| Filmmaker MARGARET
HENRY, with experience as researcher,
producer and director of documentaries, moved
in the mid-80s to writing fiction screenplays.
She has tutored and lectured for twelve years
at the London College of Printing, initially on
the BA in Film and Video, later on both the MA
in Documentary Research and the MA in Screenwriting,
specialising recently in short films and adaptations.
Her background in political and Third World cinema,
which she taught for several years at the Working
Men's College, includes research for the feature
Mohamed Abdullah Hassan and
being consultant for the Mogpafis African Film
Festival. Her credits include: writer/director
on the feature Woman of Eritrea,
director of Invisible Workers,
a documentary on non-colonial migrant workers
in London , and producer of Struggles
for Black Community, a four part
UK-based documentary series – all for Channel
4.
ANGELI MACFARLANE
Angeli began her career in film at the
First Film Foundation, where she ran their First
Feature development fund, organised pan-European
screenwriting training programmes and set up New
Directions, an annual event, which takes British
directors to present their work to the industry
in New York and Los Angeles . She left the First
Film Foundation in 1996 and set up the Portobello
Film Festival, the first (and probably the last)
film festival to be held outdoors in the UK .
After a couple of rewarding but arduous years
in North Kensington Angeli was offered a post
at Pathe UK, to head up a new scheme to make first
feature films, sponsored by Orange. A further
scheme sponsored by Orange was devised with FilmFour
and Angeli was also put in charge to make six
films with new filmmakers and oversee the making
of a documentary that was broadcast on Channel
4 about the progress of the filmmakers from script
to screen.
Angeli currently tutors
at the London Film Academy, is now a training
consultant at the Script Factory, external assessor
for the UK Film Council, Screen West Midlands,
EM Media, Media Plus and The Pool in Lincoln.
She also script edits for a number of individual
writers and directors.
TONY BICAT
Tony Bicât is a writer and director.
He was the Co-Founder in the 70's of the influential
Portable Theatre Company. His plays include A
Buyer's Market (Bush 2002) Devil's Island
( Royal Court ), Zygomania (The
Bush) and All's Well That Ends Well
(Musical Adaptation for The Oxford Playhouse).
He made his first film Skinflicker (Script
by Howard Brenton) in 1972. His TV films, mostly
as writer and director include Trotsky is
Dead, Glitter, It's Only Rock ‘n' Roll, A Cotswold
Death, Christmas Present, (Silver Nymph
– Prix de scenario - Monte Carlo 1985)
The Laughter of God and An Exchange
of Fire . He directed the late Stewart Parker's
highly praised six part series Lost Belongings
in 1986 and adapted Minette Walter's novel
The Scold's Bridle for the BBC in 1998.
He has taught at film schools in the UK and abroad
including devising long term courses at SCU funded
by Film Council. He runs Directing Workshops at
London Film School and three week Acting for The
Camera Workshops at The Oxford School of Drama.
Since 1995 he has taught a yearly three week course
in Screenwriting at The National Film School (NSCU)
and occasional Lectures at Bristol, Farnham and
The National Film and TV School. |
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