MEMBER OF:
Directors Guild of America
Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences
BAFTA
Directors UK
TEACHING AND RELATED WORK OUTSIDE OF MAKING FILMS:
Honorary Doctor of Middlesex University- 2000
National Film and Television School Advisory panel
Guiding Lights Steering Committee
TEACHING AND LECTURES:
National Film and Television School (direction, writing, editing and Q&A’s)
London International Film School
London Film Academy
Binger Institute, Amsterdam
Cuban Film School
Oxford Film Foundation
SCRAWL, writers workshop, Cape Town
NFTS/FEMMIS at Dinard, France
Goldsmith’s MA in film
Breakthrough group at City Lit
BFI masterclass- directing
Birkbeck College, Film Course
Middlesex University
Northern Media, actors workshop
Scottish Film Fund, Changing Places scheme
Waterman’s Arts Centre
First Film Foundation
Sussex Schools, media students.
Secondary schools and colleges
FORUMS, PANELS, Q&A’s, SCENE BY SCENE:
Oxford and Cambridge and RSA (OCR)
Raindance
BAFTA
BAFTA Scotland
Riverside Studios
National Film theatre - Guardian Lecture with Derek Malcolm, Masterclass for young directors, NFT Retrospective of my films.
Edinburgh Film Festival- Scene by Scene events including THE GRASS ARENA and A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE on stage with Steve Martin.
Directors UK
London Film Festival
New Producer’s Alliance- ‘What’s the Story?’
Warwick Arts Centre
Peeping Tom’s
Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab
1st London Short Film Festival, Down on the Farm
Various TV and Radio shows as guest speaker
FILM FESTIVALS, JURY MEMBER:
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey
Dinard Film Festival, France
Malaga Film Festival, Spain
BAFTA, Best Editor, UK
BAFTA, Short Films, UK
Split Film Festival, Croatia
Raindance Film Festival, London
Jury, Filmsshort online Competition
Jury, Torino Film Festival, Turin
MENTORING:
National Film and Television School
Guiding Lights
Elevator mentoring scheme, Creative England
Informal mentoring of individual young film makers