SIMON
SHORE started his career in the theatre,
as an assistant stage manager and then as supervisor
of the Stage Management course at the National
Youth Theatre. After working in film animation
in Paris for a year, he returned to England to
study film at the London College of Printing and
the Royal College of Art, where he made several
short films, including 'La Boule', which won a BAFTA
award and was shortlisted for the Student Oscar. His work since has included
commercials, documentaries ('Eton', 'Class of '91'),
television drama ('Henri', 'The English Wife'), and
two feature films: 'Get Real' (which won Audience
Awards at the Edinburgh, Dinard and Sydney Film
Festivals and was selected for the Sundance Film
Festival) and 'Things to do before you're 30', which will be released in the UK in June 2006. He is currently directing 'After Thomas', a feature-length drama for television,
and writing an original screenplay in French.
UDAYAN PRASAD has a broad and impressive track
record across feature films, TV drama and documentaries.
Between 1992 and 2000 he has directed four feature
films including Femme Fatale (BBC Films) starring Simon Callow, Brothers in Trouble(BBC Films and Renegade
Films), My Son The Fanatic(Zephyr Films and BBC Films) written by Hanif
Kureishi and more recently Gabriel
and Me (Samuelson Productions)
starring Billy Connolly. In the TV arena, Udayan
has directed a number of award winning productions
including Running Late ,
a 90 minute television film and a BBC
Screen Two film, 102 Boulevard
Haussmann , starring Alan Bates,
which both won Golden Gate Award for Best TV Feature. The latter production was
also nominated for a BAFTA and has won a number
of awards at festivals around the world. His documentary
credits include: Arena,
Invisible Ink (BBC), This England , A
View From The Terrace (Granada)
and Corner of a Foreign Field (Channel 4). DAVID
TUCKER is best known as a television
director, with a long list of broadcast TV drama
credits to his name. He directed the cult 1980's
BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (nominated for a BAFTA award),
and its single film sequel 'A Very
Polish Practice'. He directed Judi Dench in the Channel 4 serial
'Behaving Badly' (nominated
for an International Emmy) and
Ian Richardson in 'The Gravy Train',
also for Channel 4. Other credits
include 'Stanley and the Woman',
a four-part adaptation of a Kingsley Amis novel
starring John Thaw; 'Rhinoceros',
a single film starring Robson Green and Niamh
Cusack; 'Bramwell', a
period drama series with Jemma Redgrave and three
films in the Midsummer Murders
series, all for ITV . Before
moving to the screen, David was a theatre director
at the RSC, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Playhouse
and Manchester Library. David wrote the original
story for 'Chasing Silk',
screenplay by Andrew Davies, that was commissioned
by Film Four. He has just completed
an outline for a two-part thriller, 'Justine'. He was commissioned by First
Choice Films to write a full-length
screenplay, 'Seez 42'.
As a writer and director PETER CAPALDI received a BAFTA in 1995 for his short film Franz
Kafka's 'It's a Wonderful Life' starring
Richard E Grant. His debut feature film Strictly
Sinatra, staring Ian Hart and Kelly
Macdonald, was released in November 2001 by Universal and was nominated for a BAFTA. As a
writer, Peter's first screenplay 'Soft
Top Hard Shoulder' won the audience award at the London Film
Festival in 1994. Current screenplays
in development, as yet not produced, are 'Moon
Man' for Miramax and 'Man
with The X Ray Eyes' for Columbia
Tri Star. Peter also has over 20 years' experience
as a distinguished actor in film, television and
theatre. His impressive feature film credits include
'Local Hero', 'Dangerous
Liaisons', 'Smilla's Sense
of Snow', 'Shooting Fish', 'Bean and 'What
Rats Won't Do'. His most recent TV
work is with director Hugh Laurie in a series
for Carlton, 'Fortysomething'.
Other credits include performances in ' Hotel!',
'Psychos', 'The
Crow Road', 'Selling Hitler' and many more.
Other visiting directing tutors
include:
RICK
STROUD and
JOHN BRUCE |
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