Louise Milne

Louise Milne Is a visual anthropologist, a film-maker and a leading scholar in comparative mythology and the history of dreams. Born on Lewis, Louise studied at King’s College Cambridge and Boston University, Mass. She has been working and teaching in Edinburgh since the mid-1990s, playing an instrumental role in the development of various undergraduate and […]

Jaya Jayalakshmi

Jaya Jayalakshmi Prof G D Jayalakshmi (commonly called Jaya) is an award-winning, experienced film-maker, educator and media consultant. Jaya’s industry experience spans eleven years at the BBC, where she was a producer, making mainly documentary films. Then she set up her own production company in order to pursue her interest in fiction filmmaking. Jaya has […]

Kirsten MacLeod

Dr. Kirsten MacLeod Is a Professor, Creative Media Practice, and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Television at Edinburgh Napier University. She has worked as a filmmaker and media practitioner for over 20 years in broadcast and community-based media. She received a BA (Hons) in Archaeology & Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University (1991) and an […]

Sana Bilgrami

Sana Bilgrami Born in Pakistan, is an award-winning documentary film director and researcher. In her films, she explores cross-cultural identity and belonging through a variety of stories. She experiments with different techniques, frequently using 8mm film, archive and intimate voice-over. She leads and teaches introductory and advanced level documentary film practice to undergraduate Film and […]

Zoe Irvine

Zoë Irvine Is a sound designer, sound artist and educator working in a variety of genres in film, theatre and art in Scotland and internationally. Zoë is recognised as a highly creative sound designer who can take control of the entire post-production sound on smaller scale films – score, dialogue, ADR, foley and mix. When […]

Nigel Smith

Nigel Smith Has worked as producer, series producer, executive producer, development executive, screenwriter, script editor and story analyst in both public and private sectors in and beyond the UK (BBC, Scottish Screen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Forged Films, Majestic FilmVerleih), allowing him experience of a variety of screen narrative development practices across a range of film and television genres […]

David Griggs

David Griggs Has a background in Visual Anthropology, Documentary Production, and Web Design. He has produced and directed documentaries in Lesotho, RSA, consulted in Web-based productions for Health Online Project and JISC as well as making short documentaries for Learning and Teaching Scotland. He consulted on the web presence with Hopscotch Films for Mark Cousins […]

James Mavor

James Mavor Leads the Kino Eyes International Masters in Film programme and teaches across the post-graduate courses in screenwriting. He combines teaching with his work as a professional screenwriter. His credits for television span 20 years across soaps, series, and single dramas, including The Bill, Monarch of the Glen and Split Second, a TV movie […]