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 starring Clive Owen and Helen McCrory. He has also written award-winning work in short film, theatre, radio and short fiction. Since joining Screen Academy Scotland in 2007, James has been involved in a number of adaptations and collaborations with crime author Ian Rankin, including Reichenbach Falls (2007) and Doors Open (2012), a 120′ comedy thriller for ITV produced by and starring Stephen Fry.

Recent work includes script development with Edinburgh-based, Bafta-winning animation team Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson on Dom, their debut feature doc. James is working with producer John McKay on Berwick Law, a low budget feature film in development with BFI/Scottish Film Talent Network, and on Chosen, a spooky TV series set in Estonia, with John McKay’s Compact Pictures and Allfilm in Estonia. Research interests include adaptation and developing collaborative projects and links between students and industry. 

www.ianrankin.net

www.compact.pictures

www.imdb.com/name/nm0561394

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