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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
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
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.
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
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. Killing Cows, LFS MA Feature Screenplay, 2011
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
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,
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
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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
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.
December 2011
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
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
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.
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