Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
1894
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2018
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
1984
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Zey Suka-Bill
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Address:
London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, United Kingdom
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Country:
United Kingdom
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Website:
https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Dean of Screen: Zey Suka-BillTelephone:+44 207 514 64 61Mobile:+44 7956 455 180Email:z.sukabill@lcc.arts.ac.ukCILECT Contact Person:PA to Dean of Screen: Jane KielbTelephone:+44 7872 418 335Email:j.kielb@lcc.arts.ac.ukCILECT Contact Person:Programme Director, Film and Television: Harriet CoxTelephone:+44 20 7514 69 45Email:h.cox@lcc.arts.ac.ukCILECT Contact Person:Director of International Partnerships: Tom WebbTelephone:+44 20 7514 76 62Email:t.webb@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Mission & Strategy
LCC Screen School encourages students to develop the critical, creative and technical excellence needed to succeed and discover new possibilities and practices. The LCC experience is all about “learning by doing”. Courses are known for being industry focused and taught by experienced academics, technical experts, and leading specialist practitioners. Students develop their skills in industry standard technical facilities including television, film and stop motion animation studios, post-production suites, audio facilities, 3D workshops, immersive reality labs and creative computing studios.
LCC is for the curious, the brave and the committed: those who want to transform themselves and the world around them. Students broaden their experience in an inspirational environment that has collaboration at its heart. Subjects are not taught in isolation, but within a diverse creative community that encourages collaborative working across disciplines, enabling students to bridge the gap between aspiration and equipping them for success in the creative screen industries.
Key Teaching Staff
Larra Anderson
As a filmmaker, Larra has worked primarily as a cinematographer, though she also has produced, directed and written film and television. Her films, included The New Women starring Andy Warhol screen legend Mary Woronov, have screened in cinemas internationally and at over 60 festivals worldwide with screenings at the MOMA, Lincoln Centre, Sheffield DocFest, SXSW and BFI. Her recently released film, the feature documentary Mansfield 66/67, in collaboration with P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes is on the latter two years of Jayne Mansfield’s life and the rumours surrounding her untimely death.
Awards
Hit So Hard, a feature length documentary about Patty Schemel the drummer from Courtney Love’s band Hole won the Audience Award – Sight & Soundtrack at Philadelphia Film Festival, the Jury Award for Best Documentary (Honourable Mention) at Frameline Film Festival, and was nominated for Outstanding Documentary for the 24th GLAAD Media Awards.
Mansfield 66/67
Harriet Cox
Harriet was the Head of Cinematography at London Film School from 2001 to 2017.
As a cinematographer educator, she taught on the LFS MA Filmmaking, a programe educating students across the range of filmmaking skills. She delivered outreach for 14 year-olds and professional one-year craft extension programmes and supervised the cinematography practice for the Exeter University-LFS co-supervision doctoral programme. Harriet has been an advisor on assimilating digital theories and work practices into the curriculum, presenting Teaching Cinematography into the Digital Age: Film and Media Schools in the Digital Revolution at the New Skills for Old Jobs conference (Budapest, 2011) and a speaker on the panels Creativity through Discipline in Digital film making (BSC 2016) and Women in Cinematography [Cinefest,Bristol, 2015]. Harriet joined the Screen School, LCC in 2018.
Major Achievements
Selected credits as camera operator on award winning features: Distant Voices Still Lives (Terence Davies, BFI 1986), The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, BFI 1986) and as director of photography on awardwinning Krush (Pratihba Palmer, 1986).
Dan Bartlett
As an animation visual development artist Dan aims to explore the duality that exists between fundamental artistic and cinematic principles, and emergent digital technologies and workflows. His work is primarily focused on the impact of these practices on mainstream feature length and long-form television animation production, live action filmmaking and virtual reality experiences.
Dan’s most recent research analysed the convergence of concept design pipelines across Visual Effects (VFX) and character animation production, particularly with reference to world-building and cinematic identity, and discussed the influence of traditional design processes and aesthetics within these workflows. As an academic, Dan has developed and lead a number of digital arts programmes, and specialises in teaching animation concept design, 2D & 3D character performance and digital painting through practice-led workshops.
Chris Petter
His creative practice is based on sound and music composition, recording, mixing and performance. Working in the creative industries for many years as a composer, musician and trombone player, he has featured on many recorded works with artists such as Aswad, Steel Pulse, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Zion Train, On U Sounds, Morcheeba, Stereo MC’s, The Bluetones, Ruts DC, and Dreadzone. Chris has also toured extensively and performed on stages from Glastonbury to Tokyo, TV shows like Top of the Pops and BBC Radio sessions for John Peel and Andy Kershaw. As a composer Chris has recorded, produced and mixed many albums (Conscious Sounds, Centry, Dub Specialists, Love Grocer) and is particularly interested in the use of live audio mixing techniques as a creative tool. He has created commercial sound design work for clients such as the BBC, Hewlett Packard and MTV, and has designed sensor based interactive audio installations for many live events and exhibitions.
Ray Kilby
Recent credits include feature films: Never Play With The Dead and The Haven, (MBI), single television dramas such as Girls’ Weekend, The Miller’s Tale and Resurrection (BBC). He has directed East Enders, Mile High (BBC) and Dream Team (BSKYB). His writing/directing credits include: Willkommen and More Than Love (C4); The Token King starring Samantha Morton . Ray has been nominated for a BAFTA.
Polly Nash
As a Production Manager and an Assistant Director on television documentaries, drama and feature films. She has worked on strands such as Dispatches, Critical Eye, Cutting Edge and BBC Sound on Film among many others. As an independent producer she has produced films with artists such as Steve McQueen (Stage), Rachel Davies (Gold), and Jocelyn Cammack (The Bone Orchestra). Producer of the feature documentary Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo (1997). Polly has secured funding from a variety of sources such as the Arts Council, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and The National Lottery.
Dr Ceri Higgins
Ceri has worked for the BBC, Channel Four and ITV in the UK, Discovery in the US, and Televisa in Mexico in documentary, drama and media, with roles ranging from director, producer, studio executive, researcher, writer and editor. She is also collaborating with research scientists at the University of Southampton on how film can be used to explore new methodologies for research into the impact and efficacy of dance on people with Parkinson’s. Her research interests include Documentary (science and arts), Mexican cinema, cinematography, and the Gothic in film and television.
Parkinson’s Dance Documentary 30 mins Parkinson’s UK/broadcast (Producer/Director), Sports et Divertissements Documentary/live performance 25 mins Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Executive Producer/Director), Montezuma BBC Documentary 60 mins (2nd Unit Director), Tina Modotti Channel 4 60 mins (Director).
Dr David King
David has a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, a MSc in Advanced Product Design Engineering and a Doctorate in Swarm Robotics, focusing on cooperative object recognition. In the past he has taught physical computing and interaction design which has had an influenced on the way he looks at Games Design as a subject. His research focuses on the methods games use to communicate mechanics and systems to the player, be this a breakdown of rules for board games or systems of state transitions and feedback in digital games. The overall aim of his teaching is to create a sense of community and a space for people to experiment with the possibilities of what games can be.
Dr David Hoyle
David has worked in television and film for almost 40 years. He began life after university by joining the BBC, where he wrote, produced and directed arts programmes, both on location and in the multi-camera TV studio – including a series of Shakespeare productions with The National Theatre, and films on Thomas Hardy, Dickens, Zola, DH Lawrence, Thomas Harrison, Joseph Conrad. He then commissioned programmes for Channel 4 television, including weekly hour-long live magazine Open at One, before setting up a successful independent TV and multi-media production company making, amongst many other things, a 135-programme series for the BBC.
Kelly Marshall
Kelly has been Course Leader for 12-years and has devised, led and taught on several screen writing, directing and acting projects working with other institutions such as the Roehampton University, Helsinki University of Art and Design, Tallinna Ülikool, Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm and ALRA, and has presented a public series of lectures in London, Knowing Genre.’ International collaborations include screenplay development, lectures and workshops in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Singapore. Her professional screenplays include commissions across a range of TV drama series, animation and comedy. These have been screened on BBC, Nickelodeon, Granada TV, Scottish TV, Carlton TV and Channel 5. Kelly has acted as judge on several industry jury panels, including BAFTA’s 60 Seconds of Fame, the British Animation Awards and Screen South’s Digital Shorts. New Zealand 2010 Writers Guild SWANZ Awards.
Successful Graduates
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Writer, director, producer. His most famous acting role was in the long-running BBC drama Casualty, in which he played paramedic Finlay Newton from 1999 to 2004. During this period he wrote his most famous play, Elmina’s Kitchen, which transferred from the National Theatre to the West End: only the second play by a black playwright to do so. Shortlisted in the Best New Play category at the 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards, Kwame also received the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and was nominated for a BAFTA award for the television version. Since 2011 he has served as Artistic Director of the Center Stage Theatre in Baltimore. Awarded an OBE in 2012 for Services to Drama, he continues to work in the UK as a director, with recent success including the Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier-nominated One Night in Miami, and Birmingham Rep’s hit Bob Marley musical One Love. Kwame became Chancellor of University of the Arts London in 2011.
Anthony Dod Mantle
Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of Wallander. He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do so. He won the British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography & Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment) for his work on the series and was nominated for a RTS Craft & Design Award for Lighting, Photography & Camera—Photography—Drama. He was also cinematographer on Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 2009.
Roman Osin
Cinematographer. He started out as a music video director and still photographer which he still does. He came to notice with his beautiful photography on Joe Wright’s 2004 film version of Pride & Prejudice, with Keira Knightley, for which Osin received several award nominations. He has some over 35 films and shorts so far to his credit. Selected filmography: The Warrior (2001), I Am David (2002), Pride & Prejudice(2005), The Return (2006), Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007), Won’t Back Down (2012), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017). Roman Osin started as director of music videos, and also directed three dance movies commissioned by the Arts Council. Roman Osin is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers.
Simon Cornwell
Simon Cornwell is best known for A Most Wanted Man (2014), The Night Manager(2016) and Hotel Artemis (2018). Simon was an executive producer of The Night Manager, and is currently producing Drew Pearce’s forthcoming film Hotel Artemis, starring Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown, Dave Bautista and Jeff Goldblum. He also produced Anton Corbijn’s 2014 adaption of A Most Wanted Man, as well as Our Kind of Traitor, directed by Susanna White and starring Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård and Naomie Harris; and Netflix Original, Message from the King, directed by Fabrice du Welz and starring Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer and Alfred Molina.
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Gangs of New York, Coriolanus, The Young Victoria, and The Rum Diary. He made his debut as a producer in 1992 with the Emmy-winning TV film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, which introduced Ralph Fiennes in the title role. He was appointed Executive Vice-President, Development for New York-based Miramax Films in 1999, becoming Executive Vice-President, European Production and Development in 2002. He was Co-executive producer of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, and Executive in Charge of Production on Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain. He was a co-executive producer of My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh, both of whom were Oscar-nominated for their performances.
Tom Harvey
Tom is a BAFTA winning creative and cultural sector leader and writer. Harvey was founder and CEO of London based festival SohoCreate. The festival explored creativity and championed creative people and their work. Harvey was Chief Executive of Northern Film & Media, the creative industries development agency for North East England. The company invests in creative people, ideas and companies, working in film, television, web, mobile, games and music. With North Star Ventures, Harvey helped raise £6m now invested in a range of projects from television dramas like Inspector George Gently, Joe Maddison’s United and Vera War, starring Brenda Blethyn.
Molly Dineen
Molly is a television documentary director, cinematographer and producer. Dineen is mostly known for The Lie of the Land (2007), The Lords’ Tale (2002), Geri (1999), and Being Blacker (BBC Two, 2018). Molly Dineen was awarded The Grierson Memorial Trust 2003 Trustees’ Award for outstanding contribution to the art of documentary and won a BAFTA and Grierson Award for her film The Lie of the Land .
Ayo Akinbade
Ayo’s first short film, In Ur Eye (2015) premiered at the London Short Film Festival. Ayo produced, directed and edited Tower XYZ (2016), a short film which speaks to the imagined future of a young woman and her reflections on the ever-changing city of London under the STOP PLAY RECORD initiative (2015-2018). The film received a Special Mention Award at International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen and won the inaugural Sonja Savic Award at Alternative Film/Video Festival. She is a recipient of the 2018 Sundance Institute Ignite Fellowship for emerging filmmakers. Her new film Street 66 (2018) is about Brixtonite housing activist Dora Boatemah, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Ayo has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (cohort 2018).
Joe Ollman
Joe has written and directed three successful short films, one of which went on to be nominated for Best Short Film at BAFTA Cymru in 2017. Joe has also won several awards, been nominated for Best Director at BFI Future Shorts, been screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals around the world, as well as recently Directing a film for BBC Wales. Currently with Odeley films, London
Susanna Wallin
Known for Electric Light Wonderland (2009), Marker (2009), Eddie Proctor ( 2007) Her work often lends from fact and fiction at once, merging real scenarios with invented ones in new narratives. she has been the recipient of a number of commissions and awards, including the London Artists Film and Video award and commissions from Film london, the uk Film Council, Channel 4, svt, Arts Council England, independent photography, arte and the British Film Institute.
Aaron Dunleavey
His debut student short, Throw Me to the Dogs, won 10 awards on the festival circuit. Screening at some of the most prestigious BAFTA and Oscar® qualifying festivals around the world, the film went on to achieve worldwide distribution via MUBI, streaming in over 240 countries, as well as being awarded a ‘Best of the Month’ Staff Pick on Vimeo. Aaron’s films explore stories of working class youth; with unscripted and improvised performances, street casting and non-professional young actors at the core of his filmmaking approach. Working with production companies and clients including Channel 4, Warp Films, MTV, Vodafone and Blackmagic Design, his experience includes the production of narrative, documentary, music video, commercial and promotional film.
James Dormer
Screenwriter / producer/director with Notorious Films Writer of Outcast a medieval action romance set in China, directed by Nick Powell and starring Nicholas Cage and Hayden Christiansen due to be released 2014.Writer of The Holding, directed by Susan Jacobson, premiered at FrighFest 2011. Has written for BBC’s Musketeers and Spooks (MI5) ITV’s The Fixer, Sky’s Sinbad and Sky & Cinemax/HBO’s Strike Back.Currently writer and Co-Executive Producer on series four of Strike Back , writing for the BBC’s Wallander and developing series for both the BBC and ITV.
Tashin Guner
He was selected for the 2009-10 BBC Writers Academy and following that has written scripts for several drama series including Holby, Casualty and New Tricks. He co-developed the BBC’s Father Brown series alongside Rachel Flowerday and has written episodes for each series. He is developing original drama series ideas and pilots.
Anna Symon
Anna is a producer, director and writer for TV and radio. Anna wrote episodes for series 1 and 2 of Indian Summers (New Pictures / C4). Other production credits include Revelation (1 x 120’ ep Raw TV / The History Channel) and Dark Matters (7 x 60’ eps Wide Eyed Entertainment / Discovery Science). She currently has projects in development with BBC / 42 Productions, Lovely Day / Kudos, Fifty Fathoms, New Pictures, Company Pictures, ITV Studios, Tiger Aspect, World Productions and Look Out Point.
Gavin Russell
Graduated HND Games Production 2005 Having got his industry break whilst commencing his dissertation in 2004, Gavin embarked on a career in the industry as a junior level designer. Working with developers and publisher such as Razorback Developments and Electronic Arts, he was later employed by first party platform holders Sony Computer Entertainment. Gavin is working within SCEE International Software Development, as a Producer of PSN titles – has been awarded a BAFTA for Artistic Achievement for being part of the development and publishing team behind 2009 title – Flower.
https://awards.bafta.org/award/2010/games/artistic-achievement
Ed Burton, Cameron Richards, Ed Grimes, Steve Sparks
Graduated 2015 This collaborative team began developing the game “The Wall Shall Stand” as part of final year projects. The own the Dare to be Digital Competition that allowed further development and then were nominated for BAFTA Ones to watch.
Edwin Matthews
Sound supervisor & dubbing mixer at Channel 5 since 2011. Recent credits: Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson (2018), The Unstoppable Flying Scotsman, (2018), Carnivore: Werewolf of London(2017)
Ash Sargant
Sound design, mixing, music editing and audio quality control for PR, marketing and game development videos. Senior Audio Engineer and Dialogue Coordinator at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (2008-2016)
Simon Epstein
Sound Editing and Recording for Film and TV, five year’s employment at Molinere, a large London Soho based Film & TV Post Production company as the Foley Recordist, Mixer, and Lead Editor, ending as the Supervisor of the department. Now freelance, creating bespoke Sound Design for a wide array of Animation/Motion Design and 3D material, within both the advertising, and the corporate spheres. Credits include: Moon, Ironclad, Tracker, Misfts, The Hour, Johnathan Creek, Trial & Retribution, and 3 entire series of: Silent Witness, New Tricks, Poirot, and Miss Marple.
Christian Curtis
Sound designer, sound recordist, audio engineer, software programmer, musician, creative technologist, and co-founder of WeAreFreak, a London-based creative studio specialising in visual, audio and interactive design. WeAre Freak are a group of passionate film makers, animators, and audio specialists dedicated to telling stories through creative media. Website Reference https://www.wearefreak.com
5 years as an audio engineer at Abbey Road Studios & a diverse portfolio of freelance work which covered a broad spectrum, from recording through to post-production work: editing; restoration; sound design; foley; mixing; mastering; as well as software programming for interactive applications and installations.