Clive Myer is a filmmaker, producer and academic. He was founder director of three film schools: the International Film School Wales at the University of Wales Newport; the Film Academy at the University of Glamorgan; and the Skillset Screen Academy Wales (co-founder). He was Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies with special reference to film and television at the University of London Goldsmiths’ College. He initiated Ffresh, the student moving image festival of Wales and is a director of the Wales One World film festival. He graduated in film practice with an MA and PhD from the Royal College of Art.
Noël Burch is a filmmaker and theoretician. He was born in California and has lived and worked in Paris for over half a century. He taught film in the UK at the Royal College of Art and the Slade in the 1970s and after some years teaching film in universities in Paris and Lille has returned to writing and filmmaking. His books include Theory of Film Practice (1973), Life to Those Shadows (1990), La Drôle de Guerre des Sexes (with Geneviève Sellier, 1996) and De la Beauté des Latrines (2007). He is currently preparing a book on French TV movies with Geneviève Sellier, and another on the libretti of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French lyric theatre and has directed, with Allan Sekula, a feature-length documentary about the political economy of the sea The Forgotten Space (Special Orizzonte Jury Prize at The Venice Mostra, 2010).
Peter Wollen is Professor Emeritus, Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and has previously taught at the University of Essex; at New York University; Columbia University, NY; Northwestern University, Illinois; and at the San Francisco State University, San Francisco. He is the author of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1972), Singin’ in the Rain (1992) and Paris Hollywood (2002), and has edited or contributed to several other books about film and film studies. He has also made a number of films with Laura Mulvey including Riddles of the Sphinx (1978) and Crystal Gazing (1982), as well as making documentaries for television. He also co-wrote with Mark Peploe, Antonioni’s film The Passenger (1975).
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (1989: expanded 2nd edn in 2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Citizen Kane (1996) and Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006). She has made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1980).
Patrick Fuery is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Chapman University, California. He was previously Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle in Australia and Director of the ArtsHealth Research Centre as well as the Research Centre for Creativity, Technology and Culture. He is the author of eight books including: Madness and Cinema: Psychoanalysis, Culture and the Spectator (2004); Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (2003); New Developments in Film Theory (2000) and Cultural Studies and the New Humanities (1997). His forthcoming books are Medicine and the Arts: History and Contemporary Practices and Towards an Ethics of Disturbance.
Nico Baumbach is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, USA. He completed his PhD in Literature on the subject of cinema and pedagogy at Duke University in 2009 under the direction of Fredric Jameson and Jane Gaines. His recent work focuses on the relation between politics and aesthetics in documentary cinema and he is completing a book on the film theory of Badiou, Rancière, Agamben and Žižek.
Ian Macdonald is Director of the Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. He received a doctorate for his work on the ‘Screen Idea’ in 2005. He has worked in broadcasting, was formerly Head of the Northern Film School at Leeds Metropolitan University and has taught screenwriting since 1993. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Screenwriting and organiser of the Screenwriting Research Network.
Aparna Sharma is a filmmaker and academic. She earned her doctorate from the Film Academy, University of Glamorgan. Publications include ‘The Square Circle – Problematising the National/ Masculine Body in Indian Cinema’ in The Male Body in Global Cinema (2009) and ‘My Brother, My Enemy – the Indo-Pak border through a documentary lens’ in Filming the Line of Control (2008). She is presently Assistant Professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, California.
Coral Houtman is a film theorist and filmmaker and is a Senior Lecturer at the Newport Film School, University of Wales, Newport. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School and gained her PhD at the University of Kent in 2003 on ‘Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations’. Her Augustine – a 40-minute costume drama – was awarded Best Film at the 1995 Houston International Film Festival. Currently undertaking a multi-screen interactive film research project based on the myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Peter Greenaway is a filmmaker. His films include: The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982); A Zed & Two Noughts (1985); The Belly of an Architect (1987); Drowning by Numbers (1988); The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989); Prospero’s Books (1991); The Baby of Mâcon (1993); The Pillow Book (1996); 8½ Women (1999); The Tulse Luper Suitcases Trilogy (2003); Nightwatching (2007) and Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012). He was awarded the Legion d’Honeur in France and a CBE in Britain for services to cinema.
Brian Winston is the Lincoln Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln. He has taught at the UK National Film and Television School and the New York University film school. In 1985 he won a US prime-time Emmy for documentary scriptwriting (for WNET). His seminal double volumes of Dangling Conversations were published in 1974 and 1975. Messages: Free Expression, Media & the West, his twelfth book, was published in 2005, followed by an updated second edition of his 1995 history of the documentary, Claiming the Real, in 2008. In 2010, he scripted a film on Robert Flaherty, A Boatload of Wild Irishmen.
Mike Figgis is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. His films include: Internal Affairs (1990); Mr. Jones (1993); The Browning Version (1994); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); Flamenco Women (1997); One Night Stand (1997); The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999); Miss Julie (1999); Timecode (2000); Hotel (2001); The Battle of Orgreave (2001) Co/Ma (2004); Love Live Long (2008) and The Co(te)lette Film (2010).