Our Tutors & Guest Speakers

London Film Academy tutors are accomplished, professional freelance filmmakers.

Our team of regular and guest tutors have an impressive track record and continue to produce numerous award-winning feature films, TV dramas, shorts, documentaries, corporate films, music promos and commercials alongside their teaching. It's impossible to list them all, but we listed a few of them below.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Alice Lowe Award-winning Writer/Director/Actor: 'Sightseers', 'Prevenge', 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
Camllum Turner Actor, Writer: 'Masters of the Air', 'Fantastic Beasts Trilogy', 'Emma'
Camilla Hall Documentary Filmmaker: 'Subject'
Eddie Hamilton Editor: 'TopGun: Maverick', 'Mission Impossible - Fallout/Dead Reckoning Part 1 and 2', 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle', X-Men: First Class', Kick-Ass'
Hossein Amini Screenwriter: ‘Drive', 'Obi-Wan Kenobi', The Alienist', 'Snow White & The Huntsman'
Ivana MacKinnnon Producer/Associate Producer: 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Beast', 'Centurion'
Jan Harlan Executive Producer: 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Shining', 'Full Metal Jacket', 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Pia Di Ciaula Editor: 'The Crown', 'A Very English Scandal', 'Tyrannosaur'
Prano Bailey-Bond Writer and Director: 'Censor'
Ralph Eggleston Art Director, Animator, Writer and Director: 'Inside-Out', 'Finding Nemo', 'Monsters Inc.', Wall.e'
Sarah Gavron Director: 'Rocks' 'Suffergette'
Steven Knight Writer, Producer, Director: 'See', 'Peaky Blinders', 'Locke', 'Dirty Pretty Things', 'All the Light We Cannot See'

TUTORS

DIRECTING

Richard Kwietniowski Award-winning Writer/Director: ‘Flames of Passion’, ‘Love and Death on Long Island’, ‘Owning Mahowny’
Ian Barnes Oscar nominated Director/Writer: ‘Casualty’, ‘Wish 143’, ‘Mount Pleasant’
Julian Doyle Award-winning Director/Special Fx Director/Editor: 'Brazil’, ‘Chemical Wedding’, ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’
Asif Kapadia Oscar & BAFTA-winning Director: 'Amy', ‘Far North’, ‘The Return’, ‘The Warrior’
Simon Shore Award-winning Writer/Director: ‘After Thomas’, ‘Get Real’, ‘Things to Do Before You’re 30’ Lewis Arnold Director, ‘Misfits’, ‘Humans’, ‘Broadchurch’, ‘Cleaning Up’
Lewis Arnold Director: ‘Misfits’, ‘Humans’, ‘Broadchurch’, ‘Cleaning Up’
David Pope Award-winning Writer/Director: 'Miles From Nowhere'

PRODUCING

Mamoun Hassan Award-winning Writer/Producer: ‘La Buena Vida’, ‘Machuca’, ‘No Surrender’
Stuart Urban Award-winning Writer/Director/Producer: ‘Our Friends in the North’, ‘Revelation’, ‘Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead’
Fabien Dudragne Post Production Sound: ‘Dark Knight Rises’

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Hong Manley Director of Photography: 'The South Bank Show', 'Treasure Island', Promos for Tina Turner, Whitney Houston & Germaine Jackson
Mark Carey, ANFTS, GTC Award-winning Cinematographer: ‘Mezaiyna: Eye of the Beholder’, ‘Saying It for the Girls’, ‘True Stories: China Power’
Phil Meheux Award-winning Cinematographer: ‘Casino Royale’, ‘Edge of Darkness’, ‘The Legend of Zorro’
Philip Sindall Camera Operator: 'Elizabeth', 'The Hours', 'Notting Hill', 'Downton Abbey', 'Mamma Mia!' and 'Inkheart.’
Robin Vidgeon Cinematographer: ‘The Fly II’, ‘Hellraiser’, ‘Octane’
Andrew Speller Cinematographer: ‘1984’, ‘Made of Honor’ ‘Inspector Morse’
Jonathan Harvey Cinematographer: ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘Misfits’

SCREENWRITING

Michael Holden Hollywood writer/script doctor: ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
David Lemon 'Containment' (2015), 'Faintheart' (2008) and 'Haven'
Kay Stonham Scriptwriter: ‘Bad Salsa’, ‘Millie Inbetween’, ‘Grange Hill’, ‘Dead Ringers’
Jeremy Sheldon Writer & also a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London: ‘The Darkest Hour’, ‘Best Laid Plans'

EDITING

Eddie Hamilton Award-winning Editor: ‘DOA: Dead or Alive’, ‘Kick-Ass’, ‘Resident Evil: Apocalypse’
Peter Hollywood Award-winning Editor: 'Blade Runner', 'Superman III', 'Maybe Baby'
Barrie Vince Award-winning Editor: ‘Hillsborough’, ‘Gabriel & Me’, ‘The Shout’
Edward Windus Award-winning Story Editor: ‘Kings’, ‘No Man’s Land’,‘24 Hour Party People’
Yaron Lapid Artist & Editor: ‘Hugo and the Island’, ‘Amazon Oil’, ‘The Siege of Bethlehem’

SOUND & MUSIC

Mervyn Gerrard Principal Location Sound Tutor: Terry Praychett's ‘Johnny & the Bomb’, ITV's ‘Trial by Fire’, BAFTA Award-winning series ‘Stig of the Dump’, BBC's 'Clay'
Laura Rossi Film & TV Composer: ‘Battle of the Somme', ‘Song for Marion’ and ‘London to Brighton’, Nick Love: ‘The Firm’
Simon Whiteside Composer/Orchestrator/Conductor: ‘Harry Brown’, ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, ‘Lost in Austen’