Jones Turn Me On Goddamit Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Unfair: The Answer – Shimako Sato Women and Children - Daniel Mitelpunkt Won’t Last a Day Without You – Raz De La Torre

Cinematographers Another Happy Day – Ivan Strasburg Bambieffekten - Øystein Lundstrøm Borrowed Time - David Rom House (TV series) – Gale Tattershall Lotus Eaters – Gareth Munden Mandela’s Children - Charles C. Meyer Ruadhan The Bard – John Craine Shirley – Ole Bratt Birkelund Sleeping Beauty – Geoffrey Simpson The Karate Kid – Roger Pratt The Speak – Edd Lukas The Sunset Limited – Paul Elliott The Veteran – Philipp Blaubach Tyrannosaur – Erik Wilson Viernes de Ánimas: El camino de las flores – Isi Sarfati

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Borrowed Time - Olivier Kaempfer Lotus Eaters – Mark Lee Ruadhan The Bard – James Barrett The A-Team – Iain Smith The Knot – Enrico Tessarin The Off Hours - Mischa Jakupcak Looking back on his time at Trespass – Boaz Davidson the LFS, he adds, “I simply Wilde Salome - Barry Navidi couldn’t have made the film without the hands-on experi- Editors ence of having to make five Flipped – Robert Leighton films in two years, and then Rise of The Planet of The Apes – one graduation film in the Mark Goldblatt third year. When I came to make Seamonsters, I knew I Writers could do it.” Betsy and Leonard - Luke Foster Citystate - Hrafnkell Stefansson Ruadhan The Bard – Robyn Pete Alice - Ines Braga Borrowed Time Turbulence – Stavros Pamballis

LFS has a long tradition of honouring figures who have made significant contributions to the film industry, going back to 1956 when its previous incarnation The London School of Film Technique was founded. Such luminaries as Akira Kurasawa, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, John Huston, Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti were Honorary Associates of the school. Recent recipients are directors Stephen Frears, Lynne Ramsay, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mike Figgis, Abbas Kiarostami, Jack Gold and Amma Asante, producers Jeremy Thomas and Tessa Ross, actors Gillian Anderson, Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton, as well as retired LFS faculty members Cedric James, Rodney Newton, Roy Pointer, Colin Tucker and Chrissy Bright. At the 2011 Annual Show Richard Lester, Rita Tushingham and Philip French will be named Honorary Associates of The London Film School.

ichard Lester was born in Philadelphia, USA, beginning his career as a stagehand and rising to become a director at just 20 years old. He left for Europe in 1954 and settled in Britain in 1956, where his sympathy for anarchic comedy brought him to the television series A Show Called Fred (ITV, 1956). Here he met Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, and the trio teamed up again for the Oscar nominated short The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film (1959), shot in under two days for a mere £70. The film was a favourite of The Beatles (in particular John Lennon) and led Lester to A Hard Day’s Night (1964), described as ‘The Citizen Kane of Jukebox musicals’. This was followed by a second Beatles vehicle, Help! (1965) and The Knack ...and How to Get It (starring Rita Tushingham) which won the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. Lester went on to direct the wildly satirical How I Won the

150 FESTIVALS - 30 PRIZES In 2011 LFS films played at over the Santa Cruz Film Festival. 2010 150 festivals and won 30 prizes. graduation film La Playa, directed Highlights include: by Elisa Cepedal and shot by Clara Kraft Isono was a finalist in the Fuji Aygul Bakanova’s graduation film Shorts competition and played The Song of the Rain was selected seven festivals. for Locarno and Cottbus Film Festivals. 2010 graduation film No Ordinary Ali Jaberansari’s graduation film Morning, directed by Geoff Bellhouse, produced by Merv Aman won the MEO Award at The Lewis and shot by Annette Remler, Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival. Ben was selected for Cameraimage. Caird’s graduation film Drift won Best Student Film at the Lift Gabriela Palacios’s 2010 graduaFestival, Grand Prix du Jury at tion film Alitas (Little Wings) Chalon Tout Court Film Festival and played a dozen festivals, winning received an audience award at the Best Short at Sol de los Pastos Beijing Student Film and Video Fest International. Festival. Jon Stanford’s graduation film Rahul Gandotra’s Student Oscarnominated 2009 graduation film Lost Tracks won the 2011 Pinewood Prize and played six festivals, The Road Home continued to travincluding Cambridge and el the festival circuit, winning Best Film at Cergy-Pontoise Encounters. International Student Film Festival Alistair Uhlig’s 3rd term documen- and was shortlisted for a BAFTA. tary Birdman of Tamworth won Ishaya Bako’s 2010 graduation film Best British Short at the Leeds Braids on a Bald Head was selectFilm Festival. Adina Istrate’s fifth term project Half Moon played at ed for six festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Boston and thirteen festivals, winning Best Seattle. Short and the Audience Award at

War (1967), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and the iconic Petulia (1968), a corrosive look at the American upper-middleclass and the fragmentation of 1960s American society. In 1973, Lester made the Dumas’ classic The Three Musketeers followed by The Four Musketeers (1974) starring Oliver Reed and Richard Chamberlain. His reputationfor bringing a light touch to genre subjects was confirmed with Juggernaut (1974), an efficient addition to the disaster movie genre set aboard a transatlantic liner. Subsequent credits included The Ritz (1976), Cuba (1979), Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983). Lester has enjoyed a distinguished and diverse career, but perhaps nothing represents him better than his zeitgeist-capturing 1960s work - a graceful and unique representation of an era he was not only perfectly attuned to, but helped define.

Tushingham was a key player in the British New Wave, swinging through the sixties with offbeat roles in films such as Desmond Davis’ Girl with Green Eyes (1963) for which she won another Variety Club Award for Best Actress, The Knack…and How to Get It, directed by Richard Lester, which won a Best Film Palme d’Or for Lester and a Mexican Silver Goddess for Tushingham, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Sidney Hayers’ The Trap. From there she worked in Italy, Germany and then Canada, where she spent a decade with her second husband, Iraqi cinematographer and director Ousama Rawi. In 1988 she returned to England and appeared in a number of TV and film productions, including Carla Lane’s Bread and Mike Newell’s An Awfully Big Adventure (1995).

with several new directors, including Martin Duffy (The Boy from Mercury - 1996), Carine Adler (Under The Skin 1997) and Simon Marshall (Out Of Depth - 2000). Among these have also been recent LFS graduates - Julian Kerridge (Seamonsters - 2011) and Joseph Knowles (Sight Test -

2008). She continues to work consistently in film and television, and in July 2009 received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University for “outstanding and sustained contributions to the Performing Arts”.

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hilip French was born in Liverpool in 1933, and after service as an officer with the Parachute Regiment in the Middle East he read law at Oxford (where he edited The Isis, was Vice-President of the Film Society, and helped make a movie) and studied journalism at Indiana University. Over the next 30 years he was a producer for BBC Radio, specialising in programmes on the arts and American affairs, and from the early 1960s was a regular contributor to numerous magazines and newspapers on books, films, theatre and the arts in general, ranging from Sight & Sound to the TLS, and from the Financial Times to the Observer, where he’s written a weekly film column since 1978. His books as author or editor include The Age of Austerity (1963), The Movie Moguls

(1969), Westerns (1973), Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling (1980), Malle on Malle (1992), The Faber Book of Movie Verse (1993), Wild Strawberries (1994), Cult Movies (1999) and I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile (2011). He served on the jury at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, was a Booker Prize judge in 1988, was voted the Film Critics’ Film Critic in a 1990 poll of national film critics, was given a life achievement award by the Critics Circle in 2003, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lancaster in 2006, became the first critic to be made a Lifetime Honorary Member of BAFTA in 2008, and in 2009 was named Critic of the Year in the National Press Awards.

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LFS Workshops Schedule: January - March 2012 LFS Workshops is a wide-ranging series of short, intensive courses spanning all aspects of the film production process. For more info contact Carolyn Atherton: workshops@lfs.org.uk / +44 (0)20 7836 9642. JANUARY 2012 NEW: The Editor as Storyteller: Principles and Practice of Narrative Film Editing Wed 4 – Fri 13 Jan –£1,500 – Tutor: Barrie Vince Intensive 8-day course for editors who are proficient in the use of AVID or Final Cut Pro, but who have limited experience of drama editing. A to Z of Documentary Making: From Creation to Distribution Thu 19 & Fri 20 Jan – £220 - Tutor: Tracey Gardiner Part I: How to take an idea from the early stages of development through to the finished product and onto the international market.

Boom shake the room: workshop participants take it outside.

Directing Actors: Getting the Right Performance Sat 21 - Wed 25 Jan – £520 – Tutor: Udayan Prasad Nine directors explore the fundamental techniques for working with professional actors.

Sound & Music Techniques for Narrative Filmmaking Sat 28 & Sun 29 Jan – £200 – Tutor: Gustavo Costantini Suitable for any filmmaker who would like a better understanding of the relationship between image and sound. FEBRUARY 2012 NEW: A-Z of Documentary Making: Ideas Surgery Thu 2 Feb – £150 – Tutor: Tracey Gardiner Part II: Bring those ideas you’re burning to get off the ground and get help to take them to the next stage. Max. 8 participants. Music Licensing in Film & TV Fri 3 Feb – £120 – Tutor: Ian Neil Leading UK Music Supervisor Ian Neil and expert industry guests explore the complexities of placing music onto film.

Improvisation for Directors & Screenwriters Thu 9 & Fri 10 Feb – £250 – Tutor: Sean McCann Offers writers and directors a practical introduction in how to use improvisation as a central component of their work.

This year 600 people will have taken part in the Workshops programme, the wide-ranging series of short, intensive courses offered by the LFS. Who are they? At Ellis Freeman’s Writers’ Gym, ‘A psychotherapist will be sitting next to a musician, who will be next to a director.’

Infidel, begins his ‘Directing As Visual Storytelling’ workshop with a detailed analysis of a number of film clips; which he follows with practical storyboarding exercises, and then the presentation and discussion of participants’ own films. LFS director Ben Gibson describes this combination of Masterclass and hands-on practice as ‘atelier learning’ – the regimes practised by masters in painters’ studios, with teaching by example, and learning by practice. It is not academic, but it demands study. It is about the simultaneous development of both craft and imaginative skills.

Everybody has a passion. However, most Workshop participants will already have made up their minds that they are dedicated to their craft, and will already have set off down the road towards professionalism. Many are already employed in the creative industries, but wish to advance themselves more quickly, Some workshops are almost comor to move to a different specialism. pletely interactive. Ellis Freeman’s Writers’ Gym, and Sean McCann’s Head of Workshops Archie Tait Improvisation for Directors and sums up the philosophy of the pro- Screenwriters are immersive expegramme: ‘It’s a montage of two riences, in which participants very different ideas. On the one break down their preconceptions, hand, there’s the Master Class idea and develop a new awareness of – an experienced practitioner talks their own creativity. through their work, explaining

NEW: A-Z of Documentary Making: Producing for the First Time Thu 23 & Fri 24 Feb – £220 - Tutor: Tracey Gardiner Part III: Get a solid grounding in all aspects of producing; from budgeting to the back end, from copyright to contracts.

NEW: The Life: Individuality and Career Development for Writers, Directors and Producers Fri 16 & Mon 26 Mar – £400 – Tutor: Shiona Llewellyn Techniques for self-knowledge and career advancement in the creative industries. How to put personal authenticity and self-awareness at the heart of creative identity. Directing as Visual Storytelling Sat 10 & Sun 11 Mar – £220 – Tutor: Josh Appignanesi Includes inspiring film examples, practical storyboarding exercises and analysis of participants’ own films.

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‘how it was done’. On the other hand, there’s the idea that people learn best by doing things for themselves, making their own experiments, making their own mistakes, and learning from them. When you put these two seemingly opposed learning methods together, the results are often extremely powerful.’

‘We improvise – make up a scene, something staid and stable – a dinner party,’ explains Ellis. ‘Then we “tilt” it - invent a single event that throws the scene off-balance; then invent another event, to “tilt” it even more. A cascade of effects that transforms the original scene and affects all the characters in it.

‘We talk about ‘good things’ and ‘bad things’ happening to characters. And when we start to think about and talk about the longerterm effects of the ‘good things’, we often discover that what seemed to be ‘good things’ are Josh Appignanesi, Director of The actually bad things after all. Each Workshop has elements of both, mixed in different ways, according to the subject, and according to the style and outlook of the workshop leader.

He elaborates: ‘I was a medical student before I decided to be a writer, and I have always been fascinated by the brain’s ‘left side / right side’ dichotomy. ‘The left side of the brain is what animals use to detect and warn them about other predators – signs that they might be eaten. It’s an important instinct, but in writing, this analytical side of the brain can lead to too much self-questioning and stasis. Is this good enough? Am I right to follow this line? ‘Whereas stimulating the right brain, which is playful and energetic, puts writers more in touch with their creativity. ‘The Writers’ Gym is a place where everyone can make mistakes; and everyone learns from their mistakes, and from the mistakes of others. I am a participant in the group – and I make mistakes. It’s better to write something imperfect than to write nothing at all. The person who takes six months off to write a novel never does it. The person who writes 1,000 words every morning is the one who writes the novel.’

MARCH 2012 Developing the Visual Imagination: Storyboarding for Directors Thu 1 – Sun 4 Mar – £420 – Tutor: Dylan Stone Consider the work of key artists and filmmakers before learning drawing skills and creating storyboards of your own.

Writers’ Gym I: Practical Tools for Creative Screenwriting Tue 13 Mar – Tue 15 May – £480 – Tutor: Ellis Freeman This 8-session evening course aims to stimulate ideas through play, helping each writer to develop their stories and find their voice.

‘And it also happens the other way round – bad events often turn out to have good consequences. It’s as though these events are discovered – the writer’s job is to reveal them.’ The balance in Ellis and Sean’s workshops is away from the Master Class idea, and towards learning through doing. Yet these workshops still revolve around the knowledge and experience of their leaders, in a different way: ‘Sometimes it seems more like teaching a martial art than a writing class,’ says Ellis. ‘At other times it seems like climbing a ladder – taking step after step towards your own destination.’

Archie sums it up: ‘The LFS Workshops programme is a series of chapters in the Book of Filmmaking, designed to be read in any order. Every workshop teaches specific skills, always in relation to personal creativity. And individual skills are always connected to the skills and needs of other creative individuals in the collaborative process. It’s a complete course on every aspect of filmmaking, from the idea to the end of the long tail of distribution, in bite-size chunks.’

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LFS Workshops Schedule: January - March 2012

December 2011

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Hothouse Eight Signature Films Prepare for Packaging and World Audiences

LFS Workshops is a wide-ranging series of short, intensive courses spanning all aspects of the film production process. For more info contact Carolyn Atherton: workshops@lfs.org.uk / +44 (0)20 7836 9642.

The inaugural Hothouse atelier has come to an end after nearly 18 months of focused development work. In the final months of the scheme, as well as continuing to develop their scripts, the eight selected filmmakers, their development associates and producers attended case studies with top UK sales agents, casting directors and distributors, to learn how to package a project effectively for the market.

JANUARY 2012 NEW: The Editor as Storyteller: Principles and Practice of Narrative Film Editing Wed 4 – Fri 13 Jan –£1,500 – Tutor: Barrie Vince Intensive 8-day course for editors who are proficient in the use of AVID or Final Cut Pro, but who have limited experience of drama editing.

states, ‘The main thing I learned from the “market” day was not to have preconceptions about how different companies and different people will perceive the material. I had some very surprising and stimulating responses, so I’m pushing on with that in mind.’ Several months on from this final session, the participants have continued to move their projects forward. Some are already at the financing and pre-production stage.

A to Z of Documentary Making: From Creation to Distribution Thu 19 & Fri 20 Jan – £220 - Tutor: Tracey Gardiner Part I: How to take an idea from the early stages of development through to the finished product and onto the international market.

Left Brain, Rright Brain: 3-d design

In between working on other projects, Felix Harrison has also found time to finish another draft of his script The Survival. He reveals: ‘The feedback from Margaret is positive, and the draft has now gone out to BFI, Film4 and BBC Films’. Likewise Henry Darke (Crooked Hill) is currently finishing a final draft for his producer Lisa Williams at Free Range Films, with a view to sending it out to potential funders in 2012.

He elaborates: ‘I was a medical student before I decided to be a writer, and I have always been fascinated by the brain’s ‘left side / right side’ dichotomy.

‘The Writers’ Gym is a place where everyone can make mistakes; and everyone learns from their mistakes, and from the mistakes of others. I am a participant in the group – and I make mistakes. It’s better to write something imperfect than to write nothing at all. The person who takes six months off to write a novel never does it. The person who writes 1,000 words every morning is the one who writes the novel.’

‘The left side of the brain is what animals use to detect and warn them about other predators – signs that they might be eaten. It’s an important instinct, but in writing, this analytical side of the brain can lead to too much self-questioning and stasis. Is this good enough? Am I right to follow this line? ‘Whereas stimulating the right brain, which is playful and energetic, puts writers more in touch with their creativity.

Other filmmakers are continuing to work on their scripts. Laia Senserrich, working with Kanchi Wichmann, says: ‘We finished the Hothouse program with a solid third draft. However, since the project changed so dramatically during Hothouse, Kanchi still feels the need to develop the script further and is applying to key programmes outside the UK.’ Many teams are exploring contacts made during the Hothouse programme. Senserrich notes: ‘Alex Thiele (Normal Love producer), Kanchi and I are refining the Production Package created at Hothouse, while trying to attach talent to the project. So far we’ve been looking at possible DoPs. Also, we’re thinking of finding a production partner for Alex (or maybe a strong line producer and exec).’

Boom shake the room: workshop participants take it outside.

Directing Actors: Getting the Right Performance Sat 21 - Wed 25 Jan – £520 – Tutor: Udayan Prasad Nine directors explore the fundamental techniques for working with professional actors.

ting some of my energies into preparing a short that will help me develop some of the visual ideas and techniques I’m planning to explore in the feature.’

Armed with this knowledge, the filmmaker/associate/producer teams then worked together to build a portfolio for the project, including visual material and references. After a practice run in front of a few selected producers, the teams took their projects to a mini production exchange in July, put together by Hothouse director Margaret Glover and casting director Liora Reich. Over the course of one very intensive day, the teams were able to pitch their projects to a number of the UK film industry’s key producers and financiers. Writer/director Kanchi Wichmann (Normal Love), says, ‘I found the experience of preparing the package and attending the mini production market really helped in terms of seeing my project as a marketable movie and it helped me focus my ideas in terms of what kind of film I’m trying to make. It was a fitting end to the process.’ Uniquely in the UK, the ultimate aim of Hothouse has always been to guide the chosen projects towards production, rather than simply develop them in a vacuum. Although the intention of the production exchange was to get feedback on the projects, rather than necessarily securing any concrete interest, many of the filmmakers were pleasantly surprised by the responses they received. Jonathan Romney (The Lime Twig)

Dima Hamdan (The Kidnap) reveals, ‘I’ve received interest from French producers and I’m in the process of negotiation. Hopefully we’ll start financing in the Middle East and Europe and planning to go into production by end of 2012.’ Bille Eltringham who already has several features under her belt as a director, says, ‘Things are very much in motion with The Bullet Trick. The producer, Bob Last, and I have begun casting the leads with John Hubbard. We’ve been on early recces to both Berlin and Glasgow and found some exciting locations. We’ll need to secure the casting to sew up the finances, but that all looks positive and so we are planning to start filming in early Spring next year.’ For some filmmakers, the next step is to make another short film. Jessica Townsend says, ‘I’ve secured £30,000 to make a short version of [my feature] Wild Dog as a promo for the feature. We need the short not only to be strong in its own right but also to sell the project as a whole, so I’ve been taking some time to try to come up with the perfect short script to do that. I hope to shoot it in December.’

The benefits of the particular approach Margaret Glover and the Advisory Group created for Hothouse have been felt by the eight development associates too. Associate Jayasri Naik was very clear about how participation has helped her career. ‘Since Hothouse I’ve worked as a Script Editor on one of Channel 4’s ‘Coming Up’ series – a half-hour showcase for new talent – and written reports for an indie through contacts made from Hothouse. I’m currently a Drama Assistant at Impossible Pictures (Primeval).’ And for some the relationship may extend beyond the scheme. Dima Hamdan reveals, ‘I’m still working with my development associate, Melissa Johnson-Peters. She helped me produce a short film while we were in Hothouse and at the moment we’re trying to find a way for her to remain on the project as an associate producer.’

Producer Kate Ogborn, one of the three Development Executives working with the filmmakers, summed up the experience, ‘Hothouse was an ambitious development programme and has been very stimulating to be a part of. It was hugely enjoyable getting to know my team of filmmakers and seeing them take on the challenges of progressing their films. They have all taken their Jonathan Romney has also been films forward significantly and working towards another short in have also been very collaborapreparation for directing his fea- tive and generous with each ture. ‘I have been revisiting and other.’ honing the script and beginning to talk to producers, but I’m also put-

Ken Loach, mentor to LFS MA Filmmaking student David Anderson, on the set of Angel’s Share.

The LFS Mentoring Programme The London Film School is fortunate to be able to draw on the expertise of a wealth of professionals to support graduates as they move from film school into their chosen careers within the Industry. Since 2008, with the additional support of Skillset, LFS has offered students a more formal route to mentoring, which has been very successful in developing their skills and confidence. Many of the mentoring partnerships have traditionally benefitted LFS graduates matched with experienced directors or writers, but in addition students have been linked to respected DoPs, award-winning production designers and editors. In many cases students are looking for the kind of industry knowledge and general skills that an experienced producer can offer. Mentoring has taken a variety of different forms: informal meetings where information is exchanged; practical help with graduation films and new projects; career advice with pitching, CV writing and securing funding; or more involved, such as observations of a casting, shoot or edit. In the summer of 2011, Skillset bursary student David Anderson was able to spend several days in Scotland with producer Rebecca O’Brien and director Ken Loach during the filming of Angel’s Share. David found the opportunity of huge value: ‘The mentoring experience for me was exceptional. Regardless of the encouragement and inspiration of watching Ken Loach work, it has been so rewarding to be on set of the next level of filmmaking. I want to progress from shorts to features in the future and this production showed me that it is very attainable’ LFS graduate Pierre-Alain Giraud was mentored by cinematographer Darius Khondji in 2010 and benefitted from sharing experiences including advice on technical and creative issues. “Darius was very helpful in advising me on the work I needed to do as a DoP on the two graduation films I shot,” said Pierre-Alan. “He also helped me with a script I

intend to direct. It was inspiring to discuss all of these issues with him as well as gain an insight into his work with great directors such as Fincher and Woody Allen.” Mentoring has been at the heart of the one-year MA Screenwriting course since its launch in 2006. Screenwriter and academic Helen Jacey spoke about her role as mentor to MA Screenwriters. “The writers are immersed in the creative process with all the huge flurry of mental activity that can involve - particularly with a looming deadline - so there seems to be some degree of ‘fertile’ anxiety and I sense

that my role is most effective to help them process, feel empowered and in control of their direction”. Other mentors have included: directors Pawel Pawlikowski, Udyan Prasad, Richard Kwietniowski, Aisling Walsh; writers Tony Grisoni, Olivia Hetreed, Herschel Weingrod; cinematographers David Johnson, Harris Zambarloukos, Danny Cohen, Sue Gibson, Tony Pierce-Roberts, production designer Eve Stewart; producers Peter Ettedgui, David Mclaughlin, Bill Shapter, amongst many others.

Speakeasy

Speakeasy goes from strength to strength, launched in October 2009 by Ben Gibson, Josh Appignanesi, Mia Bays and Suzy Gillett for ‘troublemakers and luminaries’ and their friends in the British Film Industry, this ‘invitation-only film and supper club’ has hosted monthly screenings throughout the year and continues its encounters with new filmmakers, producers, writers and new talent into 2012 and beyond. Guest hosts in 2011 were Pete Travis, Tony Grisoni, Peter Ettedgui, Lizzie Francke, Michael Hayden, ‘Desperate Optimists’, presenting such diverse films as Accident, Bullitt, A Swedish Love Story, Jubilee, I Vitelloni and Le Samouri.

Josh Appignanesi describes the ethos behind Speakeasy, “We just thought it would be great to have a forum with no agenda other than film people being together, talking about films. It’s not trying to get anything specific done, or sold, or fixed, or judged. And that feels like a relief, and a reminder that actually, in this strange business we’re in, most people are here out of... dare I say it... love.” “Speakeasy is a celebration”, comments Tony Grisoni. “Egos, career ambitions and sad posturing are left at home. All that matters is picture, sound and an audience. That’s us. “

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LOW BUDGET FILM FORUM V 17-22 June 2012 at La fémis, Paris. Leading directors and producers join European film students & graduates for case studies and workshops on low budget films.

L MAKING WAVES Strategies in Film Distribution & Marketing 13-17 February 2012 at dffb, Berlin

aking Waves is a brand new, one -week distribution and marketing workshop, devised by the London Film School in partnership with La fémis, dffb, ESCAC Barcelona, the Romanian Film and Theatre University and New York’s Columbia University of the Arts Film Department and funded through the EU Media Initial Training Programme.

pants from the six training institutions will be immersed in all areas of the festival: the European Film Market, the festival’s official and sidebar sections and the Talent Campus, working collaboratively in teams to develop creative campaigns, edit trailers, design posters and plan roll-out packages for actual independent films. They will be joined by working industry professionals from across the independent distribuHow does a film find its audience? tion sector who will offer project How does an individual title in a support and in-depth case studies. particular territory call for a prescription of marketing, from sales Participants will be grouped into agents through festivals, to cine- multi-national teams to create ma distribution, VOD and cable, distribution, assigned roles and DVD and online publishing? How given an existing film to work on. are distribution companies struc- The training will combine ‘mistured to bring together expertise sions’ into the Berlinale and in all these areas? How are deals bespoke sessions with practitionmade and structured? Separating ers in the various specialist the myths from the current mar- departments of independent film ket realities, Making Waves will distribution. immerse students in the independent film marketplace. Mixing This hands-on workshop is for European experience and the US graduating students to gain indie scene, the workshop takes a understanding in emerging first-hand, fresh look at this industry. strategies in independent film distribution, and is especially aimed The workshop will be held in par- at those planning careers in proallel to the Berlinale, from 13-17 duction, distribution and sales. February 2012. Thirty partici-

ow Budget Film Forum is a first feature graduate training workshop, programmed and organised by The London Film School in partnership with La fémis, The National Film School of Denmark, Budapest Academy of Drama and Film and dffb, Berlin.

of a film but it loses you some autonomy and a spur to creativity. Learning to work with the right numbers helps young filmmakers build a career where the deal follows the film rather than the other way around,” says LFS Director, Ben Gibson.

LBFF is funded by the EU MEDIA Initial Training programme and aims to provide participants with the tools and best practice to develop and deliver successful, strategic approaches to marketable low budget filmmaking in Europe. “Recent events around the world mean the creative community needs to build value. Every new Euro gets you more

Two LFS graduates reflect on their experiences at previous Low Budget Film Forums: “I attended the third Low Budget Film Forum as a producer with a project in fairly tentative shape. The director, LFS graduate Jamie Chambers, and I benefited enormously from the week, solidifying not just the structure of the story

James Barrett, LFS Filmmaking graduate 2010, participant Low Budget Film Forum III, Les Arcs, producer Ruadhan the

an independent filmmaker that it’s important to look out from London for potential collaborations across Europe as there

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he LFS MA Filmmaking Course is an intense two-year programme in which the full range of filmmaking skills are taught to professional levels. Learning is based around short films. Each term these film exercises become more technically sophisticated, more considered and more complex in their ambitions. The School specifies the skills base for each exercise, provides the equipment and trains the students up to the new levels in each of the various craft skills. Students take all the aesthetic decisions, solving problems similar to those faced by professional units, on a steeply increasing slope of difficulty. Their work is constantly assessed and critiqued. All students learn all the important filmmaking skills, and must practise them in a working unit. There is no film career which is not greatly enriched by an active practical knowledge of the other specialisations. This makes an LFS graduate stand out from colleagues with a single specialisation, at any level. On the one hand, students with a primarily technical bent find insights into their work through an understanding of the more interpretive practices, and very often find an unexpected potential and selfconfidence as writers or directors. On the other hand, producers’, writers’ and directors’ range and sense of the possibilities of their art is immeasurably increased by a serious technical competence. The film exercises are tightly scheduled, requiring the students to learn to work under time discipline. Up to sixty films are made each term, which means that whenever students are not busy with their own projects, their services are in demand on many others. This creates a constant sense of excitement, a constant presence of filmmaking, which becomes the atmosphere and life of the School, a tremendous motivating force.

Ruadhan the Bard

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

EU Orchestras The EU Commission Representation in the UK offered LFS students from all over Europe unique access to create five documentaries, highlighting European collaboration that is exemplified in the world renowned EU Orchestras. Capturing rehearsal and preparation of international concerts of the EU Youth Orchestra, European Baroque Orchestra, the EOpera Centre, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the students - Tay BlythKubota, Robin Swailes, Giacomo Boeri, Alexandru Gherman, Aristotelis Maragkos and Rebecca Marshall - have created poetic and informative portraits of these unique organisations.

we were attempting to tell, but moreover getting an overview of the process of pre-production. This process was injected with impetus from numerous experts, whether they were sales/distribution agents or filmmakers who’d been there, done it and worn the low-budget t-shirt. The insights we gained were vital to some of the tough decisions we took in making our first feature Ruadhan The Bard (2012). Experiences we shared were inspirational in giving us the confidence to go forward. The LBFF at Les Arcs brought us closer to a world and community that’s a step away from film school and assisted us as our project grew from tentative ideas and visions through to the film we shot in June 2011 on Red-MX22.”

Bard, with writer/director Jamie Chambers, co-writer/cinematographer John Craine and co-writer Robyn Pete – all LFS graduates. ‘I was invited to the fourth LBFF as a director with LFS Screenwriter Nemanja Antanaskovic to develop our crime thriller Rent My Eyes. Over an intensive week in Copenhagen we discussed around 30 film ideas across borders and genres. We were asked particularly by the Hungarian tutor, Ibolya Fekete, to look to the heart of our stories and be bold and true to this in our filmmaking. There were some amazing films made by students in the Forum, some with particularly confident framing, in general, more experimental than here at LFS. The week helped me realise as

are such different filmmaking and distribution strategies from country to country. Visiting Zentropa was all about seeing how their collective maintains creative and fiscal control of their productions. Work with your friends they said and work ALL THE TIME. Turn the difficulties in to assets. As soon as I have turned my difficulties into opportunities, I will also definitely get my own swimming pool next to my studio. Nemanja and I are currently developing a documentary for the coming year as research for our film, part of finding the real heart of our characters.’ Rebecca Marshall, LFS MA Filmmaking, participant Low Budget Film Forum IV, Copenhagen

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Students are continually learning from each other and from the immense range of practical and aesthetic problems the different films offer. This process continues all day, often through the evening, and flows between the sets and locations, the viewing theatres, editing suites, the coffee bar and back again, all term. For their graduation film students are assigned a budget by the school to build a project. They can work individually or pool their budgets and efforts. They can shoot on any format and at any length they can budget and schedule. Students are strongly encouraged to raise funds and build coproduction deals, with production companies and/or other graduate film schools, either here in the UK or abroad. They can – and often do – shoot outside the UK. It is a serious preparation for independent filmmaking beyond the school. Alan Bernstein Deputy Director/Head of Studies

A Red Coat

Flipside

(40mins, HDV)

(18mins, 35mm)

Yunnan Province, rural China. Two young girls grapple with sibling rivalry and their relationship with the outside world when the older sister receives a beautiful new red winter coat from a mysterious benefactor.

Leya moonlights as a DJ and has lost her records but doesn’t have time to look for them because she’s got a day job taking Charlie to school. Charlie convinces Leya it would be easier to skip school than be late again so the two spend a wayward day, in and out of houses and along the streets of East London. Leya pays the price for her irresponsibility yet the value of her friendship with Charlie is far beyond any material loss.

Yue Luo WRITER/DIRECTOR

Abigail

(22mins, RED)

Mexico 1852. The sun rises over the desert to reveal a lynching from the previous night. An unexplainable force draws the man back to the realm of the living. He cuts himself down and heads home only to discover his town and family in ruins. Abigail is a short film about a lonely, changed man and his calling to revenge. Michael Cimpher WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR Corin Taylor PRODUCER Ben Barber CINEMATOGRAPHER Jose Alberto Cerillo Soto ART DIRECTOR George Robinson SOUND DESIGNER

Anshu Poddar WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION DESIGNER Robert Wilton DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Emiliano Leon CAMERA OPERATOR Chi Yu CO-PRODUCER Karel Van Bellingen EDITOR

Aman

Good Night (27mins, RED MX)

GRADUATION FILMS

Rachel and Chloe are done with being innocent 14-year-olds. Life’s too short to stay a kid forever. They head into town on a secret night out, dressed way beyond their years and oozing a sexuality they barely own. Once on the street they find themselves pushed to extremes and the boundaries between innocent play and dangerous seduction start to blur. Muriel d’Ansembourg WRITER/DIRECTOR

Haal

In 1980s Pakistan, during the dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq, a young journalist (Omar) and an established Kathak dancer (Mehr) experience the subtle and brutal ways the military junta used Islamism as a tool to suppress the media and suffocate the arts. From the dreaded torture cells to the shrines of Lahore’s old city, Omar and Mehr grapple with the neighbours and colleagues who have became slaves to the rightwing Islamist mindset.

Abigail

Achele (Sister) (17mins, HDV)

In a land of mountain spirits and witch doctors, Kaisang, the eightyear-old daughter of a poor Ladhaki farmer, tries to make sense of the world. Her older sister is about to leave home in search of a better life in the city. But what does that mean exactly? And can she prevent her departure? As both sisters struggle with the onset of puberty and separation, we slowly discover a lost world where development and change threaten to tear the two sisters apart. Clara Kraft Isono WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Christine Lalla CINEMATOGRAPHER Elisa Cepedal EDITOR

Aman (Safe & Sound) (27mins, 35mm)

Aman is a cleaner in a luxurious apartment complex in Tehran. The time has come for him to get married. He has a plan, but there are consequences for the coworker who makes his transformation possible.

(23mins, RED)

Good Night

doesn’t show up at the Salsa Bar where they first met. Unfortunately crime never rests! Jose Alberto Cerillo Soto WRITER/DIRECTOR Joanna Bence CAMERA OPERATOR Anand Madabushi EDITOR George Robinson COMPOSER

Drift

(20mins, Super16mm)

John is very much lost, drifting through life on his canal boat. In an attempt to make a real attachment, he returns to the London neighbourhood where he grew up. As he reconstructs a childhood memory he meets Aya, a single mother struggling to keep her life moving forward with her young child, James. John sees in them kindred spirits. Ben Caird WRITER/DIRECTOR Merv Lewis PRODUCER Daniel Chaytor DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jon Stanford CAMERA OPERATOR Jeroen Bogaert SOUND RECORDIST/DESIGNER Karel van Bellingen EDITOR

Druj (14mins, Canon 5D Mark II)

Two brothers, both doctors, compete for everything – for professional status, for their patients, for the best job but most of all for their mother’s attention and affection.

own ulterior motives and Clarence soon learns that being a healer is not without its risks. Kasper Synnevåg WRITER/DIRECTOR Chaudhry Ali Javed PRODUCER Christine Lalla DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Sohail Kamali CAMERA OPERATOR Aygul Bakanova PRODUCTION DESIGNER Shek Kwan Wu SOUND RECORDIST Andrew Smith EDITOR

Vishaal Desai DIRECTOR Aditya Singh Panwar DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Anshu Poddar CAMERA OPERATOR

Assad Zulfiqar Khan WRITER/DIRECTOR Matti Preston EDITOR Jason Beffa SOUND DESIGNER

Home

(22mins, Canon 7D)

Chris reluctantly returns to his family home in the highlands because his fiancée, Alena, insists on meeting his father, John. Chris

Family Affairs (15mins, Canon 7D)

Clarence is a young businessminded man who starts impersonating his dead twin so that he can reap the benefits of his brother’s highly lucrative practice as a spiritual healer. Without any belief or experience in alternative medicine, Clarence must rely on his late brother’s partner and lover, Lydia, for guidance. She has her

Haal

Ali Jaberansari WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR

Faut le temps que ca passe

Angel Inquisidor

still blames John for his mother’s death and refuses to engage with his father at all. Alena comes to understand the pain both men share and helps Chris to see it, too.

(25mins, 16mm)

(La Ultima Oportunidad)

This documentary explores how the loss of a pet marks people’s lives. In the course of their interviews five people of similar age plus two veterinarians and an animal undertaker reveal individual solitude the way they relate to death in general.

(15mins, Super16mm)

Victoria Aguilar was the most gorgeous woman of Guanajuato. Her beauty was such that she could have married any man she wanted. She chose Angel Inquisidor, a professional wrestler and nocturnal vigilante. Tonight is their 15th wedding anniversary. Victoria has decided it will be their last, if Angel

Talia Lumbroso DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Pierre-Alain Giraud SOUND RECORDIST

Angel Inquisidor

Benjamin Thomas CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR Caroline Gerard CO-WRITER Daniel Chaytor DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jonathan Stanford CAMERA OPERATOR Karel van Bellingen EDITOR

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L MAKING WAVES Strategies in Film Distribution & Marketing 13-17 February 2012 at dffb, Berlin

James Barrett, LFS Filmmaking graduate 2010, participant Low Budget Film Forum III, Les Arcs, producer Ruadhan the

an independent filmmaker that it’s important to look out from London for potential collaborations across Europe as there

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Ruadhan the Bard

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Bard, with writer/director Jamie Chambers, co-writer/cinematographer John Craine and co-writer Robyn Pete – all LFS graduates. ‘I was invited to the forth LBFF as a director with LFS Screenwriter Nemanja Antanaskovic to develop our crime thriller Rent My Eyes. Over an intensive week in Copenhagen we discussed around 30 film ideas across borders and genres. We were asked particularly by the Hungarian tutor, Ibolya Fekete, to look to the heart of our stories and be bold and true to this in our filmmaking. There were some amazing films made by students in the Forum, some with particularly confident framing, in general, more experimental than here at LFS. The week helped me realise as

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A Red Coat

Flipside

(40mins, HDV)

(18mins, 35mm)

Yue Luo WRITER/DIRECTOR

Abigail

(22mins, RED)

Anshu Poddar WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION DESIGNER Robert Wilton DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Emiliano Leon CAMERA OPERATOR Chi Yu CO-PRODUCER Karel Van Bellingen EDITOR

Aman

Good Night (27mins, RED MX)

GRADUATION FILMS

Haal

Abigail

Achele (Sister) (17mins, HDV)

Aman (Safe & Sound) (27mins, 35mm)

(23mins, RED)

Good Night

Drift

(20mins, Super16mm)

Druj (14mins, Canon 5D Mark II)

Two brothers, both doctors, compete for everything – for professional status, for their patients, for the best job but most of all for their mother’s attention and affection.

Vishaal Desai DIRECTOR Aditya Singh Panwar DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Anshu Poddar CAMERA OPERATOR

Assad Zulfiqar Khan WRITER/DIRECTOR Matti Preston EDITOR Jason Beffa SOUND DESIGNER

Home

(22mins, Canon 7D)

Chris reluctantly returns to his family home in the highlands because his fiancée, Alena, insists on meeting his father, John. Chris

Family Affairs (15mins, Canon 7D)

Haal

Ali Jaberansari WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR

Faut le temps que ca passe

Angel Inquisidor

still blames John for his mother’s death and refuses to engage with his father at all. Alena comes to understand the pain both men share and helps Chris to see it, too.

(25mins, 16mm)

(La Ultima Oportunidad)

(15mins, Super16mm)

Talia Lumbroso DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Pierre-Alain Giraud SOUND RECORDIST

Angel Inquisidor

Benjamin Thomas CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR Caroline Gerard CO-WRITER Daniel Chaytor DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Jonathan Stanford CAMERA OPERATOR Karel van Bellingen EDITOR

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MA Filmmaking Invisible Strings

Clara Kraft Isono WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Kelly Amundsen CINEMATOGRAPHER Elisa Cepedal EDITOR

(25mins, Super16mm)

Em meets Charlie at her nephew’s birthday party and they become fast friends. He is funny and charming, but no person is ever truly perfect, especially if he’s not a ‘person’ at all. Charlie is a puppet. Behind Charlie is Angus, an unassuming puppeteer who has taken his job home with him. At first Em believes Charlie is just a catharsis for Angus but soon the operator begins to communicate with her behind the puppets ‘back’. Joanna Bence WRITER/DIRECTOR Ashley Leigh Anderson PRODUCER Jeroen Bogaert CINEMATOGRAPHER Eunji Kim PRODUCTION DESIGNER Mirella Pazzaglia EDITOR

Malihue

Yoona Cho DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Cheryl Ford CO-PRODUCER David Anderson WRITER Eui Jeong Hong DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nic Kouros CAMERA OPERATOR Sonia-Liza Kenterman PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jose Alberto Cerillo Soto EDITOR

(21mins, XDCam)

Malihue, winter. Every day, in the middle of the night, Alex and his partner take on the first milking shift. The intensity and noise of the work leave no time for pauses. When dawn comes, a truck arrives to load the milk, while Alex breaks for breakfast and begins to prepare the cows for the afternoon shift. DIRECTOR Javier Correa CINEMATOGRAPHER Pierre-Alain Giraud

On the Edge (28mins, HDV)

A documentary about Norwegian daredevil Eskil Ronningsbakken. A man who literally lives life on the edge, as he performs death defying acts of balancing on formidable mountain tops. Sohail Kamali DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER

Partition Vincent George WRITER/DIRECTOR Daniel Passes OFFLINE EDITOR George Robinson SOUND EDITOR Emile Rafael ONLINE EDITOR

Lost Tracks

Outsight (24mins, Canon 7D)

In a world where humans have forgotten how to see anything but black and white, one man begins to see in colour. Anand Madabushi DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY Joanna Bence PRODUCER/CAMERA OPERATOR Tay Blyth-Kabota DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Alasdair Beckett-King EDITOR Adina Istrate SOUND RECORDIST

Lost Tracks (21mins, Super16mm)

Tobi’s filling a tin with the money to run away from teenage life in rural Shropshire. She’s disillusioned with what’s left of family life, friends and the community around her. As she counts down the days to departure a new girl enters the dead-end scene and an unlikely friendship develops. Jon Stanford WRITER/DIRECTOR/COPRODUCER Ben Caird CINEMATOGRAPHER Ali Jaberansari EDITOR

Olives with your Tea

On the Sixth Day

(15mins, HDV)

(16mins, Super16mm)

Ever since rehearsals began Mark has been trying to pluck up the courage to tell his female co-star just how much he’s fallen for her. Whilst their characters’ onstage relationship falls apart at the end of each night, Mark still hopes he can initiate an off-stage romance on the closing night.

A traditional potter finds it difficult to sell his wares in modern-day Kerala and is forced to take work with a butcher. Slaughtering animals and handling the meat goes against his way of life and costs him both his peace of mind and his daughter’s safety. The potter chooses to return to his true calling.

Pa’s Bicycle (21mins, HDV)

Before a crippling stroke, Zong was a taxi driver. There’s a way to go on the road to recovery but he still wants a bicycle for his Father’s Day present. Zong and his teenage son set out from their home on the edge of what were once sugar cane fields. They never find a bike but along the way father and son have a chance to see each other from a different angle. Li Chun Teng WRITER/DIRECTOR

When the Song Dies (17mins, HDV)

When the Song Dies is a poetic documentary that collects the stories, songs and memories of a group of community elders from across Scotland, and places their testament in counterpoint to the landscapes and seascapes of rural Galloway. Jamie Chambers DIRECTOR James Barrett PRODUCER John Craine CINEMATOGRAPHER

Invisible Strings

Overtime

Sal Island

(13mins, Super16mm)

(16mins, RED)

Two young men – one a recent immigrant, the other the son of an immigrant – struggle to keep their jobs whilst putting their burgeoning friendship on the line. Siraj is keen to work overtime for no extra pay in the hopes of future reward; Alex refuses to give up the worker’s rights his father’s generation fought to establish. The boss makes clear which one will keep his job and which one will lose it.

Sal Island tells the story of a young boy who doesn’t want his sister to go away.

She’s not the One (14mins, 16mm)

Love after Sunrise

(15mins, RED)

A hopeless romantic recounts how getting into the perfect relationship with his ideal woman causes him to destroy the very thing he’s been longing for since he first discovered the opposite sex.

Pedro Flores DIRECTOR/EDITOR/CO-WRITER Ben Barber CINEMATOGRAPHER

Seemab Gul WRITER/DIRECTOR Raphaelle Delauche CO-PRODUCER Charlotte Dunn CO-PRODUCER Saam Arjmand CINEMATOGRAPHER Theofano Pitsillidou ART DIRECTOR Renato Arvedi EDITOR

Hadi Ghandour WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Daniel Chaytor DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Caird CAMERA OPERATOR Jeroen Bogaert SOUND DESIGNER Ali Jaberansari EDITOR

Partition

Love Hotel

(17mins, RED)

(23mins, RED)

Day after day, a struggling, neurotic novelist slaves away in his dingy apartment. Then one night, he has a creative breakthrough. A story that leaps off the page. Literally.

It’s time for Silvia, a young Brazilian cleaner in a Tokyo ‘love hotel’, to go home. But before she leaves Japan forever, she must find her former lover. Her quest will take her from suburban malls and theme parks to a remote village. Ultimately it is not the places that will have an impact on her but the people with whom she connects, in spite of the barriers of language and culture.

Emile Rafael DIRECTOR Richard Herstek WRITER Emiliano Leon DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Chi Yu CAMERA OPERATOR

On the Sixth Day

Love after Sunrise

She’s not the One tells the story of Denny, a socially awkward young man with a twisted outlook on love, women and sex. One day he decides to find a sexual partner via an online dating site and arranges a date with a sweet, young woman named Caroline. As the date turns into a disaster, Denny begins to question his outlook on women, sex and his overall philosophy on life.

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"The Hallyng" - an early name for wallpaper - revolves around a middle class immigrant family in search of a new life in London. Along with their hope they bring the memory of a child whose mother, Ayeesha, believes is still alive. The deeper her obsessive belief becomes, the greater the rift with her husband, which leads to devastating consequences. Their Feast

Short Story (15mins, Super16mm)

A surreal story of a day in the life of John Smith, an average man stuck in an average life. On this one day he realises the truth of what it means to be - well, you. Merv Lewis WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Assad Zulfiqar Khan DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Caird CAMERA OPERATOR Sonia Rodrigues Serrano ART DIRECTOR Twan Da Silva EDITOR/POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

The Dead are Silent

Rohit Gill CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR Saam Arjmand DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Raz de la Torre CAMERA OPERATOR Eunji Kim PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ishaya Bako SOUND RECORDIST Mirella Pazzaglia EDITOR

(11mins, Super16mm)

London, present day. Emma lives the life of her dreams. She’s the wife of an older, loving husband, who can provide the lifestyle she’s always wanted. She’s the mother of the baby boy she’s always desired. And she’s found a young, charming boyfriend who lets her escape from the grind of family life whenever necessary. But when an accident befalls her lover she’s forced to make a decision. Should she go to the authorities and risk the revelation of her double life? Or quietly close the door and walk away?

Ryan McGuire WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR Saam Armjand CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Flower of Time The documentary presents a society locked in a non-space of the refugee camps in Western Sahara, where the only thing to do is wait. By following Mulay, an excombatant, we unearth the roots of an armed conflict that has lasted 25 years, witness the present with its limitations, and expose the uncertainty of a future in which the story of suffering and loss may very likely repeat itself for the Saharawi people.

A Medieval knight leaves his beloved to embark on a long quest to discover the secrets of the world. Worn down by months of apparently aimless travel and finding a mystical cave in the cliff face of a harsh coastal landscape, the knight journeys inwards and undergoes a series of trials and visions. Finally, at the climax of his quest, he is reunited with a vision of his first love, bringing his story full circle in a flash of illumination. George Robinson WRITER/DIRECTOR/COMPOSER Saam Arjmand DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ryan McGuire EDITOR/PRODUCER

(Missed Education)

Reem Morsi WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Elly Nakajima DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nick Kouros CAMERA OPERATOR

(40mins, 35mm)

Mayette has always believed that sex should only happen within marriage. Yet when she looks around, everyone seems to be doing ‘it’ – her friends, her colleagues, even her adolescent pupils – everyone, except her. When a spate of teenage pregnancies alarms the principal of her public high, Mayette is tasked with incorporating sex education into her biology lessons. How on earth is a 32-year-old virgin going to teach her seemingly experienced students about sex when she herself has never been with a man?

Fyodor Druzin DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER/COPRODUCER Joanna Bence EDITOR/CO-PRODUCER

(17mins, Super16mm)

The Cave

Tukso

In 2007 real estate agent Thomas Lowers sold his house and left California to live in Russia. Since then he has been a bartender, DJ, teacher and infamous figure of the St. Petersburg nightlife.

(25mins, HDV)

Andrew Smith WRITER/DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER/EDITOR Saam Arjmand CINEMATOGRAPHER

The Place Where I Stand

(27mins, Canon 7D)

Taking Flight Alienated from his volatile home life, 17-year-old Lee seeks escape and seems to find it with burnt-out hippy John. As John tests Lee’s readiness for the trip they’ll never forget, Lee begins to wonder whether John’s quest is the right one for him.

Aygul Bakanova WRITER/DIRECTOR/COPRODUCER Fyodor Druzin CO-PRODUCER Christine Lalla CINEMATOGRAPHER Shuang Zou EDITOR

A family prepares for the return of the eldest son who has spent most of the youngest son’s life in prison. As dawn turns to mid-day each family member tries to provide for the feast that will celebrate the freedom of one young man among many - those who were abused by the forces of national security and imprisoned in undisclosed locations then released during the revolution. The title, ‘Their Feast’, also refers to the way those in power feast on Egypt’s bounty while Egypt’s poor majority struggle for their daily bread.

The Expat

An old man reflects on his life and all the things he had and lost in an attempt to identify where things went wrong. As he delves deeper into the reasons why his wife left him and he lost his son, he also finishes more and more of his bottle.

Begaim is a heavily pregnant teenage bride living as a servant to her husband’s grandmother in a small village in Kyrgyzstan, close to Lake Issyk-Ku, where most of the men leave to find work overseas. Like thousands of women living in the harsh conditions of post-Soviet Central Asia she attempts to find a way of making her own peace with her dreams of and the stories of her husband’s new life as an illegal immigrant in Russia.

(22mins, HDV)

The Expat

(6mins, RED)

(17mins, RED)

Their Feast

Nikolaj Hans Belzer WRITER/DIRECTOR Henry Lloyd-Baker PRODUCER Daniel Chaytor DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Amundsen CAMERA OPERATOR Theofano Pitsillidou PRODUCTION DESIGNER Adina Istrate SOUND RECORDIST Elisa Cepedal EDITOR Karel van Bellingen SOUND DESIGNER Prodromos Papadopoulos SCRIPT EDITOR

Something More

The Song of the Rain

Asier Armental DIRECTOR Stephanie Trainer SOUND RECORDIST

Travelling with Salmon Tukso (Missed Education)

Raz De La Torre WRITER/DIRECTOR

The Place where I Stand (18mins, Canon 5D)

A little sister expresses her love for her big sister by throwing her into an alternative commune to be ‘cured’ of her stubbornly selfdestructive habits. What neither anticipates is that the young woman will face far more difficult encounters with her past than the harmless freak-show throws her way. Mirella Pazzaglia WRITER/DIRECTOR Joanna Viehoff DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Adriana Paramo Perez CAMERA OPERATOR

Waking at Dawn The Song of The Rain

Travelling with Salmon

Waking at Dawn

(20mins, Canon 7D)

(24mins, RED)

In a small town in Cornwall a narcoleptic girl meets a local bakery assistant on her way to Land’s End. As they travel through the rural landscape they slowly come to grips with who they are and begin to learn that it is only the beginning of their individual journeys.

It’s May 1966, two months before the Biafran War between the Muslim North and the Christian South in Nigeria. Khalid, an 11year-old Muslim living in the Muslim North with his best friend, Obi, an 11-year-old Christian, is forced to choose between friendship and duty, when the prejudices of his elders erupt into violence.

Eunji Kim WRITER/DIRECTOR Joanna Bence PRODUCER Fyodor Druzin DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Tay Blyth-Kabota CAMERA OPERATOR Anand Madabushi SOUND RECORDIST/EDITOR

Onyine Egenti WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Gabriel Simi Araujo EDITOR

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Nikolaj Belzer

Saam Arjmand Amir (Saam) Arjmand has a background in music and acting. In 2003 he moved from Iran to study at the London Film Academy (LFA). Upon graduation he won the Osbourne Clarke Writer Award and directed his first short film, Siren, which was screened in Toronto. He then attended the MA Filmmaking program at the London Film School and has worked as Dop on seven graduation films. He shot his first feature Waiting at the Gate, which won the special committee award at the Milan Film Festival. Recently he has directed two professional commercials as well as several music videos.

Taking Flight, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

The Hallying, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Something More, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Music Video, RED, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011

The Cave, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HD, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011

Only Sound Remains, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010, 9th Tofifest International Film Festival, Poland, Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio 2nd Place, Landlocked film festival, Iowa City, Iowa, 19th Yasujiro Ozu International Short Film Festival, Sassuolo, Italy, 9th Imaginaria Festival, Conversano Italy, London Lift-Off film festival, London UK, The 2011 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, 18th

l’Alternativa 2011, Barcelona, Spain, Red Film Festival, Zion canyon, Utah, Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland, Montreal Film Festival, Munich Student Film Festival, Brazilian Student Film Festival

Overtime, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

Nikolaj Hans Belzer grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has directed several shorts in Berlin and London, which were shown at festivals throughout Europe. Before coming to LFS he studied in Hamburg, Paris and Berlin, where he graduated with an M.A. in Philosophy from Humboldt-University. When not filming he works as a project manager and editor, writing for fashion and music magazines in Germany and the UK. Nikolaj founded a production company with a graduate from the LFS MA Screenwriting course. In 2011 they produced and directed several commercial projects. Currently they are in pre-production for his next short film as well as developing a feature script based in contemporary London.

Salto Mortale, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

Ben Caird During the MA at London Film School Ben put his efforts into writing and directing. Prior to film school he ran Kino Persona, a music video and viral media production company. Ben is currently in development with two scripts, one set in the UK and one in the US. He is also producing a low budget feature film set in England’s midlands. Farmhand, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011

Into Kilfinnan Forest,

Lost Tracks, CINEMATOGRAPH-

Colour, 80mins, 2007

ER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour,

sam_arjmand@yahoo.com

21mins, LFS, Official Selection of the Ostrava Kamera Oko’s competition

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

Don’t Panic, PRODUCER/

The Castle, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Viral, HD, 3mins,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2009

PRODUCER/CO-WRITER, Book Trailer, HD, 2mins, EIOkey Productions, 2011

Courbet, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 5mins, LFS, 2009

Love Shorts, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Systems Against Tax Fraud,

10mins, Kino Persona, 2008

SCRIPT/CO-PRODUCER/DIRECTOR,

Shades of Mourning,

Corporate Video, HD, EIOkay Productions/BAT/Purple Creative, 2011

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, DV, 10mins, Kino Persona, 2007

The Dead are Silent, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2011

The Man with no Name,

bencaird@gmail.com http://bencaird.com

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2010

Woodhouse, PRODUCER/ EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Freefall, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Asier Armental Aygul Bakanova

The Flower of Time, DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Documentary, HD, Colour, 25mins, LFS/Fondears, 2011

The Crack, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010

Dreadful Bazaar, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2010

Into the Garden of Glass and Steel, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 14mins, LFS , 2010 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2011, Chalkida Documentary Festival 2010 (Honorary Mention), London Greek Film Festival 2010

The Assassin, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Time Lapse, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2009

13mins, LFS, 2009

Satin, DIRECTOR, Documentary, DVcam, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2008

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Commerical,

Memento Mori, WRITER/

HD, 3mins, The 169’ers

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

asier.armental@gmail.com

Where? Short Distance,

Jose Alberto Cerillo Soto Jose Alberto Cerillo was born and raised in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1982. In 2006 he received a BA in Media Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana Leon, where he directed and edited various projects. As a teacher at Albanta Universidad Para Niños, he designed a video production course for youngsters, which he taught for 4 years. Angel Inquisidor is his graduation project for his MA in Filmmaking at The London Film School where he has worked on more than 20 projects, with particular interest in Directing and Production Design. He currently works for 4AM Films, a production company based in London he cofounded with other LFS graduates.

WRITER/DIRECTOR/CO-PRODUCER,

COLOUR, 4am Films, 2011

3mins, LFS, 2008

Fiction, HDV, 14mins, MDX Films, 2008

Olives with your Tea, EDITOR,

aygul.bakanova@gmail.com

nikolaj.belzer@gmail.com nikolajbelzer.com

Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 9mins, LFS, 2010

Mechanical Heart, COWRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009 BABY BLUE ELEPHANTS, EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

The Game, PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009

Anyone, PRODUCER, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

Not Just an Object, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Death of a Saleswoman, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Goodfellow’s Bride, EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008 Contesta, DIRECTOR, Ibero, 2005

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Feels so Right, PRODUCER/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Music Video, 8mm,

Cual Es Tu Precio?, PRODUCER, Ibero/Iniciativa Privada, 2005

hannibal_tot@hotmail.com www.4amfilms.co.uk

15mins, Pacific Circle Films, 2009

The Milkman, DIRECTOR, Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2009

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011 Gain Control, PRODUCER, Music Video, Canon 7D, B&W, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

The Shadow, WRITER/

Codeine & Wine, PRODUCER,

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Spiked, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Invisible Strings,

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Moving On..., DIRECTOR OF Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009 Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Super16mm, Colour, 24mins, LFS, 2011

Triumph of the Wheels, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 7D, B&W,

Angel Inquisidor (La Ultima Oportunidad), CAMERA

24mins, LFS, 2011

OPERATOR, Fiction, Super16mm,

Through the Eyes, PRODUCER,

The Expat, EDITOR/CO-PRODUC-

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010

Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

ER, Documentary, Canon 7D, Colour,

Trespassing, DIRECTOR OF

Elephant, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

26mins, LFS/Curb Denizen, 2011

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm,

Fiction, DVCAM, Colour, 9mins, 2001

Easy Come Easy Go,

Colour, 9mins, LFS, 2010

PRODUCER, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011

Outsight, PRODUCER/CAMERA

With her family already in the film industry Joanna Bence actually wanted to be a marine biologist. When she made a documentary about a platypus at age seven she dismissed it as a school project. Two years later a music video set on the moon was an interest in Space, and the trials of Mount Olympus complete with chromo key monkey press conference was an interest in Antiquity. When at 17 she wrote and directed the short film Elephant she accepted her fate and went into the film industry.

Trespassing, ART DIRECTOR,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Travelling with Salmon,

Joanna Bence

Fiction, RED, Colour, 22mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

Los Milagritos del Senor, EDI-

DESIGNER, Music Video, Canon 7D,

Kovcheg Films/Curb Denizen, (InDevelopmet)

14mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

Abigail, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

TOR, Ibero, 2005

Codeine & Wine, PRODUCTION

Lenin, PRODUCER, Fiction, Feature,

TOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour,

Commercial/Awareness Campaign, RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS/BBC, 2011 Video, Canon 7D, B&W, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

In 2010 she founded Curb Denizen Productions with a fellow LFS graduate which has current projects in Russia, Australia, Ukraine, UK and Kyrgyzstan. She still wants to be a marine biologist.

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Angel Inquisidor: La Ultima Oportunidad, WRITER/DIREC-

Hot & Bothered, ART DIRECTOR, Gain Control, DIRECTOR, Music

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Commercial,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS,

DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W,

Mechanical Heart, EDITOR,

PHOTGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Crusader Kings, DIRECTOR,

Fairy Tale, EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

Kodak Brings You Together,

jamie@transgressivenorth.com www.transgressivenorth.com

Blue Baby Elephants,

Der Doppelsinn des Lebens,

17mins, LFS, 2011

Norway, DIRECTOR OF

16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

CO-DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF PHO-

Kind of Love, WRITER/

DESIGNER, Fiction, HD, Colour,

PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction,

Pocket Lint, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

TOGRAPHY, Documentary, DV, Colour, Trangressive North, 2009

LFS, 2008

Family Affairs, PRODUCTION

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Video-Art

5 Element Wing Chung,

Fresh Air, WRITER/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins,

17mins, LFS/Aitysh Film, 2011 Padi di domain International Competition, 64th Locarno International Film Festival

35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

16mm, 3mins, LFS

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

CO-PRODUCER, Fiction, RED, Colour,

Si Vix Pacem Parabellum, Piece, DVCAM, 5mins, Matarte

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

White, WRITER/DIRECTOR/

The Song of the Rain (Jamgyr), WRITER/DIRECTOR/

Our Day Will Come,

3mins, LFS, 2008

Dig Up a Lover, DIRECTOR OF

Random House,

Aygul Bakanova grew up in Kyrgyzstan. She studied International Journalism before starting her career writing for Russia’s biggest television stations. After four years of television experience in Moscow she entered the MA Filmmaking course at the London Film School. For her graduation project Aygul wrote, directed and co-produced a short story set in Kyrgyzstan, where she plans to pursue her career as writer/director. Aygul is currently working on her first feature drama.

The Collector, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

35mm, Colour, 15mis, LFS, 2009

Transgressive North, 2009

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm,

Transgressive North, 2008

16mins, LFS/Transgressive North, 2011

Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011

Waiting at the Gate,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, DV, Colour,

School of Curry, EDITOR, Fiction,

Drift, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Everything is New,

TOR, Documentary, EX1, Colour,

Our Day Will Come, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, The Game, CAMERA OPERATOR,

PRODUCER, Documentary, DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2008

When the Song Dies DIREC-

Into the Woods, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, EX1, Colour,

Super 16mm, Colour, 19mins, LFS, 2011, Winner: Grand Prix du Jour – Festival Chalon Tout Court, Competition of the 34th Rencontres Henri Langlois, Competition of the The London Lift-Off Film Festival

Home Bittersweet Home,

DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER, Fiction, RED, Feature, James Barrett / Transgressive North, 2011

Chicken, PRODUCER, Fiction, HD,

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

2009

Ruadhan the Bard,

20mins, LFS, 2010

EIOkay Productions/Channel 4, 2011

Asier is a director of photography, stills photographer and lighting technician. After years working as a spark and gaffer in both film and television he joined the London Film School and has been involved in a variety of projects, always in the camera department. Through this training he has now transitioned to a director of photography.

Jamie Chambers came to filmmaking after 8 years studying music at St Mary’s Music School and Oxford University. He is the Artistic Director of Transgressive North, a Scottish artistic community who in the past year have led various outreach and standalone arts projects featuring contributions from Irvine Welsh, Jarvis Cocker and Norman Maclean. Jamie is passionate about making films in and about Scotland, and under the umbrella of TN’s Strange Home project, hopes to bring Scottish folklore to a new generation through the medium of cinema.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR,

The Man with no Name, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

10mins, LFS, 2010

Butchers Boy, PRODUCER/

Lilith, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction,

EDITOR, Music Video, Canon 7D,

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Fernlea, DIRECTOR/CAMERA/

Come Back to Me, PRODUCER,

EDITOR, Educational video, HDV,

B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

jo@curbdenizen.com www.curbdenizen.com

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Amir (Saam) Arjmand has a background in music and acting. In 2003 he moved from Iran to study at the London Film Academy (LFA). Upon graduation he won the Osbourne Clarke Writer Award and directed his first short film, Siren, which was screened in Toronto. He then attended the MA Filmmaking program at the London Film School and has worked as Dop on seven graduation films. He shot his first feature Waiting at the Gate, which won the special committee award at the Milan Film Festival. Recently he has directed two professional commercials as well as several music videos.

Taking Flight, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

The Hallying, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Something More, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Music Video, RED, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011

The Cave, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HD, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011

Overtime, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

Salto Mortale, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, Our Day Will Come, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

The Game, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Waiting at the Gate, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm,

sam_arjmand@yahoo.com

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Si Vix Pacem Parabellum, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Video-Art Piece, DVCAM, 5mins, Matarte

Kodak Brings You Together, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Commercial, 16mm, 3mins, LFS

5 Element Wing Chung,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Courbet, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 5mins, LFS, 2009

Love Shorts, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

SCRIPT/CO-PRODUCER/DIRECTOR,

Shades of Mourning,

Corporate Video, HD, EIOkay Productions/BAT/Purple Creative, 2011

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, DV, 10mins, Kino Persona, 2007

bencaird@gmail.com http://bencaird.com

White, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins,

Fresh Air, WRITER/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins,

DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W,

WRITER/DIRECTOR/CO-PRODUCER,

3mins, LFS, 2008

Fiction, HDV, 14mins, MDX Films, 2008

aygul.bakanova@gmail.com

nikolaj.belzer@gmail.com nikolajbelzer.com

In 2010 she founded Curb Denizen Productions with a fellow LFS graduate which has current projects in Russia, Australia, Ukraine, UK and Kyrgyzstan. She still wants to be a marine biologist. Lenin, PRODUCER, Fiction, Feature, Kovcheg Films/Curb Denizen, (InDevelopmet)

17mins, LFS, 2011

Fairy Tale, EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009 Satin, DIRECTOR, Documentary, DVcam, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2008

Memento Mori, WRITER/

HD, 3mins, The 169’ers

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Where? Short Distance,

Where you used to be, EDITOR, HD, 15mins, LFS, 2009 Fridays, CAMERA OPERATOR,

22mins, LFS, 2011

In Between, EDITOR/CO-DIREC-

Half Moon, CAMERA OPERATOR,

TOR, DVcam, 18mins, LFS/East End Film, 2008

A Ruthless Canvas, DIREC-

A Kiss From a Dying Horse,

TOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

4mins, LFS, 2008

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 17mins, LFS, 2010

A Portrait of You, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

White, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Courbet, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm,Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Javier Correa

5mins, LFS, 2008

Variations in the Empty House, CO-WRITER/EDITOR/PRODUCER, Dance Video, MiniDV, 9mins,

JAVIER CORREA was born in Valdivia, Chile in 1977. Before making films he studied History and Cultural

First Video Dance Festival, Arcis Univirsity, Chile, 2006

javiercorrea3@gmail.com

Comedy Central, 2010

Pasaje del Terror,

Monty Python Almost the Truth: Lawyers Cut, DIRECTOR

Sebastian Cowan Originating from the NorthWest of England, Sebastian began running on productions at 14 years old. Sebastian’s work in short films as a director and writer provides an invaluable insight into working with and directing actors. In 2008 he wrote and directed the short comedy ‘Finishing Touch’. A year later, his parody of ‘The Dark Knight’ was nominated for an Empire Movie Award. He was invited to appear and direct a sketch on SKY’s Live from Studio Five and has since completed many projects with Paramount’s Comedy Central TV network. He is currently working on Theatre of Dreams: Believe a documentary that will be featured on a DVD release in 2012.

OF PHOTOGRAPHY (2ND UNIT), TV Series, 7hr 43mins, 2009 Mutli Emmy award nominations

The Courtyard, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

King Kong Sweded, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Sketch, SKY’s Live from Studio Five, 2009

Levi’s Twisted Originals, CREATIVE WRITER/CONCEPT ARTIST, Multi-media retail campaign, 2009

Russian Dolls – LYNX,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Parody, 2009 Nominated for Empire Movie Award 2009

Digging, EDITOR/ART DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2008

Finishing Touch, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, 4mins, LFS, 2008, Nominated for Brief Encounters Short Film Award

sebjfilm@gmail.com sebastianjoseph.com

danielchaytor@gmail.com www.danielchaytor.com

Saint Petersburg, PRODUCER, Fiction, Canon 5D, Colour, Feature, Bear in Mind/Curb Denizen (PostProduction)

Not Just an Object, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

EMATOGRAPHER, Music Video, 8mm, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011 Gain Control, PRODUCER, Music Video, Canon 7D, B&W, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Goodfellow’s Bride, EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008 Contesta, DIRECTOR, Ibero, 2005

Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2009

The Shadow, WRITER/ DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Moving On..., DIRECTOR OF

Codeine & Wine, PRODUCER,

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Spiked, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Invisible Strings,

Michael Cimpher

4mins, LFS, 2008

The Milkman, DIRECTOR,

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 7D, B&W,

Angel Inquisidor (La Ultima Oportunidad), CAMERA

24mins, LFS, 2011

The Expat, EDITOR/CO-PRODUC-

Yoona Cho Before studying at the London Film School, Yoona worked as a props master, production manager and script analyst within the in South Korea film industry for 8 years. She has always been interested in diverse fields of art and has worked with art exhibitions, performances and amateur drama clubs. She is always a highly curious person and enjoys learning and finding new things. She plans to make her first feature-length film as a producer. Olives with your Tea, DIREC-

A Boston filmmaker who loves coffee, metaphysical horror and little bit of pvp. While at the LFS, he worked for George A. Romero and was personally mentored by Christopher Smith for his graduation film ‘Abigail, an undead tale of the west’ which was shot through the Algarve Film Commission in southern Portugal. Currently he is developing ‘Abigail’ into a feature through the production company 4am films which comprises fellow LFS graduates. Glen Echo, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen/4am Films, 2011

Codeine & Wine, DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music Video,

B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

TOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

OPERATOR, Fiction, Super16mm,

Through the Eyes, PRODUCER,

Coconut Skin, PRODUCER,

Abigail, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010

Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Elephant, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Fiction, RED, Colour, 18mins, LFS/4am Films, 2010

ER, Documentary, Canon 7D, Colour,

Trespassing, DIRECTOR OF

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

26mins, LFS/Curb Denizen, 2011

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm,

Fiction, DVCAM, Colour, 9mins, 2001

Easy Come Easy Go, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR,

Colour, 9mins, LFS, 2010

The Man with no Name, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

10mins, LFS, 2010

Butchers Boy, PRODUCER/

Lilith, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction,

EDITOR, Music Video, Canon 7D,

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Fernlea, DIRECTOR/CAMERA/

Come Back to Me, PRODUCER,

EDITOR, Educational video, HDV,

jo@curbdenizen.com www.curbdenizen.com

The Business of Energy, DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCTER/HEAD WRITER, 2-Part Documentary Special for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), HD, 54mins, ABS-CBN, 2011

Missed Education (Tuksó), WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 40mins, LFS, 2010

mail@rzfdtwr.com www.rzfdtwr.com

Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011 (Post-Production)

MATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W,

15mins, Pacific Circle Films, 2009

60mins, ABS-CBN, 2011

Glen Echo, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction,

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

hannibal_tot@hotmail.com www.4amfilms.co.uk

DIRECTOR, TV Drama Anthology, HD,

Lenin, PRODUCER, Fiction, Feature,

16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

ER, Ibero/Iniciativa Privada, 2005

Anthology, HD, 60mins, ABS-CBN, 2011

MMK – ‘Make-Up’ Episode,

Born in Leningrad, USSR, relocated to the USA at age 7, at 19 fled to study at Saint Petersburg University, in Russia, where I earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in Journalism. Seeking to expand my knowledge into a more hands on field, I decided to study film making at the London Film School. Throughout the years I have worked in many fields, from music production to photography to writing, it was a great pleasure to finally unite all of my interests into one very diverse field: film making.

Kovcheg Films/Curb Denizen (Development)

Gain Control, DIRECTOR, Music

MMK – ‘Rocking Chair’ Episode, DIRECTOR, TV Drama

Fyodor Druzin

Anyone, PRODUCER, Documentary,

Cual Es Tu Precio?, PRODUC-

35mm, Feature, Star Cinema, (In production, for release November 2011

The Dark Knight, Sweded,

13mins, LFS, 2009

TOR, Ibero, 2005

I Just Fall in Love Again (WT), SCREENWRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Promo, LFS/KODAK, 2008

DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, B&W,

Commercial/Awareness Campaign, RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS/BBC, 2011

Feels so Right, PRODUCER/CIN-

In 2008, the last film Raz wrote before studying at the London Film School, broke records to become the Philippines’’ third highestgrossing local movie of all time. In 2009 that movie’s sequel became number one. That same year, while in the UK finishing his MA, he was awarded most popular screenwriter. His LFS third term documentary also won him an award from the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. Raz now works as a director for the biggest film company and television network in his home country. His first feature film, currently in production, will be released this November 2011.

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Commercial

The Game, PRODUCTION

Los Milagritos del Senor, EDI-

Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Raz de la Torre

National TV Promos & short films,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Triumph of the Wheels,

Outsight, PRODUCER/CAMERA

Norway, DIRECTOR OF

CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER,

BABY BLUE ELEPHANTS, EDITOR,

Super16mm, Colour, 24mins, LFS, 2011

Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011

Joanna Bence

The So Broke Quadrillogy,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

PRODUCER, Fiction, Canon 7D,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Mechanical Heart, CO-

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Travelling with Salmon,

Mechanical Heart, EDITOR,

MiniDV, 9mins, Chilean Collective Casagrande, 2009

Trespassing, ART DIRECTOR,

Hot & Bothered, ART DIRECTOR,

DESIGNER, Music Video, Canon 7D,

DESIGNER, Fiction, HD, Colour,

35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Codeine & Wine, PRODUCTION

Family Affairs, PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction,

Crusader Kings, DIRECTOR, COLOUR, 4am Films, 2011 Olives with your Tea, EDITOR,

Video, Canon 7D, B&W, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

17mins, LFS/Aitysh Film, 2011 Padi di domain International Competition, 64th Locarno International Film Festival

12mins, National Gallery of Fine Arts, Sanitago, Chile, 2009

PHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour,

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 9mins, LFS, 2010

CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR, Sketch series, Comedy Central, 2011

Death of a Saleswoman, CINE-

LFS, 2008

Der Doppelsinn des Lebens,

Malihue, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ EDITOR, HD, 72mins, LFS, 2010 Ignacio Valdes: Pintor, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR, MiniDV,

Fiction, 35mm, 10mins, LFS, 2009 The Bridge, EDITOR, HD, 29mins, LFS, 2008

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Fiction, RED, Colour, 22mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

Never Mind the Monarchs,

Viral Campaign Winter and Spring, Velvet Film Productions, 2010

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Abigail, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Productions, 2011

Ask Jeeves, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Angel Inquisidor: La Ultima Oportunidad, WRITER/DIREC14mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

VIMTO Lowrider: Behind the Scenes, DIRECTOR, Velvet Film

2010

The Birdman of Tamworth,

TOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Idents of ITV, Equinox Fow & TV Ltd, 2011

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, HD, 8Omins,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

Jose Alberto Cerillo was born and raised in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1982. In 2006 he received a BA in Media Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana Leon, where he directed and edited various projects. As a teacher at Albanta Universidad Para Niños, he designed a video production course for youngsters, which he taught for 4 years. Angel Inquisidor is his graduation project for his MA in Filmmaking at The London Film School where he has worked on more than 20 projects, with particular interest in Directing and Production Design. He currently works for 4AM Films, a production company based in London he cofounded with other LFS graduates.

Fords of Winsford,

Ay Pena, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

Home, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

Jose Alberto Cerillo Soto

Documentary, Theatre of Dreams Ltd, 2011

RAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, 2011 TOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS,

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Promo film for international web campaign, 2010

The Dead are Silent, DIREC-

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Theatre of Dreams: Believe,

Las Cosas Como Son, 1ST

Blue Baby Elephants,

CO-DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, DV, Colour,

10mins, Kino Persona, 2008

Kind of Love, WRITER/

Bohemes78@hotmail.com

He likes cameras, bikes and mountains.

Trangressive North, 2009

Systems Against Tax Fraud,

CO-PRODUCER, Fiction, RED, Colour,

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Commerical,

asier.armental@gmail.com

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Daniel Chaytor

PHY, Fiction, Super 16mm, Colour, 19mins, LFS, 2011, Winner: Grand Prix du Jour – Festival Chalon Tout Court, Competition of the 34th Rencontres Henri Langlois, Competition of the The London Lift-Off Film Festival

Into Kilfinnan Forest,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2009

The Song of the Rain (Jamgyr), WRITER/DIRECTOR/

Our Day Will Come,

jamie@transgressivenorth.com www.transgressivenorth.com

When the Song Dies DIREC-

Transgressive North, 2009

LFS, 2009

Time Lapse,

Fiction, 35mm, 119mins, 2000

DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER, Fiction, RED, Feature, James Barrett / Transgressive North, 2011

Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011

16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Libera Me, PROPS MASTER,

16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Ruadhan the Bard,

Drift, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary,

The Assassin, DIRECTOR OF

Pocket Lint, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

CAMERA OPERATOR/EDITOR,

Freefall, DIRECTOR OF

Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 14mins, LFS , 2010 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2011, Chalkida Documentary Festival 2010 (Honorary Mention), London Greek Film Festival 2010

Jakarta, PROPS MASTER, Fiction, 35mm, 92mins, Zenith Film, 2000

Drift, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

LFS, 2009

Into the Garden of Glass and Steel, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

3mins, LFS, 2008

Into the Woods, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, EX1, Colour,

EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins,

OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2010

DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

Chicken, PRODUCER, Fiction, HD,

Woodhouse, PRODUCER/

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010

98mins, Ison Films, 2003

Bombing of Poems, Warsaw,

Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2010

Dreadful Bazaar, CAMERA

The Collector, WRITER/

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm,

The Crack, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm,

PROPS MASTER, Fiction, 35mm,

35mm, Colour, 15mis, LFS, 2009

Farmhand, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Viral, HD, 3mins,

The Man with no Name,

Documentary, HD, Colour, 25mins, LFS/Fondears, 2011

Transgressive North, 2008

OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED,

The Castle, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Super16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2011

DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, DV, Colour,

Do you like Spring Bear?,

School of Curry, EDITOR, Fiction,

The Dead are Silent,

The Flower of Time,

Everything is New,

Love After Sunrise, DIRECTOR

Don’t Panic, PRODUCER/

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Fiction, 35mm, 97mins, Cine2000, 2003

16mins, LFS/Transgressive North, 2011

Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

PRODUCER, Documentary, DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2008

Sebastian has two shorts in development and his sights set on international festivals.

Mediation. His first works were documentaries, focusing the attention on immigration and urban modernity, and the tensions between rural and urban realities. During his time studying for the MA in Filmmaking at LFS he collaborated with the Chilean artist Ignacio Valdes, producing and directing a video-installation about his work and participate as filmmaker in the project Bombing of Poems of Chilean Art Collective “Casagrande”. Today his projects are centred on the possibilities of fiction, ethnography and visual arts in cinema. His first feature A primera hora (early) is in preproduction.

Super16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2011

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm,

PRODUCER/CO-WRITER, Book Trailer, HD, 2mins, EIOkey Productions, 2011

Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs, PROPS MASTER,

Home Bittersweet Home,

Dig Up a Lover, DIRECTOR OF

Random House,

DUCTION ASSISTANT, Fiction, 35mm, 113mins, Tube Pictures, 2006

2009

21mins, LFS, Official Selection of the Ostrava Kamera Oko’s competition

EIOkay Productions/Channel 4, 2011

No Mercy for the Rude, PRO-

TOR, Documentary, EX1, Colour,

Lost Tracks, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour,

Colour, 80mins, 2007

16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Jamie Chambers

Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011

20mins, LFS, 2010

Asier Armental Aygul Bakanova

Somersault 11

MA Filmmaking Nikolaj Belzer

Saam Arjmand

December 2011

The Crossmaker, PRODUCTION

A Mechanical Heart,

DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2010

PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 14mins, LFS, 2009

Lady Luck & Father Thames,

La Strange, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

PRODUCER/SOUND RECORDIST,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Man in the Box, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR, Fiction,

cimpher@gmail.com www.4amfilms.co.uk

The Expat, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR, Documentary, Canon 7D, Colour, 27mins, LFS/Curb Denizen, 2011

Travelling with Salmon, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 21mins, LFS, 2011

Butcher’s Boy, DIRECTOR, Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011

Muriel d’Ansembourg Muriel d’Ansembourg studied Screenwriting in Amsterdam and ran a production company in The Netherlands before settling in London. She has written, directed and shot award-winning short films and documentaries. Her short film ‘Play’, which she wrote and directed in her second year at the London Film School, won 9 awards and was selected at over 30 film festivals worldwide. During her studies at the LFS she developed a strong theme in her work: powerful dramas about teens and pre-teens exploring the rawness and excitement of teenage life and all its hidden secrets. She found herself drawn to slightly edgy comingof-age stories in which the characters have a youthful hunger to push boundaries whilst maintaining a vulnerability that brings genuine moments of intimacy. ‘Good Night’ is her graduation film

for which she received a distinction. Good Night, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 28mins, LFS/BLINDEYE FILMS/FRAME/THE FARM, 2011

Sharp Edges, WRITER/DIRECTOR, HD, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Play, WRITER/DIRECTOR, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2008, Best Directing Fastnet Film Festival 2009, Ireland / Grand Prix Jan Machulski International Independent Feature Film Festival 2009, Poland / Best Short Film Award Cabbagetown Film Festival 2009, Canada / Best Drama and Best of Festival Inspire Film Festival 2009, United Kingdom / Audience Award Short Film Review 2009, Poland / Directors Choice Award Next Frame: UFVA’s Touring Festival 2009, US / Special Mention for Directing International Festival of Student Films Pisek 2009, Czech Republic / Grand Prix ESAP international film school festival 2009/Portugal. Official selections & screenings: Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2009, Brasil /Glimmer Hull International Short Film Festival 2009, United Kingdom (competition Best UK short) / KUKI International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth Berlin 2009,

The Song of the Rain, CO-PRODUCER, Fiction, RED, Colour, 17mins, Germany / International Short Film Festival Leuven 2009, Belgium / Corto In Stabia International Short Film Festival 2009, Italy / Sardinia Film Festival 2009, Italy / Con-Can Movie Festival 2009, Japan / Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt 2009, Germany / Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival 2009, Canada / Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival 2009, Russia / FIDEC 2009/Belgium / Skena-Up 2009, Kososvo. And many more.

LFS/Aitysh Film, 2011 Padi di domain International Competition, 64th Locarno International Film Festival

Just Another Day,

OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, 4mins, LFS, 2007, Diploma at the Festival of Nations (Festival der Nationen) 2007 Ebensee, Austria / Exposures Student Film Festival, 2009, UK

Capturing Space, CAMERA OPERATOR, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2007, Edinburgh Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, London International Documentary Festival, Exposures Student Film Festival, Moscow International Student Festival, Channel M’s Urban Life Award.

info@muriel-dansembourg.com muriel-dansembourg.com

Trespassing, PRODUCER/ CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 9mins, LFS, 2010

Woodhouse, PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Kings Cross and my Mother’s Quatyff, DIRECTOR The Milkman, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2009

Moving on..., WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Spiked, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

The Shadow, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

Onyinye Egenti Onyinye Egenti received her LL.B from the Nigerian Law School, Abuja. She has written several novels and short stories and for the past three years, has honed her craft as a director and storyteller by writing and directing three short films, one of which was selected for screening at the BFI IMAX during the Drop-Shot Film festival 2009. She is currently finishing off an MA in film directing at the London Film School. Waking at Dawn, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, RED, Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2011

The Courtyard, PRODUCER/ EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

4mins, LFS, 2009

15mins, LFS, 2009

Cadre, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

One Day Remembering,

16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2008

fdruzin@gmail.com www.curbdenizen.com

onyinye.egenti@lfs-students.org.uk

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Pedro Flores PEDRO FLORES was born in Flores, Portugal in 1978. He graduated in screenwriting and worked for several years in the film industry having written the Cannes MIPTV Awarded series “Sophia’s Diary”. He is currently the Editor of the Portuguese Screenwriter’s Magazine and has studied on the MA Filmmaking Course at the London Film School.

pedroflores.pt@gmail.com

After finishing my degree in visual communication, I spent eight years working in the field of Visual effects. I’ve developed paint and compositing skills through working on television programmes, commercials, title sequences and features. I am competent in Commotion, After Effects, Combustion and Shake software. I’m currently learning Matchmoving and 3D animation software. I have recently graduated from The London Film School and have produced and directed 35mm shorts to digital formats, edited documentaries and have learned sound recording skills and sound design. I have a love for colour and believe cinematography and production design help tell stories. It’s always been my ambition to become a visual story teller and I’m trying to find a route into directing. I’m currently developing another short and working with a writer on a feature.

Vincent George

Dot Dash, DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER, Fiction, HD, Colour,

2009

5mins, Sci-Fi London, 2011

Methazehar, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

The Hallying, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

EDITOR, HD, Colour, 15mins, LFS,

16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Gas Man, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

The Smoke, DIRECTOR OF

35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Honest Men, PRODUCER, Fiction,

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Home Bitter Sweet Home,

rohit.gill@gmail.com

Eui Jeong Hong Eui Jeong Hong studied visual design at the Korean National University of Arts in South Korea. After her graduation she worked in commercials for two years before moving to London to study at the London Film School where she graduated as a cine-

matographer in 2011. She has been working as a cinematographer for various short films in different genres and commercials including most recently the short, ‘Hot & Bothered’ selected for the BBC climate change short film competition. The Path (WT), DIRECTOR,

Pierre-Alain Giraud

Fiction, HDV (Post-Production)

Outland, DIRECTOR OF Film School initially hoping to follow a career in cinematography but after a few terms I fell deeply in love with writing and directing. At the moment I am developing my first feature, hoping to film in Kerala. On the Sixth Day, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Forbidden Fruit, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

A Wet Tale, WRITER/DIRECTOR, I grew up in Kerala, India and studied English Literature at the University. After my MA I moved to the Middle East to work as an advertising copywriter. I enrolled at London

Fiction, 16mm, 10mins, 1996

The Last Van, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, 10mins, 1995

vincentkg@gmail.com

Hadi Ghandour

After graduating from an engineering school, Pierre-Alain Giraud worked two years as a Cultural Attaché in Iceland. Throughout that time, he cowrote and acted for Icelandic plays. He enrolled in the London Film School in 2008 where he has directed three short experimental fictions and a documentary on Hackney, and worked as editor and director of photography. He directed animation videos (for Björk’s producer Valgeir Sigurdsson and for the exhibition of Gabriela Fridriksdottir at the Schirn in Frankfurt in September 2011). His first feature documentary premiered in the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival in November 2011. He also did the music for an Icelandic play at the Icelandic National Theatre in Reykjavik and recorded three albums with Angil and the Hiddentracks. He is now developing his first feature film with the help of Darius Khondji.

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED, (Post-

TOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY/EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010, 9th Tofifest International Film Festival, Poland, Indie Gathering International Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio 2nd Place, Landlocked film festival, Iowa City, Iowa, 19th Yasujiro Ozu International Short Film Festival, Sassuolo, Italy, 9th Imaginaria Festival, Conversano Italy, London Lift-Off film festival, London UK, The 2011 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, 18th l’Alternativa 2011, Barcelona, Spain, Red Film Festival, Zion canyon, Utah, Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland, Montreal Film Festival, Munich Student Film Festival, Brazilian Student Film Festival

Production), LFS, 2011

Belif, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

B&W, 17mins, LFS, 2010

Dishonour, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, DVCam, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

The Scented Room, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

I Did Not Say That, WRITER/DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HDV, Colour, 4mins The Projectionist, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, HDV, Colour, 10mins

Dangerous Habit, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Cosmetic Promotion, Canon 7D, 2011

Fade Away, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Hazzys, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Promotion, HD, 2011

I Am Playr, CAMERA OPERATOR, Game Promotion, Canon 5D, 2011

Hot & Bothered, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2011

Olives with Your Tea, DIREC-

That Bear Story (Kuha San), CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Taste of Secret, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HDV, 2mins Drive to the Valley, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, DV, 3mins

TOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Half Moon, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

Yes, Yes, CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR

13mins, LFS, 2010

OF PHOTOGRAPHY/EDITOR, Fiction,

The Kiss from a Dying Horse,

Short, 2010

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm,

euijeong.h@gmail.com www.euijeonghong.com

La Reine s’ evade, EDITOR, Fiction Short, 2010

Un tour en ville, EDITOR, Fiction, Short, 2010

A Primera Hora, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, HD, 72mins, LFS, 2010

Fridays, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2009

A Ruthless Canvas, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

A Portrait of You, Everything, Everywhere, All the time, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

Documentary Feature, 2011, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2011

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008, Dailymotion award, European Cinema festival of les Arcs (2010), Grand prix du jury, festival Cinémages of Toulon (2009)

Crepusculum, WRITER/

In Between, CO-DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR, Animation, 2011, Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2008, London East End Film Festival 2009

Cuello Negro, CO-WRITER, Fiction, Feature, 2011

Whale Watching Tour, CAMERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Concert documentary, 120mins, 2010

Winter Sleep, CAMERA/

You’ve Been Trapped in a Black and White Silent Film, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

music video, 2010

Garde à vues, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 2005, Selected in festival

Jackson Jr Reading, CAM-

Ici et demain, Paris (2005)

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Animation and ERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music Video, 2010

I close my eyes,

pagiraud@gmail.com

CAMERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music Video, 2010

Only Sound Remains, DIREC-

Overtime, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010 Won ‘Best Social Drama’ prize at the first “BASTAU” Int. Film Festival, Kazakhstan.

School of Karahi, After graduating from the University of Southern California, Hadi was commissioned by an international TV network to direct a series of documentaries about the US. After 3 years of directing and producing “Americans”, Hadi enrolled at the London Film School. He is now developing a feature film. Love After Sunrise, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, RED, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Dig Up a Lover, PRODUCTION

Mort, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009 Freefall, EDITOR, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

12mins, LFS, 2010

EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 11mins, LFS, 2010

Colour, 15mis, LFS, 2009

The Kingdom of Edhi, LINE PRODUCER/TRANSLATER,

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1981, Ali Jaberansari moved to Vancouver, Canada with his family in his teens. After studying computer science at university he spent 2007 attending Abbas Kiarostami’s filmmaking workshops in Tehran and decided to pursue his real passion for making films. His resolve was strengthened when he was accepted into the MA Filmmaking program at the London Film School from which he graduated in 2011 with a distinction specialising in directing and editing.

Courbet, DIRECTOR OF

Documentary, 90mins, Mundis Productions, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Home Bittersweet Home,

Aman (Safe & Sound),

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Documentary,

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction,

DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2008

35mm, Colour, 27mins, LFS, 2011 Lost Tracks, EDITOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 23mins, LFS, Official Selection of the Ostrava Kamera Oko’s competition

White, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Unscented, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009 Fresh Air, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008 Snap, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 6mins

DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

The Man with no Name,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm,

Ali Jaberansari

hadighandour@gmail.com www.hadighandour.com

The Fallen Woman, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Passport, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER,

Love After Sunrise, EDITOR,

Fiction, HD, Colour, 1min, Motiroti Foundation, 2008

Fiction, RED, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

After the Earthquake,

Dig Up a Lover, EDITOR/SOUND,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Documentary,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

HD, Colour, 10mins, 2007, East London Film Festival 2008

seemab.gull@gmail.com www.seemabgul.co.uk

Mort, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009 In Long Forgotten Fields, EDITOR/SOUND, Documentary, DV,

Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2009

Tric-Trac, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Sound of Distances, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, HDV, B&W, LFS, 2008

aljaban@hotmail.com www.alijaberansari.com

Chaudry Ali Javed Ali Javed is a film-maker from Pakistan. He started making short films while he was doing his Bachelor’s degree in computers, and by the time he finished, realised that his true passion lies in storytelling. He joined the film industry and his first commercial venture was a feature film where he worked as a 2nd assistant director and editor. This experience urged him to get professional training in Filmmaking, which brought

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MA Filmmaking Woodhouse, DIRECTOR OF

Rohit Gill

Merv Lewis

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

pedroflores.pt@gmail.com

Vincent George

Freefall, CAMERA OPERATOR, She Shows Me Her Gifts, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

On the Sixth Day, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Forbidden Fruit, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Fiction, 16mm, 10mins, 1996

The Last Van, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, 10mins, 1995

vincentkg@gmail.com

Hadi Ghandour

Sohail Kamali was born in Norway and began his formal education in filmmaking at Westerdals Film & TV in Oslo. After working three years at Mirror Pictures Production Company, he decided to pursue a career in cinematography and studied the craft at The London Film School. Dot Dash, DIRECTOR/

EDITOR, HD, Colour, 15mins, LFS,

PRODUCER, Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, Sci-Fi London, 2011 The Hallying, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

2009

Gas Man, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

The Smoke, DIRECTOR OF

35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Honest Men, PRODUCER, Fiction,

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Methazehar, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Home Bitter Sweet Home,

rohit.gill@gmail.com

Eui Jeong Hong studied visual design at the Korean National University of Arts in South Korea. After her graduation she worked in commercials for two years before moving to London to study at the London Film School where she graduated as a cine-

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED, (Post-

Production), LFS, 2011

Belif, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

11mins, LFS, 2010

Wall of Vzaar, 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Viral, 2010 (Directed by

DVCam, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Oliver Stone)

The Scented Room,

No Ordinary Morning,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

PRODUCER, Fiction, RED, Colour,

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

13mins, LFS, 2010

I Did Not Say That,

The Castle, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HDV, Colour, 4mins The Projectionist, DIRECTOR

The Milkman, PRODUCER, Documentary, DVCam, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2009

OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary,

Raindance Film Festival Promo, CO-PRODUCER, 2009 Arthur’s Retrospective,

HDV, Colour, 10mins

Dangerous Habit, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Eunji Kim

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Fade Away, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2008, London East End Film Festival 2009

Game Promotion, Canon 5D, 2011

Hot & Bothered, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2011

Olives with Your Tea, DIREC-

That Bear Story (Kuha San), CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Taste of Secret, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, HDV, 2mins Drive to the Valley, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, DV, 3mins

TOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Half Moon, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

OF PHOTOGRAPHY/EDITOR, Fiction,

The Kiss from a Dying Horse,

Short, 2010

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm,

euijeong.h@gmail.com www.euijeonghong.com

La Reine s’ evade, EDITOR, Fiction Short, 2010

James Kang

Un tour en ville, EDITOR, Fiction, Short, 2010

A Primera Hora, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, HD, 72mins, LFS, 2010

JAMES MICHAEL KANG was born in Canada in 1984. Loves motion pictures. After graduating from the MA Filmmaking Course at LFS, his plan is to make a feature.

Fridays, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2009

A Ruthless Canvas, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

You’ve Been Trapped in a Black and White Silent Film, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Animation and

Garde à vues, WRITER/DIREC-

music video, 2010

TOR, Fiction, 2005, Selected in festival Ici et demain, Paris (2005)

pagiraud@gmail.com

Seemab Gul Seemab Gul is a London based filmmaker who has been a political activist involved in social and anti-war campaigns. While she makes socio-political films, her multimedia works span themes of migration, identity, culture and politics. Overtime, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010 Won ‘Best Social Drama’ prize at the first “BASTAU” Int. Film Festival, Kazakhstan.

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mis, LFS, 2009

The Kingdom of Edhi, LINE PRODUCER/TRANSLATER,

12mins, LFS, 2010

Documentary, 90mins, Mundis Productions, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

Home Bittersweet Home,

Aman (Safe & Sound),

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Documentary,

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction,

DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2008

35mm, Colour, 27mins, LFS, 2011 Lost Tracks, EDITOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 23mins, LFS, Official Selection of the Ostrava Kamera Oko’s competition

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Passport, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER,

Love After Sunrise, EDITOR,

Fiction, HD, Colour, 1min, Motiroti Foundation, 2008

Fiction, RED, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

After the Earthquake,

Dig Up a Lover, EDITOR/SOUND,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Documentary,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

HD, Colour, 10mins, 2007, East London Film Festival 2008

seemab.gull@gmail.com www.seemabgul.co.uk

PHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

In Long Forgotten Fields,

Courbet, DIRECTOR OF

The Fallen Woman,

Mort, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

Ali Jaberansari Born in Tehran, Iran in 1981, Ali Jaberansari moved to Vancouver, Canada with his family in his teens. After studying computer science at university he spent 2007 attending Abbas Kiarostami’s filmmaking workshops in Tehran and decided to pursue his real passion for making films. His resolve was strengthened when he was accepted into the MA Filmmaking program at the London Film School from which he graduated in 2011 with a distinction specialising in directing and editing.

Mort, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009 In Long Forgotten Fields, EDITOR/SOUND, Documentary, DV,

PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Merlin (Series 1),

DIRECTOR, Animation, 2011, Shirn

I Am Playr, CAMERA OPERATOR,

School of Karahi,

EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary,

In Between, CO-DIRECTOR,

Only Sound Remains, DIREC-

hadighandour@gmail.com www.hadighandour.com

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011 Drift, PRODUCER/1ST AD, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2011

Crepusculum, WRITER/

Video, 2010

12mins, LFS, 2010

Entertainment, 2011

Short Story, WRITER/

LFS, 2010

Dishonour, DIRECTOR OF

Hazzys, CINEMATOGRAPHER, Promotion, HD, 2011

CAMERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music

The Man with no Name,

MANAGER, Fiction, 124mins, Marvel

Travelling with Salmon,

I close my eyes,

DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

sohailkamali@hotmail.com

Dig Up a Lover, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

Video, 2010

Dig Up a Lover, PRODUCTION

Dig up a Lover, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins,

B&W, 17mins, LFS, 2010

Cosmetic Promotion, Canon 7D, 2011

Yes, Yes, CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR

ERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Captain America: The First Avenger, PRODUCTION

Documentary Feature, 2011, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2011

Jackson Jr Reading, CAM-

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, RED,

B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

15mins, LFS, 2011

Winter Sleep, CAMERA/

Love After Sunrise,

TOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008, Dailymotion award, European Cinema festival of les Arcs (2010), Grand prix du jury, festival Cinémages of Toulon (2009)

Concert documentary, 120mins, 2010

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009 Fresh Air, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008 Snap, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 6mins

CINEMATOGRAPHER, Fiction, 16mm,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, B&W,

CAMERA/DIRECTOR/EDITOR,

Unscented, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Trauma, WRITER/

Family Affairs, CAMERA OPERA-

She’s not the One,

Whale Watching Tour,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Documentary, HD, Colour, 27mins, LFS, 2011

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

Fiction, Feature, 2011

White, CAMERA OPERATOR,

A Shot in the Dark,

A Portrait of You,

Kunsthalle Frankfurt

35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009 Freefall, EDITOR, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2009

On the Edge, DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Eunji is a writer/director/production designer who is currently based in London. Eunji grew up interested in literature and visual arts and completed studies in French literature and Fine Arts in South Korea. During this time she was an active member of film club at the university and developed her interest in filmmaking. This prompted her decision to move to England and with determined passion for moving image and storytelling she started a Film and Video course at London College of Communication while working as a visual artist. Her works were exhibited in various galleries across London including Saatchi & Saatchi and Whitechapel Gallery. Her passion and love for filmmaking led her to pursuing an MA at the London Film School where she is graduating with a distinction.

Cuello Negro, CO-WRITER,

Mort, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Eui Jeong Hong

Pierre-Alain Giraud

Everything, Everywhere, All the time, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

After graduating from the University of Southern California, Hadi was commissioned by an international TV network to direct a series of documentaries about the US. After 3 years of directing and producing “Americans”, Hadi enrolled at the London Film School. He is now developing a feature film.

The Traveller, CAMERA

Sohail Kamali

Merv has worked on some of the UK’s biggest and most popular productions as a 1st Assistant Director, ranging from Doctor Who to Merlin. Eager to broaden his experience, he attended the London Film School, in the process falling in love with the business of producing. Merv is currently working as freelance producer.

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

PRODUCER, Documentary, DV,

Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2009

Tric-Trac, WRITER/DIRECTOR/

She Shows Me Her Gifts,

EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

LFS, 2009

Sound of Distances,

Cadre, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, HDV, B&W, LFS, 2008

aljaban@hotmail.com www.alijaberansari.com

Television Series, Colour, 2008

Ali Javed is a film-maker from Pakistan. He started making short films while he was doing his Bachelor’s degree in computers, and by the time he finished, realised that his true passion lies in storytelling. He joined the film industry and his first commercial venture was a feature film where he worked as a 2nd assistant director and editor. This experience urged him to get professional training in Filmmaking, which brought

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, ShoMan Production, 2011

Family Affairs, PRODUCER, Fiction, HD, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

In the Name of God, 2ND

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Through the Looking Glass,

RYAN McGUIRE was born in California, USA in 1983. He studied digital animation and media arts in Arizona for 3 years before joining a production company (BAM) as Assistant Director producing 5 music videos and 2 TV pilots. He worked in a news studio for two years where he was being trained as a technical director before leaving to study film at LFS. He has since directed several shorts and one music video, along with AD work on a variety of projects, most recently in Portugal.

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009, Official selection for Fike film festival (2008. Portugal)

Through the Eyes, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

High Brow, PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction, Super16mm, 10mins, 2005

Chryssa, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

DESIGNER, Fiction, Super16mm,

Fiction, DV, 10mins, 2003

Colour, 24mins, LFS, 2011

Pisces, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Fiction, Super16mm, 5mins, 2004

Fiction, Video, 5mins, 2001

The Cave, EDITOR/PRODUCER,

eunjikim@hotmail.co.uk www.eunjikim.co.uk

Anand Madabushi

I am a Filmmaker and Architect based in London. I have made films in Europe, Japan and India. Achele (Sister), WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, 11mins, LFS, 2011 Love Hotel, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Anand Madabushi is an American freelance editor living in South London and a current employee of Deluxe Digital in Soho. In the past five years he has worked on over a dozen short films as writer, director or editor, tackling subjects ranging from the loss of colour-vision in a dystopian future to tales of a vigilante Mexican wrestler, a soul-draining succubus, and a road-tripping narcoleptic. Anand aims to pursue a career in post-production and looks forward to earning the privilege of editing featurelength films. In 2011, he founded “Outsight Films,” a small project dedicated to providing post-production training and expertise to fit any budget.

Fiction, HD, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011

Trust, EDITOR/PRODUCER, Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 30secs, Trust Ltd, 2011

Something More, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Music Video, RED, Colour, 6mins, LFS, 2011 Stone Island, EDITOR, Fiction, RED, Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2010, Winner of audience choice award Ourense International Film Festival and best short film at Bragacine Portugal Talk About it, EDITOR, Music Video, Canon 7D, Colour, 5mins, 4amFilms, 2010

Our Day Will Come, EDITOR/SOUND DESIGNER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Outsight, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER, Fiction, Canon 7D, B&W, 24mins, LFS, 2011

D:45, SOUND RECORDIST, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009

The Game, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Fiction, HD, 22mins, LFS, 2011

Travelling with Salmon, EDITOR/SOUND RECORDIST, Fiction, Canon 7D,

La Playa, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009

RAPHY, Fiction, Super16mm, 17mins,

Angel Inquisidor (La Ultima Oportunidad), EDITOR, Fiction,

Anyone, CAMERA OPERATOR,

LFS, 2011

Super16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2010 Lilith, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Marriage a la Mode,

AD/EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

The Fall of the House of Lawrence, DIRECTOR OF PHO-

Feature, ShoMan Productions, 2007

TOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

The Milkman, EDITOR, Documentary, DVCAM, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2009 Lingering, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS,

11mins, LFS, 2009

2009

Smog, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2008

Laid to Rest, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2009

ali.javed@hotmail.co.uk likhari.wordpress.com

talialumbroso@gmail.com

Ryan McGuire

j.kang@utoronto.ca

BOL, 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR, 16mm, 4mins, 2006

taking place at Théâtre de l’Atelier, 2011

PHONE A FRIEND, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm,

35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

him to the prestigious London Film School. After extensive training and working on various student films in different roles, he graduated as a producer in 2011.

Productive Session,

Making of ‘Bouleversé(e),

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009 Official selection for Parnu International Documentary film festival (2010. Estonia)

Clara Kraft Isono Chaudry Ali Javed

16mm, Colour, 17mins, 2007

Freefall, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Invisible Strings, PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction,

Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Lily Says Jackr, DIRECTOR,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

The Hole, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

2008

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm,

Mort, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Fiction, Canon 7D/5D, Colour (PostProduction)

Henry Potter, PRODUCER/

Hesitations and Her,

Documentary, 20mins, 2010

DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, 10mins, 2004

PHY, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009 Siesta, DIRECTOR, Group Project with nap as a common these, DV, 4mins

Let Time Pass, DIRECTOR,

7D, Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

The Same Woman, DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR, play written by 9 authors

mervlewis@hotmail.co.uk

A Colour to Her, WRITER/

The Hallying, PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction, Super 16mm,

Talia Lumbroso was born in Paris, France in 1985. After studying literature in Paris, Talia enrolled at the NYU Sight & Sound Summer Programme in 2006 where she directed and edited 5 short films and worked on many others. She then completed a One-year Filmmaking Program at NYFA. She felt she needed to develop her skills and enrolled at LFS for the 2-year MA Filmmaking Programme. She wants to write and direct her own films in France and hopes in 3 years time to have completed her first feature film.

1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon

The Condition, ART DIRECTOR,

Talia Lumbroso

clara_kraft@hotmail.com

armadabushi@gmail.com www.outsightfilms.com

DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 2mins, LFS, 2008

Goodfellow’s Bride, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 2mins, LFS, 2008

rcmcguire313@gmail.com

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MA Filmmaking Mirella Pazzaglia Mirella was born and raised in Viterbo, Italy and started off her artistic experience at 15 years old as a performer in physical theatre. She studied entertainment Arts and Sciences at La Sapienza University of Rome, and in 2008 she moved in the UK to undertake the MA course in Filmmaking at the London Film School. After her graduation Mirella has been working as an editor for short independent films including a BBC awareness campaign for climate change.

Matti Preston

Oskars Rupenheits

Matti Preston is a former Marine turned filmmaker now based out of Los Angeles as a freelance filmmaker, specializing in science fiction and fantasy stories.

Born in Riga in 1982. Interested in music and art. Worked as 2nd director for acknowledged Latvian film director. Received the National Film Award for his graduation film before studying at London Film School. Worked on Kevin McDonald’s ‘Life in a Day’.

Haal, EDITOR/VFX, Fiction, RED, Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011 Henry Potter, EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009 v2.0, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009 Arthur’s Retrospective, EDITOR, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

digital.bulldog.pictures@gmail.com

Distance, DIRECTOR, Short Half Past One, DIRECTOR, Short Lambert, DIRECTOR, Short Waltz With Walter, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2010 Tough Anton, DIRECTOR, Short Alfred, DIRECTOR, Short

oskars.rupenheits@gmail.com

Emile Rafael Reem Morsi Prior to moving to the field of filmmaking, Reem received a BA in Political Science/ International Relations at the American University in Cairo, followed by an MA in Law (LLM Degree) at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She worked with the United Nations in Kosovo, Syria, the Sudan and Egypt, as well as with many international organizations in Thailand and in the Middle East against sexual exploitation, child protection in conflict & war situations and other human rights issues. Reem decided to change her career into filmmaking to capture the rare moments of raw humanity she witnessed throughout her work in war zones & in areas of extreme poverty. Reem currently resides in Vancouver,

Canada and is working on establishing coproduction between Egypt and Canada.

Emile was born and raised in the small town of Ufa, Russia until the age of 14 when he moved to Prague. He attended the University of New York, studying politics and communications, yet he spent all of his spare time experimenting with cameras. After graduating he went on to study at the London Film School. Emile has produced and directed commercials and music videos with clients including Vodafone and Skoda. He is preparing his first feature film about a girl turning into a mermaid.

Birth, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Short, 2011, Awarded a prize at the Genescreen competition Aug 2011 Their Feast, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 22mins, LFS, 2011

Visa, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, Canon 5D, 30mins, 2011 The Crack, PRODUCER, Fiction, LFS, 2010

Hot & Bothered, EDITOR, Fiction,

If You Have no Place to Cry,

Invisible Strings, EDITOR, Fiction,

EDITOR, LFS, 2010 Dishonour, DIRECTOR,

Super16mm, Colour, 24mins, LFS, 2011

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon

My Super-Heroine,

The Hallying, EDITOR, Fiction,

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, LFS,

Super 16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011 Lilith, EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

2009

A Bite to Remember, CAMERA OPERATOR, LFS, 2009

RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2011

The Place Where I Stand, 5D, 19mins, LFS, 2010

Tattoo, DIRECTOR/EDITOR/CIN-

Our Day Will Come, CAMERA

EMTOGRAPHER, 2009

OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

reem.morsi@gmail.com

Honest Men, EDITOR, Fiction,

Partition, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, RED, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

Another Woman, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, LFS, 2010 Norway, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009

15mins, LFS, 2009

Interview with the Elephant Man, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

PHY, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 16mins, LFS, 2009 In the Church, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, LFS, 2009

Home Bittersweet Home, CAMERA OPERATOR, Documentary, DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Amanda, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011 Visa, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 5D, 30mins, 2011

Dirty Conscience, CAMERA OPERATOR/PRODUCER, Commercial, Super16mm, Colour, 45secs, 2010

Everest, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Commercial, Super16mm, Colour, 45secs, 2010

We Design, CINEMATOGRAPHER/PRODUCER, Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 40secs, 2010

EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008 PHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Train to Damascus, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

mir.pazzaglia@gmail.com www.pbshowfolio.com/ mirellapazzaglia

Lannie, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Elly Nakajima Born in Tokyo Japan, Elly Nakajima completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Reading before attending the New York Film Academy in Oxford. Elly completed her Master program at The London Film School where she specialized in cinematography. She has worked as a Director of Photography and Camera Operator on several short films within different genres; fiction, advertisements, music videos and documentaries across Europe. Elly has recently returned from Egypt where she closely followed the developments of the Egyptian Revolution and shot a short film on the topic, titled “Their Feast”.

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

Big Ben, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2010, Nominated for the film festival Paris du film Merveilleux, the Cologne Film Festival and theCrankcookies film festival in Passau, Germany

The Birthday, PRODUCER, Documentary, Digital, 12mins, 2009

Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 1min, Granti, 2011

Blue Tie, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

‘Sinners’, Chapter One: Druj,

Fiction, 16mm, 3mins, LFS, 2009

CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 5D, Colour, 14mins, LFS/A Thousand Faces Productions, 2011

Let it all Blow, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Commerical,

Long Way From Home, Colour, 5mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009

RAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 5mins,

Fridays, EDITOR/SOUND

2008

Clive, CAMERA OPERATOR, Digital, 3mins, 2007

LFS (Post-Production)

Hope Africa, EDITOR, Promotional

ATOR, Fiction, RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2011

Their Feast, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 22mins, LFS, 2011

Come Back to Me, CAMERA OPERATOR, Music Video, Canon 7D,

Video, 5mins, 2007

Best Friend, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, 16mm, 3mins, 2006

Inspired, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, 16mm, 2mins, 2006

elly217@hotmail.co.uk

The Cave, DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD,

Norway, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Antenna, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR/ CINEMATOGRAPHER, Digital, 4mins,

LFS, 2011

LFS, 2009

CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm,

PHY, Fiction, Digital, 4mins, 2009

On the Sixth Day, SOUND DESIGN, Fiction, HD, Colour, 15mins,

The Courtyard, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins,

5mins, LFS, 2009

The Beginning, CINEMATOGRA-

media, becoming Head of Sound at Wise Productions, designing and operating bespoke sound systems for events at some of London’s most prestigious venues, including the Natural History Museum Central Hall and the V&A Museum. In 2008 he headed to the London Film School, finding in filmmaking the perfect platform for his deep fascination with combining sound, music and picture for maximum emotional impact. George runs ShrineStudio, producing and designing sound and music for film, TV, games and the web.

35mm, Colour, 22mins, LFS/Story Arc Films, 2010

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR/ PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

LFS, 2009, nominated for the ISFF Detmold Film Festival

George Robinson

Flipside, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction,

Super16mm, Colour, 40secs, 2009

A Bite to Remember,

RAPHY, Fiction, RED, Colour, 18mins,

Hot & Bothered, CAMERA OPER-

designer on a co-production UK/India feature film and this inspirational taster into films led her to the doors of London Film School. During film school she also moonlighted with a Soho based post-production house training with DI and colouring and also worked as a projectionist in a East London based cinema. Having now relocated to India, she has worked on a few music videos and is currently writing in between two feature films.

My Girl, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

For the Moment, Granti, CAMERA OPERATOR,

em@helloemile.com www.helloemile.com

Left, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

Anshu Poddar Born in India, Anshu graduated with a Diploma in Apparel Arts Manufacture and Design in 2000. After working as a Fashion Stylist for ELLE, India she then went freelance. This was followed by her own label of clothing, drawing in inspirations from India’s energetic diversity. She left India to work in London as a costume

Colour, LFS, 2011

Trust, COMPOSER, Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 30secs, Trust Ltd, 2011

RECORDIST, Fiction, 35mm, B&W,

Abigail, SOUND DESIGNER/ COMPOSER, Fiction, RED, Colour,

11mins, LFS, 2009

Late Noon Sun, DIRECTOR OF Ear Cinema, 2009

Satin, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, DVcam, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2008

The Thread, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, LFS, 4mins, 2008 Iris, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Bombil & Beatrice, COSTUME DESIGNER, Fiction, Feature, Quest Films Ltd, 2007

After graduating from the Broadcast Technology Degree course at Farnborough, George accepted a place on Sky TVs scholarship program in West London. Hungry to develop his passion for creating immersive audience experiences he took a turn into live

I was born in the city of Udaipur, Rajasthan. My primary education was the most uneventful time of my life. I passed my time in class by making sketches of lecturers. In school we were never encouraged by the teachers to read anything apart from the stale and tasteless textbooks. After finishing school I went to an art school. In our liberal arts workshops we were exposed to the films of Fellini, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bergman, Wenders and Greenway. That was the first time I realised that films are made by people who make conscious decisions and that nothing happens by chance and now, for the last two and a half years I have been studying for a master’s degree in film making at The London Film School. ‘Sinners’, Chapter One: Druj, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Mechanical Heart, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY , Fiction, 35mm,

Fiction, Canon 5D, Colour, 14mins, LFS/A Thousand Faces Productions, 2011 Lannie, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Lilith, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

D:45, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

22mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

PHOTOGRAPHY, Experimental art film,

Aditya Singh Panwar

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009 Anyone, DIRECTOR, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Art Bipolar, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, 16mm,

Vacuum, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

And They Were all Yellow,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008 Headphones, WRITER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction,

shrinestudio@gmail.com

aditya_singh32@yahoo.co

Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Mr Distinction, PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

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MA Filmmaking Matti Preston Matti Preston is a former Marine turned filmmaker now based out of Los Angeles as a freelance filmmaker, specializing in science fiction and fantasy stories. Haal, EDITOR/VFX, Fiction, RED, Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011 Henry Potter, EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009 v2.0, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009 Arthur’s Retrospective, EDITOR, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

digital.bulldog.pictures@gmail.com

Oskars Rupenheits

Assad Zulfiqar Khan

Assad Z Khan studied at Aitchison College Lahore before pursuing an undergraduate degree in Business Management at Kings College London. After working at an advertising agency in Pakistan he went on to pursue a Masters degree in Filmmaking from the prestigious London Film School. Focusing on socio-political issues he uses his films to highlight debates on dictatorships vs democracies, the class divide and the rise of religious radicalism in Pakistan during the Eighties He has worked on a total of 15 films.

studio and post-production technician. He wrote, directed and produced both drama and documentary shorts before enrolling on the MA Filmmaking Course at LFS. After graduating he hopes to write and direct his first feature.

oskars.rupenheits@gmail.com

Canada and is working on establishing coproduction between Egypt and Canada.

Short, 2011, Awarded a prize at the Genescreen competition Aug 2011

Their Feast, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 22mins, LFS, 2011

Visa, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Hot & Bothered, EDITOR, Fiction,

If You Have no Place to Cry,

Invisible Strings, EDITOR, Fiction,

EDITOR, LFS, 2010 Dishonour, DIRECTOR,

Super16mm, Colour, 24mins, LFS, 2011

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Canon

My Super-Heroine,

The Hallying, EDITOR, Fiction,

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, LFS,

Super 16mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011 Lilith, EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

2009

A Bite to Remember, CAMERA OPERATOR, LFS, 2009

RED, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2011

The Place Where I Stand, 5D, 19mins, LFS, 2010

Tattoo, DIRECTOR/EDITOR/CIN-

Our Day Will Come, CAMERA

EMTOGRAPHER, 2009

OPERATOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour,

reem.morsi@gmail.com

Honest Men, EDITOR, Fiction,

Colour, 5mins, Curb Denizen, 2011 Visa, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 5D, 30mins, 2011

35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Home Bittersweet Home,

PHY, Documentary, 16mm, Colour,

CAMERA OPERATOR, Documentary,

16mins, LFS, 2009

DV, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

In the Church, DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Amanda, WRITER/DIRECTOR/

16mm, LFS, 2009

EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Left, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Train to Damascus, CAMERA

Commercial, Super16mm, Colour, 45secs, 2010

OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

RAPHY, Commercial, Super16mm, Colour, 45secs, 2010

We Design, CINEMATOGRAPHER/PRODUCER, Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 40secs, 2010

4mins, LFS, 2008

mir.pazzaglia@gmail.com www.pbshowfolio.com/ mirellapazzaglia

Lannie, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Born in Tokyo Japan, Elly Nakajima completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Reading before attending the New York Film Academy in Oxford. Elly completed her Master program at The London Film School where she specialized in cinematography. She has worked as a Director of Photography and Camera Operator on several short films within different genres; fiction, advertisements, music videos and documentaries across Europe. Elly has recently returned from Egypt where she closely followed the developments of the Egyptian Revolution and shot a short film on the topic, titled “Their Feast”.

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

The Birthday, PRODUCER, Documentary, Digital, 12mins, 2009

My Girl, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, 3mins, LFS, 2009

CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, Canon 5D, Colour, 14mins, LFS/A Thousand Faces Productions, 2011

Let it all Blow, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Commerical,

Long Way From Home,

TOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins,

CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm,

Norway, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Antenna, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009

RAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 5mins,

Fridays, EDITOR/SOUND

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR/ CINEMATOGRAPHER, Digital, 4mins,

Blue Tie, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, RED, Colour, 18mins,

3mins, 2007

LFS (Post-Production)

Hope Africa, EDITOR, Promotional

Clive, CAMERA OPERATOR, Digital, Video, 5mins, 2007

ATOR, Fiction, RED, Colour, 3mins,

Best Friend, WRITER/DIREC-

LFS, 2011

TOR/EDITOR, 16mm, 3mins, 2006 Inspired, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, 16mm, 2mins, 2006

TOGRAPHY, Fiction, Canon 7D, Colour, 22mins, LFS, 2011

Come Back to Me, CAMERA OPERATOR, Music Video, Canon 7D,

elly217@hotmail.co.uk

DESIGN, Fiction, HD, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

LFS, 2009

Colour, 5mins, LFS, 2009

PHY, Fiction, Digital, 4mins, 2009

On the Sixth Day, SOUND

The Courtyard, WRITER/DIREC-

5mins, LFS, 2009

2008

Their Feast, DIRECTOR OF PHO-

35mm, Colour, 22mins, LFS/Story Arc Films, 2010

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR/ PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

The Beginning, CINEMATOGRA-

PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Fiction,

A Bite to Remember,

LFS, 2009, nominated for the ISFF Detmold Film Festival

George Robinson

Flipside, WRITER/DIRECTOR/

Super16mm, Colour, 40secs, 2009

Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 1min, Granti, 2011

Hot & Bothered, CAMERA OPER-

For the Moment, Granti, CAMERA OPERATOR,

em@helloemile.com www.helloemile.com

The Cave, DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, LFS, 2011

Trust, COMPOSER, Commercial, Canon 7D, Colour, 30secs, Trust Ltd, 2011

Aditya Singh Panwar I was born in the city of Udaipur, Rajasthan. My primary education was the most uneventful time of my life. I passed my time in class by making sketches of lecturers. In school we were never encouraged by the teachers to read anything apart from the stale and tasteless textbooks. After finishing school I went to an art school. In our liberal arts workshops we were exposed to the films of Fellini, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Bergman, Wenders and Greenway. That was the first time I realised that films are made by people who make conscious decisions and that nothing happens by chance and now, for the last two and a half years I have been studying for a master’s degree in film making at The London Film School. ‘Sinners’, Chapter One: Druj,

Chicken, WRTIER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011 Farmhand, PRODUCER, Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, FFP, 2011

Lost Tracks, WRITER/ DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 23mins, LFS, Official Selection of the Ostrava Kamera Oko’s competition

Music Video, Canon 7D, 2011

Short Story, DIRECTOR OF

35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, Super16mm,

Through the Eyes, CINEMATOG-

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

RAPHER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins,

The Smoke, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Benjamin Thomas

Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

DIRECTOR, Fiction

Shadow Boxing, DIRECTOR, Documentary, Fiction

andysmithlfs@googlemail.com

The Saxaphoner, COWRITER/DIRECTOR, Mini-DV, Colour, 9mins, FFP, 2010

Woodhouse, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

In Long Forgotten Fields, DIRECTOR, Documentary, DV, Colour, 18mins, LFS, 2009

Phone A Friend, WRITER/

Benjamin Thomas was born in London, UK in 1984. In 2007 he graduated with a Fine Art Degree from Central Saint Martin’s School of Art. He has worked on studio dramas as well as documentaries, and has a portfolio of work for companies including Visit Wales, Nivea, Adidas, Orient Express and the Lazarus Home for Girls. As well as commercial work, his passion lies in making psychological dramas following individuals recovering (or not) from traumatic events in their lives. Nivea – The Great Football Experiment, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Promo, Canon 7D, BigBalls Films, 2011

Emeli Sande: My Story,

Cake and Crayons,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Canon 7D, EMI, 2011

Visit Wales – Wales Wants You, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

Tracing Footprints,

PHY, Promo, Canon 7D, 2011

Colour, 2008

Adidas: Own The Game,

Arthur’s Retrospective, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 16mm,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Promo, Canon 7D, 2011

The Lazarus Home for Girls, DIRECTOR, Canon 7D, 2011 True Power, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Promo, Alexa,

Canon 7D, Colour, 22mins, LFS, 2011 Flower, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Canon 7D, 2010

Orient Express – A Day Like No Other, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Canon 7D, 2010 Henry Potter, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2010

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, HD, Colour,

The Castle, CAMERA OPERATOR,

5mins, 2011

Farmhand, DIRECTOR OF

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2009

3mins, LFS, 2009

PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, HD, Colour,

Art Bipolar, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

The Traveller, PRODUCER, Fiction,

5mins, 2011

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

She Shows Me Her Gifts, PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

A Shot in the Dark, PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

4mins, LFS, 2008

Kaspar Synnevaag KASPAR SYNNEVAAG was born in Bergen, Norway in 1979. He is a Norwegian writer/director residing in London and Oslo. Wake Up, DIRECTOR, Music Video, HD, 4mins, 2011

Family Affairs, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour,

Vibration, WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Li Chun Teng A special education teacher, also keen on filmmaking. I’ve made several short films on digital and film formats. I Have great passion for animals and once made a documentary about a homeless dog. I am also a big fan of tennis.

PHY, Documentary, DVcam, Colour,

Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2009

Lilith, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

D:45, PRODUCTION DESIGNER,

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009

The Thread, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, LFS, 4mins, 2008 Iris, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

Bombil & Beatrice, COSTUME DESIGNER, Fiction, Feature, Quest Films Ltd, 2007

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 12mins, LFS, 2009 Anyone, DIRECTOR, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Art Bipolar, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 15mins, LFS, 2009 Apple, DIRECTOR, Music Video, Super16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2009

Valentines, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Black and White, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Mort, EDITOR/SOUND RECORDIST, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2009

Charlotte Dunn PRODUCER

CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

And They Were All Yellow, SOUND RECORDIST, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Trauma, EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

The Bell, DIRECTOR, Animation, 2008

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009 Cage, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

And They Were all Yellow,

Som Sommeren, DIRECTOR,

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 4mins, LFS, 2008 Headphones, WRITER, Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction,

Music Video, Super16mm, 3mins, Universal Music, 2006

Mr Distinction, DIRECTOR,

Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

shrinestudio@gmail.com

aditya_singh32@yahoo.co

kasparsyn@gmail.com www.kasparsynnevaag.com

lichun.teng@lfsstudents.org.uk

Mr Distinction, PRODUCER,

yunziluo@hotmail.com

Raphaelle Delauche PRODUCER Raphaelle Delauche has a background in distribution. She worked five years with Gemini Films, a major French independent production and distribution company in Paris as Director of the Theatrical Distribution department. She handled more than forty releases of varied scales from Father and Son by Aleksandr Sokurov to Times are Changing by Andre Techine. In London she worked for the London Film Festival and with 20th Century Fox. She has recently completed a Producer training program at the London Film School, where she met Seemab Gul and co-produced her shortfilm Overtime. She is currently developing several film projects.

Art Bipolar, CAMERA OPERATOR,

Vacuum, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

LFS, 2009

17mins, LFS, 2011

Satin, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA15mins, LFS, 2008

v2.0, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, Coffee Table Revolutionaries,

OF PHOTOGRAPHY , Fiction, 35mm,

Ear Cinema, 2009

As a freelancer film director and writer, Luo Yue started his filmmaking career in Beijing, China. He used to be a screenplay writer and has lots of writing experience for fiction film, TV drama and animation. He wants to be a film director but he is also a collaborative and passionate filmmaker.

TOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2009 Art Bipolar, PRODUCER, Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR, 16mm, B&W,

Honest Men, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Mechanical Heart, DIRECTOR

Fast Forward

Lou Yue

The Castle, DIRECTOR OF PHO-

Fiction, HD, Colour, 27mins, LFS, 2011 Swing, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 2010 Gaze, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, Colour, 2010

PHOTOGRAPHY, Experimental art film,

assad@mnaproductions.com www.wix.com/assadkhan/haal

benjaminsworld@hotmail.com www.bsdtfilms.com

LFS, 2010

Music Video, HD, 3mins, 2010

COMPOSER, Fiction, RED, Colour, 22mins, 4am Films/LFS, 2010

B&W, 4mins, LFS, 2008

TOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins,

Arthur’s Retrospective,

info@jonstanford.co.uk www.jonstanford.co.uk

LFS, 2008

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HDV,

Henry Potter, WRITER/DIREC-

4mins, LFS, 2009, Official selection for Fike film festival (2008. Portugal) Tric-Trac, PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

DV, FFP, 2007

16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

Fiction, HD, Colour, 40mins, LFS, 2011

PRODUCER, Fiction, 16mm, Colour,

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction, Mini-

Kings Cross and my Mother’s Quatyff, CAMERA OPERATOR,

A Red Coat, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Through the Looking Glass,

Monogamy, WRITER/

15mins, LFS, 2009

WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR, Fiction,

Colour, LFS, 2011

Chicken, DIRECTOR OF

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER, Fiction,

PHY, Fiction, HD, Colour, 2010 Lilith, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Fiction, 35mm, B&W,

Coffee Table Revolutionaries,

Home, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Fiction, Canon 5D, Colour, 14mins, LFS/A Thousand Faces Productions, 2011 Lannie, PRODUCER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 13mins, LFS, 2010

11mins, LFS, 2009

Swing, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

Heather, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

Late Noon Sun, DIRECTOR OF

Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009 v2.0, CAMERA OPERATOR, Fiction, 16mm, Colour, 3mins, LFS, 2009

D:45, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Pa’s Bicycle, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

Abigail, SOUND DESIGNER/

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY,

17mins, LFS, 2011

Just Five Minutes, DIRECTOR,

RECORDIST, Fiction, 35mm, B&W,

And They Were All Yellow,

Deep in My Heart – Marques Toliver, CINEMATOGRAPHER,

Another Woman, PRODUCER, Interested in character driven drama Jon’s work focuses on individuals and their relationship with the places in which they live. His films have been screened at Encounters Bristol International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, The London International Documentary Festival, International Cinematographers’ Film Festival Ostrava Kamera Oko, 26th Brest European Short Film Festival and shortlisted for the Iris Prize. A recent graduate of the London Film School, Jon gained MA/Distinction with a specialisation in directing. This practical based course has proved key in developing Jon’s directorial style and provided the opportunity to direct comedy, drama, horror and documentary.

Dot Dash, CAMERA OPERATOR,

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/ EDITOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour,

Jon Stanford

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, LFS, 2010 Norway, DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 13mins, LFS, 2009

RED, Colour, 20mins, LFS, 2011

Documentary, 16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2009

Taking Flight, WRITER/

A Cold Shower, WRITER/ ANDREW SMITH was born in Liverpool, England, UK in 1971. He trained and worked as a non-linear editor for several years before becoming a

Haal, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Fiction, HD, Colour, 5mins, Sci-Fi London, 2011

Fiction, RED, Colour, 17mins, LFS, 2011

Interview with the Elephant Man, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRA-

OPERATOR/PRODUCER,

Andrew Smith

Partition, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER,

15mins, LFS, 2009

Dirty Conscience, CAMERA

Everest, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOG-

Elly Nakajima

Birth, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction,

Fiction, Canon 5D, 30mins, 2011 The Crack, PRODUCER, Fiction, LFS, 2010

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Fiction, 16mm, B&W, 3mins, LFS, 2008

Lazarus, PRODUCER, Feature (In development)

Overtime, PRODUCER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010, Won ‘Best Social Drama’ prize at the first “BASTAU” Int. Film Festival, Kazakhstan.

Charlotte Parisa has worked across film, documentary and journalism. As part of the LFS Fast Forward Programme, she produced the short graduation film ‘Overtime’ which won a ‘special mention prize’ for ‘best social drama’ at the BASTAU First Int. Film Festival in Kazakhstan this year. In addition, she has run productions on several documentary series for Sky One, Discovery Channel and docs for Channel 4’s prestigious Cutting Edge strand. She has worked for Hammer Films and Framestore assisting the CEO’s and in her early career she was a broadcast journalist for the BBC and independent radio across the UK. Overtime, PRODUCER, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010, Won ‘Best Social Drama’ prize at the first “BASTAU” Int. Film Festival, Kazakhstan.

Cops and Coyotes, PRODUCER, Documentary, 6x60min Episodes, Discovery Channel

The Men Who Jump Off Buildings, PRODUCER, Documentary, 60mins, Channel 4

Border Invasion USA, PRODUCER, Documentary, 5x60mins, Sky One Miami Swat, PRODUCER, Documentary, 6x60mins, Sky One

Child Champions, PRODUCER, Documentary, 1x60mins, Channel 4

parisadunn@hotmail.com rdelauche@mac.com

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Benjamin Cleary

he Masters in Screenwriting at the London Film School is an intensive one year programme with the focus on developing the writer’s voice in the context of a world class film school where we make over 170 films each year. Screenwriting students’ work alongside directors, actors, editors and producers developing their script editing as well as screenwriting skills and gaining a practical understanding of the course philosophy that screenwriting is filmmaking. As we know it takes time, tenacity and talent to develop a career as a screenwriter. This is only the sixth year of the screenwriting programme at LFS but already many graduates are working professionally across the industry in development, production and on their own projects in companies as diverse as Matador, Scottfree, Lionsgate, Power to the Pixel and Focus Features. In the past year graduate achievements include the first feature from Luke Foster, the UK comedy Betsy and Leonard currently in postproduction with Iron Box Films, Hrafnkell Stevanson’s third feature Citystate starring Jonathan Pryce and Ines Braga’s two-part feature length drama, Alice (broadcast Nov 2010) commissioned by HBO Latin America and directed by Sérgio Machado (Lower City) and Karim Ainouz (Madame Satã). Stavros Pamballis’s second produced feature, an indie set in Birmingham, called Turbulence, is about to start screenings for sales agents and distributors. His Binger Film, The First Cypriot Astronaut, which he also plans to direct has been to the Media Fund for Development at the end of the week. Last year he was commissioned to write a film called Bleak Sea by Working Title Films. In addition Gabriel Vallejo was shortlisted (along with MA Filmmaking grad Nicole Volavka) for the Microwave Film London scheme, Despina Ladi’s graduate project You Are Here was chosen for the prestigious MFI/Media Script Workshop programme while Richard Hersteck won first place with his grad feature Home Front at the Ivy Film Festival in Rhode Island. Charlotte Goldsmith now represented by Casarotto Ramsey has just finished a script commission for director Bruce Goodison and is developing a second feature with London based, The Bureau. Kaveh Mohebbi’s feature length horror Alienated is in development in Canada. An impressive list of achievements in such a short period. We are highlighting the work of the 2011 graduating year with a selection of rehearsed readings from their feature projects, directed by Udayan Prasad and introduced by Tony Grisoni, with story worlds ranging from 19th century Denmark to 21st century Iraq, from the streets of Mumbai to the bars of Belgrade. There’s a satirical comedy about the self-improvement industry, an urban thriller set in multicultural London, romantic adventure, sci-fi, social and magical realism, all shaped around classic themes of love and betrayal, sexual and social politics, coming of age and selfdiscovery. We hope you will join with us in celebrating the hard work, intelligence and talent of the graduating class of 2011 while remembering that these scenes are selected from works in progress – as we all are. Brian Dunnigan Head of Screenwriting MA Course Leader London Film School

Trained as a sound engineer and worked for a number of years in recording studios in Dublin, including the world famous Windmill Lane Studios. Wrote his first short script six months before applying to LFS. During his masters at LFS he was hired by RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, to write seven episodes for a children’s television series called The BTW Diaries. The series was filmed over the

Ingrid Charles Ingrid’s second collection of short stories is almost ready; she is collaborating with filmmakers and currently writing a TV series which has the working title ‘Future Fear’. Ingrid has been an English teacher, a poet, a journalist and a (not good at waiting) waitress. During the 90’s she lived in Italy, but, became homesick for the weird diversity of

London. Her ambition is to conquer the world with words and images.

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Virgin Media

You Drink I’ll Drive, SCRIPT EDI-

Shorts, 2009

TOR, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011 Ahmari, SCRIPT EDITOR, LFS MA

An Everyday Conversation, WRITER, Radio Play, BBC Radio 4,

Feature Screenplay, 2011

2006

Next Time We Get a Taxi,

Voices of Now, WRITER, Poetry

SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, LFS, 2011

and Short Story Collection, Independent, 1991

(Post-Production)

Emily & Mark, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, LFS, 2011 (Post-Production) Best Friends Forever, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 8mins, LFS, 2010

ircharles2003@yahoo.co.uk www.ircharles.co.uk

Feet Spider, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, Short, 2010

Jansen, a police officer who has lost all faith in love after the death of his wife, must investigate the tragic suicide pact between famed circus princess Elvira Madigan and married cavalry lieutenant Sixten Sparre in 1889 Denmark. Based on a true story that is still considered the Romeo and Juliet of Scandinavia.

A depressed, abusive alcoholic forgets the monster he has become after a bingefuelled car accident . In a series of interweaving clashes of past and present conflicts, he seeks redemption in the recovery of a more sane and sober self that might be capable of winning back his life and wife. Shunt is a tough morality tale that explores whether people can ever really change and, perhaps harder still - stay that way.

Before studying at LFS Jonathan was a successful city lawyer, spending long hours behind paperwork for nearly six years. While there he began writing in bursts, completing a dozen short scripts and two first draft features in two years. Packed with ideas he took the plunge and came to LFS to find his voice, collaborate, and immerse himself in narrative exploration. Also a published film reviewer, Jonathan is now script editing, co-writing, producing, and working on preproduction for various shorts. While develop-

All you need is..., WRITER, Short Small Print, Short Film,

Lean To & Ginger is a murder mystery and a story of unlikely friendship set in London in 1972. Lean To is James, a black policeman recently arrived from Trinidad and Ginger, is Tom a working-class Irishman. Both suffer from the ignorance and prejudice of the station sergeant but when they begin to investigate the murder of a local transvestite that might involve a highranking friend of the police, not only their careers but also their lives may be at stake.

Jonathan Guyett

benlcleary@gmail.c

Novel, Authorhouse, 2009

Lean To & Ginger, WRITER, LFS

Marianne Hansen

Shunt

Children’s Television School, RTE, 2011

Under a Hackney Sky, WRITER,

MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Ingrid Charles

A psychological drama in which a struggling novelist finds old surveillance equipment hidden between the walls of his new flat and gets sucked into the lives of the other residents of the building. Before long the boundaries of reality and fiction begin to blur.

Feature Screenplay, 2011

The BTW Diaries, WRITER,

Story, included in Patience Anthology, 2009

Elvira & Sixten

Benjamin Cleary

Wilton Place, WRITER, LFS MA

Jonathan Guyett

Lean to & Ginger

Wilton Place

summer and will begin airing shortly. Currently Ben has a number of projects on the go. A well-known Irish production company has taken an interest in two of his new short films and is entering them into Irish competitions. He is also writing a feature film to submit to Channel 4’s screenwriting competition, 4 Screenwriting. In the future Ben is keen to write and direct his films.

The Friendship Sessions

she uses blackmail, subterfuge and a little trick learnt from Kirk Douglas in ‘Gunfight at the OK Coral, “I give you five seconds to unbuckle your guns boys.” Of course the guns don’t stay unbuckled for long. But that’s movies for you.

Buried Under Raj and Snow Rashmi Alexander Lehmann Jon a Norwegian journalist who has been living in London for eight years, returns to his small town in Norway to attend his mother’s funeral. Here past resentments and difficult truths begin to resurface and force him to confront his own transgression and guilt.

These Streets are Ours Hero Mackenzie These Streets are Ours is an urban thriller about an angry sixteen year old girl haunted by a traumatic past, who is expelled from her private school and awakened from her life of privilege to discover a hidden world of class conflict, crime, religious extremism – and love.

The Roxy Baghdad

Ahmari

Kay Jones

An epic tale about Ahmari, a rebel medic, who abandons the Cossack insurgency to follow a peasant life with Vilma, the love of his life. After the failure of his marriage he flees into the Pechora forest where many years later as now Doctor Ahmari, he is picked by one of Stalin’s apparatchik to lead a sadistic investigation into the secret of

A hard-bitten military surgeon, Jo Knox, discovers a ruined art deco cinema with a treasure trove of old movie reels dating back to the 1940s. Strictly for fun she coerces the owner, Jalal, an Iraqi cinephile with a love of John Wayne, to screen a few movies. Along the way

Fix you Up

Reckoning

Rachel Smith

Ivana Verle

Fix You Up is the story of Rory, a workaholic transplant surgeon who cares more about the organs she operates on than the people they belong to. When she breaks her wrist and is out of work, she meets Grace, a spirited musician, who forces Rory to question her choices in life and love.

Marlon, a prominent neurosurgeon, risks death and sanity on a strange, fractured journey into the depths of his own mind as he struggles to survive a love triangle and make sense of his world and traumatic childhood.

Priyamvada Narayanan

Maria Hummer Cameron finds herself heartbroken and single when her college boyfriend, Joe, breaks up with her on graduation day. To prove to Joe that she’s not as hopeless and needy as he thought, Cameron sets herself a task: to make friends - a challenge for her introverted and socially inept self. And through this project she meets Clay, another shy recluse who is equally in need of a friend. Together Cameron and Clay learn the true meaning of friendship and, ultimately, love – to help each other flourish.

personal and political loyalty. Ahmari’s merciless experiments turn into a dark legend feared by the entire USSR. Whatever is left of his humanity is put to the test when his path and Vilma’s cross again as World War 11 is about to explode across Europe.

Satiago Maza Stern

Raj and Rashmi is a transgressive love story set in Mumbai, India. When Raj - a working class, married, life insurance salesman with a history of repeated failed suicide attempts, meets Rashmi – a beautiful eunuch who happens to be a sexworker, his world is turned upside down. What starts as an innocuous friendship turns into a love affair that threatens their very existence. And permanently alters the way Raj views the world.

You Drink I’ll Drive

Killing Cows Michael Wozniak

Mia Goes to Space Dessislava Stoycheva-Larkin Mia goes to Space is set in the days of booming Spacetourism when couples who don’t know each other well often negotiate the terms of their relationship on faraway planets. Mia, constantly struggling to articulate her feelings, makes the perfect plan to win Martin - a ‘Space Search and Rescue’ hero who already loves her, but she is unable to see it.

Feeling Good

Neven Novak

Rachael Swindale

You Drink I’ll Drive, is a coming of age drama, set in contemporary Belgrade. While working in the family diner with her father, Dusan, a gambler and an alcoholic, twenty two year old Tea, finds pleasure in riding her Lambretta and delivering food around town. After her father gambles away all of her savings, Tea decides to set up her own taxi-scooter business for passengers too drunk to drive home and thereby embarks on a journey through Belgrade’s night life, where everybody has a story or a secret to share. What Tea doesn’t expect, however, is that the most important secret, is not on the streets, but in her father’s heart.

Feeling Good is a satirical comedy about the selfimprovement industry. Tim works as a trainer for the Feeling Good Corporation. He runs workshops that teach people how to be happy and successful while secretly feeling an unhappy failure. Meanwhile Charlie, his beautiful but uptight wife, is an ambassador for the FG brand and believes success is a given if you follow the company’s teachings. When an old friend, the hedonistic Oliver, comes back into his life, Tim begins to see another route to happiness. But Oliver’s influence creates a rift in Tim and Charlie’s relationship; and their carefully controlled life begins to unravel.

A failing RAF officer is sent to investigate a series of UFO sightings, only to fall in love with the hoaxer. Nick Vaughan, obedient, eager to please, wants one thing – to become a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force. Then he will finally win the respect and admiration of his father, Air Commodore Vaughan, a living legend within the service. When Nick catastrophically fails his final pilot exam he is promised a last chance to pursue his dream - but on one condition. He must investigate a series of UFO sightings over the Brecon Beacons, South Wales, and expose them as hoaxes. Unfortunately for Nick this proves more difficult than he imagines and amongst the many complications he encounters on his journey, including a crazy conspiracy theorist and an obsessive Ufology expert, the most challenging turns out to be falling in love with the beautiful trickster Cerys Owen. Is this another hoax or is their love for real?

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As we know it takes time, tenacity and talent to develop a career as a screenwriter. This is only the sixth year of the screenwriting programme at LFS but already many graduates are working professionally across the industry in development, production and on their own projects in companies as diverse as Matador, Scottfree, Lionsgate, Power to the Pixel and Focus Features. In the past year graduate achievements include the first feature from Luke Foster, the UK comedy Betsy and Leonard currently in postproduction with Iron Box Films, Hrafnkell Stevanson’s third feature Citystate starring Jonathan Pryce and Ines Braga’s two-part feature length drama, Alice (broadcast Nov 2010) commissioned by HBO Latin America and directed by Sérgio Machado (Lower City) and Karim Ainouz (Madame Satã). Stavros Pamballis’s second produced feature, an indie set in Birmingham, called Turbulence, is about to start screenings for sales agents and distributors. His Binger Film, The First Cypriot Astronaut, which he also plans to direct has been to the Media Fund for Development at the end of the week. Last year he was commissioned to write a film called Bleak Sea by Working Title Films. In addition Gabriel Vallejo was shortlisted (along with MA Filmmaking grad Nicole Volavka) for the Microwave Film London scheme, Despina Ladi’s graduate project You Are Here was chosen for the prestigious MFI/Media Script Workshop programme while Richard Hersteck won first place with his grad feature Home Front at the Ivy Film Festival in Rhode Island. Charlotte Goldsmith now represented by Casarotto Ramsey has just finished a script commission for director Bruce Goodison and is developing a second feature with London based, The Bureau. Kaveh Mohebbi’s feature length horror Alienated is in development in Canada. An impressive list of achievements in such a short period. We are highlighting the work of the 2011 graduating year with a selection of rehearsed readings from their feature projects, directed by Udayan Prasad and introduced by Tony Grisoni, with story worlds ranging from 19th century Denmark to 21st century Iraq, from the streets of Mumbai to the bars of Belgrade. There’s a satirical comedy about the self-improvement industry, an urban thriller set in multicultural London, romantic adventure, sci-fi, social and magical realism, all shaped around classic themes of love and betrayal, sexual and social politics, coming of age and selfdiscovery. We hope you will join with us in celebrating the hard work, intelligence and talent of the graduating class of 2011 while remembering that these scenes are selected from works in progress – as we all are. Brian Dunnigan Head of Screenwriting MA Course Leader London Film School

London. Her ambition is to conquer the world with words and images.

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Virgin Media

You Drink I’ll Drive, SCRIPT EDI-

Shorts, 2009

TOR, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011 Ahmari, SCRIPT EDITOR, LFS MA

An Everyday Conversation,

Feature Screenplay, 2011

2006

Next Time We Get a Taxi,

Voices of Now, WRITER, Poetry

SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, LFS, 2011

and Short Story Collection, Independent, 1991

(Post-Production)

Short, 48hr Filmmaking Challenge, 2010 Spit, SCRIPT EDITOR, Short, LFS, 2010

jon_guyett@hotmail.com www.penultimatedraft.com

Pinata, PRODUCTION MANAGER, Short, LFS, 2011

Replant, SCRIPT EDITOR, Short,

Children’s Television School, RTE, 2011

whatever resources she could pool together and is now in its final stages of post-production. Armed with her new MA in screenwriting, Marianne is currently working on a variety of new projects, looking for producers to collaborate with. She loves writing scripts both for herself as a filmmaker and other people as a writer-forhire.

benlcleary@gmail.c

WRITER, Radio Play, BBC Radio 4,

Fiction, LFS, 2011 (Post-Production) Best Friends Forever, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 8mins, LFS, 2010

ircharles2003@yahoo.co.uk www.ircharles.co.uk

Feet Spider, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, Short, 2010

The Friendship Sessions

Buried Under Raj and Snow Rashmi Alexander Lehmann

The Roxy Baghdad

Ahmari

Kay Jones

Fix you Up

Reckoning

Rachel Smith

Ivana Verle

Priyamvada Narayanan Jon a Norwegian journalist who has been living in London for eight years, returns to his small town in Norway to attend his mother’s funeral. Here past resentments and difficult truths begin to resurface and force him to confront his own transgression and guilt.

Satiago Maza Stern

You Drink I’ll Drive

Killing Cows Michael Wozniak

Feeling Good

Neven Novak

Rachael Swindale

Alexander Lehman

Human Resources, CO-WRITER,

Short (in pre-production)

The BTW Diaries, WRITER,

Emily & Mark, SCRIPT EDITOR,

Comic/3DTV, Endgame (in production) The Human Test, WRITER, Short, Greenwich Film School, 2010

Dialtone, WRITER/PRODUCER,

Feature Screenplay, 2011

All you need is..., WRITER, Short Small Print, Short Film,

Jonathan Guyett

Galaxy Surfer, SCRIPT EDITOR,

Novel, Authorhouse, 2009

MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Marianne Hansen

Shunt

Screenplay, 2011

LFS, 2011

Under a Hackney Sky, WRITER,

Lean To & Ginger, WRITER, LFS

Ingrid Charles

SHUNT, WRITER, LFS MA Feature

Wilton Place, WRITER, LFS MA

Story, included in Patience Anthology, 2009

Elvira & Sixten

Benjamin Cleary

ing and re-writing his own work and consulting for an interactive iPad comic, Jonathan is trying to get fit so he can document a record-breaking 350-mile expedition across the Danakil desert in Ethiopia. When not training for the desert he still seems rooted to a desk, but the paperwork is now his own.

Jonathan Guyett

Lean to & Ginger

Wilton Place

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I was born and raised in Norway. In my early childhood I lived in Finmark, in the north of Norway. When I was five we moved to a small town in Telemark called Notodden, where I lived for most of my youth. I did an International Baccalaureate at Skagerak International School in Sandefjord. After completing the IB I moved to the UK to study a BA in Media Arts at Royal Holloway. While I have always loved films, at Royal Holloway I discovered how much I love screenwriting and realised that is what I wanted to do with my life. Buried Under Snow, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

alexlehmann4@hotmail.com

Lapse, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER/EDITOR, Fiction, Super16mm, Colour, Feature, Wisdom Bell Productions, 2012 (post-production) Elvira & Sixten, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Marianne Hansen

The Lost Night, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Lemon Meringue, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 10mins,

Writer-Director Marianne Hansen was born in Hong Kong, raised in Denmark and educated in London and Los Angeles. Her first foray into film was in acting, but somewhere along the road she discovered that she would rather be behind the camera. She graduated film school in Los Angeles in 2006 and decided to make a feature film. “Lapse” was shot in 2007 for

LFS, 2010

Between the Sunset and the Sea, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/ EDITOR, Fiction, Super8mm, Short, Wisdom Bell Productions, 2006

Alice Rose, WRITER/DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER/EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Short, Wisdom Bell Productions, 2006

I’ve always found storytelling fascinating, that’s why it is my weapon of choice to influence the (un)reality I belong to. Born and raised in Mexico City, I did numerous workshops and a BA on cinema; that was crowned with a thesis short film selected in numerous festivals across America and Europe. After graduating I worked for a resourceful and creative Production House as an editor. During those years I also performed in the production department of Mexico’s leading film festival. This last year at LFS, and also having attended the Berlinale Talent Campus, I’ve managed to strengthen my voice as a writer and expand my creativity for further challenges in my career.

mariannehansen@wisdombellproductions.com wisdombellproductions.com

Ahmari, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

M, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, HD, 6min, 2011

Lost Night, CO-WRITER, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Blind, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CAMERA OPERATOR, Documentary, DV, 16mins,

Priyamvada Narayanan

NFTS, 2010

Discover Your Senses, CAMERA OPERATOR, Documentary, HDV, 58mins, Celuloide, 2010

Jab Jab Uppercut, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, 12mins, UIA, 2010

The Pueblo’s Fiesta, EDITOR, Documentary, HDV, 53mins, Celuloide, 2009

Pau & Sebas, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, Super16mm, 11mins, UIA,

Priya is a psychiatrist-turnedfilmmaker. She travels and works between New York, London and Mumbai and is fascinated by the complex psychological and spiritual underpinnings of the human experience. She also teaches yoga and meditation.

2009

Waiting Room, WRITER/DIREC-

Dhuan, DIRECTOR (2ND UNIT),

TOR, Super16mm, 8mins, UIA, 2008 Changorama, DIRECTOR,

Fiction, 35mm, Colour, Feature, Aamir Khan Productions, 2012 (post-production) Raj and Rashmi, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Documentary, DV, 17mins, UIA, 2008

smaza91@gmail.com

Their Feast, SCRIPT EDITOR, Ficition, Canon 7D, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

The Sport of Kings, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 14mins, LFS, 2011

A Time to Tell, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2011 Nobody, SCRIPT EDITOR, Ficiton, 35mm, B&W, 10mins, LFS, 2010

Lagaan, 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 224mins, Aamir Khan Productions, 2001

priya1947@hotmail.com

Hero Mackenzie

Maria Hummer Maria Hummer was born and raised in Toledo, OH. She earned a BFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University in 2008. Before attending LFS she worked as an ESL instructor in Seoul, South Korea, and an AmeriCorps VISTA at the International Institute of St. Louis. In addition to screenplays Maria also writes short stories, and her fiction has been published in The Meadowland Review and Existere.

Santiago Maza Stern

Hero Mackenzie realised she was both a non-conformist and a writer at the age of twelve whilst in detention for putting her hands in her pockets when the teacher was talking. She spent the next four years rebelling against the educational establishment, writing short stories and going to matinees instead of attending class. After realising she was only shooting herself in the foot, Hero decided to academically overcompensate. She received a BA and then MA from King’s College London in Comparative Literature, then began to publish short stories in small literary magazines. It was during

The Friendship Sessions, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Tough Anton, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, B&W, 11mins, LFS, 2011 Cuffed, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

hummaria@gmail.com

this time that she realised she could combine both her passion for writing and film in order to become a screenwriter. Hero is currently doing work experience as assistant to the creative executive at Ealing Studios. These Streets Are Ours, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Scissors, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

Cave of the Blind, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 15mins, LFS, 2011

heromackenzie@gmail.com

Neven Novak Kay Jones Kay is an Essex girl; more Essex than girl. She’s been knocking about in advertising for over 20 years, mostly as a copywriter, selling everything and anything to anyone. Phones, booze, airlines, more phones. You name it she’s flogged it. Which is probably why she ended up in a classroom; hoping, praying for someone to say something clever. She’s written articles, kids stories, even performed her own stand-up. Now she writes drama. The Roxy Baghdad, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

A Perfect Day for Cake, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm,

Trained as a veterinary surgeon. , Neven Novak spent eight years working in the Small Animal Veterinary Practice in his hometown Belgrade in Serbia. During this time, he fostered his love for dramaturgy and writing fiction and has had short stories published in various literary magazines. Neven spent two years in a small acting studio “Us” and continued to nurture his passion for films with the Youth Academic Film Club, where he became co-author and lead actor in their short films. In September 2010 he joined the MA Screenwriting programme at the LFS and graduated with a distinction. Currently, he is collaborating with LFS Filmmakers and advertises his work all around the globe.

Colour, 10mins, LFS, 2011

The Crack, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2010

kay_o_jones@yahoo.co.uk

Where The Wind Hides, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, Short, LFS, 2011

Spider Feet (Tobias), SCRIPT SUPERVISOR, Fiction, Short, LFS, 2010 House of Paper, MAGAZINE, Matica Srpska Chronicle, 2009/2010

Joshua’s Timeline, MAGAZINE, Matica Srpska Chronicle, 2009/2010 The Wish, WRITER, Collection of Best Stories, Alma, 2006

A Bad Day for Nemanja Skrabalo, CO-WRITER, FictionDocumentary, 2005, Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia, 2006 International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria, 2006 Short Film Festival, Potenza, Italy, 2006 International TV Festival, Bar, Montenegro, 2006

The Night I Met Ghosts, WRITER, Collection of Best Stories, Alma, 2005

The Exit, WRITER, Literary magazine, 2005

The Fat Teddy Bear, WRITER, Magazine of literature and literary theory, TXT, 2005

A Cigarette and Me, You Drink I’ll Drive, WRITER, LFS

CO-WRITER, Short, 2003, Festival of

MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

new films and videos - Alternative Film Video, AFC DKSG, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004

Last Night, CO-WRITER 2011, short screenplay, with Santiago Maza, in production

nnovak77@gmail.com

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MA Film Curating T

he first year of the MA Film Curating – run in conjunction with the London Consortium/University of London – attracted 17 students from 14 different countries. The students followed courses in the LFS and at Birkbeck, together with a custom-made ‘Theory and Practice of Curating’ course run by two specialist art curators (which involved visiting a number of top London galleries), plus an two-term

study of the current structure of mainstream and arthouse production, distribution and exhibition. All the students attended the Rotterdam and Cannes Film Festivals, and had seminars with experienced practitioners in distribution, festival programming, journalism, PR, copyright law, piracy, film sales and production. They rounded off the year with a numner of highly innovative and creative Final Projects

which ranged from fashion and film to feminist cinema, from Jean Genet to Stanley Kubrick, from sitespecific forms of film programming to a shop-window installation on the streets of Brighton as part of the city’s White Nights Festival, and from artist’s film to Arab cinema, not forgetting a blueprint for a new film festival in the Sertão region of Brazil.

Masked Ball, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2011

My First Fado, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2010

Rachel Smith Rachael Swindale

Family Affairs, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2010

Born in Providence and raised in Hope, Rachel is a native Rhode Islander with a love for the Atlantic Ocean, local brew, fresh seafood, and storytelling. She wrote her first play when she was seven and went on to graduate from the Honors Program and the University of RI with a double major in creative writing and film studies. She left New England to study screenwriting at LFS. She currently has one foot in the States, one in London, and the world in between. Fix You Up, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Like Spinning Plates, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2011

Rachael was born in Newcastle but now calls London home. She wanted to be a fashion designer but decided that a life discussing hemlines wasn’t for her. She went on to do a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London and then to work in film and television. She has written travel guides for cities she’s never been to, coaxed unmotivated teenagers into making a musical and once sold shoes to Princess Diana. Rachael plans on combining a career in fact and fiction and is developing ideas for features, drama series and documentary films. She still likes to wear a nice frock from time to time.

rjsmith@gmail.com

Feeling Good, LFS MA Feature

tiagodimauro@enjoye.com.br

35mm, LFS, 2011

What’s Your Story?, EDITOR, DV, Documentary Filmmakers Group, 2010 Kids Might Fly, PRODUCER, 16mm, 2009

Tiago Farias Mauro

The Raleigh Effect, PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR/ EDITOR, DV, Raleigh International, 2008

Up for Debate – Team Qatar, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/PBS, 2008

The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/ Sundance Channel 2008

The Science of the Ten Plagues, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, Warner Bros, 2007

Office Tigers, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/ Sundance Channel 2006

Dessislava StoychevaLarkin

Mia Goes to Space, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Marilyn from Bucharest or the state of Bulgarian Cinema 2006, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, 5mins, 2006

Dreamcatcher, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, 9mins, 2004

The Solo Centre,

Ivana Verle Bolota e Chumbrega, WRITER, Ivana Verle is a Brazilian Screenwriter-Director with a BA in Journalism and a certificate in Film Production. She wrote and directed several short films for both TV and cinema and was selected twice for a script development grant by the State Cultural Office and Santander Bank. Ivana has been a screenwriting lecturer at PUC University in Brazil since 2005 and her latest work are the scripts for the children’s animation series ‘Chubby and Cheesy’, which airs at TV Cultura in 2009 and is currently seeking international co-producers.

Animation Series, Armazém de Imagens Productions/TV Cultura, 2009

Tratado de Liligrafia, WRITER, Fiction, 35mm, Short, Armazém de Imagens Productions, 2007 Temporal, WRITER, Zeppelin Films, 2006

Reckoning, LFS MA Feature Spaces, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Short, 2010

Killing Cows, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Newsjack, WRITER, Radio, BBC Radio 7, 2011

The Golden Lizard, WRITER,

Digital, Short, RBS TV, 2006

Live-show, Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Soho Theatre London, 2011

Nuria Camprecios Núria graduated in 2003 in Arts History (BA) from the University of Barcelona with an emphasis in contemporary arts, film criticism and cinema history and theory. A year later, she obtained her Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Management and started working for several museums and contemporary art galleries in Barcelona. In 2007, she followed her passion for films and moving image and started working for Drac Màgic. For the past four years, she has been working as a program manager at the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival. In 2010, she moved to London to commence a Masters degree in Film Curating at the London Film School. Most recently, she has cofounded SIN FIN CINEMA, a London and New York based multidisciplinary arts organization, specialised in Spanish cinema. Sin Fin Cinema, ASSISTANT CURATOR AND FILM PROGRAMMER, 2011

The Odd Half Hour, WRITER,

Spanish Cinematic Experiences in London, CURA-

Radio, BBC Radio 4, 2010

TOR/EXTERNAL PROGRAMMER,

Quintana Inventa o Mundo,

The News Quiz, WRITER, Radio,

Spanish London Film Festival, 2011

WRITER, Documentary, Digital, RBS TV,

BBC Radio 4, 2010

Student Film Festival London,

The Colossal Machine,

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT,

Ri, Gervásio, WRITER, Fiction,

WRITER, Pilot sketch show, BBC Radio

2011

Digital, Short, TV Cultura

1, 2010

O Homem que Roubou o Mundo, WRITER, Fiction, Feature, GusGus Films, 2003

2006

O Caso no Ar, WRITER/ DIRECTOR, Fiction, Digital, Short, RBS TV, 2002

Por um Fio, WRITER/COUniversity, 2001

Screenplay, 2011

realdessy@gmail.com

Mike Wozniak is a writer, actor and stand-up comedian, represented by Janette Linden at PBJ Management. Following his debut one-man show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 he was named Time Out New Act of the Year and was nominated for the If.Comedy (formerly Perrier) Newcomer Award. He frequently collaborates with stand-up and cartoonist Henry Paker. Their two-hander comedy ‘The Golden Lizard’ won the Best New Show Award at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2010 before going on to sellout runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Soho Theatre in London. As a writing team they have commissions for a BBC Radio 4 sketch as well as a series of comedy shorts for BBC online. They also have projects in development with Baby Cow Productions and with BAFTA Award winning director/producer Ed Tracy.

Diferente, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

DIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, PUC-RS

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, 23mins, 2002

2001

Piñata, CO-WRITER, RED, LFS, 2011 Time to Tell, SCRIPT EDITOR,

Michael Wozniak

Dessislava was born in Sofia on 16 July 1975. She graduated with a Masters of Arts from both the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Philosophy Department; and National Academy for Film and Theatre as a Film Director. She wrote and directed a number of shorts, the most significant of which was “Dream catcher” shown in a number of US festivals and appeared on the best of Slamdance DVD. Currently she is working on a futuristic short film “My Last Mission” hoping that it will provide a launching pad for her feature project “Mia goes to Space”.

Luxúria, DIRECTOR, Documentary,

rachael_swindale@yahoo.co.uk

Screenplay, 2011

ivana@verle.com http://ivana.verle.com

Superclump, CO-WRITER, Sketch show, GRV, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2009 Just a Little Prick, WRITER, Liveshow, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2001

Losing Patients, DIRECTOR/ CO-WRITER, Edinburgh Fringe Festival,

Rotterdam International Film Festival, WRITER WEBSITE CONTENT, 2011

Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival, PROGRAM MANAGER/HEAD OF PRODUCTION, 2010

2000

janette@pbjmanagement.co.uk

nuria@sinfincinema.com www.sinfincinema.com

Tiago always sees the beauty in people and captures this within his work. Living and working cross-culturally, he has experienced many different walks of life, reflected in his eclectic taste in film. Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Tiago grew up with national heroes in film such as Glauber Rocha, but he looked beyond the local horizon and recognised the importance of gaining experience of different cinema traditions and because of this, he made his way to London. He has produced more than 10 short films, across Brazil, the UK and Portugal. Coming from this solid foundation of experience, Tiago aims to establish himself in the field of cinema as an international Director, Producer and Curator. Faking It!, CURATOR, Fringe! Film Festival, 2011

5xVid, DIRECTOR, Collection of five

Gaia Greco Gaia Greco was born near Milan, Italy. She studied visual design, cinema and video art in Pisa, Italy, where she graduated in April 2010. After that, she moved to London to study Film Curating. She is interested in moving image, photography, literature, creative writing, fashion, sociology and performing arts. She would like to continue to research and experiment with exhibition design and visual communication. Think Green: Moving Image Fashion Day, CO-CURATOR, 2011

art films, 2011

ESC4ESCAPE, PRODUCER,

gaiagr@tiscali.it

Fiction, 2011

Muffin Hix Muffin is a film programmer and festival organiser based in London. She completed an undergraduate degree in English and Film Studies at The College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2006 and has been working in London ever since, with a background spanning film education, production, distribution and exhibition. She is currently the programmer of pop-up cinema The Lost Picture Show after having initially joined the project for the Glastonbury Festival. Shambala Festival, FILM PROGRAMMER, The Lost Picture Show, 2011

Glastonbury Festival, FILM PROGRAMMER, The Lost Picture Show, 2011

Open City London Documentary Festival, JURY, 2011

Cannes in a Van, GUEST FILM PROGRAMMER, Film Co Lab, 2011

Fringe! Film Festival London, FILM PROGRAMMER & EVENT PRODUCER, 2011

The Future Film Festival, FILM PROGRAMMER/INTERIM PRODUCER, BFI, 2008

muffin@lostpictureshow.org muffin.hix@gmail.com www.lostpictureshow.org

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Masked Ball, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2011

My First Fado, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2010

Rachel Smith Rachael Swindale

Family Affairs, PRODUCER, Fiction, Short, 2010

Fix You Up, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Like Spinning Plates, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 35mm, Colour, 12mins, LFS, 2011

rjsmith@gmail.com

Feeling Good, LFS MA Feature

tiagodimauro@enjoye.com.br

35mm, LFS, 2011

What’s Your Story?, EDITOR, DV, Documentary Filmmakers Group, 2010 Kids Might Fly, PRODUCER, 16mm, 2009

Tiago Farias Mauro

The Raleigh Effect, PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR/ EDITOR, DV, Raleigh International, 2008

Up for Debate – Team Qatar, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/PBS, 2008

The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/ Sundance Channel 2008

The Science of the Ten Plagues, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, Warner Bros, 2007

Office Tigers, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, HD, BBC/ Sundance Channel 2006

Mia Goes to Space, WRITER, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011

Marilyn from Bucharest or the state of Bulgarian Cinema 2006, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, 5mins, 2006

Dreamcatcher, WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm, 9mins, 2004 The Solo Centre,

23mins, 2002

realdessy@gmail.com

Animation Series, Armazém de Imagens Productions/TV Cultura, 2009

Tratado de Liligrafia, WRITER, Fiction, 35mm, Short, Armazém de Imagens Productions, 2007 Temporal, WRITER, Zeppelin Films, 2006

Reckoning, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011 Spaces, SCRIPT EDITOR, Fiction, 16mm, Short, 2010

Newsjack, WRITER, Radio, BBC Radio 7, 2011

Diferente, WRITER/DIRECTOR,

The Golden Lizard, WRITER,

Digital, Short, RBS TV, 2006

Live-show, Edinburgh Fringe Festival/Soho Theatre London, 2011

The Odd Half Hour, WRITER,

Spanish Cinematic Experiences in London, CURA-

Radio, BBC Radio 4, 2010

TOR/EXTERNAL PROGRAMMER,

Quintana Inventa o Mundo,

The News Quiz, WRITER, Radio,

Spanish London Film Festival, 2011

WRITER, Documentary, Digital, RBS TV,

BBC Radio 4, 2010

Student Film Festival London,

2006

The Colossal Machine,

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT,

Ri, Gervásio, WRITER, Fiction,

WRITER, Pilot sketch show, BBC Radio

2011

Digital, Short, TV Cultura

1, 2010

O Homem que Roubou o Mundo, WRITER, Fiction, Feature, GusGus Films, 2003

O Caso no Ar, WRITER/

Superclump, CO-WRITER, Sketch

DIRECTOR, Fiction, Digital, Short, RBS

show, GRV, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2009 Just a Little Prick, WRITER, Liveshow, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2001

TV, 2002

Por um Fio, WRITER/CODIRECTOR, Fiction, 16mm, PUC-RS

WRITER/DIRECTOR, Fiction, 35mm,

2001

Piñata, CO-WRITER, RED, LFS, 2011 Time to Tell, SCRIPT EDITOR,

Dessislava StoychevaLarkin Dessislava was born in Sofia on 16 July 1975. She graduated with a Masters of Arts from both the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Philosophy Department; and National Academy for Film and Theatre as a Film Director. She wrote and directed a number of shorts, the most significant of which was “Dream catcher” shown in a number of US festivals and appeared on the best of Slamdance DVD. Currently she is working on a futuristic short film “My Last Mission” hoping that it will provide a launching pad for her feature project “Mia goes to Space”.

Luxúria, DIRECTOR, Documentary,

rachael_swindale@yahoo.co.uk

Screenplay, 2011

Michael Wozniak

University, 2001

ivana@verle.com http://ivana.verle.com

Losing Patients, DIRECTOR/ CO-WRITER, Edinburgh Fringe Festival,

Rotterdam International Film Festival, WRITER WEBSITE CONTENT, 2011

Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival, PROGRAM MANAGER/HEAD OF PRODUCTION, 2010

2000

janette@pbjmanagement.co.uk

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MA Film Curating he first year of the MA Film Curating – run in conjunction with the London Consortium/University of London – attracted 17 students from 14 different countries. The students followed courses in the LFS and at Birkbeck, together with a custom-made ‘Theory and Practice of Curating’ course run by two specialist art curators (which involved visiting a number of top London galleries), plus an two-term

December 2011

nuria@sinfincinema.com www.sinfincinema.com

5xVid, DIRECTOR, Collection of five

Maddelena Cocco

David Knight David was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). His family moved to South Africa, which he left in his teens, disenchanted with the apartheid regime and seeking new adventures. David has acted, worked in the fashion industry, in publishing and during a brief return to South Africa, ran a business designing and making furniture. Film has always been his passion, and he has a particular curiosity for queer cinema and art film. Always the rebel, he empathises with Jean Genet’s identification with the marginalised, and how, stripping all external stimuli and freedoms stimulates one’s awareness and imagination whilst numbing fear of change. Disenchanted: The Crimes of Love, CURATOR, Exhibition, Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’Amour, 2011

Pyuupiru: Japanese Performance Artist, CURATOR, International Rotterdam Film Festival

Maddalena Cocco, born in Novara in 1986, graduated from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) in Language Sciences and Communication Techniques. During the MA course at the London Film School she had the chance to work as guest hostess and translator at the Bergen Internasjonale Film Festival, and subsequently, as assistant of PR agents Charles McDonald and Matthew Sanders for the promotion of

Fringe! Film Festival London, FILM PROGRAMMER & EVENT PRODUCER, 2011

filmcurator@me.com www.wisecracker.org.uk

Joao Serejo

Barbara Litvine Barbara is from Argentina. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba before moving to Paris in 2003 where she graduated in Film Studies at the Sorbonne. Her research focused on City Symphonies in 1920s vanguard European cinema. She is particularly interested in the question of spatiality in film curating and in interaction between cinema heritage and contemporary art. This has led her to take the first ever MA in Film Curating at the LFS in 2011. She has worked in several film festivals and film markets, such as Rotterdam, Manheim and Cannes and her first curated exhibition Ruins in Vanitas, Why Industrial Lanscapes Matter, will take place in London in October 2011.

Pedro Almodóvar’s film The Skin I live In at the 64th Festival de Cannes. Together with Gaia Greco she organised Think Green: Moving Image Fashion Day as their final MA project, a curated event which aimed to showcase young video artists and fashion designers’ creations related to a new eco-friendly aesthetic model. She is currently working as an intern at the Open Gallery, London.

barbara.litvine@gmail.com

madda4@hotmail.it

Soledad Sanchez Ramirez Sol was born in Badajoz (Spain) and has a diverse academic background. She obtained a combined MA and BA in Philology and Liaison Interpreting and Translation as well as several MBAs ranging from Human Resources Management to International Commerce while preparing for the tests and exams to obtain the licence as ATC (Air Traffic Controller) in 2006. Since then she has worked in various international corporations such as Morgan Stanley, EADS and Airbus until last year she found herself in the perfect situation to take the plunge and pursue a new career path within the field her heart has always leaned towards: the film industry.

Born in Andorra, João went to Lisbon, Portugal where, after finishing his Art Studies degree in college he progressed to study Architecture in Universidade Lusíada. Soon after he decided to pursue his dream of making films and joined Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In 2006 he graduated with a BA in Cinematography and in the following year obtained his Masters degree in Film Directing. After that, João worked in the camera and directing departments on major Portuguese film productions. In between, he worked at the Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2011 he took his second MA in Film Curating, during which he got the opportunity of working in the Rotterdam and Cannes Film Festivals. Currently João is a Film Programmer at the Student Film Festival London.

Lucy van de Wiel Lucy van de Wiel studied feminism, film and art at postgraduate level at the University of Amsterdam, University of California, Berkeley and the University of London and has received several scholarships for excellence, including a Fulbright grant. She worked as a theatre critic and has organised large-scale conferences and events for Amsterdam University College and the International Association of Universities, UNESCO in Paris. Her most recent curatorial project is the sold-out Sisterhood is Powerful: Feminist Film Exhibition, which includes the work of Barbara Hammer, Margarethe von Trotta and Joan Braderman among others. Currently Lucy van de Wiel conducts PhD research for the University of Amsterdam into the public reception of new reproductive technologies and the gender politics of ageing.

Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange “X BANNED!”, CURATOR, 2011 DVD EDITOR/POST PRODUCTION, Costa do Castelo Films,

Boys will be Girls, Pacific Film Archive/ Berkeley Art Museum

2006

Faking It!, PROGRAMMER, Fringe!

jffserejo@gmail.com

My Life in Film, CURATOR, Film

Sisterhood is Powerful, CURATOR, 2011

Film Festival, 2011

Female Dignity Beyond Sexual Conventions, CURATOR, 2011

Lecture by Mike Leigh, Barbican

Late at Tate, CAMERA, Tate Britain

solsanra@gmail.com

Lucy.vandeWiel@gmail.com

Think Green: Moving Image Fashion Day, CO-CURATOR, 2011

art films, 2011

ESC4ESCAPE, PRODUCER,

gaiagr@tiscali.it

Fiction, 2011

Didi We Tsu Ching

Joao Laia 7 years of international experience in programming, curating and production of film in festivals, cultural centers and museums. Cultural Communication and Media BA in Lisbon and Milan; Film Studies MA, Kings College London and Film Curating MA LFS/London Consortium.

Muffin Hix

PROGRAMMER, 2011

Muffin is a film programmer and festival organiser based in London. She completed an undergraduate degree in English and Film Studies at The College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2006 and has been working in London ever since, with a background spanning film education, production, distribution and exhibition. She is currently the programmer of pop-up cinema The Lost Picture Show after having initially joined the project for the Glastonbury Festival. Shambala Festival, FILM PROGRAMMER, The Lost Picture Show, 2011

Jesus Mateos de la Varga

Alpha-ville Festival, FILM

PROGRAMMER, The Lost Picture

Rotterdam International Film Festival, SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Show, 2011

ASST. 2011

Open City London Documentary Festival, JURY,

CURATOR/PRODUCER, 2009

Glastonbury Festival, FILM

2011

Cannes in a Van, GUEST FILM PROGRAMMER, Film Co Lab, 2011

Nosadella.due, ASSISTANT MACBA, FILM CURATOR, 2009 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, MOVING IMAGE WEB

Fringe! Film Festival London,

CURATOR, 2009

FILM PROGRAMMER & EVENT PRODUCER, 2011

Alcine International Film Festival, SELECTION COMMITTEE/

The Future Film Festival, FILM

PRINT COORDINATOR, 2007-08

PROGRAMMER/INTERIM PRODUCER, BFI, 2008

Casa D’os Dias de Água, PROGRAMMER/PRODUCER, 2006-07

muffin@lostpictureshow.org muffin.hix@gmail.com www.lostpictureshow.org

Athens International Film Festival, JURY, 2005

joao.laia@gmail.com

While pursuing a career as a filmmaker in London back in 2008, Jesus began working for film festivals predominantly as a programmer and producer. He has programmed Latin American films for a wide range of organisations and festivals, and he is also one of the producers of the London Spanish Film Festival. In late 2009 he founded Land In Focus, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organisation with a main focus in film, being its Creative Director since then. They regularly produce country or region-specific events from underrepresented areas in UK film exhibition, revealing and promoting emerging tal-

ents from those countries, and offering international audiences a far greater insight into those regions than would usually be available.

Michaela Synackova

Land in Focus, FOUNDER/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR, 2009-11

London Spanish Film Festival, FESTIVAL PRODUCER, 2009-11

Discovering Latin America Film Festival, FILM PROGRAMMER, 2008-10

Phil´s Room, WRITER/DIRECTOR, 2009

jesusmateos@landinfocus.com www.landinfocus.com

Michaela is a very sociable creature. She has spent a lot of time among filmmakers, because film is what fascinates her in the world of art and culture the most. Practical and pragmatic, it is these qualities that have found Michaela well on her way to becoming a producer. Successfully connecting perfectly fitting people into a bigger live organism, which can create a piece of art, is for her

the most exhilarating feeling right after an orgasm. She believes finishing a film is not the end, but the beginning of its journey and she is working hard to master it. Vitrine, CURATOR, White Night, 2011 Ponurá nedûle (The Gloomy Sunday), PRODUCER, Fiction, RED,

PRODUCER, Trailer, 35mm, Colour, 30secs, 2009

Ctrl Emotion, PRODUCER, Fiction, HDV, Colour, 25mins, 2009 FastFest 2010 (Audience Award; Media Partner Award), Hrnec smíchu 2010 (Best Student Film Award) Nûmá etuda (Scilente Etude), PRODUCER, Fiction, MiniDV, Colour, 11mins, 2008

Grizzly, PRODUCER, Fiction, MiniDV,

Colour, 27mins, 2010

Colour, 17mins, 2008

Stavby a jejich Pleskot (Constructions and Their Pleskot), PRODUCER, Fiction, HDV,

Cleptofilik (Kleptophile),

Colour, 11mins, 2010

Derby, PRODUCER, Fiction, MiniDV,

Fesitval of Young Art,

Colour, 8mins, 2007

PRODUCER, Fiction, MiniDV, Colour, 8mins, 2008

PRODUCER, Czech Penguin, 2010

International Student Film Festival in Pisek 2010,

m.synackova@gmail.com www.synackova.com

Originally an Architectural student, I am particularly interested in the relationship between space and moving images. Nowadays, film can be watched or presented in any forms and ways. It no longer requires a rigid receptacle while the audiences no longer need to be situated in a immobilized passive position to induce the maximum amount of physical detachment. Oppositely, the cognition of the existence of receptacle can enrich the reception and experience of films. Therefore, my aim is to create alternative cinematic presentation to provide audiences a fresh and new experience in films. I have worked at the London Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, East End Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, OpenCity Film Festival, Carranca the Multimedia Film Festival

drimcess@hotmail.com

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A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

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Institut Francais Kodak London Metropolitan University Panalux Panavision Pinsent Masons RADA The Leathersellers’ Company The London Consortium The National Gallery Watchmaker Films Wickens

Designed by Mike Leedham, 2D Design. Edited by Kate Hughes. Printed by Gemini Press. Writers Joanna Bence, Nick Roddick, Camilla Bubna-Kasteliz, Archie Tait, Suzy Gillett, Margaret Glover, Andrea Corbett, Brian Dunnigan, Jennifer Lyndon. With thanks to Carolyn Atherton, Alex Duxbury, Moshe Nitzani, John Sibley, Chi Yu, Rachael Stevens, Heather Thomas, Cecilia Sala, Jaime Estrada-Torres, Louise Lawrence and all the graduating students and LFS staff. Thanks also to Lee Riley and Jon Sheldon at The National Gallery, The Soho Theatre, and all the companies that donated to our graduate goody bags (Variety, Screen International, Hollywood Reporter, BFI, Kodak, Little White Lies, STA Travel, Channel4)