Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian filmmaker and moving-image artist whose work deals in language, rhythm, and thought experiments. Cockburn’s shorts have been the subject of an internationally touring retrospective, his feature film script The Engineers received the TIFF Telefilm Canada Pitch This! prize, and his feature You Are Here (2010) played Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and […]

Jack Tarling founded Shudder Films in 2009, which has produced two feature films, ‘God’s Own Country’, financed by the BFI and written and directed by Francis Lee, and ‘Await Further Instructions’, a mystery-sci-fi-horror directed by Johnny Kevorkian and starring David Bradley (Game of Thrones, The Strain). ‘God’s Own Country’ won Best Director in the World […]

Immanuel has been working as an editor and assistant editor since 2006, gaining intimate knowledge of the filmmaking process from world-renowned directors such as Michael Winterbottom, Joanna Hogg and Lone Scherfig. He has since edited over a dozen shorts and three features, as well as been assistant editor on over a dozen feature films.. Immanuel […]

Krista Burāne is a Latvian artist and filmmaker who creates interdisciplinary projects that switch between various cultural areas – documentaries, theatre, photography and education. As a director, scriptwriter, editor, teacher and photographer, Krista believes that artworks must become an event in people's lives, create new experiences, wake up emotions and thoughts about who and why […]

The Amateurs Club is a free DIY film school, hosted by Somerset House Studios and Forest Fringe, featuring each month a different professional from the world of film. For September we are exploring screenwriting with Stacey Gregg. Stacey Gregg is a writer, performer and director for stage and screen. As as screenwriter she has worked […]